True Stories

Wendy Northcutt / The Darwin Awards 2 : 180 More True Stories of How Dumb Humans Have Met Their Maker

  The Darwin Awards - legendary true tales from www.DarwinAwards.com - commemorate the remains of people who have improved our gene pool by killing themselves in spectacularly stupid ways. One of the most popular manifestations of modern-day...

Michelle McNamara / I'll Be Gone in the Dark : The #1 New York Times Bestseller

 ** SOON TO BE A MAJOR NEW DOCUMENTARY SERIES FROM HBO AND SKY **WINNER OF THE GOOD READS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018THE NEW YORK TIMES #1 BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018The masterful true crime account of the...

Various / Woman's Hour: From Joyce Grenfell to Sharon Osbourne

 Woman's Hour is one of Britain's greatest national institutions, entertaining millions of women (and men) since its first broadcast on 7 October 1946. For sixty years, the programme has championed the woman's perspective on topics such as health,...

Maureen Orth / Vulgar Favours : The book behind the Emmy Award winning 'American Crime Story' about the man who murdered Gianni Versace

 A true story of dark forces that ended a colourful life. The basis for the Emmy Award winning American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace, a 10-part drama series on BBC2, starring Penelope Cruz and Ricky Martin, this is the...

Howard Marks / Mr Smiley : My Last Pill and Testament

 Howard Marks is the most famous drug smuggler of his age, and a hero to a generation. On his release from one of America's toughest prisons, Howard made a promise to himself to go straight. No more drugs, no more smuggling, no more fake passports...

Jonathan Harr / A Civil Action

 The story of a lawyer's battle to win compensation from two of America's largest industrial giants. He fought on behalf of 21 families whose lives were wrecked by illness and death due to the alleged poisoning of their town well. This case became...

Imogen Edwards-Jones / Beach Babylon

 How does it feel to live and work in the world's most beautiful and luxurious tropical island resort, surrounded by white sandy beaches and aquamarine seas? How does it feel to be in the lap of luxury when you're thousands of miles from anywhere...

Barry Kennerk / Shadow of the Brotherhood: The Temple Bar Shootings

 When a gunman disappears into the Dublin fog, they leave two seriously wounded police constables in his wake. An immediate investigation is launched by Dublin Castle, which soon uncovers the existence of a Fenian assassination squad that has...

Kurt Eichenwald / The Informant

 From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes a gripping account of one of the most captivating and bizarre tales in the history of the FBI and corporate America. It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: Mark Whitacre, a senior...

Phil Smiley / Mr Smiley : My Last Pill and Testament

 Howard Marks is the most famous drug smuggler of his age, and a hero to a generation. On his release from one of America's toughest prisons, Howard made a promise to himself to go straight. No more drugs, no more smuggling, no more fake passports...

Jamie Andrew / Life And Limb : A true story of tragedy and survival

 Jamie Andrew's survival and rescue after five nights trapped by a ferocious storm in 1999 has passed into Alpine legend. It was a miracle that he survived; but Jamie had to come to terms not only with the death of his close friend, Jamie Fisher,...

Catherine Johnson / Con Men

     Con men have many tricks and schemes to part you from your money. This book will help you see when something is just too good to be true! Barrington Stoke specialises in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers. All of...

Dion Leonard / Finding Gobi

     THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLERLike A Streecat Named Bob before it, Finding Gobi is a truly heart-warming story for animal lovers worldwide...In 2016, Dion Leonard, a seasoned ultramarathon runner, unexpectedly stumbled across a...

Rachel Fehily / Split

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Dosis Pilkington / Rabbit-proof Fence

   Three mixed-race Australian girls, having been taken from their Aboriginal families, escape and return home on foot, without supplies or gear, while trying to evade recapture, in an account based on a true story.   All of our books...

Yvonne Kinsella / Living with Murder

   Living with Murder also provides readers with an in-depth analysis of murder from a Forensic Psychology perspective. Where does the urge to kill come from? Is it genetic, hormonal, biological, or cultural conditioning? Do killers, rapists,...

John Busby / The Year We Disappeared : A Father - Daughter Memoir

   When Cylin Busby was nine years old, she was obsessed with the Muppets and her pet turtle. Then everything changed. Her police officer father, John, was driving to work when someone levelled a shotgun at his window. The blasts that followed...

Brian Whittle / Harold Shipman - Prescription For Murder : The true story of Dr Harold Frederick Shipman

   He was a pillar of the community, serving on local committees, donating prizes to the rugby club, organising charity collections. His patients thought the world of him: he was attentive, kind, never too busy to chat. Yet Dr Harold Frederick...

Billy Connolly / Journey to the Edge of the World

   Billy tells us the gripping story of his adventures in some of the remotest parts of the world.In the summer of 2008 Billy Connolly set sail on a ten-week journey from ocean to ocean: from the Atlantic to the Pacific, by way of the North...

James Patterson / Home Sweet Murder

   Two true-crime cases from the hit TV series Murder is ForeverHOME SWEET MURDER: Lawyer Leo Fisher and his wife Sue are enjoying a quiet Sunday dinner at home. Until a man in a suit rings at their front door claiming to be an SEC agent. By...

Piers Paul Read / Alive!

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Melanie Davies / Never Say Die

   On a Saturday morning in May 1980, Melanie Bowen, a pretty fifteen year old, ran down the stairs of her parents' home in Port Talbot, grabbed her leather jacket and crash helmet, yelled a goodbye, and then walked out of the front door into...

Simon Cooper / The Deadly Game

    Wrapped in cheery festive paper, six parcels were delivered to branches of Barclays Bank across London. But the paper hid a deadly Christmas gift. Inside each parcel was a video cassette box and inside each box lurked a booby-trapped...

Warren Fellows / The Damage Done : Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison

   Think about the most wretched day of your life. Maybe it was when someone you loved died, or when you were badly hurt in an accident, or a day when you were so terrified you could scarcely bear it. No imagine 4,000 of those days in one big...

Mary Creighton / The Baby Snatchers

   *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'You're all fallen women. You've sowed the seed of Satan. You are nothing.'Mary Creighton was just 15 when she found herself pregnant out of wedlock, in 1960s Ireland. She dreamed of a happy life with her child,...

Linda Greenlaw / The Hungry Ocean : A Swordboat Captain's Journey

   THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER--NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK!Known to millions of readers of The Perfect Storm as the captain of the Hannah Boden, sister ship to the Andrea Gail, Linda Greenlaw is also known as one of the best sea captains on...

James Morton / Gangland: The Early Years

    The early criminals were just as violent, dangerous and daring as their more recent relations. After a raid on the American Express in Paris, Eddie Guerin was sent to Devil's Island from which he escaped and survived, probably by eating...

Dana Kollman / Never Suck a Dead Man's Hand : True Life Experiences of an American Crime Scene Investigator (CSI)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Kenneth Cain / Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) : True Stories from a War Zone

   What it's really like on the frontline of humanitarian aidIt's the early 1990s and three young people are looking to change their lives, and perhaps also the world. Attracted to the ambitious global peacekeeping work of the UN, Andrew, Ken...

Stephen Fulcher / Catching a Serial Killer : My hunt for murderer Christopher Halliwell

   The true story behind the ITV series, A Confession'The gripping allure of long-form podcasts, such as Serial' ObserverOn the evening of Saturday, 19 March 2011, D.S. Stephen Fulcher receives a life-changing call that thrusts him into a race...

Richard Phillips / A Captain's Duty

   8th April 2009 was just an ordinary day for 53 -year-old Richard Phillips, captain of the United States-registered cargo vessel, the Maersk Alabama, as it headed towards the port of Mombasa. Ordinary that is until, two hundred or so miles...

Edward Lucas / Deception : Spies Lies and How Russia Dupes the West

 From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a...

John Preston / A Very English Scandal

 The shocking true story of the first British politician to stand trial for murderBehind oak-panelled doors in the House of Commons, men with cut-glass accents and gold signet rings are conspiring to murder. It's the late 1960s and homosexuality has...

Fatal Attraction : When Love Turns to Murder

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Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory

    In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted...

Brandon Read, Mark / Chopper 7

 Why rob a straight guy of $20 when you can rob a drug dealer of $10,000 and he can't go running to the police!' 'I have been stabbed, shot, run over, and was once digging my own grave before I used the shovel as a meat cleaver.' 'In relation to my...

Andrew Wilson / Shadow of the Titanic : The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived

   In the early hours of 15 April 1912, after the majestic liner Titanic had split apart and the 1,500 men, women and children struggled to stay alive in the freezing Atlantic, the sea was alive with the sound of screaming. Then, as the ship...

Dawn Annandale / Call Me Elizabeth : Wife, Mother, Escort

   Dawn Annandale is bright, witty and well educated. But when her marriage began to fall apart, she had to face a seemingly insurmountable pile of debts on her own. Determined that her children would not suffer because of their parents'...

Michael L. Sheridan / Frozen Blood : Serial Killers in Ireland

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Anthony Holten / A Stroke of Luck

   A stroke of luck   All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so...

David V. Canter / Mapping Murder : Walking in Killers' Footsteps

    In his groundbreaking study, renowned criminal psychologist and profiler David Canter lifts the lid on geographical profiling and takes us on the murderer's journey in both the psychological and literal sense. He leads us through the...

David M. Kiely / More Bloody Women

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Kathryn Bonella / Hotel K : The Shocking Inside Story of Bali's Most Notorious Jail

   THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERHotel K - Bali's most notorious jail - is Hell in Paradise.Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Bali's most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one side,...

Tim Moore / Spanish Steps

   Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, Spanish Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries to walk all the way across a very large country, with a very large animal who doesn't really want to.Being...

Jonathan Goodnam / Murder File

    This is a collection of celebrated murder cases which uses reports from "The Daily Telegraph", enabling readers to follow the cases and see the contemporary headlines and advertisements used in the paper at the time. The reports are...

True Stories: Stories of Comfort

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David Grann / Killers of the Flower Moon : Oil Money Murder and the Birth of the FBI

 WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIMESHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION**SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING...

Carol Anne Davis / Children Who Kill : Profiles of Pre-teen and Teenage Killers

 Why would two young boys abduct, torture and kill a toddler? What makes a teenage girl plot with her classmates to kill her own father? Traditionally, society is used to regarding children as harmless -- but for some the age of innocence is...

Justine McCarthy / Deep Deception : Ireland's Swimming Scandals

   Updated Edition In November 2009 former national and Olympic swimming coach Ger Doyle was convicted of thirty-five sexual offences against children. This is just the most recent of an appalling series of child sexual abuse scandals in Irish...

Matt Dickinson / Death Zone

   It seemed like any other season on Mount Everest. Ten expeditions from around the world were preparing for their summit push, gathered together to try for mountaineering's ultimate prize. Twenty-four hours later, eight of those climbers...

T.J. Stiles / Jesse James : Last Rebel of the Civil War

   Stripped of the familiar myths surrounding him, Jesse James emerges as a far more significant figure: a ruthless, purposeful and intensely political man who used crimes and notoriety to promote the Confederate cause during the bitter decade...

Benjamin Mee / We Bought A Zoo : The Amazing True Story of a Broken-down Zoo, and the 200 Animals That Changed a Family Forever

   Chuck it all in and buy a zoo? Why not? thought Benjamin Mee, unaware of the grim living conditions, creditors and escaped big cat that lay in wait...A few years ago, Ben and his wife, Katherine, sold their small flat in Primrose Hill and...