Robert Smith Literary agency » Peter Gerrard https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:58:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Reggie Kray’s East End Stories: The lost memoirs of the gangland legend https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/741/ https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/741/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:54:54 +0000 http://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/?p=741 The manuscript, rediscovered ten years after Reg Kray’s death from cancer in 2000, is his memoir of his East End childhood in Bethnal Green, his days as a semi-pro boxer, and the forming of friendships, which would endure through to the Kray Twins’ reign of terror in the 1960s and beyond.

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]]> Kray East End StoriesThe manuscript, rediscovered ten years after Reg Kray’s death from cancer in 2000, is his memoir of his East End childhood in Bethnal Green, his days as a semi-pro boxer, and the forming of friendships, which would endure through to the Kray Twins’ reign of terror in the 1960s and beyond.

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]]> https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/741/feed/ 0 Inside The Kray Family: The Twins’ cousins tell their story for the first time https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/742/ https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/742/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:55:07 +0000 http://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/?p=742 Rita Smith and Jon Lee grew up alongside their notorious cousins, Reg and Ron Kray.  Joe actually lived under the same roof as Reg, Ron, older brother Charlie and their tempestuous parents.  The authors have never before publicly spoken about their family, but within these pages they share their thoughts and personal memories, along with […]

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]]> Rita Smith and Jon Lee grew up alongside their notorious cousins, Reg and Ron Kray.  Joe actually lived under the same roof as Reg, Ron, older brother Charlie and their tempestuous parents.  The authors have never before publicly spoken about their family, but within these pages they share their thoughts and personal memories, along with a wealth of Kray family photographs.

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]]> https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/742/feed/ 0 The Guv’nor Tapes https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/743/ https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/743/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:55:21 +0000 http://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/?p=743 Bareknuckle fighter and East End legend Lenny McLean sat down for months talking to Peter Gerrard to write one of the best-selling books of all-time, The Guv’nor.  This companion to it, contains riveting conversations from the original tapes, raw and unedited.

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]]> McLean The Guv'nor TapesBareknuckle fighter and East End legend Lenny McLean sat down for months talking to Peter Gerrard to write one of the best-selling books of all-time, The Guv’nor.  This companion to it, contains riveting conversations from the original tapes, raw and unedited.

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]]> https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/743/feed/ 0 Street Fighting Man https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/744/ https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/744/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:55:39 +0000 http://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/?p=744 Foreword by Mohammed Ali A bareknuckle fighter in the same league as Lenny McLean and Roy Shaw, Monaghan has an unbroken record of 114 fights.  Muhammed Ali had this to say about the author: “Paddy and I have been friends since the early 1960s.  He has a great story to tell, and he knows it.  […]

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A bareknuckle fighter in the same league as Lenny McLean and Roy Shaw, Monaghan has an unbroken record of 114 fights.  Muhammed Ali had this to say about the author: “Paddy and I have been friends since the early 1960s.  He has a great story to tell, and he knows it.  He has written from the heart.”

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