Gadfly Press is a UK-based book publisher specialising in true crime. We distribute books worldwide in three formats: paperbacks, e-books and audiobooks. Many of our titles have become Amazon bestsellers.
We are uniquely placed to offer a comprehensive range of services to true-crime authors. If you’ve got a true-crime story worth sharing, we can help you reach the readers you want.
Whether you want typesetting, cover-design services, graphics, video editing or social-media support, we’re here to help you write more and worry less.
While traditional publishers offer a minuscule royalty to authors, Gadfly Press splits all royalties 50-50 with its authors. This huge financial difference more accurately represents the time, effort, blood and sweat it takes to write a book.
With the Internet having crushed the old methods of book promotion, we use algorithms, keywords, Amazon ads etc. We can help with your social media and arrange podcast interviews.
Gadfly Press Publications
Discover our publications below:
Bestwood Boss: Live by the Gunn
“The jaw-dropping inside story from the boss of the only organised crime group in the UK to be classified as a cartel!” – Shaun Attwood, true crime author/YouTuber
In the early 2000s, Dave Gunn and his brother Colin built the Bestwood Cartel, a multi-million-pound empire based on drugs, extortion and violent crime during a time when Nottingham was labelled Britain’s gun crime capital.
The second season of Sherwood, the BBC crime drama series, was inspired by the activities of the Gunn Brothers and the deadly crime wave in Nottingham, which earned the city the nickname ‘Shottingham’
According to the media, the Gunn Brothers ruled some of the city’s suburbs with an iron fist, drove around in flash cars and were dripping in expensive jewellery. They saw themselves as protectors of their manor – a modern-day mix of Robin Hood and the Kray twins.
As the violence escalated, including brutal punishment shootings between rival gun gangs, the police launched Project Starburst to dismantle the Bestwood Cartel and its rivals.
Much has been written about the Gunn Brothers in the media and books such as Hoods, but no gang leader has ever detailed the real-life warfare in Nottingham in the early 2000s. In Bestwood Boss, Dave Gunn sets the record straight with the first ever insider’s account of what led to the blood-soaked ganglands.
Killer: Charlie Seiga
Charlie Seiga was one of the most dangerous faces of the criminal underworld. There were many unsolved killings which were swift, brutal and brilliantly organised. The victims—liberty takers and sadists—were all hard bastards who dealt in the most vicious kind of violence. Many times the police marked him out as the vicious contract killer.
He was also one of the most successful villains of his time. Police believed that he was the brains behind major firms involved in robberies on banks, security vans, lorry hijacking, safe breaking and many other serious crimes. He lost track of the times he was arrested and questioned about various jobs, but he always had an alibi—a witness to say he wasn’t guilty of the crime. He was the Houdini of the criminal underworld.
His story is a shocking tale of violence and crime; but it is also a story about one man’s fight against the scum who break his deadly code of honour. He hates women beaters and child molesters. His presence was a constant challenge to the low life that preyed on those who could not defend themselves. It is an incredible autobiography of one of the most notorious figures in the history of British crime.
Vigilante: Charlie Seiga
A major breakdown in society has descended and everything is spiralling out of control on council ghettos across the city.
The police don’t have the ability to deal with it and are demoralised. The streets are lawless. Marauding gangs are committing the vilest acts imaginable: rapes, violence against old people, arson attacks on family homes and gun crime. Unfortunately, decent hard working people live among it all. It is an unbearable existence for them. But John Christian – born and bred on a Liverpool council estate – comes up with a solution to the problem: lowlife scum who terrorise the women, kids, old and infirm should be terrorised themselves in a more frightening manner than they could ever imagine.
John Christian recruits and forms his own crew, whose presence on the streets becomes a constant challenge to the lowlife. After capturing one vile yob, the justice they inflict on the scum is swift, brutal and brilliantly organised. They become known as vigilantes who sheriff their own community. This book contains violence in the most graphic detail.
Liverpool’s Notorious Jelly Gang: Charlie Seiga
At the age of just seventeen, Charlie Seiga led a gang of older men into doing daring safe-blowing robberies up and down the country using high explosives (gelignite). This story tells, in intricate detail, all about the methods used in safe blowing and how professional these men were. They became known as ‘The Jelly Gang.’
At that time in the 1950s, safe blowing was regarded as the pinnacle of excellence in the criminal hierarchy. It demanded a superior knowledge and technique, and required meticulous planning to the highest degree. Expertise in the way explosives worked was paramount. Although on some occasions it was a dangerous game, with near death experiences, disaster and injuries in some of the moves that the Jelly Gang pulled off.
The Hyenas: Charlie Seiga
Charlie Seiga never beat up old men or defenceless women, but the old-style villain has long gone. Now the streets are full of marauding criminals with no morals, dignity or loyalty. These are the people who got to Seiga. They call themselves the Hyenas and they venture out at night like a gang of scavengers to carry out their so-called work.
This is the amazing, shocking, violent story of Charlie Seiga’s fate at the hands of the Hyenas and how he made them wish they had not crossed his path.
WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY HERE
Untouchable Jimmy Savile
Who was Jimmy Savile? More than anything he was a list of contradictions. He was a practising Catholic who raped young boys and girls and had sex with corpses.
He was a God-fearing believer who participated in satanic rituals. He was an unprecedentedly generous charity fundraiser who was too tight to buy his own meals. He was a friend of princes and dukes who ate bacon sandwiches at his local greasy spoon. He was a peace activist who tied up troublemakers in his nightclubs and had them brutally beaten. He was a fairy godfather who hated children.
Through his relationships with the Royal Family, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul, who gave him a Papal Knighthood, Savile built a powerbase that insulated him from prosecution. Raised to the heights of fame by the BBC, this evil genius preyed on the young and vulnerable for over five decades.
The Untouchable Jimmy Savile book series demolishes the mainstream media narratives portrayed in Netflix’s Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story and the BBC’s The Reckoning to show that Savile’s behaviour was enabled by the most powerful members of the establishment for whom he was a fixer and a procurer.
HMP Manchester Prison Officer Series
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