True Stories

Adam Jowett / No Way Out

 A Sunday Times Bestseller, powerful, highly-charged and moving, No Way Out is Adam Jowett's tribute to the men of Easy Company who paid a heavy price for serving their country.'Fiercely immersive. Truly heroic.' - Tom Marcus, bestselling author of...

Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse

 Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by...

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...

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...

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...

Gareth Greaves / My Hero Theo (Hardback)

 'I'd been in so many scrapes with Theo and he'd always saved me. Those days were the hardest of my life so far and ... at the darkest point, those big brown eyes and that torn ear where I needed them to be. Right there next to me.'PC Gareth Greaves...

Chris Hunter / Eight Lives Down (Large Paperback)

 "If fate is against me and I'm killed, so be it, but make it quick and painless. If I'm wounded, don't let me be crippled. But above all don't let me fuck up the task" So goes the bomb technician's prayer before every bomb he defuses. For Chris...

James Durney - The Mob : The History of Irish Gangsters in America - PB , 2000 Reprint

The Mob was the first book to deal with the bloody history of Irish involvement in the American organised crime scene. Long before the Mafia had arrived on the shores of the New World Irish gangsters were plying their trade of murder and mayhem...

Rose McGowan / Brave (Large Paperback)

 'My life, as you will read, has taken me from one cult to another. BRAVE is the story of how I fought my way out of these cults and reclaimed my life. I want to help you do the same.' -Rose McGowanA revealing memoir and empowering manifesto - A...

Stephen Matthews / The Day the Nazis Came Here

 By the time Stephen Matthews was six years old, he had been bombarded by the Luftwaffe and deported from Nazi-occupied Guernsey, along with his family, to a prison camp in the heart of Hitler's Third Reich. He had seen men die in front of him,...

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...

Emma Brockes / She Left Me the Gun (Large Paperback)

  When Emma Brockes was ten years old, her mother said 'One day I will tell you the story of my life and you will be amazed.' Growing up in a tranquil English village, Emma knew very little of her mother's life before her. She knew Paula had...

Paul Aston / True Sea Stories

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Ed Husain / The Islamist

 Ed Husain's The Islamist is the shocking inside story of British Islamic fundamentalism, told by a former radical.'When I was sixteen I became an Islamic fundamentalist. Five years later, after much emotional turmoil, I rejected fundamentalist...

Kate Dooher / I'Ve Got Cancer, but it Hasn't Got Me (Large Paperback)

  Demystifies the world of cancer and offers a sense of companionship. It empowers the reader to take ownership of her situation and encourages her not to define herself by the cancer.       All of our books are second hand,...

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...

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...

Paddy Hayes / Break-Out!

  In 1940 German prisoner of war Hans Marschner managed to saw his way out of Mountjoy, only to be recaptured; in 1943 a young girl eating breakfast was surprised by twenty-one men emerging in her coal shed from the tunnel that had brought them...

Callie Blackwell / The Boy in 7 Billion

 Deryn Blackwell is a walking, talking miracle.At the age of 10, he was diagnosed with Leukaemia.Then, 18 months later, he developed another rare form of cancer called Langerhan's cell sarcoma. Only five other people in the world have it. He is the...

The Secret Barrister : Stories of the Law and How It's Broken (Hardback)

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWinner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction AwardShortlisted for Waterstones Book of the YearShortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year'Eye-opening, damning and hilarious' Tim Shipman, author of All Out War...

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...

Mikael Lindnord / Arthur (Hardback)

 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe heart-warming true story of an incredible rescue dog. When you are racing 435 miles through the jungles and mountains of South America, the last thing you need is a stray dog tagging along. But that's exactly...

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...

Sarbjit Kaur Athwal / Shamed

 In 1998, Sarbjit Athwal was called by her husband to attend a family meeting. It looked like just another family gathering. An attractive house in west London, a large dining room, two brothers, their mother, one wife. But the subject they were...

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...

Richard Picciotto / Last Man Down (Hardback)

  On September 11th, leading seven companies of firefighters up the B stairway to Tower 1 of the World Trade Centre, Battalion Commander Richard 'Pitch' Picciotto was the highest ranking fire department commander in the twin towers when Tower 2...

Surendra Verma / The Cause of Mosquitoes' Sorrow

  This book features quirky, enjoyable and entirely true instances of science going wrong, right and in totally unexpected directions from 600 BC onwards ...Just how did the scientific discoveries that have changed our world come about? Surendra...

Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Antarctic Journeys

  The very best writing on the Antarctic, from James Cook's eighteenth-century assertion that 'no man will ever venture further than I have done' to Lynne Cox's description of her epic, icy swim in the twenty-first century - 32 first-hand...

Hala Jaber / The Flying Carpet to Baghdad : One Woman's Fight for Two Orphans of War

 Zahra, aged 3, and Hawra, just a few months old were the only survivors of a missile strike in Baghdad in 2003. Their parents and their five siblings all died. Unable to have children herself, Hala Jaber, an award-winning foreign correspondent, was...

Richard Logan / Voyage of Terror : The True Story of the Sole Survivor of a Massacre at Sea

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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...

Jimmy Guerin / Justice Denied : Significant Unsolved Crimes in Ireland (Large Paperback)

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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...

Mark Owen / No Easy Day : The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden (Large Paperback)

 For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Jamie Reid / Doped : The Real Life Story of the 1960s Racehorse Doping Gang (Hardback)

 Doped is the gripping true-story racing thriller set in Britain in the 1950s and early 1960s. Combining a potent mix of horse racing, drugs, sex, class, crime, gambling and the monarchy, it tells the true story of one of the biggest doping scandals...

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...

Wendy Northcutt / The Darwin Awards III : Even More True Stories of How Dumb Humans Have Met Their Maker (Hardback)

    Just when you thought it was safe to leave the house, there comes a brand new book to remind you that dangerous idiots still lurk everywhere. THE DARWIN AWARDS is the bestselling humour series that honours those people who improve the...

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...