True Stories

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:...

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...

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...

Daniel Zuchowski / The New Dubliners (Large Paperback)

 "Bawdy and boisterous, it's an important book by a writer perfectly tuned into the experiences of the new Irish." (The Irish Times)***"The New Dubliners is an exciting new experiment and a fascinating read." (Dublin Book Festival)***"The style is...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Kirk Wilson / Investigating Murder (Hardback)

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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...

Kathleen O'Keeffe / The Power of One (Large Paperback)

  In 2002, Elaine Bannon took a working holiday in Kenya. There, her experience as a volunteer not only changed the lives of the semi-nomadic Maasai people with whom she worked, but changed her own life for good. Dedicating herself to volunteer...

Glenys Spray / Blood Sweat and Tears (Large Paperback)

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Tom Lyons / Fingers : The Man Who Brought Down Irish Nationwide and Cost US €5.4bn (Large Paperback)

 Michael Fingleton was an Irish banking legend, the ultimate big money lender. He took Irish Nationwide Building Society from an obscure mortgage provider to a multi-billion euro property-lending casino, leaving the taxpayer to pick up the tab for...

Asne Seierstad / Two Sisters (Large Paperback)

 One morning in October 2013, nineteen-year-old Ayan Juma and her sixteen-year-old sister Leila left their family home in Oslo. Later that day they sent an email to their parents. 'Peace, God's mercy and blessings upon you, Mum and Dad ... Please do...

Michael Smith / Shackleton : By Endurance We Conquer (Hardback)

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Ronan Farrow / Catch and Kill (Large Paperback)

 In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost.In 2017, a routine network...

Brian OConnell / The Personals (Hardback)

 The Personals reveals how classified ads are not just a few commercial lines of text in print or online - they can be a treasure trove of fascinating human stories; stories of love, loss, loneliness, redemption and hope.Some people do Sudoku,...

Wendy Northcutt / The Darwin Awards 4 : Intelligent Design (Hardback)

  With over 100 all-new award winners, this hilarious collection of terminal mishaps will amuse and amaze all who read it. Who can forget the tale of the parachute jump instructor who jumped out of a plane - but left his parachute behind? Or the...

Stewart McKinney / Roars from the Back of the Bus (Large Paperback)

 After the memorial service for legendary England number 8 Andy Ripley, where he saw so many friends from rugby, Stewart McKinney decided to compile a selection of stories from players who have been involved with the British and Irish Lions. The...

Gillian Tett / Fool's Gold (Large Paperback)

  In the mid 1990s, at a vast hotel complex on a private Florida beach, dozens of bankers from JP Morgan gathered for what was to become a legendary off-site meeting. It was a wild weekend. But among the drinking, nightclubbing and fist-fights...

Graham McCann / Spike & Co (Large Paperback)

 This is the story of how four people, grouped together inside a set of offices five floors above a greengrocer's shop on Shepherd's Bush Green in West London, launched a golden age of British comedy.On any weekday morning, if you dare to clamber...

Asne Seierstad / The Bookseller Of Kabul (Hardback)

  Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months. For more than 20 years Sultan...

Andrea Hayes / Dog Tales (Hardback)

 'Maybe these animals are angels in disguise? It often seems like the right owner and that special dog came into each other's lives at the perfect time for a miracle to occur. Each provides joy, healing, patience, courage, gratitude and of course...

Sally Trench / Fran's War (Large Paperback)

  Sally Trench's task was to get children out of the war-torn country and adopted by British and American families, or failing that, to get food, medicine and other supplies into the worst affected areas. This autobiographical account tells the...

Ben Mezrich / Breaking Vegas (Large Paperback)

  For nearly five years, he was known as the 'Darling Of Las Vegas'; the biggest high roller to hit Sin City in decades, a hotshot, twenty one year-old kid with a seemingly unlimited bankroll and an even more unlimited lust for big money action...

Collette Wolfe / If I Could Hold You Again : A True story (Large Paperback)

Collette Wolfe was on holidays in Lanzarote with her husband Anthony when they got the call that all parents most dread. Their beloved daughter Leanne had died, having taken her own life. On the morning of Leanne's funeral, her diaries were uncovered by...

Imogen Edwards-Jones / Fashion Babylon (Hardback)

 What is fashion? What is fashionable? Who decides what is in? What is out? Why is it green one year, and blue the next? Why is one little black dress worth three thousand pounds and another thirty quid? Is the catwalk that catty? Is everyone high...

Jeffrey Archer / A Prison Diary Volume I : Belmarsh: Hell (Hardback)

 The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of...

Mark Fuhrman / Death and Justice : An Expose of Oklahoma's Death Row Machine (Hardback)

   Controversy rages about capital punishment as innocent men and women are being released from death rows all over the country. Into the debate steps Mark Fuhrman, America's most famous detective, and no stranger to controversy himself.Are...

Ross Kemp / Pirates (Hardback)

   Pirates have been around as long as people have used the oceans as trade routes, and their reign on the world's high seas has inspired many a novelist. But the type of pirate Ross Kemp is investigating now is a world away from the...

Joe Navarro / What Every BODY is Saying : An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People (Large Paperback)

    What you say is often far less important than how you say it. One of the harbingers of success is understanding how nonverbal cues such as body language, dress, and demeanor affect how you are perceived and understood. In this book...

Marie Carthy / In Search of John : The Abbeylara story of depression, loss and a sister's quest for justice (Large Paperback)

   John Carthy was an average guy, a hard-working young man devoted to his mother and sister, who also happened to suffer from depression - in common with one in four Irish people today.But in April 2001, in the grip of a bi-polar episode,...

June Steenkamp / Reeva : A Mother's Story (Large Paperback)

   In the early hours of Valentine's Day 2013, Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, shooting her multiple times while she cowered behind the locked door of their bathroom. His trial has attracted more...

Misha Glenny / McMafia : Crime Without Frontiers (Large Paperback)

   * In this powerful and groundbreaking book, Misha Glenny takes us on a journey through the new world of international organised crime.* For three years, he has been recording the stories of gun runners in Ukraine, money launderers in Dubai,...

Tom Connolly / Detective : A Life Upholding the Law (Large Paperback)

   Tom Connolly joined An Garda Siochana in 1955, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. His early days on the force were spent in various villages and towns around Ireland, tracking petty thieves, raiding pubs and...

Lisa Taddeo / Three Women (Large Paperback)

   THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA STYLIST BOOK OF THE DECADETHE MOST-PICKED BOOK OF THE YEAR OF 2019All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did...

Gerry O'Carroll / The Sheriff : A Detective's Story (Large Paperback)

   Since Gerry O'Carroll joined Ireland's Garda in the early 1970s, there has been much bloodshed and plenty of controversy. As one of the force's most distinguished detective inspectors, he has seen his fair share of both. Following his first...

Tom Marcus / Soldier Spy (Large Paperback)

   AN INSIDER'S ACCOUNT OF WHAT IT TAKES TO KEEP YOU SAFEExtraordinarily visceral, nail-biting and hard hitting SOLDIER SPY is his ground-level account of what is what it takes to protect us, and the terrible toll it can exact on those who do...

Martha Long / Ma, I've Reached for the Moon an I'm Hittin the Stars (Large Paperback)

    After a failed suicide attempt and recovery in the mad house, Martha is heading for France to be reunited with the one true love of her life. Father Ralph Fitzgerald rescued her from the streets when she was sixteen and was the first...