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Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants

Brian McDonald

‘When I have need of something, I take it’ Alice Hughes of the Forty Elephants. The Forty Elephants were unique in READ MORE

American Gangster

The Bloody Story of the Gangs of Harlem

Ron Chepesiuk

Frank Lucas was “Super Fly”, the number one drug lord on the mean streets of Harlem. His gang smuggled heroin READ MORE

Black Mafia Family

Mara Shalhoup

In the early 1990s, brothers Demetrius and Terry Flenory, known as ‘Big Meech’ and ‘Southwest T’, rose from the slums READ MORE

Bouncers

Julian Davies, Terry Currie

Bouncers. Reviled, feared and admired in equal measure – yet rarely are their voices heard. What they can’t tell their READ MORE

Casuals

Phil Thornton

First came the Teds, then the Mods, Rockers, Hippies, Skinheads, Suedeheads and Punks. But by the late Seventies, a new READ MORE

Cinderella Man

Michael C. DeLisa

In 1934, in the depths of the Great Depression, a failed boxer with broken hands came off the welfare rolls READ MORE

CITY OF HEROES

Terry Kavanagh

The Myths and Realities of Liverpool’s Noblest Art Liverpool is a city of fighters. For decades it has punched above READ MORE

City Psychos

Shaun Tordoff

From the Monte Carlo Mob to the Silver Cod Squad: Four Decades of Terrace Terror. Hull is England’s forgotten city. READ MORE

COCKNEY REDS

The Story of Manchester United's Southern Army

Robert Cleur

The Cockney Reds emerged from London and the home counties to follow the biggest football club in Britain and left chaos READ MORE

Cocky

Peter Walsh, Richard Elias, Tony Barnes

The Rise and Fall of Curtis Warren, Britain’s Biggest Drugs Baron. Shortlisted for the Macallan Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Curtis READ MORE

Crime City

Joseph O'Neill

Manchester’s Victorian Underworld. Every city gets the criminals it deserves and Victorian Manchester was no exception. A powerhouse of both READ MORE

Doing The Doors

Robin Barratt

Robin Barratt is Britain’s most travelled bouncer. In twenty years he has worked the doors all over the UK and READ MORE