Author: Nigel Cawthorne

He is the greatest fighter alive today Daily Express Tyson Fury is colossal - six feet nine inches tall and a whisker under 20 stones in weight. H...

On 3 August 2012, as London was gripped by the Olympics, Tia Sharp, a 12-year-old schoolgirl, was reported missing from her grandmother's home in N...

Dim and dimmer? You decide! Spares Prince Harry and Prince Andrew have rarely been out of the news since 2019. They both have proved to have a rare...

This title tells the story of the greatest night bomber of World War II, illustrated with over 275 photographs. It takes you through the design, de...

At the age of twenty-one, the future Prince Philip wrote to a relative: 'I know you will never think much of me. I am rude and unmannerly.' This af...

Virginia (Roberts) Giuffre''s all-American childhood came to an abrupt end by sexual abuse at the age of 7. After her mother exiled her to a school...

Who was Robin Hood? Throughout history the figures of the hooded man of Sherwood forest and his band of outlaws have transfixed readers and viewers...

What started as a patrol to combat commercial plundering of Somali fish stocks has now grown into a highly organised and lucrative business. In a w...

The inside story of the world's most notorious cults.The strange and sinister world of cults is a source of endless fascination. Their secrets, rit...

Explores the golden age of piracy and the violent reality behind the romantic legend.

The origins of the archetypical, modern gangster can be traced to 1920s America, when Prohibition turned street-corner hoodlums into rich and power...

For the killer, there is always the problem of getting rid of the body. Muswell Hill murderer Dennis Nilsen famously cooked the corpses of his vict...

Ghislaine Maxwell's life of privilege was unimaginable. Her jetset world was not only made up of Presidents, top billionaires, Hollywood stars, Ken...

Buckingham Palace's greatest fear came true when the FBI arrested Prince Andrew's friend Jeffrey Epstein on charges of under-age sex trafficking. N...

A wonderful gift for any military history enthusiast.

London abounds with all manner of ludicrous laws, and not all of these curious statutes have been relegated to the past. Despite the efforts of the...

For a nation with a long and proud-military tradition, one token stands above all others as a mark of recognition for the ultimate individual feats...

Did you know that: It's against the law to check into a hotel in London under assumed names for the purpose of lovemaking? Under a statute of Edwar...

This title tells the story of an iconic aircraft from World War II, that is illustrated with over 250 colour and black and white photographs. It ta...

Did you know that a child can be cured of the whooping cough by passing it under the belly of a donkey?The history of medicine in Britain is filled...

In the current conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, Britain's Special Forces are on the front line. These heroes are so respected that they are even c...

The Disturbing Inside Story of Women Who Are Driven to Kill Killer Women are the most disturbing yet compelling of all criminals, representing the ...

A study of the sex killer Chris Halliwell who, having been arrested in 2011 for one murder, led police to the scene of a second. But the senior pol...

On 8 March 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport bound for Beijing. Less than an hour after take-off,...

World War I was a slaughter on an unprecedented scale. Nevertheless there was no shortage of young men willing to sacrifice themselves for their co...