the Krays
Persistent gossip about Brian Epstein’s death risks defining his life
Must the Beatles’ manager’s extraordinary vision be forever overshadowed by unfounded rumours of a contract killing?
Reliving the golden moment
What caught my eye towards the end of Look Again was this conversation between David Bailey and the shoe designer…
Unsavoury bedfellows
Just after John Pearson finished writing The Profession of Violence, his celebrated biography of the Krays, both his and his…
A disarming heroine
The name Freya is derived from the old Norse word for ‘spouse’, perhaps Odin’s. As a goddess she is variously…
Robin Hood v. the toffs
The publicity blurb about the two unpleasant criminals whom this dismal book romanticises says that they are ‘continuing their ancestors’…
