Stephen Wade’s enthralling book reveals the unsteady foundations of one of the country’s most prominent and renowned organizations, tracing the various elements that gradually composed the intelligence and political branches of Britain’s Secret Service.
This new book brings together Stephen Wade’s two areas of interest, focusing on the writers in the reigns of Anne to Victoria. The essays here recount and explore the prison experience of writers, both famous and obscure, who came to know the insides of Britain’s prisons.
Rural Wales, 1869: a girl seems to live without food, astounding doctors, the church and a news-hungry society. What is the truth behind her moving story? Science, religion, folkore and human nature are woven around an innocent's death.
Will the forbidden fruits of their labours come to light? As the end of the Second World War nears its close, a tense mood surrounds Leeds. Karel Letnov faces the noose at the Leeds... Læs mere