True stories
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True stories
Paperback. Provides an account of life behind bars in a controversial new type of prison facility: the private prison. These for-profit prisons are becoming increasingly popular as state budgets get tighter. This book provides a look inside one of these private prisons as told through the eyes of an inmate, K.C. Carceral, who has been in the prison system. Editor(s): Bernard, Thomas J. Series: Alternative Criminology. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BT; JKVP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814799550
- ISBN
- 9780814799550
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.18
€ 36.99
€ 31.18
Paperback. In 1811 John Williams was buried with a stake in his heart. Was he the notorious East End killer or his eighth victim in the bizarre and shocking Ratcliffe Highway Murders? In this reconstruction, the authors draw on forensics, public records, and newspaper clippings to shed new light on this infamous Wapping mystery. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 300. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0003386
- ISBN
- 9780571258086
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESX; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Edition
- Main Market
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509810482
- ISBN
- 9781509810482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.42
€ 13.99
€ 11.42
Paperback. Translator(s): Stump, Jordan. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; 3JJPR; 3JM; BT; HBTZ; JFSL1; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 259 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Archipelago Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780914671534
- ISBN
- 9780914671534
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 12.03
€ 12.99
€ 12.03
Hardback. On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Noziere gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced 'medication', which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; BTC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520260702
- ISBN
- 9780520260702
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.48€ 44.77
€ 57.48
€ 44.77
Paperback. Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in. Even if in real life they are perfectly well-mannered, decent people with proper balanced relationships, as soon as they spin through the revolving hotel doors the normal rules of behaviour no longer seem to apply. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BT; TTVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTG0010883
- ISBN
- 9780552151467
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Do you know that one drink in the air equals three on the ground? Do you know exactly what happens to your luggage once it leaves your sight? A trawl through the highs, the lows, and the descents of the travel industry, this book catalogues the births, the deaths, the drunken brawls, the sexual antics, and the debauchery of this service industry. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: BT; KNGV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Edition
- 1st Corgi
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552153058
- ISBN
- 9780552153058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.11
€ 16.99
€ 13.11
Hardback. Part Regency mystery, part imperial history, this title presents a tale of adventure and deceit across two worlds - British aristocrats and Australian felons - bound together in an emerging age of opportunity and individualism, where personal worth was battling power based on birth alone. It illuminates the darker side of this age of liberty. Num Pages: 368 pages, 16 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1M; BTC; HBJD1; HBJM; HBTB; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674052789
- ISBN
- 9780674052789
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 30.07
€ 34.99
€ 30.07
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813534596
- ISBN
- 9780813534596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 47.36
€ 52.99
€ 47.36
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813551920
- ISBN
- 9780813551920
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.49
€ 40.99
€ 36.49
Paperback. Fully updated since Shipman's suicide, this is the in-depth and authoritative investigation of the UK's most prolific mass murderer. Num Pages: 448 pages, Section: 16, b/w. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 143 x 28. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751529982
- ISBN
- 9780751529982
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.12
€ 16.99
€ 13.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; BTM; DNJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 20. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141981086
- ISBN
- 9780141981086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.17
€ 12.99
€ 10.17
Paperback. 21-year-old Michelle Knight disappears walking home. Amanda Berry goes missing the day before her seventeenth birthday. 14-year-old Gina DeJesus fails to come home from school. For over a decade these girls remained undetected in a house just three miles from the block where they all went missing, held captive by a terrifying sexual predator. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241003619
- ISBN
- 9780241003619
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.07
€ 12.99
€ 9.07
hardcover. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; BTC; JKVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 163 x 34. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781509809660
- ISBN
- 9781509809660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 22.99€ 5.70
€ 22.99
€ 5.70
Paperback. NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING JOHNNY DEPP AND BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, DAKOTA JOHNSON AND KEVIN BACON Num Pages: 448 pages, 8pp b&w inset. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; BTC; JKVM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 43. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Edition
- Tie-In - Film Tie-In
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781782116240
- ISBN
- 9781782116240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 5.70
€ 13.99
€ 5.70
paperback. An account of one of the world's most notorious drug-smuggler jails. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8pp colour plate section. BIC Classification: 1FMNB; BTC; JKVP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 209 x 21. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780857382696
- ISBN
- 9780857382696
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 9.60
€ 16.99
€ 9.60
Paperback. A harrowing account of the seductive but deadly world of Tokyo nightclub hostessing Num Pages: 416 pages, Section: 8, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751540994
- ISBN
- 9780751540994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.09
€ 19.09
paperback. He was Britain's most wanted man. He spent seven years in America's toughest penitentiary. You'll like him. During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPN; BGA; BTC; JKVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784705909
- ISBN
- 9781784705909
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 13.61
€ 19.00
€ 13.61
Paperback. A beautifully written combination of memoir and a 'dissection' of prostitution - heart-breaking, courageous and redemptive. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: BT; JFMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Gill & Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780717160327
- ISBN
- 9780717160327
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.26
€ 12.99
€ 10.26
Paperback. Today, Paddy Armstrong is a husband and father, and it has been over twenty-seven years since his conviction was quashed. But the memory of his experiences lives on. For the first time and with unflinching candour, he lays bare the experiences of those years and their aftermath. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BT; BTP; JKSW1; JKVF; JKVP1; JMK; JMQ; JPWL; LASD; LATC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Gill Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780717172474
- ISBN
- 9780717172474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 12.98
€ 18.99
€ 12.98
Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JH; APF; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 206 x 24. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc) United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780767929400
- ISBN
- 9780767929400
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.38
€ 20.99
€ 16.38
Paperback. Jim Lucey has been working with patients suffering from mental health problems for over 25 years. Every day, people at their most vulnerable present to Jim in his room at St Patrick's University Hospital and reveal their fears, their traumas, and very real human predicaments. Most of the assessments described in this book took place in this room Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BT; MMH; VFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Gill & Macmillan Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780717159512
- ISBN
- 9780717159512
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 12.73
€ 18.99
€ 12.73
paperback. Revelatory investigation into the police handling of the Yorkshire Ripper Case which spanned over 14 years. Newly updated to include Sutcliffe's bid for freedom in 2008, and the verdict from court in 2010. Num Pages: 382 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 3JJPN; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 54. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- William Collins
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007450732
- ISBN
- 9780007450732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 10.62
€ 14.99
€ 10.62
paperback. A collection of short stories and poems that offer a sample of the war's literary legacy. This anthology has been compiled to mark the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War. Editor(s): Ehrhart, W. D.; Jason, Philip K. Num Pages: 300 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 2ABM; BTM; DCQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- None ed.
- SKU
- V9780813526393
- ISBN
- 9780813526393
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.98
€ 45.98