The Sleep of Reason: The James Bulger Case
By: David James Smith
4.08
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
Friday, 12th February, 1993. Two outwardly unremarkable ten-year-old boys began the day by playing …
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1. The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered
By: Gitta Sereny
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
In December 1968 two girls who lived next door to each other - Mary, aged eleven, and Norma, thirte… read more
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2. A Father's Story
By: None
4.27
Format: 217 pages,
On July 23, 1991, Milwaukee chemist Lionel Dahmer discovered - along with the rest of the world - t… read more
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3. Beyond Evil: Inside the Twisted Mind of Ian Huntley
By: Nathan Yates
4.31
Format: 517 pages, Paperback
The horrific murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman shocked and sickened the nation, and the ma… read more
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5. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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6. My James: The Heartrending Story of James Bulger by His Father
By: Ralph Bulger , Rosie Dunn
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A powerful, heartfelt and moving account of his son's murder and his fight for justice by Ralph Bul… read more
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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
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8. I Let Him Go
By: Denise Fergus
4.55
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, with an updated chapter from Denise. 'I was crying so much I couldn't… read more
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9. Love as Always, Mum xxx
By: Mae West
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
The true story of an abused childhood, of shocking brutality and life as the daughter of notorious … read more
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10. 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
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"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
11. The Tower
By: Flora Carr
3.70
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held ho… read more
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12. Anyone's Ghost
By: August Thompson
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men du… read more
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13. Bored Gay Werewolf
By: Tony Santorella
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about… read more
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14. Sygeplejersken
By: Kristian Corfixen
3.89
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning true-crime account of a Danish nurse accused of killing her patients—and an exami… read more
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15. Queen of Cuba: An FBI Agent's Insider Account of the Spy Who Evaded Detection for 17 Years
By: Peter J. Lapp
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
As a spy prepared to give away America’s biggest secrets after the 9/11 attacks, an FBI agent raced… read more
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16. The Sleep of Reason: The James Bulger Case
By: David James Smith
4.08
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
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17. Things Don't Break on Their Own
By: Sarah Easter Collins
3.95
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Twenty-five years ago, a young girl left home to walk to school. Her younger sister soon followed. … read more
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18. Inside Wakefield Prison: Life Behind Bars in the Monster Mansion
By: Jonathan Levi and Emma French
3.59
Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition
HMP Wakefield. 'Monster Mansion'. Hell to be inside. Almost impossible to escape. This prison has s… read more
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19. The Babes in the Woods Murders
By: Paul Cheston
3.51
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The heartbreaking true story of two families' thirty-year fight for justice for their murdered daug… read more
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20. Talking to Strangers (Elise King, #2)
By: Fiona Barton
4.06
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Detective Elise King’s investigation into a woman’s murder is getting derailed by a reporter who in… read more
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21. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
