Christopher Hibbert is a prolific author, many of whose books are published by Penguin. Other titles to appear in the Classic Penguin series are The Making of Charles Dickens and Charles I.

The legend; the background; boyhood and apprenticeship; bad company; crime and punishment; alone in the world; Jonathan Wild; Newgate; the trial; the condemned hold; the great escape from Newgate; the last days of freedom; the second trial; Tyburn fair.