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Beezy Marsh is an international #1 and Sunday Times top-ten best-selling author who puts family and relationships at the heart of her writing.
She believes that ordinary lives are extraordinary and that is reflected in her novels featuring the hidden history of women. She is also an award-winning journalist, who has spent more than 20 years making the headlines in newspapers including The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and The Sunday Times.
Beezy began her career as a writer after graduating from Leeds University with a Joint Honours degree in English Literature and French. She was a Health Correspondent and Women’s Editor on The Northern Echo in the North-East, winning awards for her reporting, before moving to the Daily Mail where, as Health Correspondent, she was nominated for a National Press Award for her investigations. She relies on the same meticulous journalistic skills to research her historical fiction. One of her best-sellers spent six weeks in the Sunday Times U.K top ten book charts and she has had three Canadian top ten best-sellers, at one point holding the coveted #1 slot for nine weeks. She is married, with two sons, and lives in Oxfordshire with a never-ending pile of laundry.
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London, 1922. Orphan girl Alice dreams there’s more to life than toiling long hours in Pink’s jam factory. Inspired by stories about the legendary Queen of Thieves, Mary Carr, who terrorised the streets of Victorian London, Alice decides to set up her own gang: The Forty Thieves.
Sly seamstress Kate Felix from Whitechapel has the same plan and will stop at nothing to keep Alice and her pals off her turf in the West End shops. But Alice is determined to win at all costs, hitting the headlines as the Bob-Haired Bandit.
It isn’t long before they make some powerful enemies, and Alice must sacrifice more than she ever thought if she is to become Queen of Diamonds.
But the toughest and most beautiful diamonds are formed under pressure.
The third in a thrilling new crime saga series about a real-life gang girl from Sunday Times bestselling author Beezy Marsh, Queen of Diamonds is perfect for fans of Sam Michaels, Martina Cole and Jessie Keane.
Don’t miss the next gripping and unputdownable gangland saga in the series by Beezy Marsh
‘Oh my goodness what a story’ NETGALLEY REVIEWER, 5*
‘Excellent follow up to the first book’NETGALLEY REVIEWER, 5*
‘So many twists and turns that I didn’t see coming at all’ NETGALLEY REVIEWER, 5*
‘Well written and addictive’ NETGALLEY REVIEWER, 5*
1957, London.
Gangland Queen Nell has the perfect life of crime as a top shoplifter by day and glamorous club owner by night. But a betrayal and botched robbery suddenly reverse her fortunes… and her old rival, Alice Diamond, is hell-bent on taking her down.
After escaping a poverty-stricken childhood, nightclub dancer Zoe has more on her mind than settling scores for Alice. But the life of luxury Zoe craves comes at a terrible price. And when a vicious gang tightens its grip on Soho, all three women realise it pays to keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
When the fight to save your family becomes a fight for survival, there is no honour among thieves…
The second in a thrilling new crime saga series about a real-life gang girl from Sunday Times bestselling author Beezy Marsh, Queen of Clubs is perfect for fans of Sam Michaels, Martina Cole and Jessie Keane.
‘A colourful tale of love, lust, making good and revenge’ The Sun
‘Gripping from the very first page… this fast-paced, amoral story should appeal to fans of Peaky Blinders‘ The Lady
Gangland was a man’s world – but the women knew different
London, 1946.
Alice Diamond, the Queen of the Forty Thieves, rules over her gang of hoisters with a bejewelled fist. Nell is a slum girl from Waterloo, hiding a secret pregnancy and facing a desperately uncertain future.
Sensing an opportunity to exploit Nell’s vulnerabilities, Alice takes her under her wing and, before long, Nell is experiencing the secret world of hoisting, with all the dangers – and glamorous trappings – that comes with this underworld existence.
Alice has a longstanding feud with Billy Sullivan’s all-male gang in Soho, and thinks Nell could be a useful weapon in her vendetta. But Nell has a secret agenda of her own, and is not to be underestimated. And the more she is exploited by both Alice and Billy, the more her hunger for revenge grows. As she embraces the seedy underbelly of London, will she prevail in carving out her own path to power and riches…
…and crown herself the Queen of Thieves?
From Sunday Times bestselling author Beezy Marsh comes a thrilling new crime saga series, perfect for fans of Sam Michaels, Martina Cole and Jessie Keane.
Readers are loving Queen of Thieves
‘Gangland at its best’
‘Oooh this book was so good…I am hooked now and can’t wait to see how this series develops’
‘This is a proper bang on London saga and I loved the characters…The author is spot on with all her research that makes this book such a unique read’
‘WOW totally pulled into the storyline from the start… it’s a real page turner I devoured in one sitting’
Born into a close-knit working class family in the slums of London’s Waterloo, Eva, Peggy and Kathleen are three remarkably different, but very loving sisters. Desperate to escape their violent father, they find different ways to survive.
Beautiful Kathleen escapes into marriage with an abusive man, and during the horrors of the Second World War, falls in love again – this time with an American GI. Peggy, serious and studious, is appalled by conditions in the factories and becomes a communist, desperate to help her fellow workers. The rebellious sister, Eva, will do anything to protect her family – even if it means breaking the law to put dinner on the table.
Living closely together, the sisters support each other through thick and thin – their story is a moving tale of unconditional love, the one constant in a changing world.
When Annie marries Harry after years of heartache in a London slum she believes she’s found her happy ever after. But the horrors of the Blitz soon threaten everything they hold dear. The terrible sights Harry witnesses as an air raid warden bring back traumatic memories of his time during the First World War. Suddenly Annie finds herself struggling to cope not only with life in wartime and two little children, but also with a husband who seems like a stranger.
Kitty has always been protective of her little brother Harry. Hiding the scandal about their father from the world was the only way to survive as they were growing up in Newcastle. But when she discovers Harry too has a shocking secret, she is torn. Meanwhile Annie wonders why Harry refuses to discuss his life before their marriage and why she has never met his sister. Will the truth ever come to light?
From the bombed-out terraces of London to the docks of Newcastle, Her Father’s Daughter is Beezy Marsh’s moving and poignant true story about the unbreakable bonds of family, and the power of love to heal the worst wounds.
Drawing on exclusive final interviews with Frank, and with unprecedented access to his closest relatives, Mad Frank and Sons follows his rise from a small kid stealing to put food on the table to a feared and respected West End crime lord and head of a legendary gangland family. It includes the story of Frank’s beloved sister, Eva, who was a top-class West End shoplifter, and his sons David and Patrick, who reveal in shocking detail the full extent of the family’s network and the influences that shaped them.
With sawn-off shotguns as toys, the Kray twins as family friends and a mother who urged them as teenagers to ‘get out of bed and rob a bleedin’ bank’, it is little wonder that the Fraser boys were heavily involved in organized crime by the time they were in their twenties. Packed with new information, and featuring some of the most famous names in the London underworld, this is a fascinating slice of gangland history seen through the eyes of Frank Fraser and his two renegade sons.
From the grimy streets of Acton and Notting Hill to the bright lights of the West End, Sunday Times bestselling author Beezy Marsh’s All My Mother’s Secrets is a powerful, uplifting story of a young woman’s struggle to come to terms with her family’s tragic past.
Annie Austin’s childhood ends at the age of twelve, when she joins her mother in one of the slum laundries of Acton, working long hours for little pay. What spare time she has is spent looking after her younger brother George and her two stepsisters, under the glowering eye of her stepfather Bill. In London between the wars, a girl like Annie has few choices in life – but a powerful secret will change her destiny.
All Annie knows about her real father is that he died in the Great War, and as the years pass she is haunted by the pain of losing him. Her downtrodden mother won’t tell her more and Annie’s attempts to uncover the truth threaten to destroy her family. Distraught, she runs away to Covent Garden, but can she survive on her own and find the love which has eluded her so far?
