How the monarchs of England and Scotland met their deaths has been a wonderful mixture of violence, infections, overindulgence and occasional regicide. In 'Mortal Monarchs', medical historian Dr Suzie Edge examines 1,000 years of royal deaths to uncover the plots, accusations, rivalries, and ever-present threat of poison that the kings and queens of old faced.

Containing evidence from key players and interviews with Diana Spencer's friends, this investigative book debunks many of the myths that have arisen since the car crash in Paris. It includes the conclusions of the judge who is investigating the case.

On Saturday, 23 October 2010, Sonia Oatley waved off her 15-year-old daughter, Becca, to meet Joshua Davies, a former boyfriend. Becca's hope was that the two of them would get back together, but it was not to be. By 3pm, oddly, she stopped answering her mobile. By 7.30 she was officially declared missing. And at 10am the following morning, while Sonia and the family were out searching, came the call that is every parent's worst nightmare. 'Bye, Mam,...

Drawing on over one hundred interviews with key principles including Keith Richards, Andrew Oldham and Marianne Faithful, this is a story told from a totally new perspective and which lays bare the shocking ruthlessness, internal warfare and sexual competition within The Rolling Stones. As well as exploring Brian Jones' crucial role in the Stone's music, it also investigates his unravelling as observed by family, friends, bandmates, lovers and enemies....

At the age of 60, Cory Taylor was dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. With her illness no longer treatable, she began at the start of 2016 to write about her experiences and, in an extraordinary creative surge, wrote what would become 'Dying'. This is a brief and clear-eyed account of what dying taught Cory: amid the tangle of her feelings, she reflects on the patterns of her life, and remembers the lives and deaths of her parents. She tells us...

In July 2012 Thomas Harding's 14-year-old son Kadian was killed in a bicycle accident. 'Kadian Journal' is a diary that Thomas started in the aftermath of the tragedy.

On a beautiful July evening in 1910, Thomas Weldon Atherstone, at 47 a handsome and popular actor, was found dying on the ground at the foot of an iron staircase running down the back of a mansion block hard by Battersea Park, in south London. He had been shot. Some 104 years later, who shot him and why he was killed remains a total mystery. This book provides a complete revelation of the actor's life story: his birth in the outskirts of Liverpool;...

The rise of George Villiers from minor gentry to royal power seemed to defy gravity. Becoming gentleman of the royal bedchamber in 1615, the young gallant enraptured James, Britain's first Stuart king, royal adoration reaching such an intensity that the king declared he wanted the courtier to become his 'wife'. For a decade, Villiers was at the king's side - at court, on state occasions and in bed, right up to James's death in March 1625. Almost immediately,...

Anne Williams' son Kevin died at Hillsborough in 1989. This book is an account of her and of her grief and anger. She relates her determination to discover the true circumstances of her son's death and her fight for justice for her son.

The heartfelt and uplifting story of how a project to scatter 60 postcards in memory of her mother helped a young girl come to terms with her loss.