True Stories

The World's Greatest Crimes of Passion

This book tells the stories of crimes committed in the frenzies and frustrations of love - violent and tragic endings to a love story that has gone wrong. Passion, jealousy, revenge, and despair are the themes, and the eternal triangle is often the...

Paul Russell / Darkness Descending: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

It was a brutal murder, and the trial of the decade. On 1 November 2007, 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher was slaughtered in cold blood in the apartment in Perugia, Italy, that she shared with three other girls. Two bright young people,...

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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Jon Ronson / Them: Adventures with Extremists

THEM began as a book about different kinds of extremists, but after Jon had got to know some of them -- Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen -- he found that they had one oddly similar belief: that a tiny, shadowy elite rule the world...

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...

Kathy O'Beirne / Kathy's Story: A Childhood Hell Inside the Magdalen Laundries (Large Paperback)

Kathy O'Beirne's earliest memories are of being battered and sexually abused. Unable to confide in anyone about the beatings she regularly received from her father or about the boys who made her play dirty games, she became withdrawn and...

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...

Martha Long / Ma Now I'm Goin Up in the World (Large Paperback)

In the latest instalment of Martha Long's autobiography, Ma, Now I'm Goin Up in the World, her story continues through her teenage years. At 16, Martha collapses on the streets, suffering from starvation, exposure and absolute exhaustion. She has...

Jean Sasson / Desert Royal

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Dominick Dunne / Justice

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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...

Paul Britton / The Jigsaw Man

Forensic psychologist Paul Britton asks himself four questions when he is faced with a crime scene: what happened: who is the victim: how was it done, and why? Only when he has the answers to these questions can he address the fifth: who is...

Ann Rule / Empty Promises: and Other True Cases

Ann Rule brilliantly dissects the convoluted love affairs that all too often end in violence in this unnerving collection drawn from her personal crime files. From traditional courtships to Internet relationships, the passions that rule the heart can...

Niamh O'Connor / Cracking Crime

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Barry Cummins / Unsolved

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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...

Sarah (ed.) Webb / Travelling Light

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Nancy Jo Sales / The Bling Ring

Published alongside the 2013 film The Bling Ring, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Emma Watson, this is the explosive true story of the seven celebrity-obsessed teens who became the most audacious burglary gang in Hollywood history.It’s 19...

Paul Reynolds / King Scum: Life and Crimes of Tony Felloni, Dublin's Heroin Boss

Despite being HiV positive, Felloni is getting better treatment in prison than he would get on the outside. This hasn't stopped him trying to get out. He appealed unsuccessfully to the Court of Criminal Appeal, but the court dismissed his plea, so...

Abraham Verghese / The Tennis Partner

When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unravelling, relocates to Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at a county hospital.There he meets David Smith, a medical student recovering from a drug addiction, and the two men...

Paul Williams / Crime Wars

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Emer Connolly / Lying Eyes

In July 2008 Sharon Collins, a housewife and mother-of-two from Ennis, Co. Clare, was found guilty of soliciting Egyptian poker dealer Essam Eid to kill her partner PJ Howard and his two sons so she could inherit his estimated wealth of 60 million. The...

Imogen Edwards-Jones / Hotel Babylon

Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in. Even if in real life they are perfectly well-mannered, decent people with proper balanced relationships, as soon as they spin through the revolving hotel doors the normal rules of behaviour no...

Mark Bowden / Killing Pablo

The bestselling blockbusting story of how American Special Forces hunted down and assassinated the head of the world's biggest cocaine cartel.Killing Pablo charts the rise and spectacular fall of the Columbian drug lord, Pablo Escobar, the richest and...

Gene Kerrigan / This Great Little Nation: An A-Z of Irish Scandals

From Ansbacher to Zoe, from Locke to Lowry, from a sex/murder scandal of the 1920s to the banking scandals of the 1990s. AIB, NIB, Littlejohn, Lenihan, Mary Robinson and Russell Murphy. Magdalen laundries and clerical sex abuse, ministerial pensions and...

Shane Dunphy / Crying in the Dark

She lost control of the tears. 'Oh God, help me. Please help me. I can't do this any more.' I put my arms around her and let her cry. The sobs wracked her small frame as nearly fourteen years of pain and loss finally bubbled to the surface...

Allan Hall / Monster

On 28 August 1984, Josef Fritzl drugged his teenage daughter with ether and imprisoned her in an underground bunker behind eight locked doors. Over the following twenty-four years, he raped and abused her, never letting her or the children she bore him...

Paul Howard / The Joy: Mountjoy Jail. The Shocking, True Story of Life Inside

One man's story of life in The Joy -- compulsive, chilling and frank.A no-holds-barred account of a criminal's time in the notorious Dublin prison, as revealed to journalist Paul Howard. This extraordinary life story tells it all.The desperate...

Wendy Northcutt / The Darwin Awards: The Official Darwin Awards

One of the best known and most frequently visited web sites is the Darwin Awards web site. Practically everyone who is on the net has received a Darwin story in their e-mail at one time or another. It is one of those legendary sites which has become part...

Paul Williams / Evil Empire: John Gilligan, His Gang and the Execution of Journalist Veronica Guerin

This is the chilling chronicle of John Gilligan, Ireland's most ruthless godfather. Gilligan thought himself untouchable and above the law-until his gang crossed the line by executing crime reporter Veronica Guerin. The full measure of Gilligan's...

Michael Asher / The Real Bravo Two Zero

'Bravo Two Zero' was the code-name of the famous SAS operation: a classic story of bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. BRAVO TWO ZERO by patrol commander 'Andy McNab' became an international bestseller, as did the book by 'Chris...

Vincent Bugliosi / Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

The true story behind the most infamous mass murder case ever and its perpetrator, the notorious criminal Charles Manson.On August 9th 1969, seven people were found shot, stabbed and bludgeoned to death in Los Angeles. America watched in fascinated...

Barry Cummins / Missing Without Trace in Ireland

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Mark Brandon Read / Chopper

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Bill Buford / Among the Thugs

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Allan Hall / Captive

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Donal Ruane / Tales in a Rearview Mirror

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John van de Ruit / Spud

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Nando Parrado / Miracle in the Andes

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Paul Reynolds / Sex in the City: The Prostitution Racket in Ireland

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Paul Williams / The Untouchables

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David M. Kiely / Bloody Women

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Michael Crichton / Five Patients

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Ann Rule / You Belong to Me

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Jack Crossley / You Really Couldn't Make It Up

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