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Nigel Cawthorne
Telling the story of their lives from children to modern day, this new book will look at the fraught relationship (and fiery rivalry) between King Charles and Prince Andrew.
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The acclaimed biography delving into the real Keir Starmer for the first time in an updated paperback.
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"I have committed many acts of cruelty and had an incalculable number of men killed, never knowing whether what I did was right. But I am indifferent to what people…
Once again, Nigel Cawthorne takes the reader on a fascinating journey - this time through the hidden sexual history of England
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This investigation into spree killing analyses the psychology of this chilling and relatively new phenomenon. Cawthorne carefully examines each case and shows how the killers suppress their rage and violent…
Delightful peeves from Victorian Britain to the Second World War, gathered together as an alternative history of Britain through moans and grumbles.
THE ENTRALLING STORY OF THE ONLY WOMAN TO BECOME EMPEROR OF CHINA. IN THIS SENSATIONAL TRUE STORY, BESTSELLING AUTHOR NIGEL CAWTHORNE REVEALS THE DARK AND DRAMATIC STORY OF THE ONLY…
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First book on the Epstein Affair and the palace that has run for almost a decade.
In the quiet Austrian town of Amstetten in the balmy spring of April 2008, a truly horrifying vision of hell was discovered by police in the cellar of a normal…
For the killer, there is always the problem of getting rid of the body. This book explores many cases that suggest that, whatever the motive for murder, the back garden…
Presenting real-life stories that read like fictional thrillers, Warrior Elite recounts over two dozen of modern warfare’s most riveting, dangerous, and infamous missions. These are the heart-pounding accounts of the…
The best of the best. The most interesting serial killer cases of all time presented chapter by chapter.
This book concerns the young men who were not yet twenty when they won the Victoria Cross, the British armed forces highest award for gallantry. Many perished in the action…
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Profiling the greatest military snipers of all time, this book presents exciting real-life stories of excellence in duty during wartime an don special operation missions. From mile-long hits in Afghanistan…
From the battlefields of WWI to the present day mountains of Afghanistan, dogs have been loyal companions and trusted compatriots to soldiers throughout history. Now the most exciting, heartwarming, and…
This intriguing and revelatory history of cryptology ranges from the early days of code-making and code-breaking in ancient Egypt, Sparta, and Rome to the present day when it has slipped…
A humorous tour of the stories, news items, plays and poetry, Queen Victoria’s agents secretly destroyed, keeping one copy for the Private Case in the British Museum.
48 assassinations - from Archduke Franz Ferdinand to Osama Bin Laden - that changed the world
Its every parent’s worst fear, but it also makes for the most compelling stories of strength and courage. Here are the appallingly true tales of horrific kidnappings and torturous ordeals…
In this fascinating, in-depth book, Nigel Cawthorne examines how a phenomenon thought to be consigned to history is once again a worldwide problem: piracy is rife in the South China…
The first biography of Virginia Giuffre, the victorious accuser of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew
Throughout her life, until her untimely death in 1997, Diana frequently gave interviews and shared her thoughts with many people. In this fresh portrait over almost 20 years, Nigel Cawthorne…
On 8 March 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport bound for Beijing. Less than an hour after take-off, somewhere over the South China Sea…
Agatha Christie’s 80 novels and short story collections have sold over two-billion copies in more than 45 languages, more than any other author. This Brief Guide explores Christie’s life and…
The best, less well-known and new stories about the princely spares who seem to delight in giving King Charles III a right royal headache.
Ghislaine Maxwell had it all - model looks, connections, charm, a billionaire father, adoring siblings - yet on 2 July 2020 she was arrested by the FBI on multiple underage-sex…
First paperback edition of the world-sensational book on Prince Andrew and the British royal family’s mishandling of the Epstein underage-sex scandal over more than twenty years. Fully updated and expanded…
An affectionate and entertaining book on Prince Philip’s straight-forward views of himself, the Queen and others.
An utterly embarrassing sex history of the 44 men who became POTUS, from Donald Trump to George Washington and including Joe Biden as Obama’s VP.
Witches examines the persecution and the religious hysteria which inspired it tracing its roots back to the savage suppression of the heretical Waldenisan sect by the Catholic church.
A humorous look at the banned fifty shades of gray of the past.
The Third Reich was a manifestation of Hitler’s neurotic personality, his megalomania and desire for destruction. This book explains the tyrant that ran it, and the demons that ran him.
A study of the sex killer Chris Halliwell who, having been arrested in 2011 for one murder, led police to the scene of a second.
Takes a look at the emotive impact of the first ‘media’ war, charting not only the course of the war in Vietnam, but also seeking to place American involvement in…
After 9/11, the British forces were called upon to by the government to engage new enemies in faraway lands. Spearheading the War on Terror, Royal Marines led British troops into…
There are plenty of misguided, violent and unpleasant people in the world - but how many can be classified as truly evil?
Forged in battle, from the shell-scarred hills of Korea, to the windswept marshland of East Falkland and today’s counter-insurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, each one of these VCs has…
The history of Britain’s most iconic aircraft of World War II, with more than 250 photographs.
A superb illustrated history of Britain’s greatest night bomber of World War II, with more than 275 photographs.
The very best outrage from the Tunbridge Wells Advertiser, the newspaper that coined the phrase ‘Disgusted from Tunbridge Wells’ for grumpy complaints.
Great battles mark history’s turning points where cultures and ideologies clash. Some battles are won by inspired leaders, some by superior weaponry, while others are won by a sheer dogged…
