15 best-selling true crime books like In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law by Sarah Langford

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In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

By: Sarah Langford

4.08

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarah Langford is a barrister. Her job is to stand in court representing the mad and the bad, the v…

If you liked the true crime plot in In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law by Sarah Langford , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Letters to a Law Student: A Guide to Studying Law at University

By: Nicholas J. McBride

4.13

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Letters to a Law Student relays all that a prospective law student needs to know before embarking o… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas J. McBride's Letters to a Law Student: A Guide to Studying Law at University book and Sarah Langford's In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

  • law
  • nonfiction
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2. A Matter оf Death аnd Life

By: Andrey Kurkov

3.69

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Marital troubles? Sick of life? Suicide the answer? Why not get yourself a contract killer? N… read more

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3. The Rule of Law

By: Tom Bingham

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

The Rule of Law' is a phrase much used but little examined. The idea of the rule of law as the foun… read more

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4. Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

By: Ray Fysh

4.34

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the True Crime Awards 2023 Best New True Crime Author The murder of Sarah Payne, Ad… read more

Similar categories in Ray Fysh's Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases book and Sarah Langford's In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

By: The Secret Barrister

3.90

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the world of the Secret Barrister. These are the stories of life inside the courtroom. T… read more

Similar categories in The Secret Barrister's The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken book and Sarah Langford's In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey

By: Wendy Joseph

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed.… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Joseph's Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey book and Sarah Langford's In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. A Bit of a Stretch

By: Chris Atkins

4.21

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

A shocking and darkly funny account of the reality of Britain's prisons. Where can a tin of tun… read more

Similar categories in Chris Atkins's A Bit of a Stretch book and Sarah Langford's In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry

By: Ben Cave

4.26

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA'S ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION AWARD --- 'Poignant, funny, engross… read more

Similar categories in Ben Cave's What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry book and Sarah Langford's In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. The Prison Doctor

By: Amanda Brown

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Amanda Brown has treated inmates in the UK’s most infamous prisons – first in young offenders’ i… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor book and Sarah Langford's In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion

By: Gwen Adshead

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In eleven vivid narratives based on decades of providing therapy to people in prisons and secure ho… read more

Similar categories in Gwen Adshead's The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion book and Sarah Langford's In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

By: The Secret Barrister

4.20

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who c… read more

Similar categories in The Secret Barrister's Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies book and Sarah Langford's In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

  • true crime
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"We deceive ourselves, our cognitive dissonance only resolved by our brains reassuring us that, in spite of what anyone else might think, we know we're in the right."

-The Secret Barrister, Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

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12. In Black and White

By: Alexandra Wilson

4.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'I glanced around the courtroom, quickly at first and then repeated it. Slower this time, taking in… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Wilson's In Black and White book and Sarah Langford's In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

By: Sarah Langford

4.08

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarah Langford is a barrister. Her job is to stand in court representing the mad and the bad, the v… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Langford's In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law book and Sarah Langford's In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • british literature
  • politics
  • law
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. Nothing But The Truth

By: The Secret Barrister

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Just how do you become a barrister? Why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joinin… read more

Similar categories in The Secret Barrister's Nothing But The Truth book and Sarah Langford's In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. A Life of Crime: The Memoirs of a High Court Judge

By: Harry Ognall

3.72

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

A frank and witty memoir of life at the Bar and on the Bench, from former High Court Judge The Hon.… read more

Similar categories in Harry Ognall's A Life of Crime: The Memoirs of a High Court Judge book and Sarah Langford's In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • law
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. Nothing Like the Truth: The Trials and Tribulations of a Criminal Judge

By: Nigel Lithman

3.78

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

In 100 per cent of criminal trials someone, if not everyone, tells lies.If it wasn’t for liars, the… read more

Similar categories in Nigel Lithman's Nothing Like the Truth: The Trials and Tribulations of a Criminal Judge book and Sarah Langford's In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

  • law
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • true crime
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17. Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

By: William Clegg

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

How do you chat to someone accused of a savage murder? Or prepare a court case? Or sway a jury? … read more

Similar categories in William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence book and Sarah Langford's In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • politics
  • law
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. Misjustice: How British Law is Failing Women

By: Helena Kennedy

4.41

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Helena Kennedy forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are still being discrimin… read more

Similar categories in Helena Kennedy's Misjustice: How British Law is Failing Women book and Sarah Langford's In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Court Number One: The Old Bailey Trials that Defined Modern Britain

By: Thomas Grant

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 'Superbl… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Grant's Court Number One: The Old Bailey Trials that Defined Modern Britain book and Sarah Langford's In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

  • biography
  • true crime
  • british literature
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. The Prosecutor

By: Nazir Afzal

4.43

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Nazir Afzal knows a thing or two about justice. As a Chief Prosecutor, it was his job to make sure … read more

Similar categories in Nazir Afzal's The Prosecutor book and Sarah Langford's In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • british literature
  • politics
  • law
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. Spider Woman: A Life

By: Brenda Hale

4.05

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

Lady Hale is an inspirational figure admired for her historic achievements and for the causes she h… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

17 Top audiobook books like In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law by Sarah Langford

Transform Your Habits

Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

Ray Fysh

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

The Secret Barrister

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey

Wendy Joseph

4.43

Transform Your Habits

A Bit of a Stretch

Chris Atkins

4.21

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23 Best audiobook books like In Black and White by Alexandra Wilson

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

The Secret Barrister

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey

Wendy Joseph

4.43

Transform Your Habits

A Bit of a Stretch

Chris Atkins

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

Kerry Hudson

4.15

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