True Stories

Pieter Tritton / El Infierno: Drugs, Gangs, Riots and Murder: My Time Inside Ecuador's Toughest Prisons

“Gato’s head snapped back… We could make out the shots of several 9mms, a couple of 38s and one or two 45s. I hurled myself through the doorway and into the room. I didn’t look back.”Caught in an Ecuador hotel room with 8kg...

Miriam Hamilton / Sweet Caroline: A Mother's Journey; a Daughter's Survival Against All Odds

A moving and inspirational account of a mother's journey through a harrowing pregnancy and a year in the life of a very special little girl. From a positive pregnancy test, to life in the neonatal unit with a two pound preemie, to Caroline's first...

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...

Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind / The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

What went wrong with American business at the end of the 20th century? Until the spring of 2001, Enron epitomized the triumph of the New Economy. Feared by rivals, worshipped by investors, Enron seemingly could do no wrong. Its profits rose every...

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...

Chris Thrall / Eating Smoke

Chris Thrall left the Royal Marines to find fortune in Hong Kong, but following a bizarre series of jobs he ended up homeless and hooked on Crystal Meth. He began working for the 14K, the city's most notorious crime syndicate, as a nightclub doorman...

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...

Helena Drysdale / Looking for George

Travelling with friends through Romania in 1979, Helena Drysdale met George Cupar, an Orthodox poet/priest. They drank wine in Transylvanian forests and, avoiding the Securitate, camped together beneath the Carpathian moon. When she returned home, George...

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)...

John Harrison / Off the Map: The Call of the Amazonian wild

Until recent aerial surveys, the Guiana Highlands bordering Brazil were one of the few remaining unknown regions on Earth and were believed to house El Dorado and the fabled tribe of Amazon warrior women. The barrier of rapids pouring from the mountain...

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...

Denise Fergus / I Let Him Go

 On February 12, 1993, Denise Fergus' life changed forever. As she was running errands at New Strand Shopping Centre, she let go of her two-year-old son's hand for a few seconds to take out her purse. Denise never saw her son again. For the first...

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...

Sara Gay Forden / The House of Gucci - A True Story

 The sensational true story of murder, madness, glamour, and greed that shook the Gucci dynasty, now fully updated with a new afterword. On March 27, 1995, Maurizio Gucci, heir to the fabulous fashion dynasty, was slain by an unknown gunman as he...

Sheila Hocken / Emma Forever

 A touching and unique story of love and courage. This is Sheila Hocken's own story. A story of a young blind girl who sets out to fight for the right to live fully and to see again. Sheila's account of the events and people that transformed her...

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...

Janine di Giovanni / Madness Visible : A Memoir of War

 'A moving book by one of our generation's finest foreign correspondents' - Daily Telegraph 'A terrifying account, soberly written ... Presents a stunning portrait of the anarchy, cruelty and overwhelming confusion of contemporary wars' -...

Anthony Holden / Big Deal : One Year as a Professional Poker Player

 BIG DEAL is the mesmerising story of a year spent by bestselling biographer Anthony Holden in the tough world of the professional poker player. He spent days and nights in the poker paradise of Las Vegas, in Malta and Morocco, even shipboard,...

Nigel Cawthorne / Cults : The World's Most Notorious Cults

 The inside story of the world's most notorious cults. The strange and sinister world of cults is a source of endless fascination. Their secrets, rituals and shadowy hierarchies make for some of the most disturbing and shocking revelations in...

Beryl Markham / West With The Night

 WEST WITH THE NIGHT appeared on 13 bestseller lists on first publication in 1942. It tells the spellbinding story of Beryl Markham -- aviator, racehorse trainer, fascinating beauty -and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and 30s.Markham was taken...

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...

Bryan Perrett / The Taste of Battle

  Few people today experience a live war situation; even professional soldiers can serve their career without going to war. Yet the question is often asked, what is it like? How do combatants cope with the danger? How does a battle look to the...

Farida Khalaf / The Girl Who Escaped ISIS : Farida's Story

 Our world as it once wasIn August 2014, Farida was, like any ordinary teenager, enjoying the last days of summer before her final year at school. However, her peaceful mountain village in northern Iraq was an ISIS target as their genocide against...

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...

Anna Ruston / Secret Slave

 You're not going home. You're not going anywhere. You're mine now.Growing up in a deeply troubled family, 15-year-old Anna felt lost and alone in the world. So when a friendly taxi driver befriended her, Anna welcomed the attention, and agreed to...

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...

Roberto Canessa / I Had to Survive

 On 12 October 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the 'Old Christians' rugby team (and many of their friends and family members) crashed into the Andes mountains. I Had to Survive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of...

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...

Decca Aitkenhead / All at Sea

 Shortlisted for the 2017 PEN Ackerley Prize'The thing to remember about this story is that every word is true. If I never told it to a soul, and this book did not exist, it would not cease to be true. I don't mind at all if you forget this.The...

Seth Freedman / Binge Trading

  What is it like to make millions before you turn 20? What drives City traders to excess in their quest for extreme wealth? And what happens when they lose it all overnight? This is the first account of life in today's Square Mile, laying bare the...

Hugh Leddy / Down A Million On The Dole

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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...

Michael Simkins / Fatty Batter

  A fat boy with a passion for sweets and a loathing for games, the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter and a full-blown obsession is born. Now in middle-age, he still harbours the somewhat deluded...

Horace Greasley / Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?

 An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times...

Paul Aston / True Sea Stories

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Wherever You Are: The Military Wives

 From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their story moved millions.Here the wives tell their individual stories in full for the first time - true...

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...

Wendy Northcutt / The Darwin Awards III

  Just when you thought it was safe to leave the house...brand new DARWIN AWARDS, the bestselling humour series that honours those people who improve the human gene pool by inadvertently removing themselves from it in sublimely idiotic ways. The...

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...

Joe Jackson / A Furnace Afloat : The Wreck of the Hornet and the 4,300 Mile Voyage of its Survivors

  When an accident with an open oil lantern set the American clipper Hornet alight in 1866, the 31 passengers and crew were forced to abandon ship. Cast adrift in three small lifeboats, they had less than 10 days rations to share between them...

Various / Woman's Hour: From Joyce Grenfell to Sharon Osbourne

 Woman's Hour is one of Britain's greatest national institutions, entertaining millions of women (and men) since its first broadcast on 7 October 1946. For sixty years, the programme has championed the woman's perspective on topics such as health,...

Rita Harling / Do or Die : How I Survived Life with a Murderer

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Bear Grylls / True Grit

 Bear Grylls knows what it takes to survive. But he's not the first. Take the American bombardier Louis Zamperini, who survived 47 days stranded at sea by catching and killing hungry sharks and drinking the warm blood of albatrosses - only to be...

Maureen Orth / Vulgar Favours : The book behind the Emmy Award winning 'American Crime Story' about the man who murdered Gianni Versace

 A true story of dark forces that ended a colourful life. The basis for the Emmy Award winning American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace, a 10-part drama series on BBC2, starring Penelope Cruz and Ricky Martin, this is the...

Oliver Sacks / Awakenings

 'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - GuardianHailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various...

Kurt Eichenwald / The Informant

 From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes a gripping account of one of the most captivating and bizarre tales in the history of the FBI and corporate America. It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: Mark Whitacre, a senior...