True Stories

True Stories: Stories of Comfort

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David Grann / Killers of the Flower Moon : Oil Money Murder and the Birth of the FBI

 WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIMESHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION**SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING...

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...

Michael Lewis / Flash Boys : Cracking the Money Code

 Michael Lewis's epic bestseller tells the outrageous story of the multi-millionaires and whizz kids who scammed the banking system in the blink of an eye - and the whistleblowers who tried to stop them. It's hilarious, terrifying and it's all true...

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...

Matt Dickinson / Death Zone

   It seemed like any other season on Mount Everest. Ten expeditions from around the world were preparing for their summit push, gathered together to try for mountaineering's ultimate prize. Twenty-four hours later, eight of those climbers...

T.J. Stiles / Jesse James : Last Rebel of the Civil War

   Stripped of the familiar myths surrounding him, Jesse James emerges as a far more significant figure: a ruthless, purposeful and intensely political man who used crimes and notoriety to promote the Confederate cause during the bitter decade...

Benjamin Mee / We Bought A Zoo : The Amazing True Story of a Broken-down Zoo, and the 200 Animals That Changed a Family Forever

   Chuck it all in and buy a zoo? Why not? thought Benjamin Mee, unaware of the grim living conditions, creditors and escaped big cat that lay in wait...A few years ago, Ben and his wife, Katherine, sold their small flat in Primrose Hill and...

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 Bilton / Wicked Beyond Belief : The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

  Revelatory investigation into the police handling of the Yorkshire Ripper Case which spanned over 14 years. For the first time, the files have been opened, the detectives are talking and the victims are reliving the nightmare. For over twenty...

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...

Don Davis / The Milwaukee Murders : Nightmare in Apartment 213 - The True Story

    On 22nd July 1991, a panic-stricken young man with a pair of manacles dangling from his wrist, ran out of apartment 213, Oxford Apartments, Milwaukee and told the police an incredible tale of terror. When he led officers back to his...

James Fox / White Mischief

    Fascinated with the death near Nairobi of Jocelyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, Fox pursued the story to England and Kenya in the late 1970s, and one day came across a piece of evidence that seemed to bring all the fragments and pieces together...

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,...

Roger Boar / The World's Greatest Unsolved Crimes

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

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...

Paul Copperwaite / The Mammoth Book of Undercover Cops

   This collection presents edgy revelations and revealing first-hand accounts, many of them from the kinds of stories that don't always make the news, including the inspirations for popular TV dramas such as "The Wire." Terrorists, criminal...

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...

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...

A.P Richards / Irish Murders

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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...

Michael Sheridan / Murder at Shandy Hall

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Niamh O'Connor / Blood Ties : The real stories behind Ireland's most notorious murders

   Husband against wife ...Wife against husband ...Discover what happens when the bonds of family break ...Find out more about the gruesome case of the so-called 'Scissor Sisters', whose bloody slaughter of their mother's lover ended with an...

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

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Beezy Marsh / Keeping My Sisters' Secrets

 The Sunday Times Bestseller and #1 international bestsellerKeeping My Sister's Secrets by Beezy Marsh is the heartwarming true story of three sisters and their fearless fight to survive the hardships of poverty and war - by whatever means necessary...

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'...

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...

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...

Allan Hall / World's Greatest Secrets

 Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this title looks at secrets.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the...

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...

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,...

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...

Charles Bronson / Bronson 2 : More Porridge Than Goldilocks

 Charles Bronson is the most feared and most notorious convict in the prison system. Renowned for his serial hostage-taking and his rooftop sieges, he is a legend in his own lifetime. The recent film of his life was a critically acclaimed,...

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...

Tammy Cohen / Deadly Divorces

 You fall in love, you get married, and you build a lifetime's worth of dreams around each other. Then suddenly, it's gone - the past tainted, the present a living nightmare, the future wiped out. Divorce is the blade that cuts the still-beating...

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...

Anthony Galvin / The Cruellest Cut : Women Who Kill

   Women kill for the same reasons as men: greed, revenge, self-defence. They kill to get themselves out of embarrassing situations or to keep their dirty secrets hidden. But they also kill for more distinct reasons: to end abuse, to `protect'...