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A Taste for Treason
The Letter That Smashed a Nazi Spy Ring
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781780277882
Pub Date: 2022-12-06
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
288 Pages
When Mary Curran became suspicious of hairdresser Jessie Jordan’s frequent trips to Nazi Germany in 1937, she could not have known that she would become one of the world’s most successful amateur spycatchers. This is her untold true story, the story of how a Nazi spy’s letter, intercepted in Scotland, broke spy rings across Europe and America.
The Lockerbie Bombing
A Father’s Search for Justice
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781780276489
Pub Date: 2021-07-06
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
272 Pages
The Lockerbie Bombing is co-written by Dr Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora died when Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed. This is his searing story, which has taken over three decades and across several continents to find the truth behind the atrocity.
Fitted Up
A True Story of Police Betrayal, Conspiracy and Cover Up
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 9781780275390
Pub Date: 2019-09-18
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
240 Pages
As army veteran Bill Johnstone watched his garage business burn to the ground, he was certain the fire had been started deliberately. And when the police failed to investigate, he complained.Johnstone...
The Peeler's Notebook
Policing Victorian Dublin, Mad Dogs, Duals and Dynamite
Price: $16.99
ISBN: 9781781177099
Pub Date: 2019-09-12
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Mercier Press
240 Pages
Introduces us to a host of forgotten Victorian dangers, from rabid dogs and disease epidemics to garrotte-wielding thieves who plied their trade in the ever-present fog. Established in 1836, the Metropolitan Police who patrolled Dublin's dark alleys and streets fought running battles with violent tenement mobs, Fenian rebels and street gangs.
Acid Attack
A Journalist's War With Organised Crime
Price: $12.99
ISBN: 9781780274997
Pub Date: 2018-04-22
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
272 Pages
Two days before Christmas 2015, veteran crime journalist Russell Findlay was the target of a vicious attack on his own doorstep. An unknown assailant, disguised as a postman, hurled sulphuric acid in...
Joys of Joy
Finding Myself in an Irish Prison
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781908308979
Pub Date: 2017-05-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: The Liffey Press
304 Pages
Joys of Joy offers an honest account of one man's experiences in Dublin's Mountjoy Prison. Little did Gary know that in prison he would create a successful rock band, win two writing competitions, form a prisoners' committee and meet some remarkable people - prisoners and staff alike - who would literally save his life.
The Joy
Mountjoy Jail. The shocking, true story of life on the inside
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 9781847177445
Pub Date: 2015-08-08
Format: Paperback
Imprint: The O'Brien Press
200 Pages
One man's story of life in The Joy – compulsive, chilling and frank. A no-holds-barred account of a criminal's time in the notorious Dublin prison, as revealed to journalist Paul Howard. New introduction by the author.
Burke and Hare
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781780272177
Pub Date: 2014-12-09
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
352 Pages
Here is the unvarnished, human story behind the infamous Burke and Hare murders. We delve into their past, their personalities and the circumstances that made them resort to murder as a money-making scheme. It's a tale of desperation and greed, of outsiders, ambition, corruption and betrayal. And it's all true!
A Taste for Treason
The Letter That Smashed a Nazi Spy Ring
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781780277882
Pub Date: 2022-12-06
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
288 Pages
The Lockerbie Bombing
A Father’s Search for Justice
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781780276489
Pub Date: 2021-07-06
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
272 Pages
Fitted Up
A True Story of Police Betrayal, Conspiracy and Cover Up
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 9781780275390
Pub Date: 2019-09-18
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
240 Pages
The Peeler's Notebook
Policing Victorian Dublin, Mad Dogs, Duals and Dynamite
Price: $16.99
ISBN: 9781781177099
Pub Date: 2019-09-12
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Mercier Press
240 Pages
Acid Attack
A Journalist's War With Organised Crime
Price: $12.99
ISBN: 9781780274997
Pub Date: 2018-04-22
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
272 Pages
Joys of Joy
Finding Myself in an Irish Prison
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781908308979
Pub Date: 2017-05-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: The Liffey Press
304 Pages
The Joy
Mountjoy Jail. The shocking, true story of life on the inside
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 9781847177445
Pub Date: 2015-08-08
Format: Paperback
Imprint: The O'Brien Press
200 Pages
Burke and Hare
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781780272177
Pub Date: 2014-12-09
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
352 Pages