True Stories

Peter Tyrrell - Founded on Fear ( Edited by Diarmuid Whelan) - PB

I warn society against the child who has been hurtPeter Tyrrell A tormented childhood in Letterfrack industrial school with the Christian Brothers left an enduring mark on Peter Tyrrell. Ignored by the authorities and distressed by his memories, he later...

Emily Hunt / We Need to Talk: The Truth About Sexual Violence and My Fight for Justice

Emily was in a restaurant, having lunch with her father – the next thing she remembers is waking up, naked, in a strange hotel room, next to a man she did not know.She suspected she had been drugged, raped and later found out she had been filmed...

Myrna Grant / Classic Real Life Stories : 3 Books in One

3 books in one: Vanya by Myrna Grant / Blood Brothers by Elias Chacour with David Hazard / Street-wise by John Goodfellow with Andy Butcher         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact...

Jeff Randall / Love Hurts: The True Story of a Life Destroyed

A few seconds ago, I wanted to die. Now I know the reality is I just don’t want to live. I never have from the moment I started falling, twenty-one and a half years ago. I’m alive. Shit. Jeff Randall originally wrote his memoir by hand,...

Robin Barratt / Bouncers and Bodyguards

"Bouncers and Bodyguards" is a collection of astonishing true stories about the tough world of personal protection and nightclub doors from some of Britain's most notorious figures. Read how Charlie Bronson helped his friends out on the doors of his...

Ray , Sean O'Riain / Condemned: Letters from Death Row

Condemned:Letters from Death Rowby "Ray" and Seán Ó Riain is a collection of letters between a former Cork teacher and a death row inmate that develops into a unique friendship-one thatis in itself a subtle, rallying cry against an American...

Donal MacIntyre & Karl Howman / A Million Ways to Stay on the Run

No criminal sparked as much fear and loathing among the public and law enforcement as underworld crime boss, Kenny Noye.A man with a central role in some of the most high-profile crimes of a generation. From the £125 million (current value)...

Toni Maguire / Please Protect Us

From No.1 bestselling author Toni Maguire comes a new true story of shame, silence, abuse and survival.'I have a very clear picture of the day Clive entered our lives. I can see him now as he walked into our living room, a tall man with a loud commanding...

Maggie Hartley / Nobody Loves Me

I'm very, very bad. I don't deserve to have nice things. Nobody loves me.'Three young siblings arrive at Maggie's door after being taken into care. Teachers of eight-year-old Bobby spotted distinct hand-shaped bruises on his arm and his dad and...

Emma Campbell / All That Followed ( A Story of Cancer, Kids and the fear of leaving too soon )

"A story of true maternal courage in the face of an onslaught of massive life challenges, Emma Campbell is an extraordinary woman. This is a deeply felt memoir about motherhood, survival and learning to live for whatever life throws at you." CLOVER...

Robin Jarossi & David Howard / Murder by the Sea - True Crime Stories from Sinister Shores

A true-crime companion to the hit CBS Reality television series Murder by the Sea. The book features ten cases from around Britain featured in past series. These include the 1953 case of Blackpool poisoner Louisa Merrifield, the Pembrokeshire serial...

Michael Litchfield / The Secret Life Of Freddie Mills: National Hero. Boxing Champion. Serial Killer

Seven young women, all murdered in the most disgusting manner imaginable. Unimaginable, in fact: a first of its kind, and never before explicitly revealed.All the victims were prostitutes. All were dumped naked after having been stored by their killer as...

Yeva Skalietska / You Don't Know What War Is - Diary of a Young Girl From Ukraine

 An important, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful memoir about the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war as told through the diary entries of a young Ukrainian girl.Yeva Skalietska’s story begins on her twelfth birthday in Kharkiv, where she has been...

Walter Kirn / Blood Will Out

 In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then a young novelist struggling with fatherhood and a dissolving marriage - set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from an animal shelter in Montana to the New York...

Bob Geldof / Geldof in Africa

 Musician Bob Geldof first visited Africa in 1984. The following year, Live Aid inspired a generation to raise millions for the starving in Africa. More than 20 years on, passion undiminished, Geldof returned to what he calls the Luminous Continent...

Donald H. Wolfe / The Assassination of Marilyn Monroe

 From the opening description of the lifeless body to the moment-by-moment account of her final days and hours, 'The Assassination of Marilyn Monroe' explores every myth concerning the remarkable life and tragic death of the world's most famous...

Maria Dore / One Born Every Minute : Real Stories from the Delivery Room

 ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE, Channel 4's Bafta-winning documentary series has been a critical and popular smash-hit.  In this wonderful book, midwives Maria Dore and Ros Bradbury look back over their careers and reveal the extraordinary...

Dorine V Reihill / Going Home : A Story of Survival

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Maurice B. Ahern / Dare to Run

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Robert Hoge / Ugly

 A real-life version of the movie WONDER. Published in multiple countries, including the USA. Robert Hoge was born with a tumour in the middle of his face, and legs that weren't much use. There wasn't another baby like him in the whole of...

Sam Butt / A Deadbeat Dad and the Bloody Pandas

 Truth sees no boundaries and sooner or later it comes out and expresses its need to be acknowledged. Relationships are needed and sustained throughout our lifespan and need sustenance through nurture, understanding and support. This incredible...

Louise Curtis / A Nurse's Story

 Moving, honest and inspiring - this is a nurse's true story of life in a busy A&E department during the Covid-19 crisis.Working in A&E is a challenging job but nurse Louise Curtis loves it. She was newly qualified as an advanced clinical...

Catherine Bailey / Fey's War

 **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize...

Sarah Turner / The Sober Revolution

 Do you count down the minutes to wine o'clock? You are not alone. When it comes to alcohol, plenty of people find it hard to exercise moderation and become stuck in a vicious cycle of blame, guilt and addiction.If you want to take back control and...

Erik Larson / Dead Wake : The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

 On 1 May 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. The passengers - including a record number of children and infants - were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around...

Ron Stallworth / Black Klansman

 * ADAPTED AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE BY SPIKE LEE* NOMINATED FOR SIX 2019 ACADEMY AWARDS & WINNER OF 'BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY' BAFTA* WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2018* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhat happens when a black...

Monty Roberts / Shy Boy

  From the author of The Man Who Listens to Horses -- a top bestseller -- comes the remarkable story of a wild horse. In The Man Who Listens to Horses, we learned about Monty Roberts' life and his amazing techniques for communicating with horses...

John OKane / Celtic Soccer Crew

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Gillian Tett / Fool's Gold

 'A truly gripping narrative . . . The fact that Tett is able to reproduce such raw private communications is a tribute to her journalistic abilities' Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times'Her blow-by-blow story is an impressive piece of detective work. She...

Eva Mozes Kor / The Twins of Auschwitz

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe Nazis spared their lives because they were twins.In the summer of 1944, Eva Mozes Kor and her family arrived at Auschwitz.Within thirty minutes, they were separated. Her parents and two older sisters were taken to the...

David E. Hoffman / The Billion Dollar Spy

 WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A...

Merryl Wyn Davies / Introducing Anthropology : A Graphic Guide

 Anthropology originated as the study of 'primitive' cultures. But the notion of 'primitive' exposes presumptions of 'civilized' superiority and the right of the West to speak for 'less evolved' others. With the fall of Empire, anthropology became...

Johnny Mercer / We Were Warriors

 Unflinching, action-packed and laced with wry humour, Johnny Mercer's We Were Warriors is a compelling read.'An adrenalin-fuelled, gritty story of heroism on the frontline in Afghanistan' - Andy McNabThe rounds were single shot from the same two...

Greg Child / Over the Edge

  Greg Child tells the true story of four climbers kidnapped by Islamic guerrillas in the mountains of Central Asia and their daring escape.       All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy...

Mark Urban / Task Force Black

 The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily MailSoon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse.Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a...

Adam Jowett / No Way Out

 A Sunday Times Bestseller, powerful, highly-charged and moving, No Way Out is Adam Jowett's tribute to the men of Easy Company who paid a heavy price for serving their country.'Fiercely immersive. Truly heroic.' - Tom Marcus, bestselling author of...

Suraya Sadeed / Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse

 Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything.Shocked by...

Jason Fox / Battle Scars : A Story of War and All That Follows

  ___________ THE EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. 'The most important book you'll ever read... Battle Scars will save lives.' TOM MARCUS, author of SOLDIER SPY Battle Scars tells the story of Jason Fox's career as an elite operator, from...

Clare Campbell / Dogs of Courage

 In Bonzo's War, Clare Campbell told the fascinating story of what it was like for Britain's pets when the world was at war. This time, she follows the incredible journey of the dogs who conscripted to fight for their country, with some even...

Stephen Matthews / The Day the Nazis Came Here

 By the time Stephen Matthews was six years old, he had been bombarded by the Luftwaffe and deported from Nazi-occupied Guernsey, along with his family, to a prison camp in the heart of Hitler's Third Reich. He had seen men die in front of him,...

Hugh Leddy / Down A Million On The Dole

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Jeremy Dronfield / The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz

 THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERDAILY MAIL & SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEARThe inspiring true story of a father and son's fight to stay together and survive the Holocaust, for anyone captivated by The Cut Out Girl and The Tattooist of...

Anne Wafula-Strike / In My Dreams I Dance

 They said it couldn't be done. But Anne Wafula achieved many remarkable things in her life. This is her incredible story.Struck down with polio at the age of two and a half, Anne overcame the prejudice rife in her native village in Kenya, where...

Paul Aston / True Sea Stories

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Ed Husain / The Islamist

 Ed Husain's The Islamist is the shocking inside story of British Islamic fundamentalism, told by a former radical.'When I was sixteen I became an Islamic fundamentalist. Five years later, after much emotional turmoil, I rejected fundamentalist...

Paddy Hayes / Break-Out!

  In 1940 German prisoner of war Hans Marschner managed to saw his way out of Mountjoy, only to be recaptured; in 1943 a young girl eating breakfast was surprised by twenty-one men emerging in her coal shed from the tunnel that had brought them...

Callie Blackwell / The Boy in 7 Billion

 Deryn Blackwell is a walking, talking miracle.At the age of 10, he was diagnosed with Leukaemia.Then, 18 months later, he developed another rare form of cancer called Langerhan's cell sarcoma. Only five other people in the world have it. He is the...

Julie Shaw / My Mam Shirley

 Behind the notorious Hudson men who dominated the Canterbury Estate for over 30 years were the girls, and my mam Shirley. Whether marrying into or determined to escape from it, the third instalment of this gritty series recounts the incredible...

Sarbjit Kaur Athwal / Shamed

 In 1998, Sarbjit Athwal was called by her husband to attend a family meeting. It looked like just another family gathering. An attractive house in west London, a large dining room, two brothers, their mother, one wife. But the subject they were...

Ben Fogle / The Crossing

 'Read this... Two very different men fight, play games and nearly lose their lives.' The TimesWhen James Cracknell and Ben Fogle decided to compete in the Atlantic Rowing Race, they thought they knew what awaited them: nearly three thousand miles...

Surendra Verma / The Cause of Mosquitoes' Sorrow

  This book features quirky, enjoyable and entirely true instances of science going wrong, right and in totally unexpected directions from 600 BC onwards ...Just how did the scientific discoveries that have changed our world come about? Surendra...

Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Antarctic Journeys

  The very best writing on the Antarctic, from James Cook's eighteenth-century assertion that 'no man will ever venture further than I have done' to Lynne Cox's description of her epic, icy swim in the twenty-first century - 32 first-hand...