The Common Hangman
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The Common Hangman
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Author : James Bland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Common Hangman written by James Bland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Parliamentary History Of England From The Earliest Period To The Year 1803
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Author : William Cobbett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1808
The Parliamentary History Of England From The Earliest Period To The Year 1803 written by William Cobbett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1808 with Great Britain categories.
Once A Jolly Hangman
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Author : Alan Shadrake
language : en
Publisher: Pier 9
Release Date : 2011
Once A Jolly Hangman written by Alan Shadrake and has been published by Pier 9 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Capital punishment categories.
True Crime.
The Hangman
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Author : Louise Penny
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-07-15
The Hangman written by Louise Penny and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-15 with categories.
This Chief Inspector Gamache novella is set in Three Pines. This novella is a short and easy read for people on the go.
The Hangman S Revolution W A R P Book 2
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Author : Eoin Colfer
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-06-26
The Hangman S Revolution W A R P Book 2 written by Eoin Colfer and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-26 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
The Matrix meets Oliver Twist! WARP: The Hangman's Revolution is the second book in a major new series by Eoin Colfer, the bestselling author of Artemis Fowl. F.B.I. agent Chevie Savano is trapped in a nightmare future. Unless she can return to 19th-century London and change the course of history, millions will die. Luckily she has Riley the boy magician and a Victorian gangster with lovely hair to help her battle two crazed villains, who have brought the military technology of the future back in time - with potentially disastrous consequences. The stakes are higher than the hangman's noose and only Chevie can save the day. Assuming she can avoid being killed by a couple of psycho warrior-nuns first . . . 'Colfer has the ability to make you laugh twice over: first in sheer subversive joy at the inventiveness of the writing, and again at the energy of the humour' - Sunday Times 'Readers mourning the end of the Artemis Fowl series can take heart...the time-bending WARP series is an all-out blast.' - Publishers Weekly
The Hangman
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Author : Gerald Verner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 19??
The Hangman written by Gerald Verner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 19?? with categories.
Books Condemned To Be Burnt
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Author : James Anson Farrer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
Books Condemned To Be Burnt written by James Anson Farrer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Book burning categories.
Limited to the history of book fires in England.
An Uncommon Hangman
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Author : Rachel Franks
language : en
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Release Date : 2022-05-01
An Uncommon Hangman written by Rachel Franks and has been published by NewSouth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-01 with History categories.
Executioners were once a critical component of the justice system in New South Wales. In an era when judges handed down death sentences as easily as they toasted the good health of the monarch, someone had to do the dirty work of the authorities. Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard used to be a household name. Today, the noseless hangman who sparked fear and fascination everywhere he went is largely forgotten, yet Howard is vital to understanding attitudes towards capital punishment in Australia. Howard’s story is a critical chapter in the history of how generally enthusiastic spectators at early executions were overtaken by campaigners for the abolition of the death penalty. This dramatic tale of life, death and radical social change is told through the sixty-one men and one woman who met Nosey Bob, under the worst possible circumstances, when he served as a New South Wales executioner between 1876 and 1904. ‘Riveting, startling and brimming with powerful insights. With meticulous research and an unflinching eye, Rachel Franks brilliantly recovers the story of the most unpopular man in NSW, and the stories of the condemned people he hanged. Through this deeply human story of Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard, and the Faustian pact he made with the authorities to make a living, she lays bare the grotesque hypocrisies of judicial hanging. “The act of hanging is an act of brutality” writes Franks. I defy anyone who reads this book to disagree.’ –Emeritus Professor Grace Karskens, author of The Colony: A History of Early Sydney ‘Franks displays wit, writerly sensitivity and a scholar’s rigour, methodically revealing modes of crime and punishment, and entire ways of living and dying, in colonial Australia. She does this via an examination of the life of a plain, simple, everyday hangman. Who happens to be without a nose. What’s not to like?’ – Dr Peter Doyle, author of Crooks Like Us ‘A bold and brutal biography of NSW’s longest-serving executioner. Franks weaves a compelling and compassionate narrative of one man’s life, told through the deaths of condemned criminals. Fearless in its detail, Franks’ prose has a light touch on this dark subject matter. Through the man we contemplate the history of capital punishment, law and order, and colonial social mores, making this a vital contribution to death studies in Australia.’ – Dr Lisa Murray, author of Sydney Cemeteries: A Field Guide
The Hangman S House
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Author : Andrea Tompa
language : en
Publisher: Hungarian List
Release Date : 2021-07-22
The Hangman S House written by Andrea Tompa and has been published by Hungarian List this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-22 with Fiction categories.
Set in the 1970s and '80s, The Hangman's House narrates the life and times of a Hungarian family in Romania. Those were extraordinary times of oppression, poverty and hopelessness, and Andrea Tompa's latest novel depicts everyday life under the brutal communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu, referred to by the narrator as an unnamed "one-eared hangman." Ceaușescu is omnipresent throughout the story--in portraits in classrooms and schoolbooks, in the empty food stores, in TV programs, in obligatory Party demonstrations. Most insidiously, he is present in the dreams and nightmares of common people, who, in this cruel period of history, become cruel to one another, just like the dictator. Our narrator, a teenage "Girl," observes life through tangled, almost interminable sentences, trying to understand and process the many questions in her life: why her family is falling apart; why her mother has three jobs; why her father becomes an alcoholic; why her grandmother dreams of "Hungarian times"; and, most troubling, why there is persecution all around. Brutal though the times are, Girl's narration is far from a mere indictment. It is suffused with love, tenderness and irony. Written by a woman and featuring a young woman narrator, The Hangman's House focuses intently on how women play the principal roles in holding together the resilient fabric of society. Evocative of the celebrated wry humor that distinguishes the best of Hungarian literature, Tompa's novel is a tour de force that will introduce a brilliant writer to English-language readers.
Hangman S Brae
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Author : Colin Duncan
language : en
Publisher: Black & White Publishing
Release Date : 2013-02-21
Hangman S Brae written by Colin Duncan and has been published by Black & White Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-21 with Social Science categories.
Hangman's Brae is a vividly written account of the blood-curdling crimes and brutal forms of punishment of north-east Scotland. The book explores the area's underworld and features the grave-robbers, jail-breakers, rioters and other lawbreakers whose crimes led them to premature deaths at the end of a rope or at the not so delicate hands of The Maiden, a gruesome decapitating device predating the French guillotine. The stories of the men who enforced the law and meted out sentences to the ne'er-do-wells who broke it can be just as interesting and memorable as those of the criminals and Norman Adams introduces the reader to some of them. Here you'll find some real characters such as the Aberdeenshire sheriff and criminal officer who always got his man - once spending two chilling nights chained to a brutal murderer and rapist. And it wasn't just hangings that these men had to perform - their grisly work also involved execution by beheading and drowning, often with some witch-burning for good measure. The many true-crime cases in this book shed new light on just how violent and bloody the north-east of Scotland's past was.