Mark Bridgeman

One of the best untold stories in the true crime/con artist genre. It features glamour, crime, intrigue, plot twists and a fascinating insight into life in Edwardian Britain. Violet’s story has unique parallels with many other modern fraud cases – yet trumps them all with the added drama of her s...

The Nearly Man is the true, yet almost unbelievable, story of one man's incredible life, beginning in rural Scotland in the reign of Queen Victoria, and ending on the west coast of Canada in the 1970s. In one of the 20th century's great untold stories we travel with Francis Metcalfe on an amazing...