True Stories

Hannah Kent / The Good People

 Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize.Based on true events and set in a lost world bound by its own laws, The Good People is Hannah Kent's startling novel about absolute belief and devoted love...

Anthony Godby Johnson / A Rock and a Hard Place : One Boy's Triumphant Story (Hardback)

 This is the autobiography of a young American boy dying of AIDS. Anthony Johnson was born in 1977 and for 11 years was physically and sexually abused by his parents. But this is not an explicit...

Quentin Fottrell / Love in a Damp Climate : The Dating Game. . . Irish-style

 This book is a love travelogue, a collection of vignettes, collection of the best and worst problems (and solutions), chronicling the efforts of Irelands singletons to find love, and talking to...

Carol Ann Lee / Anne Frank's Story

 The life story of Anne Frank, from her early happy childhood in Frankfurt, growing up in Amsterdam, her two years in hiding and the last few months of her life in the concentration camps. Narrated...

Paddy Doyle - The God Squad - HB 1st Edition 1988 - Irish Industrial Schools

Paddy Doyle's mother died from cancer in 1955. His father committed suicide shortly thereafter. Paddy Doyle was sentenced in an Irish district court to be detained in an industrial school for eleven...

Allan Hall / World's Greatest Secrets

 Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this title looks at secrets.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

John Pilger / Tell Me No Lies

 Tell Me No Lies is a celebration of the very best investigative journalism, and includes writing by some of the greatest practitioners of the craft: Seymour Hersh on the My Lai massacre; Paul Foot...

Clare Mulley / The Spy Who Loved

 In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessive colleague in a hotel in South Kensington. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising, but that she had survived...

Gordon Lewis / Secret Child

 The shocking true story of a young boy hidden away from his family and the world in a Catholic home for unmarried mothers in 1950s Dublin.Born an 'unfortunate' onto the rough streets of 1950s...

Michael Sheridan / Bloody Evidence : CSI - Tracking the Killers

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A Page in the Life : True Life Stories from the Marian Finucane Show

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James Morton / East End Gangland

   The East End has always held a malign fascination for the general public. In this book James Morton looks at this phenomenon from the days of the unsolved murders committed by Jack the Ripper to...

Souad / Burned Alive

 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...

James Bowden / Bob : No Ordinary Cat

   The phenomenal bestseller A Street Cat Named Bob, featuring best friends James and street cat Bob, now available as a special edition for children aged 11 and above.'We are all given second...

Charles Bronson / Bronson 2 : More Porridge Than Goldilocks

 Charles Bronson is the most feared and most notorious convict in the prison system. Renowned for his serial hostage-taking and his rooftop sieges, he is a legend in his own lifetime. The recent film...

Abigail Rieley / Death on the Hill : The Killing of Celine Cawley

   The case that had everything: lies, betrayal, sex. The story that fascinated the nation.On 15 December 2008, two screams shattered the peace of the affluent Windgate Road in Howth, Co Dublin...

Andy McNab / Spoken From The Front

 Spoken from the Front is the story of the Afghan Campaign, told for the first time in the words of the servicemen and women who have been fighting there. With unprecedented access to soldiers of all...

Tammy Cohen / Deadly Divorces

 You fall in love, you get married, and you build a lifetime's worth of dreams around each other. Then suddenly, it's gone - the past tainted, the present a living nightmare, the future wiped out...

Liz Walsh / The Final Beat : The Gardai Killed in the Line of Duty

 No member of the Garda Siochana died in the line of duty between 1942 and 1970. Since that date, fourteen members of the force have paid the supreme price. 'The Final Beat' is their story. From...

Berlie Doherty / Street Child

   Unforgettable tale of an orphan in Victorian London, based on the boy whose plight inspired Dr Barnardo to found his famous children's homes.When his mother dies, Jim Jarvis is left all alone in...

Anthony Galvin / The Cruellest Cut : Women Who Kill

   Women kill for the same reasons as men: greed, revenge, self-defence. They kill to get themselves out of embarrassing situations or to keep their dirty secrets hidden. But they also kill for more...

Kate Kray / Ultimate Hard Bastards : The Truth About the Toughest Men in the World

   Meet the hardest men in Britainminders, villains, gangsters, bodyguards, SAS hitmen, murderers, and terrorists. In this awesome follow-up to the hugely successful "Hard Bastards" and "Hard...

Richard Marcus / The Great Casino Heist

   One of a select band of the world's greatest professional cheats, Richard Marcus toured the gambling cultures of Las Vegas, London and Monte Carlo, winning huge sums of money from casinos by...

John Courtney / It Was Murder - Murders and Kidnapping in Ireland (Large Paperback)

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Neville Thompson / Streetwise : Stories From An Irish Prison

 Every day the population of Ireland wakes up to reports of another horror case of crime. The streets have become unsafe to walk upon and yet nothing seems to be done about it. Politicians make...

Alan Croghan / Wild Child : The jaw-dropping true story of a chaotic youth and an unlikely new life

 Wild Child by Alan Croghan: a child's journey through crime, punishment and redemption.From the moment his mother went into labour with him - on a transatlantic flight - Alan Croghan's life was...

The World's Elite Forces

 Describing the elite forces of the world, this book gives an insight into the training and missions which these forces undertake. It includes graphic descriptions of commando raids, parachute drops...

David M Kiely / Deadlier Than the Male

There is a woman who slew her husband with the Christmas present she'd given him, a grandmother who enthusiastically assisted in the murder of her own granddaughter, and, a woman who helped her lover...

Bear Grylls / Facing Up : A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mount Everest

'No one could fail to be gripped by his heartfelt excitement and emotion over what was the adventure of a lifetime' IndependentAt the age of twenty-three, Bear Grylls became one of the youngest...

Pat Flynn / Catherine and Friends

The trial and conviction of Catherine Nevin for her role in the murder of her husband Tom monopolized the attention of the country for weeks. It was the main topic of conversation in pubs, homes and...

Roger Wilkes / The Mammoth Book of CSI

Using the latest modern technology available to forensic science, crime scene investigators answer questions others never even thought to ask. Here are over 30 fascinating modern cases of forensic...

Christina Mckenna / Ireland's Haunted Women

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Roberto Saviano / Gomorrah : Italy's Other Mafia

Published to coincide with the eponymous blockbuster film, Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller. Since publishing his searing expose of...

Brian Keenan / Four Quarters Of Light

Brian Keenan's fascination with Alaska began as a small boy while reading Jack London's wondrous Call of the Wild. With a head full of questions about its inspiring landscape and a heart informed by...

Tony Thompson / Gangs: A Journey into the Heart of the British Underworld

Organised crime is now the country's third biggest industry. The number of gangland murders, shootings and kidnappings, along with the levels of drug trafficking, people smuggling and money...

James Lever / Me Cheeta: The Autobiography

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009 The incredible, moving and hilarious story of Cheeta the Chimp, simian star of the big screen, on a behind-the-scenes romp through the golden years of...

John Follain / Jackal

From his birth in Venezuela to his capture two years ago in the Sudan, the life of Carlos 'the Jackal' has been an extraordinary one. Raised in a radical family, he was sent to London as a teenager...

Read, Mark Brandon / Chopper

Bullied at school, and growing up dreaming of revenge, Mark "Chopper" Read determined to be the toughest in any company. This autobiography tells how he became a crime commando who terrorized drug...

Brian Masters / The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer

When Milwaukee police entered Jeffrey Dahmer's North 25th Street apartment in July 1991, they discovered that for some time this quiet, undemonstrative man had been living amidst the debris of an...

Liam Collins / Irish Crimes of Passion: Killing for Love Lust and Desire

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Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal

In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a...

Howard Blum / Gangland

Howard Blum was granted unprecedented access to FBI records to reveal how a maverick FBI squad, led by former submariner Bruce Mouw, dedicated seven years to nailing the mafia's "cappi di tutti...

Charles Bronson / Bronson

Charlie Bronson has spent 28 of the last 30 years in solitary confinement. He has been locked in dungeons, in iron boxes concreted into the middle of cells and, famously, in a cage. When he is...

Jacqueline Winspear / Maisie Dobbs

Hailed by NPR's Fresh Air as part Testament of Youth, part Dorothy Sayers, and part Upstairs, Downstairs, this astonishing debut has already won fans from coast to coast and is poised to add Maisie...

Brian Marriner / A New Century of Sex Killers

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James Morton / Gangland Omnibus: v.1 & 2

The spectacular trial of the high-profile Kray brothers blew the lid off the London underworld of the 1950s and 60s. But what of the great city's gangland before and since? GANGLAND: LONDON'S...

Marsha Hunt / The Junk Yard: Voices for the Junk Yard

A writer's workshop for young offenders at Dublin's Mountjoy Prison is the source of this collection of 15 original Irish stories. They include: Kenno's loss of his parents to drug-related AIDS;...

Anna May Mangan / Me and Mine

As soon as they'd saved up for the three 'S's' - shoes, suitcase and a suit - they left rural Ireland. It might have been the London of the 1950s where 'No Blacks, No Irish No Dogs' was the welcome...

Ross Kemp / Ross Kemp on Afghanistan

Ross Kemp risks all to tell the story of the British soldier in Ross Kemp on Afghanistan. He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is...

Jonathan Goodman / True Crime

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The World's Greatest Blunders

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

Michael Sheridan / Tears of Blood

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