True Stories

Dosis Pilkington / Rabbit-proof Fence

   Three mixed-race Australian girls, having been taken from their Aboriginal families, escape and return home on foot, without supplies or gear, while trying to evade recapture, in an account based on a true story.   All of our books...

Gerry O'Carroll / The Sheriff : A Detective's Story (Large Paperback)

   Since Gerry O'Carroll joined Ireland's Garda in the early 1970s, there has been much bloodshed and plenty of controversy. As one of the force's most distinguished detective inspectors, he has seen his fair share of both. Following his first...

Tom Marcus / Soldier Spy (Large Paperback)

   AN INSIDER'S ACCOUNT OF WHAT IT TAKES TO KEEP YOU SAFEExtraordinarily visceral, nail-biting and hard hitting SOLDIER SPY is his ground-level account of what is what it takes to protect us, and the terrible toll it can exact on those who do...

Souad / Burned Alive (Large Paperback)

   When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one's family and was punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of...

Yvonne Kinsella / Living with Murder

   Living with Murder also provides readers with an in-depth analysis of murder from a Forensic Psychology perspective. Where does the urge to kill come from? Is it genetic, hormonal, biological, or cultural conditioning? Do killers, rapists,...

Bear Grylls / True Grit (Large Paperback)

    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 -...

John Busby / The Year We Disappeared : A Father - Daughter Memoir

   When Cylin Busby was nine years old, she was obsessed with the Muppets and her pet turtle. Then everything changed. Her police officer father, John, was driving to work when someone levelled a shotgun at his window. The blasts that followed...

James Durney / The 100 Kilo Case : The True Story of an Irish Ex-NYPD Detective Protected by the Mafia, and one of the Most Infamous Drug Busts in New York City (Large Paperback)

   Peter Daly was nineteen when he left Donegal, bound for America. Nine years later, in 1961, following a stint with the US Army, he joined the New York Police Department.His beat was the Lower East Side of Manhattan during one of the worst...

Billy Connolly / Journey to the Edge of the World

   Billy tells us the gripping story of his adventures in some of the remotest parts of the world.In the summer of 2008 Billy Connolly set sail on a ten-week journey from ocean to ocean: from the Atlantic to the Pacific, by way of the North...

James Patterson / Home Sweet Murder

   Two true-crime cases from the hit TV series Murder is ForeverHOME SWEET MURDER: Lawyer Leo Fisher and his wife Sue are enjoying a quiet Sunday dinner at home. Until a man in a suit rings at their front door claiming to be an SEC agent. By...

Piers Paul Read / Alive!

      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. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Melanie Davies / Never Say Die

   On a Saturday morning in May 1980, Melanie Bowen, a pretty fifteen year old, ran down the stairs of her parents' home in Port Talbot, grabbed her leather jacket and crash helmet, yelled a goodbye, and then walked out of the front door into...

Simon Cooper / The Deadly Game

    Wrapped in cheery festive paper, six parcels were delivered to branches of Barclays Bank across London. But the paper hid a deadly Christmas gift. Inside each parcel was a video cassette box and inside each box lurked a booby-trapped...

Warren Fellows / The Damage Done : Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison

   Think about the most wretched day of your life. Maybe it was when someone you loved died, or when you were badly hurt in an accident, or a day when you were so terrified you could scarcely bear it. No imagine 4,000 of those days in one big...

Mary Creighton / The Baby Snatchers

   *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'You're all fallen women. You've sowed the seed of Satan. You are nothing.'Mary Creighton was just 15 when she found herself pregnant out of wedlock, in 1960s Ireland. She dreamed of a happy life with her child,...

Linda Greenlaw / The Hungry Ocean : A Swordboat Captain's Journey

   THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER--NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK!Known to millions of readers of The Perfect Storm as the captain of the Hannah Boden, sister ship to the Andrea Gail, Linda Greenlaw is also known as one of the best sea captains on...

James Morton / Gangland: The Early Years

    The early criminals were just as violent, dangerous and daring as their more recent relations. After a raid on the American Express in Paris, Eddie Guerin was sent to Devil's Island from which he escaped and survived, probably by eating...

Dana Kollman / Never Suck a Dead Man's Hand : True Life Experiences of an American Crime Scene Investigator (CSI)

      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. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Kenneth Cain / Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) : True Stories from a War Zone

   What it's really like on the frontline of humanitarian aidIt's the early 1990s and three young people are looking to change their lives, and perhaps also the world. Attracted to the ambitious global peacekeeping work of the UN, Andrew, Ken...

Stephen Fulcher / Catching a Serial Killer : My hunt for murderer Christopher Halliwell

   The true story behind the ITV series, A Confession'The gripping allure of long-form podcasts, such as Serial' ObserverOn the evening of Saturday, 19 March 2011, D.S. Stephen Fulcher receives a life-changing call that thrusts him into a race...

Richard Phillips / A Captain's Duty

   8th April 2009 was just an ordinary day for 53 -year-old Richard Phillips, captain of the United States-registered cargo vessel, the Maersk Alabama, as it headed towards the port of Mombasa. Ordinary that is until, two hundred or so miles...

John Preston / A Very English Scandal

 The shocking true story of the first British politician to stand trial for murderBehind oak-panelled doors in the House of Commons, men with cut-glass accents and gold signet rings are conspiring to murder. It's the late 1960s and homosexuality has...

Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory

    In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have obtained unprecedented, unrestricted...

Brandon Read, Mark / Chopper 7

 Why rob a straight guy of $20 when you can rob a drug dealer of $10,000 and he can't go running to the police!' 'I have been stabbed, shot, run over, and was once digging my own grave before I used the shovel as a meat cleaver.' 'In relation to my...

Andrew Wilson / Shadow of the Titanic : The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived

   In the early hours of 15 April 1912, after the majestic liner Titanic had split apart and the 1,500 men, women and children struggled to stay alive in the freezing Atlantic, the sea was alive with the sound of screaming. Then, as the ship...

Dawn Annandale / Call Me Elizabeth : Wife, Mother, Escort

   Dawn Annandale is bright, witty and well educated. But when her marriage began to fall apart, she had to face a seemingly insurmountable pile of debts on her own. Determined that her children would not suffer because of their parents'...

Graham Johnson / Football and Gangsters : How Organised Crime Controls the Beautiful Gam

 Who controls football in Britain today? The FA? The clubs? The fans? The shocking reality is that organised crime is moving in more aggressively than a Wayne Rooney tackle and there's little the authorities can do about it.Football and Gangsters is...

Anthony Holten / A Stroke of Luck

   A stroke of luck   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. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so...

David V. Canter / Mapping Murder : Walking in Killers' Footsteps

    In his groundbreaking study, renowned criminal psychologist and profiler David Canter lifts the lid on geographical profiling and takes us on the murderer's journey in both the psychological and literal sense. He leads us through the...

David M. Kiely / More Bloody Women

      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. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Kathryn Bonella / Hotel K : The Shocking Inside Story of Bali's Most Notorious Jail

   THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERHotel K - Bali's most notorious jail - is Hell in Paradise.Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Bali's most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one side,...

Tim Moore / Spanish Steps

   Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, Spanish Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries to walk all the way across a very large country, with a very large animal who doesn't really want to.Being...

Jonathan Goodnam / Murder File

    This is a collection of celebrated murder cases which uses reports from "The Daily Telegraph", enabling readers to follow the cases and see the contemporary headlines and advertisements used in the paper at the time. The reports are...

True Stories: Stories of Comfort

      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. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Dave Pelzer - A Child Called It, The Lost Boy, A Man called Dave(3 Book Box Set) (Hardback)

Dave Pelzer (3 Book Box Set) (Hardback)    Contains  A man called dave a child called it the lost boy

Michael Lewis / Flash Boys : Cracking the Money Code

 Michael Lewis's epic bestseller tells the outrageous story of the multi-millionaires and whizz kids who scammed the banking system in the blink of an eye - and the whistleblowers who tried to stop them. It's hilarious, terrifying and it's all true...

Hugo Vickers / The Kiss : The Story of an Obsession

   Joan Kappey lived with her sister in genteel poverty in Windsor. In 1960, Joan, a spinster, received a kiss from a man many years younger than herself. So began a passion that lasted almost to the end of her life. This is a true story of a...

Justine McCarthy / Deep Deception : Ireland's Swimming Scandals

   Updated Edition In November 2009 former national and Olympic swimming coach Ger Doyle was convicted of thirty-five sexual offences against children. This is just the most recent of an appalling series of child sexual abuse scandals in Irish...

Matt Dickinson / Death Zone

   It seemed like any other season on Mount Everest. Ten expeditions from around the world were preparing for their summit push, gathered together to try for mountaineering's ultimate prize. Twenty-four hours later, eight of those climbers...

T.J. Stiles / Jesse James : Last Rebel of the Civil War

   Stripped of the familiar myths surrounding him, Jesse James emerges as a far more significant figure: a ruthless, purposeful and intensely political man who used crimes and notoriety to promote the Confederate cause during the bitter decade...

Benjamin Mee / We Bought A Zoo : The Amazing True Story of a Broken-down Zoo, and the 200 Animals That Changed a Family Forever

   Chuck it all in and buy a zoo? Why not? thought Benjamin Mee, unaware of the grim living conditions, creditors and escaped big cat that lay in wait...A few years ago, Ben and his wife, Katherine, sold their small flat in Primrose Hill and...

Cheryl Jarvis / The Necklace

   One day a woman of average means waltzes by a jewellery shop window and spots a GBP20,000 diamond necklace. She can't get it out of her head. Eventually she gets the idea of sharing it with friends, persuading them to chip in a grand each...

Margaret Nicholas / The World's Wickedest Women

    Describes women who have earned the reputation of being wicked, like Lucrezia Borgia and Lizzie Borden. This book analyzes their lives, their menfolk and the reasons behind their wicked behaviour.      All of our...

Michael Bilton / Wicked Beyond Belief : The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

  Revelatory investigation into the police handling of the Yorkshire Ripper Case which spanned over 14 years. For the first time, the files have been opened, the detectives are talking and the victims are reliving the nightmare. For over twenty...

David Harvey / Obsession Celebrities and Their Stalkers

    "One million women and 370,000 men are stalked each year, and this exposT uses stalker incidents involving famous celebrities to explore the twisted mind of a stalker. Offering glimpses into the Los Angeles District Attorney files,...

Michael Griesbach / The Innocent Killer

   ___________________________THE BESTSELLING BOOK ON THE CASE IN THE HIT NETFLIX SERIES MAKING A MURDERERThis is the story of one of America's most notorious wrongful convictions.Steven Avery is a Wisconsin man who spent eighteen years in...

James Fox / White Mischief

    Fascinated with the death near Nairobi of Jocelyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, Fox pursued the story to England and Kenya in the late 1970s, and one day came across a piece of evidence that seemed to bring all the fragments and pieces together...

Theresa Cheung / An Angel Changed my Life

   Angel expert Theresa Cheung is back with a new collection of inspiring true stories about how our guardian angels can offer help, protection and direction in times of trouble and, by so doing, transform our lives forever. An Angel Changed...

Anthony Sadler / The 15:17 to Paris

   The 15:17 to Paris is an amazing true story of friendship and bravery, of near terrorist attack averted by three young men who found the heroic unity and strength inside themselves at the moment when they, and 500 other innocent travellers,...

Roger Boar / The World's Greatest Unsolved Crimes

    Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at famous criminals and great unsolved crimes. Other titles available include "The World's Greatest Secrets" and...

Misha Glenny / McMafia : Seriously Organised Crime

   **Now a major BBC series starring James Norton** Have you ever bought a pirate DVD? Taken drugs? Fallen for a phishing scam? Organised crime is part of all our worlds - often without us even knowing. McMafia is a journey through...

Jeff Bauman / Stronger

   Jeff Bauman woke up on 16th April 2013, in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing his legs. Just 30 hours prior, Jeff was surrounded by revelry at the finish line of the Boston Marathon cheering...