True Stories

Shy Keenan / Where Angels Fear : Children betrayed. Innocence lost. And how two women risked everything to save them.

    Shy Keenan and Sara Payne met because their lives had been connected by the same evil. Shy finally won justice in a court of law over the abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepfather, and Sara was grieving for her little girl...

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,...

Neil Fetherstonhaugh / They Never Came Home

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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...

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...

A.J. Davidson / Kidnapped : True Stories of Twelve Irish Hostages

   Kidnapping is a particularly heartless crime. Not only is the victim held in conditions of physical and psychological stress, his or her family suffer the trauma of knowing that their loved one has been taken by force and that they are...

Wolfgang Eulitz / The General And I : The Untold Story Behind Martin Cahill's Hotdog War

 The General and I is the story of one man's struggle against a criminal psychopath. Wolfgang Eulitz was a hard-working hotdog vendor on Dublin's notorious Leeson Street, but after four successful years the General appeared on the scene wanting to...

A.P Richards / Irish Murders

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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...

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...

Jon Ronson / Lost at Sea : The Jon Ronson Mysteries

 Updated edition including two extra stories.Jon Ronson has been on patrol with America's real-life superheroes and to a UFO convention in the Nevada desert with Robbie Williams. He's met a man who tried to split the atom in his kitchen and asked a...

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...

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

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Rita Lawlor / Moving on

 An inspiring true story of a woman with learning difficulties.      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...

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...

Julie Nicholson / A Song for Jenny

 On 7 July 2005, Julie Nicholson's life was changed forever. Her daughter, Jenny, was killed on her way to work in the London bombings, shaking Julie's beliefs. With heartbreaking honesty and integrity, Julie tells her story of love, tragedy and...

Hannah Kent / The Good People

 Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize.Based on true events and set in a lost world bound by its own laws, The Good People is Hannah Kent's startling novel about absolute belief and devoted love. Terrifying, thrilling and moving in equal measure,...

Paul O'Grady / Christmas at Battersea

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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...

Carol Ann Lee / Anne Frank's Story

 The life story of Anne Frank, from her early happy childhood in Frankfurt, growing up in Amsterdam, her two years in hiding and the last few months of her life in the concentration camps. Narrated in six clearly written chapters, this biography for...

Jeremy Howe / Mummydaddy

 In the summer of 1992, Jeremy Howe and his wife, Lizzie, were tending to last-minute holiday preparations. Lizzie was leaving to teach at a summer school before she could join Jeremy and their two daughters, Jessica, six and Lucy, four, at the...

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...

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...

Jonathan Goodman / Masterpieces of Murder

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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,...

A Page in the Life : True Life Stories from the Marian Finucane Show

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James Morton / East End Gangland

   The East End has always held a malign fascination for the general public. In this book James Morton looks at this phenomenon from the days of the unsolved murders committed by Jack the Ripper to the 1960s when the Kray Twins held the reins...

Souad / Burned Alive

 When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one's family and was punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of...

William Langewiesche / Fly By Wire

   On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York, when a flock of Canada geese collided with it, destroying both of its engines. Over the next three minutes, the plane's pilot Chelsey...

Lilian Pizzichini / Dead Men's Wages

 'Scratch the surface of any family and you will find stories of intrigue, abuse and illegitimacy. It is just that, because of the nature of my grandfather's business, our secrets are more sinister' Lilian Pizzichini's grandfather was a conman who...

Berlie Doherty / Street Child

   Unforgettable tale of an orphan in Victorian London, based on the boy whose plight inspired Dr Barnardo to found his famous children's homes.When his mother dies, Jim Jarvis is left all alone in London. He is sent to the workhouse but...

Kate Kray / Ultimate Hard Bastards : The Truth About the Toughest Men in the World

   Meet the hardest men in Britainminders, villains, gangsters, bodyguards, SAS hitmen, murderers, and terrorists. In this awesome follow-up to the hugely successful "Hard Bastards" and "Hard Bastards 2, " Kate Kray, who was married to Ronnie...

Neville Thompson / Streetwise : Stories From An Irish Prison

 Every day the population of Ireland wakes up to reports of another horror case of crime. The streets have become unsafe to walk upon and yet nothing seems to be done about it. Politicians make noises voicing their disgust while the police make...

Laura Blumenfeld / Revenge : A Story of Hope

   Should be required reading at the White House' Guardian In Jerusalem 1986, a member of a rebel faction of the PLO shot Laura Blumenfeld's father. He survived, but Blumenfeld was haunted by a desire for revenge.Travelling across Europe, the...

David M Kiely / Deadlier Than the Male

There is a woman who slew her husband with the Christmas present she'd given him, a grandmother who enthusiastically assisted in the murder of her own granddaughter, and, a woman who helped her lover brutally slaughter her husband. David Kiely, author of...

Ann Rule / And Never Let Her Go : Thomas Capano The Deadly Seducer

From America's most celebrated true-crime writer comes the heartbreaking real-life drama of a doomed young woman hopelessly trapped in a web of sexual intrigue, political manipulation and emotional deception by her charming and successful - but...

Bear Grylls / Facing Up : A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mount Everest

'No one could fail to be gripped by his heartfelt excitement and emotion over what was the adventure of a lifetime' IndependentAt the age of twenty-three, Bear Grylls became one of the youngest Britons to reach the summit of Mount Everest. At extreme...

Christopher Berry Dee / Talking with Serial Killers

An investigative criminologist, Christopher Berry-Dee is a man who talks to serial killers. Their pursuit of horror and violence is described in their own words, transcribed from audio and videotape interviews conducted deep inside some of the toughest...

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,...

Roberto Saviano / Gomorrah : Italy's Other Mafia

Published to coincide with the eponymous blockbuster film, Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller. Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities, the author has received so many...

Liz Walsh / The People vs Catherine Nevin

After the longest deliberation in the history of Irish criminal law, Catherine Nevin was convicted of the murder of her husband Tom at Jack White's Inn, County Wicklow, in 1996. The charges against Catherine Nevin were that she had tried repeatedly to...

Jeremy Wade / River Monsters

A tale of obsession and very big fish from Jeremy Wade, the presenter of ITV's RIVER MONSTERS.Over ten feet long, it weighs in at nearly a quarter of a ton. Covering its back are armoured plates made of bone. Five hundred stiletto-sharp teeth line its...

Tony Thompson / Gangs: A Journey into the Heart of the British Underworld

Organised crime is now the country's third biggest industry. The number of gangland murders, shootings and kidnappings, along with the levels of drug trafficking, people smuggling and money laundering, have all experienced phenomenal growth. Multi...

James Lever / Me Cheeta: The Autobiography

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009 The incredible, moving and hilarious story of Cheeta the Chimp, simian star of the big screen, on a behind-the-scenes romp through the golden years of Hollywood. The greatest Hollywood Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller,...

Jaycee Dugard / A Stolen Life (Hardback)

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Read, Mark Brandon / Chopper

Bullied at school, and growing up dreaming of revenge, Mark "Chopper" Read determined to be the toughest in any company. This autobiography tells how he became a crime commando who terrorized drug dealers, pimps, thieves and armed robbers on the streets...

Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal

In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the...

Howard Blum / Gangland

Howard Blum was granted unprecedented access to FBI records to reveal how a maverick FBI squad, led by former submariner Bruce Mouw, dedicated seven years to nailing the mafia's "cappi di tutti capi", Gotti. It is a tale of murder, sex, obsession and...

Gordon Kerr / Rats and Squealers

Over the years informers have been called by many names - rat, snitch, squealer, grass, stool pigeon, mole, dobber, whistleblowers - their job is to dish the dirt on suspected felons. Going right back to Judas Escariot and his betrayal of Christ, this...

Michael Sheridan / Death in December: The Story of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier

On 23 December 1996, the body of Sophie Toscan du Plantier was discovered outside her remote holiday home near Schull in West Cork. The attack had been savage and merciless. The murder caused shock waves in her native France and in the quiet Cork...