After he was denied access to report on Sing Sing, one of America’s most notorious high security jails, journalist Ted Conover applied to become a prison guard. As a rookie officer, or ‘newjack’, Conover spent a year in the unpredictable, intimidatin...

‘Superb. The most stunning memoir ever written about the cop world’ Joseph Wambaugh‘Beautiful and inspiring, terrifying and heartbreaking’James Frey‘More chilling than even the most realistic cop dramas on TV’People...

Detective Karin Schaeffer was a happily married mother in New York when her life was shattered by a serial killer. The cops call Martin Price JPP - Just Plain Psycho - because of the brutality of his attacks. To the press and the public, however, h...

This Valentine’s day Imogen is going to meet the man of her dreams.If only she can discover who he is…At a gloriously over-the-top house party in the balmy South of France, British trainee chef Imogen finds herself playing b...

‘I could see what he was doing to the other girls because he had been doing it to me for as long as I could remember’At just six years of age, Audrey Delaney’s childhood was cut tragically short when her father first abused her. What f...

Christine Holohan saw angels around her bedside when she was a child. It was only when she grew up that she realised not everyone saw them. One night, when she was aged just 22, she began to have disturbing dreams of a young woman called Jacq...

My brother Patrick remembers my first beating, of which I assume I was completely unaware. He was just five years old when he watched our mother punching herself again and again in her pregnant stomach while shouting at the top of her voice, ‘I do...

A serial killer who wants to watch you burn…The media call him The Burning Man, a brutal murderer who has beaten four young women to death, before setting their bodies ablaze in secluded areas of London’s parks. And now the fift...

In 1988 Iraq was the region’s dominant military power and ambitious to become leader of the Arab world. Saddam’s war-experienced army were known to have used biological and chemical weapons in the past, and when 260,000 troops and 2,000 tanks crossed...

Aleksandr Orlov has in the last year become one of the most loved figures in British culture and his catchphrase – Simples! – can be heard from the playground to the office. Written in his inimitable voice (as dictated to his sidekick Sergei), his au...