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  • Notorious

    The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins

    by John Pearson ...
    Ever since the Kray twins invited John Pearson to write their 'official' biography more than forty years ago, he has been obsessed with them. After they were jailed in 1969 for thirty years for murder, Pearson's biography The Profession of Violence enjoyed a cult following among the young and was said to be the most popular book in H.M.'s prisons, after the Bible.Ron died in 1995. Reg followed him ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Trafalgar Chronicle

    Dedicated to Naval History in the Nelson Era: New Series 10

    Edited by Judith Pearson, John A Rodgaard ...
    The Trafalgar Chronicle is the publication of choice for new research on the maritime world of the Georgian era, from 1714 to 1837. This journal is known for its rich illustrations consisting of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, and for the noteworthy credentials of the contributors, all of whom demonstrate a passion for naval history.This 2025 issue honors the 220th anniversary of the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • THE INFERNALS #2

    by John J. Pearson ...
    Series Book 2 - THE INFERNALS
    The mission to end the world is on! Nero, Jackal, and Bee take a high-stakes meeting with a benevolent adversary. Abe receives an unexpected visitor from his past. And a dangerous new player enters the game. ... Read more

    $5.58 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All the Money in the World

    previously published as Painfully Rich

    by John Pearson ...
    Inspired by the most infamous incident involving the Getty family - now a major film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Williams and Oscar****® Nominee Christopher PlummerOil tycoon J. Paul Getty created the greatest fortune in America - and came close to destroying his own family in the process. Of his four sons who reached manhood, only one survived relatively unscathed. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Profession of Violence

    The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins

    by John Pearson ...
    The classic, bestselling account of the infamous Kray twins, now a major film, LEGEND, starring Tom Hardy.Reggie and Ronald Kray ruled London's gangland during the 1960s with a ruthlessness and viciousness that shocks even now. Building an empire of organised crime such as nobody has done before or since, the brothers swindled, intimidated, terrorised, extorted and brutally murdered. John Pearson ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Private Lives of Winston Churchill

    by John Pearson ...
    The first major biography of Winston Churchill to focus on his inner life and psychology'An extraordinary biography...Pearson...has a sensitive pen, matching the wit of his subject, and shows perceptive intuition towards the delicate relationships between the members of the Churchill family and their assorted spouses and lovers.' International Journal on World PeaceHe was a lion of a man who ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Mastering the Management Buckets

    20 Critical Competencies for Leading Your Business or Non-Profit

    by John Pearson ...
    In the most practical, humorous, and fast-moving chapters you've ever read on business and nonprofit leadership and management, this in-the-trenches management expert presents his 20 Management Buckets System for understanding and organizing your important mission. "When you don't know what you don't know," says John Pearson, "the Law of Unintended Consequences will derail you every time." Based ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Blood Royal

    The Story of the Spencers and the Royals

    by John Pearson ...
    From the author of All the Money in the World, now a major motion picture, comes a history of Lady Diana's family, the Spencers, a dynasty that rose from sheep farmers to the ranks of upper aristocracy and, finally, royalty.When Lady Diana Spencer married the Prince of Wales in 1981, very little attention was given to her feudal family. The once powerful Spencer dynasty was in disarray and seemed ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Getting Lucky

    by John Pearson ...
    Fourth of July is this coming weekend and Lawrence (Shaver) Ketch would like to be done with first crop hay. Not only is there a family picnic, but also the Five on the Fourth Road Race that he uses to measure progress year to year. The picnic goes as planned, but he’s a scratch at the race. Someone else bales him out on the hay. Why? Who is the stranger on his porch when he and his wife, Connie, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cult of Violence

    by John Pearson ...
    John Pearson knows more about the Krays than anyone alive. Legend, starring Tom Hardy, was based on his book The Profession of Violence and it was Pearson who exposed the Boothby connection in 1994. In 1967 the twins asked Pearson to write their biography. He remained a confidant of the family and the brothers throughout their trial and prison years.Now Pearson revisits the twins' criminal past ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Gone to Timbuctoo

    by John Pearson ...
    From the author of All the Money in the World comes his thrilling debut novel.Not a tooth is knocked out, not a kidney bashed in… an outstanding thriller that rests on less obvious grounds. The characters are odd but rarely violent. Their aims are bizarre and their methods usually unorthodox. Their story is one of strange and constantly maintained suspense, based on a journey from Dakar to the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Arena

    The Story of the Colosseum

    by John Pearson ...
    First published in 1973, Arena discusses the Year AD 80, when the Colosseum opened with quite the longest and most nauseating organized mass orgy in history. It was a mammoth celebration on the grandest scale, a fitting inauguration for an arena built to epitomize all the majesty and power of the Roman Empire, a building which also held the seeds of that Empire's decay and destruction.As well as ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD