True Stories

The World's Greatest Mistakes

A collection of true accounts of mistakes down the ages, ranging from the funny to the tragic and the farcical.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...

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about the beatings she regularly received from her father or about the boys who made her play dirty games, she became withdrawn and...

Julia Romp / A Friend Like Ben: A Mother Desperate for Love. A Little Boy Unable to Show it. The Cat That Brought Them Together.

The heart-warming true story of a little boy and the cat that changed his life. Nine year old George was severely autistic; quiet and withdrawn, he appeared lost in his own world most of the time. His mother Julia despaired, but try as she might she...

Karen Levine / Hana's Suitcase

In 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan, marked Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, and "Waisenkind"--the German word for orphan. In a suspenseful journey, Fumiko, the center's curator, searches for...

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...

Mark Bowden / Black Hawk Down

Already winning acclaim as one of the best accounts of combat ever written, Black Hawk Down is a minute-by-minute, heart-stopping account of the 1993 raid on Mogadishu, Somalia. Late in the afternoon of Sunday, October 3 1993, 140 elite US Soldiers...

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...

Paul Williams / Crime Wars

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Ross Kemp / Gangs

Across the world millions of people are members of street gangs. In groups they fight, stab, rob, rape and murder anyone who isn't one of their own. And when rival gangs meet; what you get is warfare.Ross Kemp, whose dad was a copper and taught him...

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...

Laura Hillenbrand / Unbroken

The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie.THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERIn 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Against all odds, one young lieutenant survives. Louise Zamperini...

The World's Greatest Crooks and Conmen

It's often true that the bad guys are more interesting than the good guys, and this collection offers true stories about great crooks of history, from the brave to the cowardly and from the brutal to the ingenious. This title is part of a series of...

John Mooney / The Torso in the Canal: The Inside Story on Ireland's most Grotesque

John Mooney's controversial new book explores the horrific killing and dismemberment of Kenyan immigrant Farah Swaleh Noor by Dublin sisters Linda and Charlotte Mulhall, dubbed the `Scissor Sisters' by the media.Noor's dismembered body was...

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...

William Marsden / Angels of Death: Inside the Bikers' Global Crime Empire

The Hell's Angels leader, Sonny Barger, is toasted as an American legend, and the bikers work hard to promote their folk-hero image.But the facts tell another story. The Hell's Angels are America's major crime export. Their membership has...

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...

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...

Barry Cummins / Missing Without Trace in Ireland

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Justine Picardie / If the Spirit Moves You

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Donal Ruane / Tales in a Rearview Mirror

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Bryan Burrough / Public Enemy

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Nando Parrado / Miracle in the Andes

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David M. Kiely / Bloody Women

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Ann Ming / For the Love of Julie

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James Sallis / Moth

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Paul Williams / Crime Lords

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Neil Strauss / The Rules of the Game

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Judy Hamilton / Scottish Murders

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Nia Wyn / Blue Sky July

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Imogen Edwards Jones / Fashion Babylon

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Dawn Annadale / Call Me Elizabeth

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Ben MacIntyre / Agent Zigzag

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Lorenzo Carcaterra / Sleepers

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Sgt Dan Mills / Sniper One

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Jack Higgins / Flight of Eagles

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James Bland / The Complete True Crime Diaries

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Kate Summerscale / The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher Or The Murder At Hill House

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Sebastian Junger / A Perfect Storm

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Jack Higgins / Night Of The Fox

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Ben MacIntyre / Operation Mincemeat

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Ben Mezrich / 21 Bringing Down the House

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Andy McNab / Immediate Action

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