True Stories

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,...

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,...

Duncan Fairhurst / Our Little Secret

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Harold Schechter / Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer

   LURED FROM THE SAFETY OF HOME -- INTO THE JAWS OF HELL"America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (The Boston Book Review), Harold Schechter shatters the myth that violent crime is a modern phenomenon -- with this...

Carol Lee / To Die for

 When I see her, my first emotion is anger, not sorrow, or the fear I raced here with - that I would be too lateWhen Carol Lee's cherished god-daughter Emma descended into a long and frightening battle with Anorexia, Carol found herself at a loss to...

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...

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...

Van Ryan / Mistaken Identity

 One tragic traffic accident. Five university students killed. One survivor. A shocking case of mistaken identity that thrust two families into a bond of grief and joy beyond imagining. This is the story of two students from Indiana's Taylor...

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...

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,...

Pat Flynn / Catherine and Friends

The trial and conviction of Catherine Nevin for her role in the murder of her husband Tom monopolized the attention of the country for weeks. It was the main topic of conversation in pubs, homes and workplaces as newspapers daily carried new and...

Christina Mckenna / Ireland's Haunted Women

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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...

Heinrich Harrer / Seven Years in Tibet

A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was...

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...

Martha Long / Ma, Now I'm Goin Up in the World

At 16, Martha collapses on the streets, suffering from starvation and exposure. She has reached rock bottom, but after Martha is taken to hospital, Lady Luck smiles kindly on her and she is given the opportunity to get off the streets for ever. Before...

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,...

John Follain / Jackal

From his birth in Venezuela to his capture two years ago in the Sudan, the life of Carlos 'the Jackal' has been an extraordinary one. Raised in a radical family, he was sent to London as a teenager in an attempt by his father to remove him from his early...

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...

Liam Collins / Irish Crimes of Passion: Killing for Love Lust and Desire

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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...

Brian Marriner / A New Century of Sex Killers

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Anna May Mangan / Me and Mine

As soon as they'd saved up for the three 'S's' - shoes, suitcase and a suit - they left rural Ireland. It might have been the London of the 1950s where 'No Blacks, No Irish No Dogs' was the welcome put out for immigrants, but for the big family that was...

Ross Kemp / Ross Kemp on Afghanistan

Ross Kemp risks all to tell the story of the British soldier in Ross Kemp on Afghanistan. He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all - the...

Jason O'Toole / Crime Ink

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Barry Cummins / Lifers

There is only one penalty for committing murder in Ireland: mandatory life imprisonment. It makes no difference if you plead guilty or if you're convicted by a jury. The sentence remains the same. It's been like this for fifty years since the...

Shane Dunphy / The Boy in the Cupboard

Three heart-stopping stories of children trapped by their parents' pasts ...Craig, the little boy who can't speak English, isn't allowed to use his real name and hides food around his playschool, afraid he'll be hungry again. His parents...

Jon Krakauer / Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

National Bestseller A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was...

The World's Greatest Blunders

Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at great blunders. Other titles available include "The World's Greatest Serial Killers" and "The World's...

Paul Williams / Badfellas

Badfellas is the definitive account by Ireland's most respected crime writer and journalist, Paul Williams, of how organized crime evolved in Ireland over the past four decades. Drawing on his vast inside knowledge of the criminal underworld, an...

Michael Sheridan / Tears of Blood

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Bernadette Bohan / The Choice: The True Story of a Mother Fighting for Her Life - And Her Child (Large Paperback)

A truly inspirational cancer survivor's story of an ordinary woman who decided to have a child even though doctors had told her she probably wouldn't survive to raise her. Having twice defeated breast cancer, Irish Bernadette truly found her...