John Blake: 861 books
Real Life Downton Abbey
How Life Was Really Lived in Stately Homes a Century Ago
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Fans of Julian Fellowes' hit show can step back 100 years to the world of the pampered, privileged upper classes and take a look at exactly what goes on behind the magisterial doors of their favorite stately home Using the characters and setting of the popular television show as a point of reference...
Sue's Story
How I Survived a Lost Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2007
Shannon
Betrayed from Birth
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
On February 19, 2008, Shannon Matthews disappeared while making her way home from a school swimming trip in the UK. The 999 call made by her mother, Karen, alerted the police to the nine-year-old's disappearance and sparked a massive search across the north of England. The story dominated newspaper...
by Michael Seed, Noel Botham
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2008
Michael Seed 's childhood was nothing but a daily ordeal of unspeakable neglect, misery, and abuse from a father whose tyranny of fear stole Michael's formative years from him and drove Michael's mother to suicide. After years of silence, he now feels ready to tell a story that, though shockingly...
The Noble Art of Seducing Women
My Foolproof Guide to Pulling Any Woman You Want
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Everything a man needs to know to become an infallible seducer of women, courtesy of a female pick-up artist
Kezia Noble is one of the first women to offer the aspiring pick-up artist advice on how to attract women from a woman's point of view. She runs many classes and a workshop, and even...
by Gordon Thorburn
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Cassius was a truly exceptional police dog whose career became the stuff of legend and the gold standard for all dogs coming after. In just five years he scored a century of arrests, saved lives, bit half a dozen policemen, and gave his handler, PC Joe Sleightholm, the most exciting, exhilarating,...
The Crossbow Cannibal
The Definitive Story of Stephen Griffiths-the Self-Made Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
During Midsummer 2009, Susan Rushworth, a mother, grandmother, and former grammar school girl, went missing. She was followed ten months later by Shelley Armitage, a one-time wannabe model. Four weeks on it was Suzanne Blamires, who had been a trainee nurse. All three sold their bodies for sex to...
by Chris Clark, Tim Tate
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
In 1981, Peter Sutcliffe, the ‘Yorkshire Ripper’, was convicted of thirteen murders and seven attempted murders. All his proven victims were women: most were prostitutes. Astonishingly, however, this is not the whole truth. There is a still-secret story of how Sutcliffe’s terrible reign of terror...
Talking With Psychopaths and Savages - A journey into the evil mind
A chilling study of the most cold-blooded, manipulative people on planet earth
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
LOOK AROUND YOU, BECAUSE THE PERSON SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO YOU COULD BE A COLD, HEARTLESS MURDERER.
In Talking With Psychopaths and Savages, bestselling author and criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee takes readers deep inside the dark minds of some of the most pitiless and dangerous people alive....
Cristiano Ronaldo
The True Story of the Greatest Footballer on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Cristiano Ronaldo was born in Madeira in 1985 and his passion for soccer began when he was just three years old. His favorite boyhood team was SL Benfica even though he was to later play for their arch rivals, Sporting. By the age of 10 Ronaldo's reputation was growing in Portugal. He had been competing...
by Willie Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Michael Ball is more than a Laurence Olivier Award winning and multi-platinum recording artist; he holds the unique status of being Britain's foremost musical theatre actor. Testimony to his success is the huge cult following he has built…not least among theatre audiences. From his debut in London's...
by Emily Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
On Sunday, 31 January 2016 a nation used to waking ‘up to Wogan’ on his Radio 2 breakfast show instead awoke to the shocking news that Sir Terry Wogan had passed away at the age of seventy-seven.
One of Britain’s most-loved broadcasters, Terry Wogan had been a fixture on the airwaves...
Angelina Jolie - The Biography
The Story of the World's Most Seductive Star
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Angelina Jolie was born June 4, 1975 and is an Academy Award-winning actress, a former fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. Often cited as one of the world's most beautiful women she is both adored and envied; either way she is constantly in the media spotlight no less...