Books

14 books published in the UK (plus US & foreign language editions)

Capitol Gains

A chance remark on the stairs at Peter Morris Music in London’s Denmark Street, in October 1963, set off a chain reaction that helped Brian Epstein apply some much- needed leverage on America’s Hollywood based Capitol label. Although February 1963 marked the Beatles’ breakthrough in Britain, by the closing months of that year they still […]

No Case To Answer

In the early hours of Thursday 8 August 1963, sixteen masked men ambushed the Glasgow-Euston mail train at Sears Crossing in Buckinghamshire. Making off with a record haul of £2.6 million, the robbers received approximately £150,000 each (over £2 million in today’s money). While twelve of the robbers were jailed over the next five years, […]

Crimes Of The Gestapo

MI14 was set up in 1940 by Winston Churchill as a clearing house for intelligence from and about Nazi Germany. In addition to their own networks and operations, MI14 also had the benefit of intelligence from MI5, MI6, MI9 and MI9, along with a host of other intelligence sources. The Gestapo was one of the […]

Ian Fleming

The name Ian Fleming is synonymous with British espionage, both with his work as a naval intelligence officer in the Second World War as well as with his creation of the most famous fictional spy in literary history: James Bond. The Ian Fleming Miscellany centres on his contradictions and his public and private personality. It […]

1963, That Was The Year That Was

While we conveniently package the past into decades when talking about the ‘Roaring ‘20s’, ‘the Rock and Roll era’ of the ‘50s or the ‘Swinging ‘60s’, these tend to be labels of convenience rather than of historical accuracy. In reality, the first four years of the 1950s were more akin to the 1940s, with austerity […]

The Great Train Robbery

The Great Train Robbery of 1963 is one of the most infamous crimes in British history. The bulk of the money stolen (equivalent to over £40 million today) has never been recovered, and there has not been a single year since 1963 when one aspect of the crime or its participants has not been featured […]

The Murder Of Romanovs

The overthrow and execution of Tsar Nicolas II and the Russian Imperial family is a cause celebre of twentieth century history. This re-investigation of the story finally solves one of the greatest murderers of world history. The Russian Revolution has long been attributed almost solely to the First World War. Without the war, seen as […]

Jack The Ripper

The most famous serial killer in history. A sadistic stalker of seedy Victorian backstreets. A master criminal. The man who got away with murder – over and over again. But while literally hundreds of books have been published, trying to pin Jack’s crimes on an endless list of suspects, no-one has considered the much more […]

Cash For Honours

David Lloyd George was unique in being a Prime Minister without a party. Having burned his boats with Asquith and the mainstream Liberal Party, he had to create a new party and secure the vast funds necessary for this new political force. He decided to pay for it by raising money from the sale of […]

Prince Eddy

The first biography of Prince Albert Victor to paint a truly accurate portrait of a key British royal figure who has become a dumping ground for a host of lurid tales from Victorian gay scandals to Jack the Ripper. He was heir to the British throne but died in 1892 at the age of 28; […]

To Kill Rasputin

The murder of Rasputin on the night of 16-17 December 1916 has always seemed extraordinary; first he was poisoned, then shot and finally drowned in a frozen river by Russian aristocrats fearful of his influence on Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. Or was he? Dramatic new evidence from previously unpublished documents, diaries, forensic reports […]

M

The amazing true story of the real ‘M’, William Melville, who was MI5’s founding father and the inspiration for Ian Fleming’s character in James Bond. He was perfect for the job, a velvet-gloved hardman whose career would take in Britain’s first terrorist outrages. At the start of the twentieth century, it was Melville who, from […]

Ace Of Spies

A myth-shattering tour de force’ SIMON SEBAG MONTIFORE

On His Majesty’s Secret Service

Sidney Reilly was probably the greatest spy the world has ever known. He lived on his wits and thrived on danger, killing where necessary – and unnecessary. He had four wives - three marriages of which were bigamous – and numerous mistresses from New York to the Ukraine. From the gentlemen’s clubs of Edwardian England […]

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