Scotland Yard's Gangbusters Feast on Lady St Quintin's

Feast on Lady St Quintin's Dutch Pudding and Mrs Eall's Candied Cowslips

Peek beneath the bedsheets of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain in this affectionate

From medieval miseries to the idiosyncrasies of being a twenty-first-century peasant

attempts to revive the famous Palmer's Yard

gritty underbelly of 1980s Los Angeles

Scotland Yard's Gangbusters Feast on Lady St Quintin'sThis is the story of a coppers fight against organised crime in the 1970s. Those were the days well before CCTV, DNA and disclosure, or indeed the Police and Criminal Evidence Act, or money laundering legislation. Although that world was very different, problems with racism and gangland culture resonate today. The tales are not without a certain humour. There is an account of how police raided a club and detained 60 people, including the whole