Mike Gray

My Fifth True Crime book is publishing on 30th June 2014, called '101 Interesting Facts on Britain's True Life Crimes' which documents many crimes that made the Front pages of national newspapers, but are not household names, but are very interesting crimes and criminals, such as The Spaghetti House Siege in Knightsbridge, The Chainsaw Gang of armed robbers, The Wembley Mob and the worlds first ever Supergrass, plus many more.

I have Four True crime books already published on Amazon, on The 1963 Great Train Robbery And The Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs, all Four books have been published by Apex Publishing, My first book was published in 2009 as a Hardback and kindle and the most recent books were published in October to December 2013, they are All available in Kindle/E-Book Formats.

I have had an extensive and almost lifelong interest in British True crime, and in particular the infamous 1963 Great Train Robbery, which i studied in 1974 as part of my High School 'A' level qualification, for myself to embark on a career in journalism, with my future employers being the London Evening News, Northcliffe Newspapers and IPC Magazines.

I have appeared on Sky News with Jeremy Thompson for a 'live' debate for twenty minutes, which attracted a worldwide audience of 11.6 million, BBC1's Question Time, and more recently on ITV Breakfast with Aled Jones and Lorraine Kelly aswell as ITV News, BBC1, BBC 24 Hour News, Channel 4, Channel 5,Australia's ABC News, Dutch TV, and I Featured in a Discovery documentary on Ronnie Biggs called 'Blood Lines', I have featured in every UK National Newspaper and hundreds of County newspapers from Scotland to Cornwall, along with 'live' Radio interviews on LBC Radio, BBC Kent, Heart, BBC Surrey, BBC Norfolk, BBC Bristol, etc and carried out book signings across South East England and a very memorable month long book signing in Southern Spain, whilst appearing on Costa Blanca TV and every Ex-Pat newspaper and local Ex-Pat radio station on the Costa Blanca, Costa Brava and Costa Del Sol, as I lived in Spain for four months with my wife in 2009, and more recently appeared in Tenerife's leading Ex-Pat newspaper and I was the subject of a two page editorial feature in a Chinese magazine.

"The Great Train Robbery Quiz Book" - 200 Quiz Questions on what the world media call 'Crime Of The Century' and the book published in 2013 as it was the '50th Anniversary of the Great Train Robbery of 1963' on August 8th, 2013, The book includes many interesting and very unusual quiz questions about the infamous robbery, with many of the facts never appearing in national newspapers.

"Ronnie Biggs - The Inside Story" - This was my first book published, I wrote "The Inside Story- The Prison Years' as no other Ronald Biggs book has ever covered this part of his life (2001- 2009)He returned from Brazil in May, 2001, and spent the next eight years in two UK prisons, as a result, the book reached Amazons Top Ten of True Crime books upon its release in 2009, the exact same year, that eighty year old Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs was released on compassionate grounds, from HMP Norwich by the then Justice Secretary Jack Straw.

"The Ronnie Biggs Quiz Book" - 200 questions on the most famous of the Great Train Robbers, I researched 200 unusual quiz questions regarding Biggs from his involvement in the Great Train robbery of 1963 to his eventual release in 2009, again this book was released in 2013 the same year as the Train Robbery's 50th Anniversary, and it published only days after the death of Biggs in December, This book gives you a deeper insight into the 84 year old, who was according to the world's media, The 'Tea Boy who became The Legend'.

"101 Interesting Facts on Ronnie Biggs & The Great Train Robbery" - This book was a cross-over between Ronnie Biggs And The Great Train Robbery which appeals to most people interested in True crime and the 1963 Great Train Robbery, 101 interesting facts about Who, Why, Where and When.