Crime

This text gathers together the stories of the 121 prisoners who were executed to Gloucester between 1792, when the first prisoner was hanged on the roof over the entrance gate of the newly-built prison and 1939, when the last convict was executed within the prison's walls.

Professor David Wilson has spent his professional life working with violent men - especially men who have committed murder. Aged twenty-nine he became, at that time, the UK's youngest ever prison Governor in charge of a jail and his career since then has seen him sat across a table with all sorts...

P.D. James was often commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a special short story for Christmas. As the six tales presented here unfold, the dark motive of revenge is revealed at the heart of each. Bullying schoolmasters receive their comeuppance, unhappy marriages and childhoods are a...