True Stories

Martin Dillon - The Sorrow and the Loss: The Tragic Shadow Cast by the Troubles on the Lives of Women - BRAND NEW

Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Martin Dillon returns to shine a light on the role of women in the Troubles, amplifying voices long silenced by the din of history. Through raw and compelling testimonies from both sides of the community,...

Helen Walmsley-Johnson / Look What You Made Me Do

For more than two years, BBC Radio 4’s The Archers ran a disturbing storyline centred on Helen Tichener’s abuse at the hands of her husband Rob. Not the kind of abuse that leaves a bruise, but the sort of coercive control that breaks your...

Chesley B. Sullenberger III / Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters (Hardback)

Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks—the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger—the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled...

Annette Herfkens / Turbulence: A True Story of Survival (Large Paperback)

A riveting, inspirational true story of an incredibly resilient woman who broke professional barriers as a Dutch banker, was the sole survivor of Vietnam Airlines Flight 474, found love after the loss of her fiance, and continues to raise her autistic...

John Townsend / The Asian Tsunami 2004 (Large Paperback)

  The 'When Disaster Struck' series looks at some of the worst disasters in history. This volume details the tsunami which was triggered by a major earthquake under the Indian Ocean in December 2004. Aimed at a younger readership.   All of our...

Howard Marks / Mr Smiley: My Last Pill and Testament (Large Paperback)

Howard Marks has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But determined not to go quietly into the night, he has decided that it is time to release Mr Smiley, the story of his last, and arguably his biggest ever, drug scam at the height of the '90s ecstasy...

A.A. Hoehling / Lost at Sea (Large Paperback)

Lost at Sea features the incredible stories of eight ships and their passengers, some of which vanished with hardly a trace - or no trace at all. Veteran history and mystery writer A.A.Hoehling explores these previously unexplained maritime mishaps with...

Theresa O'Donohoe - Ireland at the Crossroads : Lisdoonvarna, Direct Provision and the Far Right - PB - BRAND NEW

Confusion, anger, and division set in as news leaked that a Direct Provision centre for 115 asylum seekers was being opened in Lisdoonvarna in February 2018. Stories of robbery and rape, along with videos of riots and destruction, were fuelling racism...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of Central Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2023 ( Murder Most Local - Book 6 )

This is the 6th book in the Murder Most Local Series of County Cork. This covers all the remaining county From Ballincollig to Mallow, Glanmire to Fermoy and everywhere in between. Like the books for the rest of Cork, this book tells the stories of...

Chris Murray / Winchman (Large Paperback)

This is the life story of Chris Murray from Stornoway. As a winchman on Search and Rescue helicopters, for 22 years he was involved in the rescue of many people from the seas and mountains around the north of Scotland and further afield. He details his...

Ben Mezrich / Sex on the Moon (Large Paperback)

Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA programme had an idea - a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally. Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an...

Jill Homer / Ghost Trails (Large Paperback)

Most sports become inspirational when extraordinary people excel at ordinary things. In ultra-endurance racing, ordinary people must excel at extraordinary things. "Ghost Trails" is the true story of an ordinary person - timid, nonathletic, raised in the...

Billy Hayes & William Hoffer / Midnight Express ( Film Tie In )

  For Billy Hayes, 1970 was a horrifying year. It was the year when he tried to smuggle 4lbs of hashish from Istanbul back to his home in America. It was the year when he was arrested at Istanbul airport, tried, and sentenced to 30 in a Turkish...

Ray , Sean O'Riain / Condemned: Letters from Death Row

Condemned:Letters from Death Rowby "Ray" and Seán Ó Riain is a collection of letters between a former Cork teacher and a death row inmate that develops into a unique friendship-one thatis in itself a subtle, rallying cry against an American...

Helena Drysdale / Looking for George

Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George...

Donal MacIntyre & Karl Howman / A Million Ways to Stay on the Run

No criminal sparked as much fear and loathing among the public and law enforcement as underworld crime boss, Kenny Noye.A man with a central role in some of the most high-profile crimes of a generation. From the £125 million (current value)...

John Harrison / Off the Map: The Call of the Amazonian wild

Until recent aerial surveys, the Guiana Highlands bordering Brazil were one of the few remaining unknown regions on Earth and were believed to house El Dorado and the fabled tribe of Amazon warrior women. The barrier of rapids pouring from the mountain...

Megan Phelps-Roper - Unfollow - AS NEW COPY

 LOUIS THEROUX: 'For anyone who enjoyed Hillbilly Elegy or Educated, Unfollow is an essential text'NICK HORNBY: 'A beautiful, gripping book about a singular soul, and an unexpected redemption'JON RONSON: 'Her journey - from Westboro to becoming one...

Heather Morris - Stories of Hope - HARDBACK - AS NEW COPY

The Tattooist of Auschwitz is one of the bestselling books of the 21st Century.Now, in this essential companion, Heather Morris presents an inspiring manual for life, with a series of tales of the remarkable people she has met, the incredible stories...

Emma Campbell / All That Followed ( A Story of Cancer, Kids and the fear of leaving too soon )

"A story of true maternal courage in the face of an onslaught of massive life challenges, Emma Campbell is an extraordinary woman. This is a deeply felt memoir about motherhood, survival and learning to live for whatever life throws at you." CLOVER...

Carolyn Savage, Sean Savage / Inconceivable: A Medical Mistake, the Baby We Couldn't Keep, and Our Choice to Deliver the Ultimate Gift (Hardback)

A medical mistake during an IVF procedure. An unthinkable situation . . . you’re pregnant with the wrong baby. You can terminate, but you can’t keep him. What choice would you make? Carolyn and Sean Savage had been trying to expand their...

Heather Morris / Stories of Hope : Finding Inspiration in Everyday Lives (Hardback)

In Stories of Hope, Heather Morris takes us on an inspirational journey through some of the defining experiences of her life, including her profound friendship with Lale Sokolov, the tattooist at Auschwitz-Birkenau and the inspiration for her...

Dave Cullen / Parkland (Large Paperback)

The New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers a deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors of the Parkland shooting who pushed back against the NRA and Congressional leaders and launched the singular...

Nicola Hanney - Stronger - BRAND NEW

PAPERBACK - BRAND NEW,  2024. In 2017, against all odds, Nicola Hanney survived a terminal cancer diagnosis and marched on to live life. When she matched with Garda Paul Moody on a dating app, she thought her dreams had come true, but never did she...

Nujeen Mustafa, Christina Lamb / Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchair (Large Paperback)

‘She is our hero. Everyone must read her story. She will inspire you’ Malala YousafzaiAn inspiring tale of a young disabled girl and her escape from the hell of war.Nujeen Mustafa has cerebral palsy and cannot walk. This did not stop her...

Conor Grennan / Little Princes : One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal (Hardback)

The riveting story of Conor Grennan's year in Nepal reads like a cross between Into Thin Air and Three Cups of Tea. While volunteering at an orphanage, Conor discovers that the children are not they are trafficked. Despite the danger, Conor treks up dirt...

Helle Amin, David Meikle / Reunited in the Desert (Hardback)

After setting up home on the tropical island of Bali with her husband and four children, Helle Amin seemed to have the perfect life. But one day in 2001 Helle's idyllic existence was shattered. She returned home from a shopping trip one evening to find...

Lily Collison, Kara Buckley / Pure Grit: Stories of Remarkable People Living with Physical Disability (Large Paperback)

“A must-read”—Julie Dussliere, Chief of Paralympic Sport, U.S. Olympic & Paralympic CommitteeNineteen people from across the globe, ranging in age from twenty to seventy-plus, tell their stories of living and thriving in diverse...

Paul Cheston / The Babes in the Woods Murders

The heartbreaking true story of two families' thirty-year fight for justice for their murdered daughters. On 9 October 1986, Russell Bishop sexually assaulted and strangled nine-year-old Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway, in woods near Brighton. He did...

Anthony Ray Hinton / The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Large Paperback)

'Both [Nelson Mandela and Ray Hinton] emerged from their incarceration with a profound capacity to forgive...The Sun Does Shine is amazing and heartwarming' Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate'Hinton is an example to us all of the power of the...

Shirley Hardy-Rix & Brian Rix / Two for the Road (Large Paperback)

In 2003 Melbourne couple Shirley Hardy-Rix and husband Brian Rix fulfilled a lifelong ambition of Motorcycling across the world.In an incredible 350 day journey, they would do everything they'd ever dreamed of as well as getting much more than they'd...

Tim Doyle / Get Up Them Steps (Large Paperback)

A memoir of the author's experiences serving with the Garda Síochána, the national police agency of the Republic of Ireland. His second book on the subject, the first being Peaks and Valleys (published 1997.) An honest, and often humorous,...

Jasvinder Sanghera / Shame (Hardback)

When she was fourteen, Jasvinder Sanghera was shown a photo of the man chosen to be her husband. She was terrified. She'd witnessed the torment her sisters endured in their arranged marriages, so she ran away from home, grief-stricken when her parents...

Christy Mangan / Cracking the Case : Inside the mind of a top Garda (Large Paperback)

The No. 1 bestselling story of one of Ireland's top homicide investigators 'Thrilling and insightful' Ray D'Arcy, RTÉ 'Intriguing . . . a great read . . . it's the story of Ireland in a way' Nicola Tallant'Important and...

Charles Kuralt / Charles Kuralt's American Moments (Large Paperback)

The beloved late journalist offers a collection of short studies of some of the colorful, fascinating, and extraordinary characters he met during his joyous odyssey into the heart of America. Reprint.     All of our books are second hand, and...

Mark Beaumont / The Man Who Cycled the World (Large Paperback)

On 15 February 2008, Mark Beaumont pedalled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. 194 days and 17 hours previously, he had set off from Paris in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in record time. Mark smashed the Guinness World Record by an...

Chris Rogers & Marshall Corwin / Undercover : A Journalist's Story, A Million Abandoned Children (Hardback)

As I talked to the press it was the thousands of children abandoned in inhumane institutions who were speaking that day, because I am their voice I will never give up being their ‘fog horn’. I will campaign for their freedom; I will make sure...

John Donohue / The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Large Paperback)

  A wildly entertaining, feel-good memoir of an Irish-American New Yorker and former U.S. marine who embarked on a courageous, hare-brained scheme to deliver beer to his pals serving Vietnam in the late 1960s.   One night in 1967,...

Fiona Neary - Parcels in the Post - Growing Up with Fifty Siblings - PB - BRAND NEW (MAY 2024 )

It’s the early 1980s, and Fiona and her family have recently moved back from England to the family farm in Mayo. Fiona’s huge-hearted mum decides to take in foster children, short term, through the local social services. It’s a decision...

Ron Powers / Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore - Childhood and Murder in the Heart of America (Hardback)

 Ron Powers' hometown is Hannibal, Missouri, home of Mark Twain, and therefore birthplace of our image of boyhood itself. Powers returns to Hannibal to chronicle the horrific story of two killings, both committed by minors, and the trials that...

Ranulph Fiennes / Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know: The Autobiography (Hardback)

 Ranulph Fiennes has traveled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on earth. In the process he nearly died on several occasions, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite, and raised millions for charity. He discovered the lost city of...

Paula Guildea / It's Now We're Friends: A mother's desperate journey, to fulfil her son's dying wish (Large Paperback)

 A heartbreaking tale of a mother's will to grant her dying son's last wish. Aine and Sean had a strained relationship, just like any other mother and her teenage son. But a fatal illness pushes the two together, where they form an unbreakible bond...

Daniel Jones / Modern Love - True Stories of Love & Redemption (Large Paperback)

  A joyful collection of the most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the New York Times 'Modern Love' column, featuring stories from the upcoming anthology series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, Dev...

Niamh McAnally / Flares Up: A Story Bigger than the Atlantic (Large Paperback)

 Flares Up is the true story of adventure, tenacity and the capacity of the human spirit to triumph over adversity!Firefighter Paul Hopkins, 55, survives a brain hemorrhage. The experience motivates him to undertake the Talisker Whisky Atlantic...

Sandra Mara / No Job for a Woman - Ireland's First Female Private Investigator (Large Paperback)

 Ireland's first ever female private investigator lifts the lid on the secret life of the nation. Sandra Mara solved her first case at the tender age of nine. That gave her a taste for intrigue, and she went on to become one of the top private...

Howard Wallace / Tribulations of my Life (Large Paperback)

 This a breathtaking emotional real-life story of a young poor African American child with native American genes, growing up in Virginia during the late ’50s, which was not an easy time for African American. His mother passed away when he was...

Michael O'Farrell - Fugitive : The Michael Lynn Story - PB - BRAND NEW ( April 2024)

Fugitive: The Michael Lynn Story is a fast-paced and thrilling journey into the mind of a reluctant fugitive brought down by his own insatiable greed. This is investigative journalism at its most compelling, placing the reader at the heart of the...

Amanda Brown - No Peace Until He's Dead : My Story of Abuse at the Hands of Davy Tweed and My Journey to Recovery

In this candid memoir, Amanda Brown chronicles the unimaginable sexual abuse she suffered from the age of eight at the hands of her stepfather, Davy Tweed. No Peace Until He's Dead offers a raw and unflinching account of Amanda's childhood years marred...

Jimmy Boyle / A Sense of Freedom (Vintage Paperback)

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One Show - The One Show Book Of True Tales (Hardback)

  The official companion to the BBC’s hit magazine show, The One Show Book of True Tales is a compilation of the quirkiest, strangest, most random and most fascinating stories pulled from the brains of Icon Film’s One Show...

Richard McCann / Into the Light: From An Abusive Past to a Healing Future (Hardback)

 In his first book, McCann told the harrowing story of how he and his sisters were left motherless when the Yorkshire Ripper killed his first victim. Here, he comes to terms with the loss of his childhood by talking to others, learning how to accept...

Ffyona Campbell / The Whole Story: A Walk Around the World (Hardback)

 In August 1983, at the age of 16, Ffyona Campbell set out from Britain on a walk that was to take her around the world. Eleven years and 20,000 miles were to elapse before she returned home. Now she tells the story of her extraordinary life and...