Viv Graham and Lee Duffy led parallel lives as pub and club enforcers, raging their gangland turf wars with a frenzy of brutality and unremitting cruelty. This book is a riveting double portrait of two of the North East's most feared men whose bloody rivalry was cut short when they each met horrifically violent ends.

The mother of murdered soldier Lee Rigby, who was murdered in Woolwich High St in May 2013, tells her personal story of grief and horror.

Helen grew up in a village in Tyneside with her family living nearby. But they could not protect her from her neglectful mother and violent father. Jenny was adopted and grew up in Newcastle. Neither woman knew of the other's existence until, in her 50s, Jenny went looking for her birth family and found she had a sister.

Journalists have trekked to Harper Lee's hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where she has lived with her sister Alice for decades, trying and failing to get an interview with the author. But in 2001, the Lee sisters opened their door to Chicago Tribune journalist Marja Mills. It was the beginning of a long conversation and a great friendship. In 2004, with the Lees' blessing, Mills moved in next door to the sisters and spent the next eighteen months...

Geoffrey Williams presents his story of growing up through the Battle of Britain, the Blitz, D-Day and the V1 and V2 raids that hit London in 1945.