True Stories

Elie Wiesel / Night (Hardback)

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death...

Norman Cousins / Anatomy of an illness as perceived by the patient (Large Paperback)

The basic theme of this book is that every person must accept a certain measure of responsibility for his or her own recovery from disease or disability. This notion of patient responsibility is not...

Spike Milligan / Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (Older Edition Small Paperback)

Volume one of Spike Milligan's legendary memoirs is a hilarious, subversive first-hand account of WW2 'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express 'Close...

David Reynolds / In Command of History

Churchill fought the war twice over - as Prime Minister and again as its premier historian. In 1948-54 he published six volumes of memoirs which secured his reputation and shaped our understanding of...

Andrew Williams / D-Day to Berlin (Hardback)

"D-Day to Berlin is the story of the Allied struggle for survival - the battle from the beaches of Normandy to the heart of Hitler's Reich and ultimate victory just eleven months later." "The...

Paul Brickhill / Great Escape (Older Edition Small Paperback)

The famous story of mass escape from a WWII German PoW camp that inspired the classic filmOne of the most famous true stories from the last war, The Great Escape tells how more than six hundred men...

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...

Dónal Gallagher with Jamie Dickson - Edged in Blue : A Rock ‘n’ Roll Odyssey with Rory Gallagher - BRAND NEW

Edged in Blue: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Odyssey with Rory Gallagher To be published by Red Stripe Press, 25th September 2026.  ( Delivery within Ireland is included in the price) RORY GALLAGHER was the...

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...

Alan Bradley - Unmasking Samantha Cookes - The Many Lives of a Serial Fraudster - PB - BRAND NEW

She seemed like the perfect nanny. Until she vanished – and the truth emerged. Unmasking Samantha Cookes is a chilling true story of a master manipulator who spent more than a decade reinventing...

Brendan Power - From the Heart of Ireland - PB - 2003

Originally published to benefit the Laura's Hope chaity for Huntington's Disease Research, this is a collection of short true stories and biographical pieces by a host of broadcasters, authors,...

Robin Schiller & Pat Marry / The Ice House Murder (Large Paperback)

The Killing of Irene White The Ice House Murder: The Killing of Irene White is a true-crime book by former Garda detective Pat Marry and journalist Robin Schiller, detailing the 2005 murder of...

Mike Timms - To Walk The Way - One Pilgrim's Camino - PB - BRAND NEW

TO WALK THE WAY : One Pilgrim’s Camino by Mike Timms (March 2026)€17.95Mike Timms has always been a wanderer – into the bundu ('back of beyond') as a child in 1950s Kenya, around Dublin during his...

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...

Barry Cummins - Buried Secrets : The Murder of Tina Satchwell and a Journalist’s Journey into Ireland’s Most Chilling Cold Case - PB - BRAND NEW

In March 2017, Tina Satchwell vanished from her home in Youghal, County Cork. For six and a half years, her disappearance remained one of Ireland’s most haunting mysteries. Her husband Richard...

Ellen Coyne - Dirty Dancing : The Inside Story of the Irish Dancing Cheating Scandal - PB - BRAND NEW

From the outside, Irish dancing seems like a wholesome world of dazzling costumes, intricate footwork and groomed hair. The sport and art form, made world-famous by the smash hit Riverdance, is an...

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

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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

J.P O'Sullivan / Veil of Silence : - How the Irish State Covered Up an IRA Murder and Framed a Garda Whistleblower PB - BRAND NEW

In 1985 John Corcoran, a Garda informer within the ranks of the Cork IRA, was exposed and brutally executed by militant republicans. No one has ever been charged. For decades, speculation was rife...

Patricia Ingle / I Am Free (Large Paperback)

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...

Breda O'Toole & Tony Bates - Unseen : A Memoir - BRAND NEW

From a childhood shaped by neglect and violence to three brutal years spent in a cold, indifferent convent, Breda O'Toole's early life was marked by abandonment. When she sought help, she entered a...

Fergus Farrell - Rebuilding a Man - BRAND NEW

When Fergus Farrell suffered a spinal cord injury in October 2018, doctors gave him a zero per cent chance of walking again. What followed was a journey marked by an overwhelming sense of failure and...

Suzy Byrne - P.S Gay : More Letters and Memories from the Gay Byrne Show- BRAND NEW

A nostalgic look back at stories that mattered through correspondence with the iconic Gay Byrne RTE radio show.Dear Gay was an instant bestseller when it was published in 2023. PS Gay brings readers...

Nicola Hanney - Stronger - BRAND NEW - PB

Standard format PAPERBACK - BRAND NEW,  September 2025  In 2017, against all odds, Nicola Hanney survived a terminal cancer diagnosis and marched on to live life. When she matched with Garda Paul...

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

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Steven Travers - The Bass Player : Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre - PB - BRAND NEW

Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life...

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

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Robin Barratt / Bouncers and Bodyguards

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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...

Martin Dillon - The Sorrow and the Loss: The Tragic Shadow Cast by the Troubles on the Lives of Women - BRAND NEW

Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Martin Dillon returns to shine a light on the role of women in the Troubles, amplifying voices long silenced by the din of history. Through raw and...

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...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of Central Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2023 ( Murder Most Local - Book 6 )

This is the 6th book in the Murder Most Local Series of County Cork. This covers all the remaining county From Ballincollig to Mallow, Glanmire to Fermoy and everywhere in between. Like the books for...

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...

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...

Megan Phelps-Roper - Unfollow - AS NEW COPY

 LOUIS THEROUX: 'For anyone who enjoyed Hillbilly Elegy or Educated, Unfollow is an essential text'NICK HORNBY: 'A beautiful, gripping book about a singular soul, and an unexpected redemption'JON...

Heather Morris - Stories of Hope - HARDBACK -

The Tattooist of Auschwitz is one of the bestselling books of the 21st Century.Now, in this essential companion, Heather Morris presents an inspiring manual for life, with a series of tales of the...

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...

Heather Morris / Stories of Hope : Finding Inspiration in Everyday Lives (Hardback)

In Stories of Hope, Heather Morris takes us on an inspirational journey through some of the defining experiences of her life, including her profound friendship with Lale Sokolov, the tattooist at...

Nicola Hanney - Stronger - BRAND NEW

PAPERBACK - BRAND NEW,  2024. In 2017, against all odds, Nicola Hanney survived a terminal cancer diagnosis and marched on to live life. When she matched with Garda Paul Moody on a dating app, she...

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...