Project News

September 2011

Gave lecture on 'Marilyn Monroe and the Mob' at the American Museum, Bath

Reviews of ‘Empire of Crime’:

‘Snappy as Spillane, this book is packed with girls, guns and guts. The violent milieu explored by Newark is not South Side Chicago but the British Empire’—The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/empire-of-crime-by-tim-newark-2355260.html

‘Probing areas which historians have usually tactfully avoided, Newark has lifted the curtain on a hidden era of the British Empire’—Glasgow Herald

'Boardwalk Gangster: the Real Lucky Luciano' published to coincide with screening of second season of 'Boardwalk Empire' HBO TV series in the US.

Reviewed Richard Holmes' 'Soldiers' for Financial Times

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/95df775c-d3dd-11e0-bc6b-00144feab49a.html#axzz1WsLQiAWJhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/95df775c-d3dd-11e0-bc6b-00144feab49a.html#axzz1WsLQiAWJ