True Stories

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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

John Busby / The Year We Disappeared : A Father - Daughter Memoir

   When Cylin Busby was nine years old, she was obsessed with the Muppets and her pet turtle. Then everything changed. Her police officer father, John, was driving to work when someone levelled a shotgun at his window. The blasts that followed...

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...

James Patterson / Home Sweet Murder

   Two true-crime cases from the hit TV series Murder is ForeverHOME SWEET MURDER: Lawyer Leo Fisher and his wife Sue are enjoying a quiet Sunday dinner at home. Until a man in a suit rings at their front door claiming to be an SEC agent. By...

John Douglas / Mindhunter : Inside the FBI Elite Serial Crime Unit

   ________________________________________Obsessed with Netflix's Mindhunter? Celebrate the launch of Season 2 with the bestselling true story of how one underfunded FBI team became the first to explore the dark world of serial murderers.John...

Melanie Davies / Never Say Die

   On a Saturday morning in May 1980, Melanie Bowen, a pretty fifteen year old, ran down the stairs of her parents' home in Port Talbot, grabbed her leather jacket and crash helmet, yelled a goodbye, and then walked out of the front door into...

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...

John Preston / A Very English Scandal

 The shocking true story of the first British politician to stand trial for murderBehind oak-panelled doors in the House of Commons, men with cut-glass accents and gold signet rings are conspiring to murder. It's the late 1960s and homosexuality has...

Tom Reddy / The Murder File : An Irish Detective's Casebook

 For nearly twenty years, Superintendent George Lawlor was head of the Murder Squad in Ireland. The Murder File is a collection of the murders that George Lawlor investigated and solved in the course of his distinguished career.Lawlor was a...

Fatal Attraction : When Love Turns to Murder

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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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David V. Canter / Mapping Murder : Walking in Killers' Footsteps

    In his groundbreaking study, renowned criminal psychologist and profiler David Canter lifts the lid on geographical profiling and takes us on the murderer's journey in both the psychological and literal sense. He leads us through the...

Kathryn Bonella / Hotel K : The Shocking Inside Story of Bali's Most Notorious Jail

   THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERHotel K - Bali's most notorious jail - is Hell in Paradise.Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Bali's most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one side,...