True Stories

Allan Hall / Girl in the Cellar - The Natascha Kampusch Story

 When Natascha Kampusch made her bid for freedom on 23 August 2006 after eight years held captive in a seemingly ordinary Austrian suburban house, her story horrified and astonished the entire world. How did she survive a childhood locked in a...

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...

Jilly Cooper / Animals In War

 Pigeons carrying vital messages to and from the beleaguered city during the Siege of Paris; horses and mules struggling through miles of fetid mud to bring ammunition to the front in the Great War; dogs sniffing out mines for the British invasion...

Paul O'Grady / Christmas at Battersea

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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...

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...

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...

Jonathan Goodman / Masterpieces of Murder

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Michael Sheridan / Bloody Evidence : CSI - Tracking the Killers

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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...

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...

Abigail Rieley / Death on the Hill : The Killing of Celine Cawley

   The case that had everything: lies, betrayal, sex. The story that fascinated the nation.On 15 December 2008, two screams shattered the peace of the affluent Windgate Road in Howth, Co Dublin. Celine Cawley, founder of the hugely successful...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Thomas McShane / Loot : Inside the World of Stolen Art

McShane is one of the world's foremost authorities on the art theft business. Here, he presents a unique memoir that gives readers a thrilling ride through the underworld of stolen art and historical artefacts. For 36 years McShane masked his colourful...

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...

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...

Brian Marriner / A New Century of Sex Killers

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Marsha Hunt / The Junk Yard: Voices for the Junk Yard

A writer's workshop for young offenders at Dublin's Mountjoy Prison is the source of this collection of 15 original Irish stories. They include: Kenno's loss of his parents to drug-related AIDS; Yogi's heroin addiction; and Bree's thoughts as she...

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...

Anna Erelle / Undercover Jihadi Bride: Inside Islamic State's Recruitment Networks

Previously published as 'In the Skin of a Jihadist' Twenty-year-old 'Melodie', a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an ISIS brigade on Facebook. In 48 hours he has 'fallen in love' with her, calls her every hour, urges her to marry him, join...

Jonathan Goodman / True Crime

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Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City

The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect...

Jason O'Toole / Crime Ink

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Michael Sheridan / Tears of Blood

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The World's Greatest Mistakes

A collection of true accounts of mistakes down the ages, ranging from the funny to the tragic and the farcical.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...

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...

Rachael Keogh / Dying to Survive (Large Paperback)

By the time she eventually went into recovery, after a number of false starts, her arms were shrivelled, withered and blackened from the effects of repeated injections. She had suffered every degradation possible. But miraculously she managed to stop...

Martha Long / Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes (Large Paperback)

Then I heard the most beautiful music, an suddenly I was outa me body an flyin. An I wanted te cry inside meself. I wasn't dead any more, I was lifted away, far away. I can do anythin. I can be somebody, I can be beautiful, I can be gentle, I can be...

Martha Long / Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy (Large Paperback)

Aged thirteen, Martha is rescued by the courts from the clutches of her evil stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, Sally. After numerous arrests for shoplifting, a judge rules that she is to be sent to a convent school with the instruction that...

Jean Sasson / Desert Royal

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John Gleeson / Promises to Keep : A Woman's Medical Nightmare

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Stephen Cook / The Real Cracker

Follow britains top two offender profilerers as they investigate five of the most horrific recent crimes: *The sexual assault of elderly women by the uk's most prolific serial crimianl. *the shocking rape and murder of a young woman in her home *the...

Niamh O'Connor / Cracking Crime

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David Simon / Homicide

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Paul Williams / Gangland: The Shocking Exposé of the Criminal Underworld

Number 1 BestsellerPaul Williams is Ireland's No. 1 award-winning crime reporter, famed for exposing the ruthless gangsters behind Irish crime. In Gangland! he investigates who is pulling the strings behind the scenes - the families that form the...