The Care Home Swindler
The Shocking True Story Behind One of Britain's Biggest Scandals
$46.80
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
7 July 2026
Summary
The gripping inside story of a major British scandal, a man who conned the elderly out of millions of pounds, and an expose of the terrifying reality of what happens to the elderly behind closed doors, from award-winning journalist Kate Snell.
Behind a façade of luxury and respectability, David Barton, owner of the Barton Park Nursing Home in Southport, swindled millions of pounds from the infirm amassing himself a fortune.
Along the way he was assisted by corrupt professional…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781408723425 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1408723425 |
| Author: | Kate Snell |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Sphere |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 7 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 560g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 154mm x 34mm |
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About The Author
Kate Snell
Kate Snell is a BAFTA winning film director and producer, author and investigative journalist.
She has two international bestsellers: Diana Her last Love and Deceived. Both have been turned into major films: Diana starring Naomi Watts and Chasing Agent Freegard starring James Norton. For Diana Her Last Love Kate exploded the myth that Diana was to marry Dodi Fayed, travelling on her own to Pakistan to find out the real story behind the princess’s last summer. For Deceived, she had unique access to thousands of pages of witness testimony allowing her to piece together the massive crime of the conman Robert Freegard.
She is a former reporter for BBC Woman’s Hour, a BBC Panorama Producer and C4 Dispatches Director/Producer and executive producer for the BBC and C4 with a string of awards for investigative work. For many years she ran her own highly successful independent TV production company. She has written articles for numerous national and international press outlets.
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