Jailed for Being Disabled

The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation

By Sarah Wise

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From the October 2023 Issue

Embarrassment & Riches

Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

By Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe

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From the September 2023 Issue

Writers with a Cause

Penning Poison: A History of Anonymous Letters

By Emily Cockayne

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From the September 2022 Issue

Appointments with Death

The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies

By Paul Fischer

The Killing of Lord George: A Tale of Murder and Deceit in Edwardian England

By Karl Shaw

Who Killed Jane Stanford? A Gilded-Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits, and the Birth of a University

By Richard White

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From the June 2021 Issue

Sherlock Investigates

The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji and the Case of the Foreigner in the English Village

By Shrabani Basu

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From the July 2020 Issue

Out for a Hundred

One Long and Beautiful Summer: A Short Elegy for Red-Ball Cricket

By Duncan Hamilton

That Will Be England Gone: The Last Summer of Cricket

By Michael Henderson

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From the February 2020 Issue

Jail Broke

A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner

By Chris Atkins

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From the September 2019 Issue

Judge, Jury & Executioner

Court Number One: The Old Bailey Trials That Defined Modern Britain

By Thomas Grant

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From the August 2019 Issue

He Pushed the Boundary

From the March 2019 Issue

The Woman Who Wouldn’t be Queen

Untitled: The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

By Anna Pasternak

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From the November 2018 Issue

Stock Horror

Ultimate Folly: The Rises and Falls of Whitaker Wright, the World’s Most Shameless Swindler

By Henry Macrory

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From the July 2018 Issue

Fit-Up Most Foul

Conan Doyle for the Defence: A Sensational Murder, the Quest for Justice and the World’s Greatest Detective Writer

By Margalit Fox

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From the May 2018 Issue

Joined at the Liver

Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History

By Yunte Huang

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From the March 2018 Issue

Court in the Crossfire

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken

By The Secret Barrister

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From the February 2018 Issue

Papists’ Progress

The Keys and the Kingdom: The British and the Papacy from John Paul II to Francis

By Catherine Pepinster

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From the April 2017 Issue

Writing Wrongs

Ludo and the Power of the Book: Ludovic Kennedy’s Campaigns for Justice

By Richard Ingrams

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From the August 2016 Issue

Cross Talk

That Was the Church, That Was: How the Church of England

By Andrew Brown & Linda Woodhead

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From the June 2016 Issue

Killer Headlines

We’ll All Be Murdered in Our Beds! The Shocking History of Crime Reporting in Britain

By Duncan Campbell

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From the May 2016 Issue

Teenage Kicks

The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer

By Kate Summerscale

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From the March 2016 Issue

Arsenic in the Curry

The Secret Poisoner: A Century of Murder

By Linda Stratmann

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