Stephen Wade Boeken

In Tracing Your Prisoner Ancestors, crime historian Stephen Wade attempts to provide information and guidance to family and social history researchers in this difficult area of criminal records

This latest book in the Straightforward Guides Series A Guide to Freelance Writing, Revised Edition, by Stephen Wade, is the perfect book for those who wish to concentrate on writing features, reviews etc. for newspapers and other media. Adopting a methodical step-by-step approach, the book updates and builds on the previous edition. The reader is given a firm grounding in the craft of writing and the book contains all the basic information.

Cops, Villains and Trials is a collection of case studies and background essays intended to provide guidance and advice for family and social historians. It aims to deal with sources and narratives, with material on the context of crime and law through the ages. The book is meant to be a guide for any historian doing family research or who might want less well-known tales and case studies of the law and legal professionals in British history. The material also includes essays on Irish history.

A Comprehensive Guide to Burglary and Robbery is an essential research companion for crime writers and readers. Crime historian Stephen Wade and former detective Stuart Gibbon examine the subjects of Burglary and Robbery from a historical and modern-day perspective, with reference to criminal law and police procedure.

A Comprehensive Guide to Arrest and Detention is an essential research companion for crime writers and readers. Crime historian Stephen Wade and former detective Stuart Gibbon examine the subjects of arrest and detention from a historical and modern-day perspective, with reference to criminal law and police procedure.

Being a Professional Writer, by Stephen Wade and Kate Walker, builds on the previous edition and is a guide to all major aspects of working as a full time writer. It is wide ranging and covers all areas of the written medium, whether fiction or non-fiction. The aim of the book is to give the reader a clear insight into techniques used in different forms of writing and to develop these techniques and be able to build the confidence needed to embark on a career as a writer. This latest edition has been updated to include contemporary topics related to author promotion and the uses of social media.

True Crime writer Stephen Wade tells the stories of some of the men he has met in prison: cons and screws, librarians and Listeners, ex-squaddies and Storybook Dads. An outsider on the Inside, he tries to explore the psychic geography of a world of rage, hatred, loneliness and boredom - in Reception, on the landings, in the gym and down the Block. Stretch is a book about seductive dreams and wrong decisions, heroin and sadness, resolutions, resignation and regret, with an atonal soundtrack of keys and gates, and doors that slam 'like tombs'.

A Comprehensive Guide to Drink and Disorder is an essential research companion for crime writers and readers. Crime historian Stephen Wade and former detective Stuart Gibbon examine the subjects of Drink and Disorder from a historical and modern-day perspective, with reference to criminal law and police procedure.

Presents a dramatic narrative from several theatres of war, including the Battle of Britain and the bombing raids on Germany, the Korean War, with first-hand testimony, as well as accounts of the dangerous RAF base at Habbaniya and Hong Kong in the 1950s.

A Straightforward Guide to Writing Performance Poetry is the perfect book for those who wish to develop their poetry and performance skills. The reader is given a firm grounding in the art of performance poetry and the book contains all the basic information needed to develop both writing and performance skills. The material is wide-ranging and adopts a contemporary and novel approach to the art and craft or writing and presenting poetry.