True Stories

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...

Farida Khalaf / The Girl Who Escaped ISIS : Farida's Story

 Our world as it once wasIn August 2014, Farida was, like any ordinary teenager, enjoying the last days of summer before her final year at school. However, her peaceful mountain village in northern Iraq was an ISIS target as their genocide against...

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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Greg Child / Over the Edge

  Greg Child tells the true story of four climbers kidnapped by Islamic guerrillas in the mountains of Central Asia and their daring escape.       All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy...

Mark Urban / Task Force Black

 The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily MailSoon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a...

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...

Anna Ruston / Secret Slave

 You're not going home. You're not going anywhere. You're mine now.Growing up in a deeply troubled family, 15-year-old Anna felt lost and alone in the world. So when a friendly taxi driver befriended her, Anna welcomed the attention, and agreed to...

Jason Fox / Battle Scars : A Story of War and All That Follows

  ___________ THE EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. 'The most important book you'll ever read... Battle Scars will save lives.' TOM MARCUS, author of SOLDIER SPY Battle Scars tells the story of Jason Fox's career as an elite operator, from...

Roberto Canessa / I Had to Survive

 On 12 October 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the 'Old Christians' rugby team (and many of their friends and family members) crashed into the Andes mountains. I Had to Survive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of...

Clare Campbell / Dogs of Courage

 In Bonzo's War, Clare Campbell told the fascinating story of what it was like for Britain's pets when the world was at war. This time, she follows the incredible journey of the dogs who conscripted to fight for their country, with some even...

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,...

Decca Aitkenhead / All at Sea

 Shortlisted for the 2017 PEN Ackerley Prize'The thing to remember about this story is that every word is true. If I never told it to a soul, and this book did not exist, it would not cease to be true. I don't mind at all if you forget this.The...

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...

Hugh Leddy / Down A Million On The Dole

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Jeremy Dronfield / The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz

 THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERDAILY MAIL & SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEARThe inspiring true story of a father and son's fight to stay together and survive the Holocaust, for anyone captivated by The Cut Out Girl and The Tattooist of...

Anne Wafula-Strike / In My Dreams I Dance

 They said it couldn't be done. But Anne Wafula achieved many remarkable things in her life. This is her incredible story.Struck down with polio at the age of two and a half, Anne overcame the prejudice rife in her native village in Kenya, where...

Michael Simkins / Fatty Batter

  A fat boy with a passion for sweets and a loathing for games, the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter and a full-blown obsession is born. Now in middle-age, he still harbours the somewhat deluded...

Horace Greasley / Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?

 An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times...

Paul Aston / True Sea Stories

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Wherever You Are: The Military Wives

 From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their story moved millions.Here the wives tell their individual stories in full for the first time - true...

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...

Julie Shaw / My Mam Shirley

 Behind the notorious Hudson men who dominated the Canterbury Estate for over 30 years were the girls, and my mam Shirley. Whether marrying into or determined to escape from it, the third instalment of this gritty series recounts the incredible...

Wendy Northcutt / The Darwin Awards III

  Just when you thought it was safe to leave the house...brand new DARWIN AWARDS, the bestselling humour series that honours those people who improve the human gene pool by inadvertently removing themselves from it in sublimely idiotic ways. The...

Ben Fogle / The Crossing

 'Read this... Two very different men fight, play games and nearly lose their lives.' The TimesWhen James Cracknell and Ben Fogle decided to compete in the Atlantic Rowing Race, they thought they knew what awaited them: nearly three thousand miles...

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...

Garret Pearse / A Pint and a Haircut

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Zoe Patterson / Trafficked Girl

 When Zoe was taken into care at the age of 13, she thought she was finally going to escape from the cruel abuse she had suffered throughout her childhood. Then social services placed her in a residential unit known to be 'a target for...

Joe Jackson / A Furnace Afloat : The Wreck of the Hornet and the 4,300 Mile Voyage of its Survivors

  When an accident with an open oil lantern set the American clipper Hornet alight in 1866, the 31 passengers and crew were forced to abandon ship. Cast adrift in three small lifeboats, they had less than 10 days rations to share between them...

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,...

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...

Cathy Glass / Cruel to Be Kind : Saying No Can Save a Child's Life

 Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes.Fostering Max gets off to a bad start when his mother, Caz, complains and threatens Cathy even before...

Bear Grylls / True Grit

 Bear Grylls knows what it takes to survive. But he's not the first. Take the American bombardier Louis Zamperini, who survived 47 days stranded at sea by catching and killing hungry sharks and drinking the warm blood of albatrosses - only to be...

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...

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...

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...

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,...