Non-Fiction

This sympathetic biography traces the soaring highs and devastating lows of British pop icon Dusty Springfield. Dominating the early 1960s music scene, she became Britain’s top female recording artist and the first British star to follow the Beatles, with hits like “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me”. Behind her platinum beehive and swinging-60s glamour, Dusty battled mental illness, mood swings, drug addiction, and the fear of revealing her sexuality. Meticulously researched, the book offers a heart-rending portrait of talent, turmoil, and enduring charisma, with a foreword by Peter Noone.

11 Hours on the Ledge tells the gripping story of John William Warde, a wealthy young man who, in 1938, stepped onto the 17th-floor ledge of Manhattan’s Hotel Gotham, captivating up to 100,000 onlookers. For eleven tense hours, pastors, psychiatrists, police, family, and reporters desperately try to talk him down, while failed NYPD rescue attempts add both suspense and dark comedy. Meticulously researched from historical accounts, Jerry Jamison’s narrative explores mental illness, media frenzy, social pressures, and human obsession, delivering a powerful, suspenseful, and thought-provoking historical thriller.