26 best-selling nonfiction books like The Secret Prison Governor by Anonymous

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The Secret Prison Governor

By: Anonymous

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An eye-opening, thought-provoking and mind-blowing account from a genuine prison governor (warden) …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Secret Prison Governor by Anonymous , here is a list of 26 books like this:

1. Secret Slave: Kidnapped and abused for 13 years. This is my story of survival

By: None

3.61

Format: 231 pages,

'You're not going home. You're not going anywhere. You're mine now.' Growing up in a deeply trouble… read more

Similar categories in None's Secret Slave: Kidnapped and abused for 13 years. This is my story of survival book and Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

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2. Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue

By: Peter Everett

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Must-read memoir of managing a morgue, dealing with death and murder to chaos, corruption and organ… read more

Similar categories in Peter Everett's Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue book and Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey by Wendy    Joseph

4. 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 Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. The Secret Prisoner: Diary Of A Prisoner

By: Daniel hockey

4.17

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

The Secret Prisoner Book is a first hand insight into what prison is like in the UK. This truely is… read more

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7. Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist

By: Ed Patrick

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

'Brilliantly funny.' - Matt Lucas'You have to read this book.' - Tim Harford'It's funny, touching a… read more

Similar categories in Ed Patrick's Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist book and Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist by Sohom Das

8. In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist

By: Sohom Das

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Shocking, eye-opening and grimly fascinating, these are the true stories, patients and cases that h… read more

Similar categories in Sohom Das's In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist book and Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Kerry Daynes's The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist book and Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • 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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11. 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 Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

By: Vanessa Frake

4.33

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER As seen on This Morning Back in the day, I was Governor of Se… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Frake's The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails book and Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story by Neil Samworth

13. 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 Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Girl for the Job: My strange, dangerous and totally unexpected life as an undercover cop by Danni Brooke

14. The Girl for the Job: My strange, dangerous and totally unexpected life as an undercover cop

By: Danni Brooke

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Girl for the Job is an exciting, intriguing and at times jaw-dropping memoir perfect for fans o… read more

Similar categories in Danni Brooke's The Girl for the Job: My strange, dangerous and totally unexpected life as an undercover cop book and Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • crime
  • nonfiction
Cover of What Lies Buried: A forensic psychologist's true stories of madness, the bad and the misunderstood by Kerry Daynes

15. 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 Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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16. Stitched Up

By: Shahed Yousaf

4.18

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Why would anyone want to work with thieves, murderers and rapists? Told from the inside out, th… read more

Similar categories in Shahed Yousaf's Stitched Up book and Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life by Kate   Marshall

17. Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life

By: Kate Marshall

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Following Kate Marshall’s first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital, with each … read more

Similar categories in Kate Marshall's Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life book and Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • 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 Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Inside Broadmoor: Up Close and Personal with Britain's Most Dangerous Criminals by Jonathan Levi

19. Inside Broadmoor: Up Close and Personal with Britain's Most Dangerous Criminals

By: Jonathan Levi

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For over 150 years, it has co… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Levi's Inside Broadmoor: Up Close and Personal with Britain's Most Dangerous Criminals book and Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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20. The Prison Doctor: Foreign Bodies

By: Amanda Brown

3.93

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown Revisit the wold of The Prison Doctor… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor: Foreign Bodies book and Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories by Chris Atkins

21. Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories

By: Chris Atkins

4.34

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

A funny, touching, challenging and campaigning book about our prisons crisis by the Sunday Times be… read more

Similar categories in Chris Atkins's Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories book and Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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22. Conviction

By: Jack Jordan

4.01

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

TO STEAL A MAN'S FREEDOM ALL IT TAKES IS . . . CONVICTION Wade Darling stands accused of killing hi… read more

Similar categories in Jack Jordan's Conviction book and Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • crime
  • audiobook
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23. The Boy in the Cellar

By: Stephen Smith

4.41

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

Stephen Smith is the boy who did not exist.Born out of wedlock in the early 1960s, Steve's parents … read more

Similar categories in Stephen Smith's The Boy in the Cellar book and Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Inside Parkhurst: Stories of a Prison Officer by David Berridge

24. Inside Parkhurst: Stories of a Prison Officer

By: David Berridge

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Assaults. Riots. Cell fires. Medical emergencies. Understaffed wings. Suicides. Hooch. Weapons. It'… read more

Similar categories in David Berridge's Inside Parkhurst: Stories of a Prison Officer book and Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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25. 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 Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Behind These Doors: Stories of Strength, Suffering and Survival in Prison by Alex   South

26. Behind These Doors: Stories of Strength, Suffering and Survival in Prison

By: Alex South

4.52

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

'The men I have worked with and the staff I've worked alongside over the last ten years in prison h… read more

Similar categories in Alex South's Behind These Doors: Stories of Strength, Suffering and Survival in Prison book and Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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27. The Secret Prison Governor

By: Anonymous

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An eye-opening, thought-provoking and mind-blowing account from a genuine prison governor (warden) … read more

Similar categories in Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor book and Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Inside Job: Treating Murderers and Sex Offenders. The Life of a Prison Psychologist. by Rebecca Myers

28. Inside Job: Treating Murderers and Sex Offenders. The Life of a Prison Psychologist.

By: Rebecca Myers

3.97

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

And here I am. Totally alone in a cell with a convicted sex offender who is free to do what he want… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Myers's Inside Job: Treating Murderers and Sex Offenders. The Life of a Prison Psychologist. book and Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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29. Groomed by a Gang

By: Christina O'Connor

4.55

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I can’t change the path I took – or the one I was forced to take – but I can tell my story to try … read more

Similar categories in Christina O'Connor's Groomed by a Gang book and Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

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30. The Prison Teacher: Stories from Britain's Most Notorious Women's Prison

By: Mim Skinner

4.03

Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition

"Headlines and news reports of prison leave us with a boiled-down narrative of goodies and baddies … read more

Similar categories in Mim Skinner's The Prison Teacher: Stories from Britain's Most Notorious Women's Prison book and Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Will You Help Me?: Ralph’s true story of abuse, secrets and lies by Maggie Hartley

31. Will You Help Me?: Ralph’s true story of abuse, secrets and lies

By: Maggie Hartley

4.81

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

'Please help me,' he said in a small voice. 'Will you help me?'Six-year-old Ralph has only been i… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Hartley's Will You Help Me?: Ralph’s true story of abuse, secrets and lies book and Anonymous's The Secret Prison Governor

  • nonfiction

24 Best audiobook books like The Secret Prison Governor by Anonymous

Transform Your Habits

Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue

Peter Everett

4.05

Transform Your Habits

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

Ray Fysh

4.34

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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17 Best audiobook books like Inside Parkhurst: Stories of a Prison Officer by David Berridge

Transform Your Habits

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

Ray Fysh

4.34

Transform Your Habits

In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist

Sohom Das

3.90

Transform Your Habits

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

Kerry Daynes

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Prison Doctor

Amanda Brown

4.01

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