Books by Karen Evans

Discover 366 gruesome tales from Birmingham's past.Featured here is the man who deliberately swallowed his wooden walking stick, a nineteenth-century horsemeat scandal, a drunken dispute that led to a man being stabbed in the eye with a table fork, and the lightning storm which hit a fog-signalling factory, setting off 43,000 explosions.

A Grim Almanac of Staffordshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 366 ghastly tales from around the county.

A Tale of Two Cities is a study of two major cities, Manchester and Sheffield. Drawing on the work of major theorists, the authors explore the everyday life, making contributions to our understanding of the defining activities of life.

Addresses female offenders (why is the behaviour of female offenders considered to be derivative of men?), female victims, control of women and girls, masculinity and crime and international perspectives.