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  Looking for the Enemy - Mullah...

  Bette Dam

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  'Bette Dam was one of the very few Western journalists to gain real access to the Taliban movement' - The Guardian 
  'Bette Dam's biography/hunt for the truth behind the figure of Mullah Omar will change everything you thought you know about Afghanistan.' - Victor Blue, fellow at the New America Foundation, photographer for The New York Times 
  'Bette Dam is the most knowledgeable scholar on Mullah Omar.' - Carter Malkasian, former adviser to American military commanders in Afghanistan 
  'Dam's richly detailed study, based on years spent tracking the Taliban as an investigative journalist, exposes many of the inner workings of the group and highlights how little the West truly understands about how the movement functions.' - Foreign Affairs 
  'Bette Dam is one of the most talented researchers I know.' - Anand Gopal, author of Pulitzer-nominated No Good Men Among the Living 
   
  For twenty years, the Taliban was the number one enemy of Western forces in Afghanistan. But it was an enemy that they knew little about, and about whose founder and leader, Mullah Omar, they knew even less. 
  Armed with only a fuzzy black-and-white photo of the man, investigative journalist Bette Dam decided to track down the reclusive Taliban chief a decade back. But in the course of what had seemed an almost impossible job, she got to know the Taliban inside out, realized how dangerously misinformed the global forces fighting it were, and made a startling discovery about the elusive Omar's whereabouts.  
  The outcome of a five-year-long pursuit, Looking for the Enemy is a woman journalist's epic story that takes the reader deep into the dangerous mountains and war-ravaged valleys of Afghanistan as it throws up several unknowns about an organization that is now once again at the helm in one of the world's most fragile states.

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  Headshot

  Burl Barer

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  Paul St. Pierre was an alcoholic driven by an urge to kill all the time. He bullied his younger brother, Chris, into committing unspeakable acts. His childhood friend, Andrew Webb, took drugs, talked to skulls, and dreamed about eating human flesh. It was only a matter of time before the trio terrorized a quiet neighborhood near Tacoma, Washington, with the brutal murders of innocent victims caught in a storm of senseless rage. Then the twisted triad turned on each other - over money. Paul shot Andrew in the stomach. Chris called the cops. But with tortured individuals like these, justice opened the doors to more surprising revelations.

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  The Typewriter and the...

  Troy Crawford

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  What unfolds between them reveals how truth is shaped, how power operates, and how societies drift toward catastrophe while insisting everything is under control. 
  The Typewriter and the Guillotine is a work of narrative history and true crime that examines prewar Paris through two converging forces: a determined journalist struggling to tell an unwelcome truth, and a murderer whose crimes became a public spectacle just as Europe stood on the edge of collapse. 
  As extremism spread quietly across the continent, Paris clung to its cultural confidence. Cafés were full. Art flourished. Stability felt assured. Yet beneath the glamor, warning signs accumulated—political hesitation, institutional denial, and a growing appetite for distraction. While editors urged restraint and neutrality, the journalist at the center of this story recognized that silence was itself a choice. 
  At the same time, the city became transfixed by the crimes, trial, and execution of a German serial killer—the last man to be publicly executed in France. His violence shocked the nation, but the fascination it inspired revealed something more unsettling: a society more comfortable consuming spectacle than confronting its own unraveling. 
  Told with clarity, restraint, and narrative tension, this book is not merely about what happened, but about how meaning is constructed under pressure. It explores journalism as moral responsibility, crime as a cultural mirror, and power’s ability to decide which truths are amplified, which are postponed, and which are ignored until it is too late. 
  The Typewriter and the Guillotine is for readers of serious history, true crime, and literary nonfiction who want more than facts alone. It is a meditation on attention, courage, and the fragile space where truth still has a chance to matter.

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  Crooks: The Stories Behind the...

  Paul Williams

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  For almost forty years, Paul Williams has chronicled the life and crimes of some of Ireland's most notorious godfathers, killers and thieves. In Crooks he brings his readers for a ride-along, taking us behind the scenes of his most notorious scoops, describing the run-ins he's had with unsavoury, dangerous criminals and the high price of his line of work. 
   
  From pursuing the General to death threats from PJ 'The Psycho' Judge, exposing the Westies and tracking the Kinahan cartel, Paul's extraordinary career doubles as an eyewitness account of the evolution of organized crime in Ireland.

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  Not So Merry Wakefield

  Katie Taylor

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  The life and times of a Wakefield woman in the late twentieth century with substantial local historical information. The book aims to echo Henry Clarkson's memories of Merry Wakefield (1887) but with more sombre overtones reflecting experiences of single parenthood, time in the local mental hospital and the trauma of a fatal car accident, but with good times too.

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  Serial Killers - Horrifying...

  Charlotte Greig

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  From perverse acts of cannibalism and dark sexual fantasies to vicious acts motivated by greed and a simple lust for blood, this book reveals the methods and motivations of some of the world's most notorious serial killers, including Juan Corona, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Pee Wee Gaskins, and Ivan Milat.

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