Bantam Press

This fascinating manuscript from 1929 purports to be written by James Carnac, confessing to being Jack the Ripper.  It is unique for being the earliest known account of a serial killer’s crimes to be written in the first-person.  The manuscript was discovered by Alan Hicken amongst the many items, which he had acquired for his TV, Radio and Toy Museum in Montacute, Somerset, from the family of the illustrator and children’s author, Sydney Hulme Beaman, now chiefly remembered for his Toytown stories, featuring Larry the Lamb.  The text is an original and compelling narrative.  If the Whitechapel murderer is not its actual author, he is almost certainly its principal source of information on the crimes.

No Expenses Spared is the gripping behind-the-scenes account by two of the Daily Telegraph’s top reporters, of how, month by month, the newspaper exposed the MPs’ expenses scandal during 2008 and 2009.  Their relentless outpouring of revelations of greed and corruption, led to the resignation of the Speaker and several Cabinet ministers, dealing a terminal blow to Gordon Brown’s prime-ministership, much as the Profumo scandal brought the Macmillan Government to its knees in 1963.