A native of County Durham, Mary Ann Cotton is regarded as the most prolific female serial killer in British history. This book from Simon Webb and Miranda Brown re-tells her story, re-examines the evidence and includes a startling new theory about the so-called West Auckland Poisoner.

A highly accessible biography of Elias Hicks, a nineteenth-century Quaker from Long Island who campaigned against slavery and was at the centre of some painful political developments among American Quakers. Revised and corrected edition.

George Chapman, also known as Severin Klosowski, was a London poisoner who was hanged in 1903. During his trial, a number of people began to suspect that he was, or had been, Jack the Ripper. These people included Frederick Abberline, who had been an important detective on the Ripper case back in 1888. Abberline became convinced that Chapman was his man. This novel takes Abberline's theory and runs with it.

'Some more particular account I may give from what I have really observed and understood relating to him, his testimony, temptation and restoration.' One of the most important early Quakers, James Nayler remains a controversial figure among Friends today. This book contains George Whitehead's Impartial Account of his friend's life, published sixty years after Nayler's spectacular fall from grace in 1656.

Quakers were involved with the Old Bailey court-house and the notorious Newgate Prison for over two hundred years. Their number included Quaker criminals, victims of injustice and prison reformers such as Elizabeth Fry. Drawing on The Newgate Calendar, The Proceedings of the Old Bailey and other sources, this book tells the true story of Quakers, crime, justice and reform from 1652 to 1851.

'They had now been travelling through England for fourteen days, and could get no information about any English force; nevertheless, an English army was assembled in a park nearby . . . ' In October 1346 the Scottish king David II, son of the celebrated Robert the Bruce, invaded England with as many as thirty-two thousand fighting men at his back. A companion to the Langley Press book The Battle of Neville's Cross, this volume is a compilation of some of the earliest historical sources for the battle, in fresh new modern English versions.

'And soon after came to them an horrible fish, which followed the ship long time, casting so much water out of his mouth into the ship, that they supposed to have been drowned...' Saint Brendan sets off from Ireland with fourteen companions, and sees many strange sights in 'the great sea ocean, that compasseth all the world about'. The Langley Press edition is a modern-spelling version of William Caxton's translation of Brendan's story, taken from 'The Golden Legend', one of the most popular books of the Middle Ages. With introduction and bibliography.