Bøger af Simon Farquhar

CWA-shortlisted author Simon Farquhar reveals the stories behind some of Britain's most extraordinary (yet somehow forgotten) murders

The gripping story of one of the most frightening murder cases in British criminal history, which sparked, at the time, the biggest manhunt the country had ever seen

Nigel Sheridan's suburban life is, on the surface, idyllic. He has an attractive wife; bright, well-behaved teenage children; a pleasant house; peace and stability ... But for several years Nigel has harboured a secret, and today his wife Eve has discovered it.

"The British film industry was alive and well in the Seventies. It was just in television rather than cinema."In 1970, after a six-year grip on the public imagination, The Wednesday Play changed its name to Play for Today. A new name for a new and very different decade, but the principles of the series that had introduced millions to bold new talents such as Dennis Potter, Ken Loach and Tony Garnett, and to Up the Junction and Cathy Come Home, remained the same.Play for Today would run for 14 years on BBC1, an unpredictable space in the schedule for contemporary writers to tell their own stories in their own ways. This is the story of its astonishing first year, which included work by John Osborne, Ingmar Bergman, Dennis Potter, Jim Allen, Simon Gray and Peter Nichols, the story of the series' origins, and also the in-depth story, told for the first time, of its most controversial and confrontational entry,W. Stephen Gilbert's Circle Line.Featuring a wealth of interviews with writers, actors, producers and directors, this is the definitive account of an exemplary period in television drama,

A Dangerous Place is the first full-length account of the crimes of John Duffy and David Mulcahy. Told by the son of one of the police officers who led the enquiry, exhaustively researched and with unprecedented access, this is the story of two of the most notorious serial killers of the twentieth century and the times they operated in.