5 Best true crime books like Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith by Simon Danczuk

Cover of Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith by Simon Danczuk

Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith

By: Simon Danczuk

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

No politician pandered to the media's appetite for personality more than Liberal MP Cyril Smith. In…

If you liked the true crime plot in Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith by Simon Danczuk , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Fall of Berlin 1945

By: Antony Beevor

4.29

Format: 490 pages, Paperback

The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945.… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Sé practico: regala un ataúd"

-Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945

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2. In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile

By: Dan Davies

4.00

Format: None pages,

Dan Davies has spent more than a decade on a quest to find the real Jimmy Savile, and interviewed h… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • british literature
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles by Dominic Sandbrook

3. Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles

By: Dominic Sandbrook

3.77

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Arguing that historians have been besotted by the cultural revolution of the Sixties, Dominic Sandb… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • british literature

4. 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. Pig Island

By: Mo Hayder

4.32

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed author of The Devil of Nankingreturns with a riveting, disturbing thriller of religio… read more

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6. Vanessa: A Portrait Of Evil

By: Wensley Clarkson

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Unknown Binding

This is the compelling and disturbing true story of Vanessa George and the evil abuse she doled out… read more

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7. The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.00

Format: 18 pages,

The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations. The eBoo… read more

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8. Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives

By: Brian L. Weiss

3.88

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The true story of a prominent psychiatrist, his young patient, and the past-life therapy that chang… read more

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9. Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity

By: David Kirby

3.82

Format: 148 pages,

From the New York Timesbestselling author of Evidence of Harmand Animal Factory--a groundbreaking s… read more

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10. The Dead of Winter

By: Stuart MacBride

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

It was supposed to be an easy job.All Detective Constable Edward Reekie had to do was pick up a dyi… read more

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  • crime
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11. The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

By: Tina Brown

4.03

Format: 571 pages, Hardcover

The gripping inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • british literature
"What Diana’s younger son was thinking only he can tell us, and doubtless will."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Dacre's staff referred to his morning editorial meetings as the “Vagina Monologues,"

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Until he lost his hair, Prince William was probably the biggest heartthrob to be heir to the throne since the pre-obese Henry VIII."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Philip had to apologize in 1999 after a walkabout at an Edinburgh electronics factory when he commented that a fuse box bursting with wires looked “as if it was put in by an Indian."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

Cover of Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison by Ben Macintyre

12. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison

By: Ben Macintyre

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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13. The Doctor’s Wife (The Doctor's Wife #1)

By: Daniel Hurst

3.93

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

He thinks his secret is safe. But she knows the truth… My husband is a doctor. He’s smart and ch… read more

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  • crime
Cover of Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century by Stephen Galloway

14. Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century

By: Stephen Galloway

3.75

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST A New York Times Bestseller "A "well rou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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15. 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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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • true crime
"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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16. Fifty-Fifty (Eddie Flynn, #5)

By: Steve Cavanagh

4.30

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

Alexandra Avellino has just found her father's mutilated body, and needs the police right away. She… read more

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  • crime
Cover of Johnson at 10: The Inside Story by Anthony Seldon

17. Johnson at 10: The Inside Story

By: Anthony Seldon

4.22

Format: 662 pages, Hardcover

***Chosen as a non-fiction highlight of 2023 in The Times and the Observer *** After his dramatic … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • british literature
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18. Out of the Blue: The Inside Story of Liz Truss and Her Astonishing Rise to Power

By: Harry Cole

3.74

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

Liz Truss’s journey from schoolgirl revolutionary to Britain’s new prime minister. She is the lo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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19. The Vanishing of Class 3B

By: Jackie Kabler

3.92

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

One spring morning, a bus full of children and their teachers from a Cotswolds primary school head … read more

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  • crime
Cover of Uncrowned Queen: The Treacherous Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Rebel by Nicola Tallis

20. Uncrowned Queen: The Treacherous Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Rebel

By: Nicola Tallis

4.17

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The first comprehensive biography in three decades on Margaret Beaufort, the mother of the Tudor Dy… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • british literature
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21. Meghan and Harry: The Real Story

By: Lady Colin Campbell

3.69

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

The fall from popular grace of Prince Harry, the previously adulated brother of the heir to the Bri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • british literature
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22. Sometimes People Die

By: Simon Stephenson

3.96

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

‘In Stephenson, Vonnegut may have his first true protégé’ Washington Post ‘[A] thriller from [an… read more

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  • crime
Cover of A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies, and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment by John  Preston

23. A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies, and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment

By: John Preston

4.09

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

A behind-the-scenes look at the desperate, scandalous private life of a British MP and champion man… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • british literature
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of The Complete Wilson and McLeish Mysteries 1–7 (Wilson & McLeish #1-7) by Janet Neel

24. The Complete Wilson and McLeish Mysteries 1–7 (Wilson & McLeish #1-7)

By: Janet Neel

4.47

Format: 2013 pages, Kindle Edition

*** Book 1, A Fatal Blow, won the John Creasy New Blood Dagger 1988 *** In this 7-book box set: … read more

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25. LONDON CRIMES: Met detectives Nash and Moretti box set

By: Ian Robinson

4.35

Format: 649 pages, Kindle Edition

Three absolutely gripping crime mysteries in one bumper box set.Detective Inspector Pippa Nash and … read more

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Cover of Finding Margaret: Solving the mystery of my birth mother by Andrew Pierce

26. Finding Margaret: Solving the mystery of my birth mother

By: Andrew Pierce

4.44

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

Finding Margaret is the moving story of journalist and broadcaster Andrew Pierce's search for his b… read more

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Cover of Without a Trace: 1970-2016 by Sylvia Wrigley

27. Without a Trace: 1970-2016

By: Sylvia Wrigley

4.05

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 in 2014 is considered the greatest aviation myste… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith by Simon Danczuk

28. Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith

By: Simon Danczuk

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

No politician pandered to the media's appetite for personality more than Liberal MP Cyril Smith. In… read more

Similar categories in Simon Danczuk's Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith book and Simon Danczuk's Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith

  • biography
  • true crime
  • british literature
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of War of the Windsors: The Inside Story of Charles, Andrew and the Rivalry That Has Defined the Royal Family by Nigel Cawthorne

29. War of the Windsors: The Inside Story of Charles, Andrew and the Rivalry That Has Defined the Royal Family

By: Nigel Cawthorne

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Telling the story of their lives from children to modern day, this fascinating and revelatory new b… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan by Laura Thompson

30. A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan

By: Laura Thompson

3.32

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

'Sensational. The most minutely researched and brilliantly told account ever' MAIL ON SUNDAY. Laura… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • british literature
  • nonfiction
  • crime
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31. Detectives Paterson & Clocks Books 1–8 (Paterson & Clocks #1-8)

By: Steve Parker

4.55

Format: 2182 pages, Kindle Edition

In this 8-book box set: BOOK 1: THEIR LAST WORDSA young woman is found dead on the streets of Lo… read more

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Antony Beevor

4.29

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4.00

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Dominic Sandbrook

3.77

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4.03

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4.36

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James O'Brien

4.29

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Ian Dunt

4.45

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Rory Carroll

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