29 must-read nonfiction books like Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence by William Clegg

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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? …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence by William Clegg , here is a list of 29 books like this:

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1. Confessions of a Gp: A Matter Life, Death and Earwax

By: Benjamin Daniels

3.71

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Dave Weinstein is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled, and quite frequently, very funny. He … read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Daniels's Confessions of a Gp: A Matter Life, Death and Earwax book and William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

2. 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

Similar categories in Tom Bingham's The Rule of Law book and William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

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3. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

By: Adam Kay

4.12

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Twas The Nightshift Before Christm… read more

Similar categories in Adam Kay's Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas book and William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Who's that you can see in his suit of magenta? It's me - I've been soaked head to toe in placenta."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"Full marks to the anaesthetist wearing a badge that says; 'He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake'."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"ENT is commonly known as Early Nights and Tennis - a good choice of specialty if you like a quiet Christmas. See also, dermaholiday."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"I ask why. then remember why most people do most things, and thus find myself introduced - at the tender age of twenty-four - to the sexual kink of mummification."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

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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 William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

By: Jeremy Bowen

4.38

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Bowen's The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History book and William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. 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 William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. 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 William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

By: Richard Shepherd

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

As the UK's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secre… read more

Similar categories in Richard Shepherd's Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist book and William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Although it is my job to be certain, I was unable that day, and am still unable, to escape a greater certainty: that there are always other possibilities."

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

"Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly…"

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

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9. 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 William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. Berserker!

By: Adrian Edmondson

4.32

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Edmondson's Berserker! book and William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

By: Kerry Daynes

4.03

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the world of the forensic psychologist, where the people you meet are wildly unpredictab… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Daynes's The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist book and William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"There is no them and us, it is just us."

-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

"It's a shithole but at least I can get a decent brew.' How very British, I thought to myself."

-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

"[t]he art of talking comes easier to some of us but others. For boys and men, so many of them still socialised in a myriad of destructive ways to hide weakness and took out their difficulties, the id…"

-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

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12. Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story

By: Neil Samworth

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Neil ‘Sam’ Samworth spent eleven years working as a prison officer in HMP Manchester, aka Strangewa… read more

Similar categories in Neil Samworth's Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story book and William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. 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 William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • true crime
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • education
  • 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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14. 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 William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. 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 William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • politics
  • law
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. 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 William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. What Lies Buried: A forensic psychologist's true stories of madness, the bad and the misunderstood

By: Kerry Daynes

4.35

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Kerry Daynes, leading forensic psychologist, opens up the case files of some of her most perplexing… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Daynes's What Lies Buried: A forensic psychologist's true stories of madness, the bad and the misunderstood book and William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison.

By: Amanda Brown

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown. Insights into the world of a Prison Doct… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison. book and William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. 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 William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • law
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. 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 William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

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

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • politics
  • law
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • education
  • audiobook
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22. From Crime to Crime: Harold Shipman to Operation Midland - 17 cases that shocked the world

By: Richard Henriques

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

'If Henriques were a fictional character, he would be a celebrity, the kind of dashing, hawkish QC … read more

Similar categories in Richard Henriques's From Crime to Crime: Harold Shipman to Operation Midland - 17 cases that shocked the world book and William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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23. Murder: The Biography

By: Kate Morgan

4.00

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Totally gripping and brilliantly told, Murder: The Biography is a gruesome and utterly captivating … read more

Similar categories in Kate Morgan's Murder: The Biography book and William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Misjustice: How British Law is Failing Women by Helena Kennedy

24. 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 William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. Trials of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics

By: Jonathan Sumption

4.14

Format: 74 pages, Kindle Edition

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn the past few decades, legislatures throughout the world have suffered f… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Sumption's Trials of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics book and William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • law
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26. 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 William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • biography
  • true crime
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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27. The Suspect

By: Rob Rinder

3.96

Format: 400 pages, ebook

**THE GRIPPING SECOND NOVEL FROM ROB RINDER AND FOLLOW-UP TO NO. 1 BESTSELLER THE TRIAL**When Hanna… read more

Similar categories in Rob Rinder's The Suspect book and William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • crime
  • audiobook
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28. 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 William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • politics
  • law
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of It's Not OK to Feel Blue [and other lies] by Scarlett Curtis

29. It's Not OK to Feel Blue [and other lies]

By: Scarlett Curtis

4.18

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

Everyone has a mental health. So we asked: What does yours mean to you? THE RESULT IS EXTRAORDIN… read more

Similar categories in Scarlett Curtis's It's Not OK to Feel Blue [and other lies] book and William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Nobody was busy somebody was interested .everyone cared"

-Scarlett Curtis, It's Not OK to Feel Blue [and other lies]

"We need to release our fear of wanting to be liked, in order to embrace our need to be respected"

-Scarlett Curtis, It's Not OK to Feel Blue [and other lies]

"There is nothing unnatural or wrong with a line on our face any more than there is with clover or a dandelion in a meadow."

-Scarlett Curtis, It's Not OK to Feel Blue [and other lies]

"Despite knowing that minds, like bodies, can break, have we decided that, if ours does, we've failed at being human? Is that part of the shame we feel when we ask for help with mental health difficul…"

-Scarlett Curtis, It's Not OK to Feel Blue [and other lies]

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30. 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

Similar categories in Brenda Hale's Spider Woman: A Life book and William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • biography
  • memoir
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. Criminal

By: Angela Kirwin

4.65

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

Come with Angela Kirwin for a journey inside prison like no other. For over a decade she was a soci… read more

Similar categories in Angela Kirwin's Criminal book and William Clegg's Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

  • nonfiction

27 Top audiobook books like Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence by William Clegg

Transform Your Habits

Confessions of a Gp: A Matter Life, Death and Earwax

Benjamin Daniels

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

Adam Kay

4.12

Transform Your Habits

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

Ray Fysh

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

Jeremy Bowen

4.38

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18 best-selling audiobook books like Berserker! by Adrian Edmondson

Transform Your Habits

Bonkers: My Life in Laughs

Jennifer Saunders

3.85

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Rambling Man: My Life on the Road

Billy Connolly

4.16

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