True Stories

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...

Michelle McNamara / I'll Be Gone in the Dark (Large Paperback)

   The #1 New York Times BestsellerSerialised in the Sunday Times'I loved this book.' Stephen KingA masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer - the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorised California for over a decade...

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...

Kevin O'Connor / Thou Shalt Not Kill (Large Paperback)

 True-life stories of Irish Murders     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...

Anthony Godby Johnson / A Rock and a Hard Place : One Boy's Triumphant Story (Hardback)

 This is the autobiography of a young American boy dying of AIDS. Anthony Johnson was born in 1977 and for 11 years was physically and sexually abused by his parents. But this is not an explicit account of those years; it is a journal describing the...

Martha Long / Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up in the Madhouse (Large Paperback)

 Martha is now in her thirties. Her daughter has left home and she is lonely and vulnerable. The hard knocks have taken their toll on her health, and as she looks into the years still lying ahead of her, she shakes her head, feeling she hasn't the...

Joe Tiernan / The Dublin Bombings and the Murder Triangle (Large Paperback)

At 5.30pm on 17th May 1974 three no-warning bombs exploded in Dublin city centre killing 26 people and injuring almost 300. Eighty minutes later a fourth no-warning bomb exploded in the town of Monaghan, killing six people and injuring 15. In this book,...

Jaycee Dugard / A Stolen Life (Hardback)

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 price sticker on a...

Bernadette Bohan / The Choice: The True Story of a Mother Fighting for Her Life - And Her Child (Large Paperback)

A truly inspirational cancer survivor's story of an ordinary woman who decided to have a child even though doctors had told her she probably wouldn't survive to raise her. Having twice defeated breast cancer, Irish Bernadette truly found her...

Kathy O'Beirne / Kathy's Story: A Childhood Hell Inside the Magdalen Laundries (Large Paperback)

Kathy O'Beirne's earliest memories are of being battered and sexually abused. Unable to confide in anyone about the beatings she regularly received from her father or about the boys who made her play dirty games, she became withdrawn and...

Martha Long / Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy (Large Paperback)

Aged thirteen, Martha is rescued by the courts from the clutches of her evil stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, Sally. After numerous arrests for shoplifting, a judge rules that she is to be sent to a convent school with the instruction that...

Martha Long / Ma Now I'm Goin Up in the World (Large Paperback)

In the latest instalment of Martha Long's autobiography, Ma, Now I'm Goin Up in the World, her story continues through her teenage years. At 16, Martha collapses on the streets, suffering from starvation, exposure and absolute exhaustion. She has...