Lifers : inside the minds of Britain's most notorious criminals

Geoffrey Wansell's Lifers is a chilling and fascinating look inside the minds of some of the world's most notorious criminals and serial killers. In this ground-breaking book, Wansell brings together interviews and original first-hand accounts from some of the most feared and dangerous criminals on the planet. Lifers offers a glimpse inside the minds of murderers as well as a chance to understand what it really means when 'life means life'. Having observed lifers over more than twenty years, often up close and very personal, Geoffrey Wansell's Lifers will reveal more of the criminal mind than has ever before been seen. This is a book about murder. It's a look inside the minds of the world's most dangerous criminals. And it asks the most crucial questions about what made them do it and whether they can ever change. It is the story of Jeremy Bamber, the only convict with a whole-life sentence to continue to protest his innocence; Joanna Dennehy, the Peterborough Ditch murderer, who stabbed three men to death; Ian Huntley, the Soham murderer who fooled the world into thinking he was helping to find the victims, and many others in jails up and down the country. In this shocking, chilling and powerful book, Geoffrey Wansell explores the minds of these Lifers, revealing who they are, why they did it and whether they feel any remorse for what they have done Winner of the Templer Medal and the Wolfson History Prize, this book attempt to get to grips with the reality of that extraordinary institution, which now seems as remote as the British Empire itself.