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Inside Wakefield Prison

Life Behind Bars in the Monster Mansion

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Inside Wakefield Prison

By: Jonathan Levi, Emma French
Narrated by: Karl Jenkinson
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 HMP Wakefield. 'Monster Mansion'. Hell to be inside. Almost impossible to escape. This prison has seen some of the most infamous prisoners of all time pass through its cells - from Levi Bellfield to Harold Shipman, Ian Huntley and Charles Bronson.

Jonathan Levi and Emma French are the perfect authors to give chilling insight into all the terrible men who have served time there. After detailing the shocking truth of life in Britain's most high-profile psychiatric hospital in their bestselling book Inside Broadmoor, now they will take readers behind bars in this the UK's most notorious prison.

Inside Wakefield Prison will trace its long and intriguing history, from when it was first built in 1594 all the way up to the present day. Today, just over 750 of the country's most dangerous offenders are kept there, including 'Hannibal the Cannibal' Robert Maudsley, notorious killer Jeremy Bamber and former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins.

Featuring all the sinister and truly horrifying stories that have emerged from the prison, as well as new unheard tales, this book will fascinate and shock readers on every page. Told with the help of interviews with staff, experts - and even in the words of the prisoners themselves - this is a no-holds-barred journey into the dark.©2024 Jonathan Levi and Emma French (P)2024 Bonnier Books UK Murder True Crime

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For me I am not in agreement with lots of experienced involved prison system people. I think we should remove or make the imprisonment a deterrent. 1 statement was...if a murdered was murdering, he probably took 10 minute killing. Should he be paying for that 10 minutes all his/her life? Well the person murdered had their life taken, never to get any of it back.

Shows how these infamous people treated.

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What an amazing book and very interesting book to listen to I would want to go there but I like to hear what happens there x

Amazing x

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Expertly written, with a tremendous array of contributors quoted. It is sensitively written, lacking the sensationalism of other books on the subject, and is all the better for it.

A riveting read

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if you are interested in this subject this is a great listen ! highly recommend insight in to infamous characters, gripping stuff !

Great detail and insight

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Not what I expected. Was hoping for an insight into the inmates of Wakefield but the book is more about the staff.

Good narrator

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Dire. Utterly without redemption. Seems to have been cobbled together by AI. Syntax errors, an inability to focus on a single theme even in a chapter dedicated to that theme, generally woeful editing of the alleged 'interview' content. A complete waste of time. Nothing in here you couldn't glean from 10 minutes on Wikipedia.

Avoid like the plague.

The worst book I've heard

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Disappointing to be truthful. Quite repetitive and dull. One of the least interesting books of its genre I have come across.

A bit generic

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