True Stories

Zoe Holohan / As the Smoke Clears (Large Paperback)

 On 23 July 2018, in the seaside town of Mati in Greece, Zoe Holohan and her husband of four days were enjoying the beginning of their honeymoon. Then disaster struck. Unprecedented wildfires swept...

Nicola Tallant / The Witness (Large Paperback)

 'A superb book... Joey's story is extraordinary and its authenticity and relevance to the times we're living in is stunning' Eamon Dunphy'Gritty, terrifying and the most incredible true gangland...

Nick Foster / Murder at Roaringwater (Large Paperback)

 Murder at Roaringwater is the inside story of the final days of young Frenchwoman, Sophie Toscan du Plantier. This is a violent, unresolved murder, where the victim seemed to have a premonition of...

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...

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...

Judith Tebbutt / A Long Walk Home (Large Paperback)

 This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away from the life I knew and loved, and dragged down to the depths of despair; of how I endured enforced...

Stanley Stewart / Emergency (Large Paperback)

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Patrick Holohan / Hooligan (Large Paperback)

 When Paddy Holohan discovered mixed martial arts as a teenager, it was the first time his life settled into something approaching focus. Far removed from the chaos of the outside world, every bout...

John Spencer / The Encyclopedia of the World's Greatest Unsolved Mysteries (Hardback)

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Deborah E. Lipstadt / Denial : Holocaust History on Trial (Large Paperback)

  In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called David Irving, a prolific writer of books on World War II, "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial...

Barry O'Halloran - Lost Innocence : The Inside Story of the Kerry Babies Mystery - PB

Paperback, 2007, first published 1985 ( shortly after the events it describes) Barry O'Halloran was an RTE reporter with Today Tonight.  Heavy age spotting to page block edges.  The Kerry Babies case...

Tom Seigrest / SAS Warlord

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Kirk Wilson / Investigating Murder (Hardback)

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Phil Hewitt / Outrunning the Demons : Lives Transformed through Running (Large Paperback)

 THE RUNNING AWARDS - BEST CHRISTMAS BOOKHope through running...Running can take us to fantastic places. Just as importantly, it can also bring us back from terrible ones. For people in times of...

Brendan Power / From the Heart of Ireland (Large Paperback)

  This unique collection boasts a wide range of contributors drawn from the four corners of Ireland. Some are well-known as broadcasters, politicians, writers and journalists; others are...

Ronald Blythe / The View in Winter (Large Paperback)

  'The View in Winter' is a timeless and moving study of the perplexities of living to a great age, as related by a wide range of men and women: miners, villagers, doctors, teachers, craftsmen,...

Yeonmi Park / In Order To Live

 'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even...

Colm Keane / The Distant Shore : More Irish Stories from the Edge of Death (Large Paperback)

  The Distant Shore is packed with a wealth of new Irish stories about life after death. Extraordinary accounts of what happens when we die are featured throughout. Reunions with deceased...

Tom Lochhaas / Treacherous Waters (Large Paperback)

 A small sailboat pitchpoles in the violent waters near Cape Horn; the husband-and-wife crew face a weeks-long struggle to stay afloat and survive aboard the damaged craft. A sailor miscalculates the...

Caitlin McBride / The Day That Changed My Life (Hardback)

 Stories to inspire.Stories to connect.Extraordinary moments in which women's lives changed forever.Exhilarating, heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring, The Day That Changed My Life is a remarkable...

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...

Kathleen O'Keeffe / The Power of One (Large Paperback)

  In 2002, Elaine Bannon took a working holiday in Kenya. There, her experience as a volunteer not only changed the lives of the semi-nomadic Maasai people with whom she worked, but changed her...

Mukhtar Mai / In The Name Of Honour (Large Paperback)

  Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for...

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...

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...

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'...

Asne Seierstad / Two Sisters (Large Paperback)

 One morning in October 2013, nineteen-year-old Ayan Juma and her sixteen-year-old sister Leila left their family home in Oslo. Later that day they sent an email to their parents. 'Peace, God's mercy...

Aron Ralston / Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Hardback)

  The unforgettable survival story of the year -- the astonishing, day-by-day account of Aron Ralston's terrible accident, self-amputation, rescue and recovery. On Saturday, 26 April 2003, Aron...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ronan Farrow / Catch and Kill (Large Paperback)

 In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the...

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...

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...

Brian OConnell / The Personals (Hardback)

 The Personals reveals how classified ads are not just a few commercial lines of text in print or online - they can be a treasure trove of fascinating human stories; stories of love, loss,...

Gareth Greaves / My Hero Theo (Hardback)

 'I'd been in so many scrapes with Theo and he'd always saved me. Those days were the hardest of my life so far and ... at the darkest point, those big brown eyes and that torn ear where I needed...

Chris Hunter / Eight Lives Down (Large Paperback)

 "If fate is against me and I'm killed, so be it, but make it quick and painless. If I'm wounded, don't let me be crippled. But above all don't let me fuck up the task" So goes the bomb technician's...

Rose McGowan / Brave (Large Paperback)

 'My life, as you will read, has taken me from one cult to another. BRAVE is the story of how I fought my way out of these cults and reclaimed my life. I want to help you do the same.' -Rose McGowanA...

Wendy Northcutt / The Darwin Awards 4 : Intelligent Design (Hardback)

  With over 100 all-new award winners, this hilarious collection of terminal mishaps will amuse and amaze all who read it. Who can forget the tale of the parachute jump instructor who jumped out...

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...

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...

Emma Brockes / She Left Me the Gun (Large Paperback)

  When Emma Brockes was ten years old, her mother said 'One day I will tell you the story of my life and you will be amazed.' Growing up in a tranquil English village, Emma knew very little of her...

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...

Enda OCoineen / Journey To The Edge (Large Paperback)

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Kate Dooher / I'Ve Got Cancer, but it Hasn't Got Me (Large Paperback)

  Demystifies the world of cancer and offers a sense of companionship. It empowers the reader to take ownership of her situation and encourages her not to define herself by the cancer...

Stewart McKinney / Roars from the Back of the Bus (Large Paperback)

 After the memorial service for legendary England number 8 Andy Ripley, where he saw so many friends from rugby, Stewart McKinney decided to compile a selection of stories from players who have been...

Graham McCann / Spike & Co (Large Paperback)

 This is the story of how four people, grouped together inside a set of offices five floors above a greengrocer's shop on Shepherd's Bush Green in West London, launched a golden age of British comedy...

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...

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...

The Secret Barrister : Stories of the Law and How It's Broken (Hardback)

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWinner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction AwardShortlisted for Waterstones Book of the YearShortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year'Eye-opening, damning...