True Stories

Garret Pearse / A Pint and a Haircut

      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...

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...

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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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...

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...

Tom Rose / Big Miracle : Three Trapped Whales, One Small Town, A Big-Hearted Story of Hope

 In October 1988 an Inuit hunter saw three grey whales trapped in the frozen Arctic ocean near Barrow, an isolated Alaskan outpost. They were working together to keep their blow hole open, the two adolescents caring for the weaker baby. It was a...

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...

Jamie Andrew / Life And Limb : A true story of tragedy and survival

 Jamie Andrew's survival and rescue after five nights trapped by a ferocious storm in 1999 has passed into Alpine legend. It was a miracle that he survived; but Jamie had to come to terms not only with the death of his close friend, Jamie Fisher,...

John Follain / Death in Perugia : The Definitive Account of the Meredith Kercher case from her murder to the acquittal of Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox

Shortly after 12.30pm on 2 November 2007, Italian police were called to the Perugia home of 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher. They found her body on the floor under a beige quilt. Her throat had been cut. Four days later, the prosecutor...

Tracey Corbett-Lynch / My Brother Jason : The Untold Story of Jason Corbett's Life and Brutal Death (Large Paperback)

   On 2 August 2015, Limerick father-of-two Jason Corbett was savagely beaten to death in the bedroom of his luxury North Carolina home. His killers were his wife Molly Martens and his father-in-law, Thomas Martens. In a trial that gripped...

Dennis Smith / Report from Ground Zero (Large Paperback)

   September 11th changed the face of America, but it also revealed the true face of heroism. The men of the New York Fire Department fought with courage and endurance to save others. This is their story, told by a veteran firefighter...

Joanna Connors / I Will Find You : In Search of the Man Who Raped Me

   A hard-hitting memoir about a woman's search to understand the man who raped herJoanna Connors was thirty years old when she was raped at knifepoint by a stranger.Many years later she realised she had to confront the fear that had ruled her...

Helen Morrison M.D / My Life Among the Serial Killers

   Helen Morrison produces controversial theories as to why people commit multiple murders, having interviewed some of the most notorious killers in the world. Are serial killers born? Does child abuse really play a part in the formation of a...

Catherine Johnson / Con Men

     Con men have many tricks and schemes to part you from your money. This book will help you see when something is just too good to be true! Barrington Stoke specialises in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers. All of...

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,...

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...

Rachel Fehily / Split

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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...

Charles Onselen / The Fox and the Flies (Large Paperback)

    The nineteenth-century was the age of industry. It witnessed breathaking advances in manufacturing, trade and communications. Exploiting the new infrastructure of railways, steamships and telegraph systems, European pimps and 'white...

Stephen Venables / Ollie

   Like the swallows, our son Ollie came in the spring and left in the autumn. Dancing, singing, swooping - there was something birdlike about his energy, joy and laughter - but also the fleeting, enigmatic quality of his life.When he was two...

Simon Cooper / The Deadly Game

    Wrapped in cheery festive paper, six parcels were delivered to branches of Barclays Bank across London. But the paper hid a deadly Christmas gift. Inside each parcel was a video cassette box and inside each box lurked a booby-trapped...

Warren Fellows / The Damage Done : Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison

   Think about the most wretched day of your life. Maybe it was when someone you loved died, or when you were badly hurt in an accident, or a day when you were so terrified you could scarcely bear it. No imagine 4,000 of those days in one big...

Valerie Bowe / Stories of Hope

      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...

James Morton / Gangland: The Early Years

    The early criminals were just as violent, dangerous and daring as their more recent relations. After a raid on the American Express in Paris, Eddie Guerin was sent to Devil's Island from which he escaped and survived, probably by eating...

Dana Kollman / Never Suck a Dead Man's Hand : True Life Experiences of an American Crime Scene Investigator (CSI)

      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...

Kenneth Cain / Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) : True Stories from a War Zone

   What it's really like on the frontline of humanitarian aidIt's the early 1990s and three young people are looking to change their lives, and perhaps also the world. Attracted to the ambitious global peacekeeping work of the UN, Andrew, Ken...

Richard Phillips / A Captain's Duty

   8th April 2009 was just an ordinary day for 53 -year-old Richard Phillips, captain of the United States-registered cargo vessel, the Maersk Alabama, as it headed towards the port of Mombasa. Ordinary that is until, two hundred or so miles...

Edward Lucas / Deception : Spies Lies and How Russia Dupes the West

 From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a...

Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory

    In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted...

Dawn Annandale / Call Me Elizabeth : Wife, Mother, Escort

   Dawn Annandale is bright, witty and well educated. But when her marriage began to fall apart, she had to face a seemingly insurmountable pile of debts on her own. Determined that her children would not suffer because of their parents'...

Michael L. Sheridan / Frozen Blood : Serial Killers in Ireland

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Terry Manners / Deadlier Than the Male : Stories of Female Serial Killers

    The phenomenon of the female serial killer has been increasingly capturing the public's attention. This book examines the motivation of, among others, the revengeful Aileen Wournos, the materialistic Dorothea Puente, the sexually abused...

David M. Kiely / More Bloody Women

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True Stories: Stories of Comfort

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David Grann / Killers of the Flower Moon : Oil Money Murder and the Birth of the FBI

 WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIMESHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION**SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING...

Dave Pelzer - A Child Called It, The Lost Boy, A Man called Dave(3 Book Box Set) (Hardback)

Dave Pelzer (3 Book Box Set) (Hardback)    Contains  A man called dave a child called it the lost boy

Michael Lewis / Flash Boys : Cracking the Money Code

 Michael Lewis's epic bestseller tells the outrageous story of the multi-millionaires and whizz kids who scammed the banking system in the blink of an eye - and the whistleblowers who tried to stop them. It's hilarious, terrifying and it's all true...

John Cuffe / Inside the Monkey House

   The memoir of an Irish prison guard. Here, Cuff reveals the raw truth of thirty tough years on the inside, watching over murderers, drug dealers, and IRA kidnappers. Join him on a vivid, eye-opening journey through the belly of an archaic...

Rosie Lewis / Trapped: The Terrifying True Story of a Secret World of Abuse

   Trapped was a Sunday Times bestseller and the first memoir from foster carer Rosie Lewis.Phoebe, an autistic nine-year-old girl, is taken into police protection after a chance comment to one of her teachers alerts the authorities that all...

Tudor Parfitt / The Lost Ark of the Covenant : The Remarkable Quest for the Legendary Ark

   Professor Tudor Parfitt, a real-life British Indiana Jones, has made the biggest discovery of the last 3,000 years - what became of the fabled Ark of the Covenant. This is the amazing story of his quest.This is the real-life account of...

Nigel Cawthorne / World's Greatest Serial Killers

    Serial killers are so defined when they have murdered at least 4 people over a period of time. The gruesome acts carried out by them are usually sexually motivated, and they will do anything to stretch the boundaries of morality...

Nigel Cawthorne / The Mammoth Book of the Mafia

   Images of life in the Mob pervade our film and TV screens, some glamorous, some horrific - what is the reality?Investigative journalist Roger Wilkes has put together the largest ever collection of insider stories from prominent ex-mafiosi,...

Shane Dunphy / The Boy They Tried to Hide : The true story of a son, forgotten by society

   The Boy They Tried to Hide is the startling, true account of how truth is sometimes stranger than fiction ...Shane Dunphy was working as a resource teacher in a rural town when he was approached by the mother of one of his pupils, seeking...

John Follain / The Last Godfathers

   THE LAST GODFATHERS charts the rise of the notorious Corleone clan. From its humble origins in the town of Corleone, the clan manipulated Cosa Nostra's code of honour, deceiving and bludgeoning its way to the top of the secret brotherhood,...

Cheryl Jarvis / The Necklace

   One day a woman of average means waltzes by a jewellery shop window and spots a GBP20,000 diamond necklace. She can't get it out of her head. Eventually she gets the idea of sharing it with friends, persuading them to chip in a grand each...

David Harvey / Obsession Celebrities and Their Stalkers

    "One million women and 370,000 men are stalked each year, and this exposT uses stalker incidents involving famous celebrities to explore the twisted mind of a stalker. Offering glimpses into the Los Angeles District Attorney files,...