Howard Sounes
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The true account of the scandalous affair between one of Britain's most notorious murderers, Myra Hindley, and a prison guard, and their jailbreak plot to run away together.
Myra Hindley was convicted in 1966, with her boyfriend Ian Brady, of what became known as the Moors Murders. Between July 1963 and October 1965, the couple sexually assaulted and killed five children and teenagers. Four bodies were buried on the moors near Manchester, and a tape...
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Golf is sometimes referred to as "the wicked game" because it is fiendishly difficult to play well. Yet in the parlance of the Tiger Woods generation, it's also a wickedly good game -- rich, glamorous, and more popular than ever.
When we think about golf -- as it is played at its highest level -- we think of three names: Tiger Woods, the most famous sports figure in the world today, Arnold Palmer, the father of modern golf, and Jack Nicklaus, the...
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When singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her London home in 2011, the press inducted her into what Kurt Cobain's mother named the 27 Club. 'Now he's gone and joined that stupid club,' she said in 1994, after being told that her son, the front man of Nirvana, had committed suicide. 'I told him not to.' Kurt's mom was referring to the extraordinary roll call of iconic stars who died at the same young age. The Big Six are Brian Jones of the Rolling...