True Stories

True Stories: Stories of Comfort

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Carol Anne Davis / Children Who Kill : Profiles of Pre-teen and Teenage Killers

 Why would two young boys abduct, torture and kill a toddler? What makes a teenage girl plot with her classmates to kill her own father? Traditionally, society is used to regarding children as harmless -- but for some the age of innocence is...

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

Martin Ingram / Stakeknife : Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland

 BESTSELLERAn explosive expose of how British military intelligence really works, from the inside. The stories of two undercover agents -- Brian Nelson, who worked for the Force Research Unit (FRU), aiding loyalist terrorists and murderers in their...

Eamon Collins / Killing Rage

 This is an account of how an angry young man can cross the line that divides theoretical support for violence from a state of 'killing rage', in which the murder of neighbour becomes thinkable. Over 3000 people have died in Northern Ireland since...

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...

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,...

Justine McCarthy / Deep Deception : Ireland's Swimming Scandals

   Updated Edition In November 2009 former national and Olympic swimming coach Ger Doyle was convicted of thirty-five sexual offences against children. This is just the most recent of an appalling series of child sexual abuse scandals in Irish...

John Pearson / The Profession of Violence : The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins

   The classic, bestselling account of the infamous Kray twins, now a major film, starring Tom Hardy.Reggie and Ronnie Kray ruled London's gangland during the 60s with a ruthlessness and viciousness that shocks even now. Building an empire of...

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...

Margaret Nicholas / The World's Wickedest Women

    Describes women who have earned the reputation of being wicked, like Lucrezia Borgia and Lizzie Borden. This book analyzes their lives, their menfolk and the reasons behind their wicked behaviour.      All of our...

Michael Griesbach / The Innocent Killer

   ___________________________THE BESTSELLING BOOK ON THE CASE IN THE HIT NETFLIX SERIES MAKING A MURDERERThis is the story of one of America's most notorious wrongful convictions.Steven Avery is a Wisconsin man who spent eighteen years in...

Ann Rule / A Fever In The Heart

    A FEVER IN THE HEART dissects an explosive triangle that led to obsession and murder in a small town in the north-west of America. Ann Rule reveals the story of an alluring wife and the two men desperate for her love; a story with a...

Theresa Cheung / An Angel Changed my Life

   Angel expert Theresa Cheung is back with a new collection of inspiring true stories about how our guardian angels can offer help, protection and direction in times of trouble and, by so doing, transform our lives forever. An Angel Changed...

Anthony Sadler / The 15:17 to Paris

   The 15:17 to Paris is an amazing true story of friendship and bravery, of near terrorist attack averted by three young men who found the heroic unity and strength inside themselves at the moment when they, and 500 other innocent travellers,...

Sue Grafton / Q is for Quarry

   She was a 'Jane Doe', an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on, and...

Misha Glenny / McMafia : Seriously Organised Crime

   **Now a major BBC series starring James Norton** Have you ever bought a pirate DVD? Taken drugs? Fallen for a phishing scam? Organised crime is part of all our worlds - often without us even knowing. McMafia is a journey through...

Edward Conlon / Blue Blood

   'Superb. The most stunning memoir ever written about the cop world' Joseph Wambaugh'Beautiful and inspiring, terrifying and heartbreaking'James Frey'More chilling than even the most realistic cop dramas on TV'People'A great book...with...

Jeff Bauman / Stronger

   Jeff Bauman woke up on 16th April 2013, in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing his legs. Just 30 hours prior, Jeff was surrounded by revelry at the finish line of the Boston Marathon cheering...

Katie Taylor / Stolen Girl

  Stolen Girl : I Was an Innocent Schoolgirl. I Was Targeted, Raped and Abused by a Gang of Sadistic Men. But That Was Just the Beginning...This is My Terrifying True Story.  Months later, the schoolgirl was systematically groomed and raped...

Senan Molony / The Phoenix Park Murders

   In May, 1882, the Number One administrator of the British government in Ireland and his Number Two are assassinated by men wielding deadly surgical knives, while the pair are walking in the Phoenix Park. The killings are witnessed from the...

Christopher Berry-Dee / Talking with Psychopaths and Savages

 Having spent years interviewing imprisoned criminals - including notorious serial killers - he discovered that the lack of remorse these people showed was in many ways even more terrifying than the crimes they had committed. Yet in the course of...

Paula Byrne / Belle : The True Story of Dido Belle

 The inspiration behind the powerful new film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson, this is the story of Dido Belle, whose adoption by an aristocratic family challenged the conventions of 18th century England.In one of the most...

Sarah Mcinerney / Where No One Can Hear You Scream : Murder and Assault in the Wicklow Mountains

 Since 1925, a startling number of young women have been found dead in the Dublin-Wicklow Mountains. The small winding roads, the dense foliage and the isolation have combined to make the area a favourite burial ground amongst murderers.A number of...

Stanley Williams / Surviving The Volcano

 The true-life adventure story of one of the world's leading volcano experts. In 1993, Stanley Williams was investigating Galeras, what he thought was a dormant volcano in Colombia. But it blew, killing nine members of his expedition; against all...

Paul Williams / Almost the Perfect Murder

 A book that had to be written and it's really well written ... fascinating.' Ray D'Arcy, RTE Radio 1'A great book ... really comprehensive' Miriam O'Callaghan, RTE'Fascinating' Pat Kenny, Newstalk'It is very rare for murder to involve the degree of...

The Moth : This Is a True Story

 With an introduction by Neil GaimanBefore television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. The storytellers knew their craft and bewitched listeners...

Mark Brandon Read / Chopper II : How to Shoot Friends and Influence People

 Mark Brandon Read - Chopper to his friends and enemies - has become a cult figure across the world. Since the success of the movie of his life, and the accompanying book, his exploits have shocked and amused readers in several countries. An...

Sophie Hayes / Trafficked : The Terrifying True Story of a British Girl Forced into the Sex Trade

 He'd been her friend for years. He said he loved her. Then she realised she didn't know him at all...When everything seemed to be falling apart in Sophie's life, she was thankful for her friend Kas, who was always at the end of a phone, ready to...

Eamon Dillon / The Fraudsters : Sharks and Charlatans - How Con Artists Make Their Money

      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...

Debbie Deegan / To Russia With Love : Changing the Lives of Abandoned Children

 This is the incredible story of how one woman's determination led her to overcome obstacles ranging from the scepticism of 'Celtic Tiger'-era Ireland to the intricacies of soviet-style bureaucracy, and the threat of violence from international...

Theresa Cheung / An Angel Called My Name

 Following on from the hugely popular `Angel Saved My Life' series comes a moving new collection of real-life stories from the Afterlife.Following the bestsellers An Angel by My Side and An Angel Held My Hand comes a brand new collection of...

James Patterson / Murder Beyond the Grave

 Two true-crime cases from the hit TV series Murder is Forever MURDER BEYOND THE GRAVE: Stephen Small has it all - a Ferrari, fancy house, loving wife and three sons. But the only thing he needs right now is enough air to breathe. Kidnapped,...

Norman Parker / The Complete Parkhurst Tales

 Norman Parker spent twenty-five years of his life in a high security Category A prison. Convicted of murder and manslaughter in the 1970s, he was sentenced to life at the notorious Parkhurst Prison. An institution filled with the most sinister and...

Dick Lehr / Black Mass : Whitey Bulger, The FBI and a Devil's Deal

 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A gripping true story of violence, double-cross and corruption, Black Mass takes us deep undercover, exposing one of the most outrageous scandals in FBI history. Boston, 1975. Under a harvest moon, 'Whitey'...

Paul O'Grady / Christmas at Battersea

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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...

Miriam Ali / Without Mercy : A Mother's Struggle Against Modern Slavery

 Providing an account of her battle with an abusive man and with bureaucracy, this is the story of a woman's fight against a violent and tyrannical relationship, and her struggle to reclaim her two daughters, sold into marriage in the Yemen. Mirian...

Quentin Fottrell / Love in a Damp Climate : The Dating Game. . . Irish-style

 This book is a love travelogue, a collection of vignettes, collection of the best and worst problems (and solutions), chronicling the efforts of Irelands singletons to find love, and talking to those whove actually found it. And, yes, theyre all...

David Simon / The Corner : A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighbourhood

 The notorious corner of West Fayette and Monroe Streets in Baltimore is a 24-hour open-air drug market that provides the economic fuel for a dying neighbourhood. Through the eyes of one broken family - two drug-addicted adults and their smart,...

Paddy Doyle - The God Squad - HB 1st Edition 1988 - Irish Industrial Schools

Paddy Doyle's mother died from cancer in 1955. His father committed suicide shortly thereafter. Paddy Doyle was sentenced in an Irish district court to be detained in an industrial school for eleven years. He was four years old...Paddy Doyle's...

Redmond O'Hanlon / Trawler : A Journey Through the North Atlantic

 Redmond O'Hanlon describes his extraordinary three-week trip on an Orkney trawler as it journeys far into the north Atlantic in search of its catch. Young skipper Jason Schofield has a 2 million pound overdraft on his boat, the Norlantean, which is...

Jeffrey Toobin / The People V. O.J. Simpson

 Now a major BBC TV series.The definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The People V. O.J. Simpson is a prodigious feat of reporting that could have been written only by the foremost legal journalist of our time. First published less than...

Evan Wright / Generation Kill

 Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve...

John Pilger / Tell Me No Lies

 Tell Me No Lies is a celebration of the very best investigative journalism, and includes writing by some of the greatest practitioners of the craft: Seymour Hersh on the My Lai massacre; Paul Foot on the Lockerbie cover-up; Wilfred Burchett, the...

Naom Chomsky / 9-11

 In 9-11, Noam Chomsky comments on the September 11th attacks, the new war on terrorism, Osama bin Laden, U.S. involvement with Afghanistan, media control, and the long-term implications of America's military attacks abroad. Informed by his deep...

Clifford Irving / The Hoax

 'I was down to my last chip, but it never occurred to me not to put it on the line, bet it, and roll the dice one more time . . .'In 1972 Clifford Irving pulled a sensational hoax involving Howard Hughes, a prestigious New York publishing house and...

Michael Sheridan / Bloody Evidence : CSI - Tracking the Killers

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Jenny McCudden / Impact : The Human Stories Behind Ireland's Road Tragedies

   This is the first book to provide a detailed account of road traffic collisions in Ireland, with particular emphasis on the human cost of driver error. Interviewees include grieving families and injured victims, former minister, Jim McDaid,...