True Stories

Sebastian Junger / The Perfect Storm - A True Story Of Men Against The Sea (Hardback)

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Dean King / Skeletons on the Zahara - A True Story of Survival

The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub. On 28 August 1815, the US brig Commerce was dashed against Mauritania's Cape Bojador and lost, although through...

Yeva Skalietska / You Don't Know What War Is - Diary of a Young Girl From Ukraine

 An important, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful memoir about the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war as told through the diary entries of a young Ukrainian girl.Yeva Skalietska’s story begins on her twelfth birthday in Kharkiv, where she has been...

Walter Kirn / Blood Will Out

 In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then a young novelist struggling with fatherhood and a dissolving marriage - set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from an animal shelter in Montana to the New York...

Sara Gay Forden / The House of Gucci - A True Story

 The sensational true story of murder, madness, glamour, and greed that shook the Gucci dynasty, now fully updated with a new afterword. On March 27, 1995, Maurizio Gucci, heir to the fabulous fashion dynasty, was slain by an unknown gunman as he...

Sheila Hocken / Emma Forever

 A touching and unique story of love and courage. This is Sheila Hocken's own story. A story of a young blind girl who sets out to fight for the right to live fully and to see again. Sheila's account of the events and people that transformed her...

Michael Smith / Shackleton: By Endurance We Conquer

 Ernest Shackleton is one of history’s great explorers, a tenacious and charismatic personality who became a dominant figure in Antarctic discovery. His incredible adventures on four expeditions to the Antarctic have captivated generations. He...

Donald H. Wolfe / The Assassination of Marilyn Monroe

 From the opening description of the lifeless body to the moment-by-moment account of her final days and hours, 'The Assassination of Marilyn Monroe' explores every myth concerning the remarkable life and tragic death of the world's most famous...

Conor O'Clery & Siobhán Creaton / Panic at the Bank - How John Rusnak Lost AIB $700,000,000 (Large Paperback)

 Written by two of The Irish Times' top financial journalists who covered the story from day one, Panic at the Bank tells the inside story of how trader John Rusnak did it. It traces, step-by-step, the management failures that allowed him to gamble...

Ellen de Visser / That One Patient (Large Paperback)

For every doctor there is that one patient, whose story touches them in a way they didn’t expect, changing their entire outlook on life. This inspiring and deeply moving book is the story of those patients.Every weekend, in Holland’s most...

Bear Grylls / Two All-Action Adventures: Facing Up - Facing the Frozen Ocean (Large Paperback)

A collection combining two of Bear Grylls' most exciting adventures – Facing Up and Facing the Frozen Ocean.At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty...

Dan Bigley / Beyond the Bear (Hardback)

The unbelievable true story of a man who narrowly survived one of the most brutal grizzly bear attacks, and the love that separated his blindness from the dark.--A 25-year-old backcountry wanderer, a man happiest exploring wild places with his dog, Dan...

S. Jackson & A. Raymond / When Angels Fly (Hardback)

After surviving the cruel rage of tyranny from her mother and ex-husband, Sarah Jackson traveled a new path; a journey of loss, heartbreak, and ultimately strength. How do we survive the unthinkable, our child suffering from a terminal illness? They say...

Pam Rhodes / Coming Through : True Stories Of Hope And Courage (Hardback)

 As a presenter on Songs of Praise, Pam Rhodes has met hundreds of people whose stories have messages for us all. Now a number of them have felt able to share with Pamand with ustheir touching, sometimes shocking but ultimately inspirational...

Maria Dore / One Born Every Minute : Real Stories from the Delivery Room

 ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE, Channel 4's Bafta-winning documentary series has been a critical and popular smash-hit.  In this wonderful book, midwives Maria Dore and Ros Bradbury look back over their careers and reveal the extraordinary...

Lorian Hemingway / A World Turned Over : A Killer Tornado and the Lives It Changed Forever (Hardback)

 Documents the events surrounding the March 1966 Candlestick tornado in Mississippi that claimed fifty-seven lives, presenting portraits of the storm's victims and recounting the devastating changes that it made to the region where the author spent...

Barry J. Whyte / The Impossible Dream (Large Paperback)

 In 2006, a previously unknown Irish technology company by the name of Steorn created headlines globally when it took out a full-page ad in The Economist, in which it claimed to have made the scientific breakthrough of this - or any other - century:...

Dorine V Reihill / Going Home : A Story of Survival

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Ishmal Beah / A Long Way Gone : Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardback)

 This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael...

Richard Appignanesi / Introducing Freud : A Graphic Guide

   Freud revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. His psychoanalytic terms such as Id, Ego, libido, neurosis and Oedipus Complex have become a part of our everyday vocabulary. But do we know what they really mean?Introducing Freud...

Anthony Holden / Big Deal : One Year as a Professional Poker Player

 BIG DEAL is the mesmerising story of a year spent by bestselling biographer Anthony Holden in the tough world of the professional poker player. He spent days and nights in the poker paradise of Las Vegas, in Malta and Morocco, even shipboard,...

Nancy O'Reilly / In This Together : How Successful Women Support Each Other in Work and Life (Hardback)

 Thoughts, advice, and stories from 40 successful women across a variety of careers-from authors to actresses, CEOs and professors-encouraging women to support each other in the workplace and in life-along with action plans on how all women can work...

Ann Pearlman / Infidelity : A Love Story (Hardback)

 In this bluntly honest memoir, Ann Pearlman movingly recalls the devastating effects of her father's marital betrayal and her experiences of the pain, wisdom and female strength that was the legacy of both her father's and grandfather's adultery...

Nigel Cawthorne / Cults : The World's Most Notorious Cults

 The inside story of the world's most notorious cults. The strange and sinister world of cults is a source of endless fascination. Their secrets, rituals and shadowy hierarchies make for some of the most disturbing and shocking revelations in...

Clint Willis / Storm (Large Paperback)

 Adrenaline Books' search for the world's best, most exciting writing has taken readers from the peaks of Everest to the jungles of Papua New Guinea. "Storm" reveals first-hand accounts of battling with the elements: hurricanes, blizzards, tornadoes...

The RNLI: Surviving the Storms : Extraordinary Stories of Courage and Compassion at Sea (Hardback)

 'There's water in the engine,' he said. 'The engine has stopped.'This changed everything...Surviving the Storms brings together incredible first-hand accounts of rescues carried out by the remarkable RNLI lifesavers.In this collection of...

Kevin Wells / Goodbye, Dearest Holly (Hardback)

 Some tragedies become part of our national history. On August 4, 2002 Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman went missing in Soham. The police searched, the girls' families searched, the local community searched, Kevin Wells, Holly's father, became a...

Oliver Graham-Jones / Zoo Tails (Hardback)

 In 1951 Oliver Graham Jones was appointed Curator of mammals at London Zoo, becoming Senior Veterinary Officer in 1960, a post he held until his retirement in 1969. This is a collection of tales from his days at the zoo during the 1950s and 1960s...

The Deadliest Catch : Desperate Hours (Large Paperback)

   The Deadliest Catch is the hit TV series featuring the harrowing struggles of fishermen on the wild and freezing Bering Sea - it's the perfect storm but for real. This is the only book on the series backed by the Discovery Channel, and it...

The Prison Doctor: Women Inside

 From the Sunday Times bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown. Insights into the world of a Prison Doctor, this time taking us deeper into the walls of Bronzefield, the UK's biggest women's prison.From the drug addicts who call Amanda 'the mother I...

John Cameron / Boy 11963 (Large Paperback)

 'Truth telling and truth recovery have seldom been as heart-breaking or necessary as in this powerful story of human vulnerability and failure - and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit.' JOE DUFFYAt only five months old, John Cameron was...

Jim Lucey / In My Room : The Recovery Journey as Encountered by a Psychiatrist (Large Paperback)

 'The room is a space for the mind, and a metaphor for the mind at the same time. Most of us will never find ourselves on a psychiatrist's couch and yet our lives would be perilous if we did not make space for our mental health. In this space, we...

Julian Sancton / Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback)

 'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES***A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021***The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition...

Nathaniel Philbrick / Mayflower : A Voyage to War

 Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of 'In the Heart of the Sea', reveals the darker side of the Pilgrim fathers' settlement in the New World, which ultimately erupted in bloody battle some fifty years after they first landed on American soil...

Beryl Markham / West With The Night

 WEST WITH THE NIGHT appeared on 13 bestseller lists on first publication in 1942. It tells the spellbinding story of Beryl Markham -- aviator, racehorse trainer, fascinating beauty -and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and 30s.Markham was taken...

Zoe Holohan / As the Smoke Clears (Large Paperback)

 On 23 July 2018, in the seaside town of Mati in Greece, Zoe Holohan and her husband of four days were enjoying the beginning of their honeymoon. Then disaster struck. Unprecedented wildfires swept through the area, killing 102 people. Zoe and Brian...

Nicola Tallant / The Witness (Large Paperback)

 'A superb book... Joey's story is extraordinary and its authenticity and relevance to the times we're living in is stunning' Eamon Dunphy'Gritty, terrifying and the most incredible true gangland story you will ever read. The Witness is hard to put...

Nick Foster / Murder at Roaringwater (Large Paperback)

 Murder at Roaringwater is the inside story of the final days of young Frenchwoman, Sophie Toscan du Plantier. This is a violent, unresolved murder, where the victim seemed to have a premonition of her own terrible end.For six years, Nick Foster has...

Judith Tebbutt / A Long Walk Home (Large Paperback)

 This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away from the life I knew and loved, and dragged down to the depths of despair; of how I endured enforced isolation and near-starvation at the hands of Somali...

Bryan Perrett / The Taste of Battle

  Few people today experience a live war situation; even professional soldiers can serve their career without going to war. Yet the question is often asked, what is it like? How do combatants cope with the danger? How does a battle look to the...

Lia Mills / In Your Face (Large Paperback)

  In early 2006, Lia Mills went to the dentist, worried about a painful lump in her cheek. "In Your Face" is her account of what happened next. Based on the journals she kept even when she was feeling her worst, it is a book that should be read...

Jamie Foreman / Gangsters, Guns and Me

 Jamie Foreman is one of Britain's most iconic actors. He is also the son of Britain's most notorious gangster, Freddie Foreman. Jamie's life has been anything but ordinary. Right from the start, his world was one of contrast and contradiction: he...

Patrick Holohan / Hooligan (Large Paperback)

 When Paddy Holohan discovered mixed martial arts as a teenager, it was the first time his life settled into something approaching focus. Far removed from the chaos of the outside world, every bout reduced that maze of hardship to one simple...

John Spencer / The Encyclopedia of the World's Greatest Unsolved Mysteries (Hardback)

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Deborah E. Lipstadt / Denial : Holocaust History on Trial (Large Paperback)

  In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called David Irving, a prolific writer of books on World War II, "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." The following year, after Lipstadt's book was...

James Mawdsley / The Heart Must Break (Hardback)

 This is the story of James Mawdsley, a 27-year-old man from Lancashire who returned home to Britain in 2000 having endured 18 months of solitary confinement, torture and beatings in a Burmese prison. Sentenced to 17 years' imprisonment for his...

Howard E. Wasdin / Seal Team Six (Hardback)

 When the US Navy send their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six.SEAL Team Six is a clandestine unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue and counterinsurgency. Until recently its existence...

Colm Keane / The Distant Shore : More Irish Stories from the Edge of Death (Large Paperback)

  The Distant Shore is packed with a wealth of new Irish stories about life after death. Extraordinary accounts of what happens when we die are featured throughout. Reunions with deceased relatives and friends, and encounters with a 'superior...

Michael Healy-Rae / A Listening Ear (Hardback)

  With Time to Talk, Michael Healy-Rae established himself as a new storyteller, steeped in the traditions of rural Ireland. In A Listening Ear, his superior storytelling skills come once again to the fore, as he reveals more tales from his Kerry...

Lindsey Hilsum / In Extremis : The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin (Hardback)

 ** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK **** A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ****Marie Colvin is the subject of a major biopic starring Rosamund Pike**'A stunningly good biography' WILLIAM BOYDMarie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the...

Caitlin McBride / The Day That Changed My Life (Hardback)

 Stories to inspire.Stories to connect.Extraordinary moments in which women's lives changed forever.Exhilarating, heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring, The Day That Changed My Life is a remarkable collection of stories of Ireland's women and the...

Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback)

  Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. After the horrific...