True Stories

Edward T. Hart / Britain's Godfather

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Sandra Gregory / Forget you had a Daughter - Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton (Large Paperback)

Sandra Gregory seemed to have the perfect life in Bangkok - until illness, unemployment and political unrest turned it into a nightmare. Desperate to get home by any means possible, she agreed to...

Michael Baden / Dead Reckoning : The New Science of Catching Killers (Large Paperback)

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Sebastian Junger / The Perfect Storm (Large Paperback)

October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse...

John Grisham / Framed (Large Paperback)

Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions Jim McCloskey All the cases in th

John O'Driscoll / On Duty (Hardback)

On Duty: Reflections on a Life in the Guards  

Sonia Nazario / Enrique's Journey (Large Paperback)

A true story from award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounting the odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States.In this astonishing true...

Dennis N.T. Perkins / Into the Storm (Hardback)

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Gita Mehta / Karma Cola (Large Paperback)

A wry account of the quest for spiritual enlightenment that caused many people from the consumer societies of the West to go to India and seek fulfiment in the teachings and practices of Hinduism.  ...

Edward White / A Terrible Secret (Large Paperback)

The horrific true story of one child’s journey from Hell and her 30 year battle for justice

Mark McCrum / Walking With The Wounded (Large Paperback)

The Incredible Story of Britain's Bravest Warriors and the Challenge of a Lifetime This is an extraordinary story. Four soldiers, each a hero of recent conflict

Patricia Ingle / I Am Free (Large Paperback)

 

Pat Marry / Murder at Lordship (Large Paperback)

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Catherine Sanz/ Drama Drives Interest - The Web Summit Story (Large Paperback)

The first definitive account of one of Ireland’s most controversial business stories Founded in 2009 by the enigmatic Paddy Cosgrave, Web Summit started as a 150-person meet up in Dublin. Within a...

Oliver Sacks - Awakenings ( Vintage Picador PB - 1982)

 '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...

Richard B. Pelzer / A Brother's Journey : Surviving a childhood of Abuse (Large Paperback)

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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,...

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

3 books in one:

Robin Barratt / Bouncers and Bodyguards

"Bouncer

Gulbahar Haitiwaji, Rozenn Morgat / How I Survived a Chinese Re-education Camp: A Uyghur Woman's Story (Hardback)

FIRST MEMOIR ABOUT CHINA'A ‘RE-EDUCATION’ CAMPS BY A UYGHUR WOMANSince 2017, one million Uyghurs have been seized by the Chinese authorities and sent to ‘re-education’ camps, in what the US...

Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Large Paperback)

One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery...

Jackie Hayden / In Their Own Words - Coping With Rape and Sexual Abuse (Large Paperback)

In Their Own Words – Coping with Rape and Sexual Abuse ( 2003) is based on more than 30 frank and moving interviews with survivors of abuse and rape and others whose work and lives are deeply...

Michael P. Ghiglieri , Thomas M. Myers / Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon (Large Paperback)

Gripping accounts of all known fatal mishaps in the most famous of the World's Seven Natural Wonders.Two veterans of decades of adventuring in Grand Canyon chronicle the first complete and...

Ivy Bannister / Blunt Trauma: After the Fall of Flight 111 (Large Paperback)

On September 2, 1998, a fire in the cockpit sent Swissair Flight 111 plunging into the sea off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 men, women and children on board perished, including Ivy Bannister's...

Dorothy Firman , Kevin Quirk / Brace For Impact: Miracle on the Hudson. Survivors share their stories of near death and hope for new life. (Large Paperback)

What Passengers of Flight 1549 Want Others to Know About Second Chances"Brace for impact." Three simple words that proclaimed to all 150 passengers on board US Airways Flight 1549 on that cold, crisp...

Ben Mezrich / Sex on the Moon (Large Paperback)

Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA programme had an idea - a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally. Thad convinced his girlfriend and another...

Jill Homer / Ghost Trails (Large Paperback)

Most sports become inspirational when extraordinary people excel at ordinary things. In ultra-endurance racing, ordinary people must excel at extraordinary things. "Ghost Trails" is the true story of...

John Vaillant / The Golden Spruce : A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

On a bleak winter night in 1997, a British Columbia timber scout named Grant Hadwin committed an act of shocking violence: he destroyed the legendary Golden Spruce of the Queen Charlotte Islands...

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...

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...

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...

Carolyn Savage, Sean Savage / Inconceivable: A Medical Mistake, the Baby We Couldn't Keep, and Our Choice to Deliver the Ultimate Gift (Hardback)

A medical mistake during an IVF procedure. An unthinkable situation . . . you’re pregnant with the wrong baby. You can terminate, but you can’t keep him. What choice would you make? Carolyn and Sean...

Conor Grennan / Little Princes : One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal (Hardback)

The riveting story of Conor Grennan's year in Nepal reads like a cross between Into Thin Air and Three Cups of Tea. While volunteering at an orphanage, Conor discovers that the children are not they...

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...

Lily Collison, Kara Buckley / Pure Grit: Stories of Remarkable People Living with Physical Disability (Large Paperback)

“A must-read”—Julie Dussliere, Chief of Paralympic Sport, U.S. Olympic & Paralympic CommitteeNineteen people from across the globe, ranging in age from twenty to seventy-plus, tell their stories of...

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...

Tracey Corbett Lynch / Loss and What it Taught Me About Living: A memoir of love, grief, hope and healing (Large Paperback)

‘In my life, I’ve lost a twin, had an adored sister-in-law suffer a fatal asthma attack at just 31, my brother was murdered, a cherished brother-in-law died in his 40s and then, just when I thought I...

Shirley Hardy-Rix & Brian Rix / Two for the Road (Large Paperback)

In 2003 Melbourne couple Shirley Hardy-Rix and husband Brian Rix fulfilled a lifelong ambition of Motorcycling across the world.In an incredible 350 day journey, they would do everything they'd ever...

Tim Doyle / Get Up Them Steps (Large Paperback)

A memoir of the author's experiences serving with the Garda Síochána, the national police agency of the Republic of Ireland. His second book on the subject, the first being Peaks and Valleys...

Danny Ellis / The Boy at the Gate (Large Paperback)

Danny Ellis was a survivor, strong and resilient. A successful singer/songwriter, he was proud of the way he'd 'handled' his painful past: the grinding poverty of the 1950s Dublin slums, and the...

Charles Kuralt / Charles Kuralt's American Moments (Large Paperback)

The beloved late journalist offers a collection of short studies of some of the colorful, fascinating, and extraordinary characters he met during his joyous odyssey into the heart of America. Reprint...

Mark Beaumont / The Man Who Cycled the World (Large Paperback)

On 15 February 2008, Mark Beaumont pedalled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. 194 days and 17 hours previously, he had set off from Paris in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in record time...

Michael Smith / Icebound In The Arctic: The Mystery of Captain Francis Crozier and the Franklin Expedition (Large Paperback)

Captain Francis Crozier was a major figure in 19th century Arctic and Antarctic exploration who led the doomed Franklin Expedition’s battle to survive against the odds. It is a compelling story which...

Jamie Andrew / Life and Limb (Hardback)

Jamie Andrew's rescue after five nights trapped by a ferocious storm on Mont Blanc has passed into Alpine legend; his survival was miraculous - but his close friend died in his arms and Jamie himself...

Cathy Glass / An Innocent Baby: Why would anyone abandon little Darcy-May?

When foster carer, Cathy Glass, is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, she is very concerned. The baby is coming to her straight from hospital and will have no contact with her teenage...

Raynor Winn / The Wild Silence (Hardback)

The follow-up to The Salt Path.Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After walking 630 homeless miles along The Salt Path, living on the windswept and wild English coastline; the...

Patricia Atkinson / La Belle Saison: Living Off the Land in Rural France (Hardback)

 In The Ripening Sun , the author wrote about the trials and pleasures of developing a vineyard in France. Now she turns her hand to telling stories of life from the village of which she has become...

Ranulph Fiennes / Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know: The Autobiography (Hardback)

 Ranulph Fiennes has traveled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on earth. In the process he nearly died on several occasions, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite, and raised...

Paula Guildea / It's Now We're Friends: A mother's desperate journey, to fulfil her son's dying wish (Large Paperback)

 A heartbreaking tale of a mother's will to grant her dying son's last wish. Aine and Sean had a strained relationship, just like any other mother and her teenage son. But a fatal illness pushes the...

Somaly Mam / Road Of Lost Innocence (Large Paperback)

 The Road of Lost Innocence' is a moving account of a traumatic childhood and also the inspirational story of a determined and courageous woman devoted to helping other girls caught up in the illegal...

Niamh McAnally / Flares Up: A Story Bigger than the Atlantic (Large Paperback)

 Flares Up is the true story of adventure, tenacity and the capacity of the human spirit to triumph over adversity!Firefighter Paul Hopkins, 55, survives a brain hemorrhage. The experience motivates...

David Enrich / The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Maths Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History (Large Paperback)

 In 2006, an oddball group of bankers, traders and brokers from some of the largest financial institutions made a startling realization: Libor—the London interbank offered rate, which determines the...