Blake imprint: 817 books
Torn Apart
The Most Horrific True Murder Stories You'll Ever Read
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Torn Apart takes an in-depth look at 14 gruesome murder cases and examines how "victim impact statements" used in court finally give a voice to the suffering of those dealing with the death of a partner, child, or loved one. The cases discussed include lawyer Tom ap Rhys Pryce, who was...
Utterly Lost in Translation
Even More Misadventures in English Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Watch as the English language gets abused around the world with these weird, hilarious, and strange misspellings and mistranslations
The search for the globe’s funniest language howler continues apace. As with his two previous volumes, Charlie Croker has trawled hotel foyers in Kazakhstan,...
The Executioner's Bible
The Story of Every British Hangman of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
It has been just over 40 years since a gallows was last used in Great Britain, and the secrets behind the men who pulled the lever and dropped the condemned to their deaths are still shrouded in mystery. This account tells the story of the working-class men who carried out this profession until its...
Love of Blood
The True Story of Notorious Serial Killer Joanne Dennehy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The stuff of nightmares. . . A man alone in an apartment with a young woman friend, who suddenly unleashes a deadly onslaught, without warning or reason. The stabs don't hurt. They seem more like punches. Then he realizes that the red liquid pumping out of his body and on to the floor is his blood....
by John McShane
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This is the story of Levi Belfield who has just been found guilty of the murder of Milly Dowler, the 13 year-old school girl who was abducted on her way home from school in Surrey on March 21, 2002, and subsequently murdered. Her body was discovered on September 18, 2002. Prior to this trial Levi...
by Vanessa Howard
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
On July 1st Raoul Moat was released from Durham prison after serving 18 weeks for assault on a minor. In the 10 days that followed, Moat brought terror and fear to the Northumberland countryside, seriously injuring his ex-girlfriend and killing her partner before vowing to harm any policemen who got...
Born Killers
Childhood Secrets of the World's Deadliest Serial Killers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Analyzing the early years of the lives of men like Jeffrey Dahmer, who abused and killed 17 young men, offers a fascinating insight into the effects of a dysfunctional or abusive childhood. Criminologists Christopher Berry-Dee and Steven Morris have spoken and corresponded with killers all over the...
by Jimmy Holland, Stephen Richards
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2007
Meet the hardest men from a country where the streets are the most dangerous and the gangsters and criminals are the scariest in Britain. These faces have seen it all: the guns, the knives, the fights and the toughest prisons. This book will take you deep inside the rough, mad, bad, drug-infested,...
by Patrick Greg
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
On a cold, damp January night in 1961, 19-year-old Pearl Gamble made the final goodbye to her Mother an set off excitedly with two friends to the local dance. Little did Mrs Gamble know, it was the last time that she would see her daughter alive…The following day, the naked body of Pearl was discovered...
by Gary C. King
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
One morning in early November 2007, police in the beautiful Italian city of Perugia made a gruesome discovery. The body of a young English exchange student from the University of Leeds, Meredith Kercher, was found under a blood-soaked duvet in her room in the small cottage she shared with other students....
by Zen Martinoli
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
One of the most common excuses for not going to the gym is that there just isn't enough time to fit in a workout. Now, a busy life needn't be a barrier to exercising! In this easy-to-follow book, fitness trainer Zen Martinoli shows you how you can get a great workout in a fraction of the time you...
No Further Action
The Darkest Year of My Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
On January 2, 2013, just a day before Jim Davidson was due to enter the Celebrity Big Brother house, he found himself behind far more serious locked doors when he was arrested by the Yewtree detectives over alleged sex offenses. 12 months later, the public voted to crown Jim Davidson as the winner...
by Frank Worrall
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
HARD-HITTING RORY MCILROY WAS ALWAYS DESTINED TO BECOME A PROFESSIONAL GOLFER FROM THE MOMENT HE RECORDED A 40-YARD DRIVE AGED JUST TWO. HIS FIRST HOLE IN ONE CAME WHEN HE WAS NINE AND HE PLAYED IN HIS FIRST EUROPEAN TOUR EVENT AS A 16-YEAR OLD IN 2005.His amazing amateur career saw him conquer Ireland...
Bernie Fineman: Original Motor Mouth
East-End Hardman to TV Star: Fifty Years in the Motor Trade
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
After being expelled from one school too many, Bernie Fineman got a job in a garage when he was 13 years old. On his first day he hit the foreman across the face with a broom handle. 50 years later he’s still working in garages and still has a fiery temper, as anyone who has tried to cheat a customer...