product gallery

The Five

The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

by Hallie Rubenhold

THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Gripping' NEW YORK TIMES 'At last, the Ripper's victims get a voice...An eloquent, stirring challenge to reject the prevailing Ripper myth' MAIL ON SUNDAY ____________

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met.

They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers.

What they had in common was the year of their murders- 1888.

Their murderer was never identified, but the name created for him by the press has become far more famous than any of these five women.

Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, historian Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, and gives these women back their stories.
____________

Awards for The Fiveinclude-
- Winner of the BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE for Non-fiction
- HAY FESTIVAL Book of the Year 2019
- Winner of the Goodreads Choice Awards for History

PRAISE FOR THE FIVE

'Devastatingly good. The Fivewill leave you in tears, of pity and of rage.' LUCY WORSLEY
'Fascinating, compelling, moving.' BRIDGET COLLINS, author of The Binding 'An angry and important workof historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has fed the Ripper myth. Powerfuland shaming.' GUARDIAN 'Haunting' SUNDAY TIMES 'What abrilliant and necessarybook' JO BAKER, author of Longbourn 'Beautifully written and with the grip of a thriller, it will open your eyes and break your heart.' ERIN KELLY
'Anoutstanding work of history-from-below ...magnificent' SPECTATOR 'Deeply researched' THE NEW YORKER
READ MORE
NON FICTION
TRUE CRIME
SOCIETY, CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY

on order and arriving soon!

Pages:

432

Published:

30 Jan 2020

Format

Paperback

Publisher

Transworld Publishers Limited

Imprint

Black Swan

ISBN:

9781784162344

THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Gripping' NEW YORK TIMES


'At last, the Ripper's victims get a voice...An eloquent, stirring challenge to reject the prevailing Ripper myth' MAIL ON SUNDAY
____________

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met.

They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers.

What they had in common was the year of their murders- 1888.

Their murderer was never identified, but the name created for him by the press has become far more famous than any of these five women.

Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, historian Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, and gives these women back their stories.
____________

Awards for The Fiveinclude-
- Winner of the BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE for Non-fiction
- HAY FESTIVAL Book of the Year 2019
- Winner of the Goodreads Choice Awards for History

PRAISE FOR THE FIVE

'Devastatingly good. The Fivewill leave you in tears, of pity and of rage.' LUCY WORSLEY


'Fascinating, compelling, moving.' BRIDGET COLLINS, author of The Binding
'An angry and important workof historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has fed the Ripper myth. Powerfuland shaming.' GUARDIAN


'Haunting' SUNDAY TIMES
'What abrilliant and necessarybook' JO BAKER, author of Longbourn
'Beautifully written and with the grip of a thriller, it will open your eyes and break your heart.' ERIN KELLY
'Anoutstanding work of history-from-below ...magnificent' SPECTATOR


'Deeply researched' THE NEW YORKER
$26.00