The detailed Endnotes list many books and articles for further reading. This list highlights those that are most pertinent to reading on the peaky blinders, Sabini Gang and Sheffield Gang War.
J. P. Bean, The Sheffield Gang Wars (Sheffield, 1981).
Carl Chinn, Peaky Blinders. The Real Story. The true history of Birmingham’s most notorious gangs (London, 2019).
Brian McDonald, Elephant Boys. Tales of London and Los Angeles Underworlds (Edinburgh and London, 2005).
Brian McDonald, Gangs of London. 100 Years of Mob Warfare (Wrea Green, 2010).
James Morton, Bert Battles Rossi. Britain’s Oldest Gangland Boss (London, 2017).
James Morton, Frankie Fraser as told to James Morton, Mad Frankie. Memoirs of a Life of Crime (London, 1995 ed.).
James Morton, Gangland. London’s Underworld (London, 1993 edn.).
Raphael Samuel, East End Underworld. Chapters in the Life of Arthur Harding (London, 1981).
Heather Shore, London’s Criminal Underworlds, c. 1720 – c. 1930. A Social and Cultural History (London, 2015).