Howard Sounes
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An illuminating biography of Lou Reed, featuring interviews with over 140 people who knew him intimately, plus previously unpublished photographs.
As band leader of the Velvet Underground and later a successful solo artist, Reed was much more than what the general public came to know as the grumpy New Yorker in black who sang "Walk on the Wild Side." To his dedicated admirers, he was one of the most innovative and intelligent songwriters of modern...
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A detail-driven account of how a gang of criminal misfits pulled off the world's biggest cash robbery, from the bestselling author of true crime classic “Fred & Rose”.
The target was a regional counting house for the Bank of England, a fortified concrete bunker located within a triangle of police stations, one only three hundred yards away. When former UFC cage fighter Lightning Lee Murray discovered that this cash centre held hundreds of millions...
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The true account of the scandalous affair between one of Britain's most notorious murderers, Myra Hindley, and a prison guard, and their jailbreak plot to run away together.
Myra Hindley was convicted in 1966, with her boyfriend Ian Brady, of what became known as the Moors Murders. Between July 1963 and October 1965, the couple sexually assaulted and killed five children and teenagers. Four bodies were buried on the moors near Manchester, and a tape...
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A former postman and long-term alcoholic who did not become a full-time writer until middle age, Charles Bukowski was the author of autobiographical novels that captured the low life-including Post Office, Factotum, and Women-and made him a literary celebrity, with a major Hollywood film (Barfly) based on his life. Drawing on new interviews with virtually all of Bukowski's friends, family, and many lovers; unprecedented access to his private letters...
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The definitive account of one of Britain's most notorious killer couples, who loved, tortured, and slayed together as husband and wife. From the outside, 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester, England, looked as commonplace as the married couple who lived there. But in 1994, Fred and Rose West's home would become infamous as a "house of horrors" when the remains of nine young women-many of them decapitated, dismembered, and showing evidence of sexual torture-were...