The Chiswick Villain is a novel based on the story of James Ashley a Victorian criminal. It is based on factual evidence from criminal reports at The Old Bailey, London. This is an old fashioned Bonnie and Clyde style story set in the East End of London and in Chiswick, west London in 1834. James Ashley who is at the centre of the story, is a particularly colourful character who grew up in the poverty stricken East End of London as a cockney who had...