Waterside Press is we believe well-known for publishing books by those who overcame disadvantage. They include prisoners who later worked in criminal justice as probation officers, social workers, or with the Ministry of Justice. Such as Bob Turney, I’m Still Standing, Alan Weaver, So You Think You Know Me?… Read more “From probation officer to Poet Laureate”
Waterside Press readers will be sad to learn of the death of our author Martin Wright at the age of 94. Martin wrote three seminal works published or reissued by our imprint: Justice for Victims and Offenders: A Restorative Response to Crime (1996), Restoring Respect for Justice: A Symposium, and Making Good: Prisons Punishment and Beyond (these last two both 2008).… Read more “Martin Wright (1930-2025)”
Waterside Press readers will be sad to learn of the death in Surrey on 1 January 2025 of our author Audrey Edwards. Audrey was 90 years of age. She was in her late sixties when she wrote No Truth No Justice, the tragic story of how her son Christopher, aged thirty, fragile and suffering from mental ill-health was killed in his prison cell in 1994.… Read more “Audrey Edwards (1934-2025)”
Waterside Press was extremely saddened to hear of the death in November 2024 of former Metropolitan Deputy Chief Stipendiary Magistrate for Inner London and District Judge for 27 years from 1972 to 1999 Ronald Bartle. In a prolific period from 2012 to 2016 he wrote four books for Waterside Press: The Telephone Murder: The Mysterious Death of Julia Wallace, a career-based biographical account Bow Street Beak; Lizzie Borden and the Massachusetts Axe Murders and Three Cases That Shook the Law.… Read more “Ronald Bartle (1929-2024)”
We start with a subject area which despite its seriousness remains perennially popular, before moving onto ‘lighter’ matters! Alan Jackaman’s Napper: Through a Glass Darkly was the basis for the Channel 4’s 2021 drama ‘Deceit.’ It describes his 15 year campaign to bring Robert Napper to justice for a later murder after he killed Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common plus the mistakes that allowed this to happen.… Read more “Justice-related Gifts to Consider”
