Carl Chinn

You know who the Peaky Blinders are ... It's time to see where they began. By the spring of 2024, it will be four and a half years since the publication of Chinn's Sunday Times number 1 best-selling Peaky Blinders. The Real Story. Adopting a chronological approach, it covered the origins of Birmingham's backstreet gangs in the late 1860s through...

The Peaky Blinders, as we know them from the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family blinds enemies by slashing them with the disposable safety razor blades stitched into the peaks of their flat caps, as they fight bloody gangland wars involving Irish terrorists and the authorities, led by...