True Stories of Heroism, Endurance & Survival
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Papillon
CHARRIERE HENRICurrent price €14.30Original price €15.99An immediate sensation upon its publication in 1969, Papillon is a vivid memoir of brutal penal colonies, daring prison breaks and heroic adventure...
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Unwanted: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child?
Cathy GlassCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she was put into foster care. The care s...
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A Family Torn Apart: Three sisters and a dark secret that threatens to separate them for ever
Cathy GlassCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99Angie, 6, and sister Polly, 4, are utterly distraught when they arrive to stay with foster carer Cathy Glass. Their older half-sister Ashleigh has ...
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Sold To Be A Wife: Only a determined foster carer can stop a terrified girl from becoming a child bride
Maggie HartleyCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planni...
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That One Patient: Doctors and Nurses'''' Stories of the Patients Who Changed Their Lives Forever
Ellen de VisserCurrent price €14.43Original price €18.50THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH DR ANTHONY FAUCI, DAME SALLY DAVIES AND DR JIM DOWN ...
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The World Beneath Their Feet: The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Mountaineering Race to Summit the Himalayas
Scott EllsworthCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50The 2020 National Outdoor Book Awards of the History of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 William Hill Sports Book of the Year'A gripping history' T...
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Battered, Broken, Healed: The true story of a mother separated from her daughter. Only a painful truth can bring them back together
Maggie HartleyCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99A new challenge faces foster carer Maggie Hartley: this time it's not a child that's at risk, it's her mother. Can Maggie help Hailey to escape her...
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My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World''s Deadliest Migration Route
Sally HaydenCurrent price €23.52Original price €24.50''The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read'' SALLY ROONEY ''Compassionate, brave, enraging, beautifully writte...
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The Witness
Nicola TallantCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99'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, t...
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Love as Always, Mum xxx: The true and terrible story of surviving a childhood with Fred and Rose West
Mae WestCurrent price €11.31Original price €14.50''A CHILLING new memoir by the daughter of mass murderer Fred West and his wife Rose describes the savage cruelty of her upbringing in 25 Cromwel...
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A Rebel in Auschwitz
Jack FairweatherCurrent price €11.17Original price €14.50A young reader''s edition of The Volunteer - Jack Fairweather''s Costa Book of the Year. An extraordinary, eye-opening accoun...
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My Name Is Selma: The remarkable memoir of a Jewish Resistance fighter and Ravensbrück survivor
Selma van de PerreCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99'I am one of few Jewish survivors of World War Two, but one of many Jewish people to fight the Nazi regime. My story illustrates what happened to t...
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Philomena: The True Story of a Mother and the Son She Had to Give Away (Film Tie-in Edition)
Martin SixsmithCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Inspiring the film starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, and directed by Stephen Frears, Philomena is the tale of a mother and a son whose lives we...
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For the Love of a Son: One Afghan Woman''s Quest for her Stolen Child
Jean SassonCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99From the time she was a little girl, Maryam rebelled against the terrible second-class existence that was her destiny as an Afghan woman.She had wi...
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Tiny Prisoners: Two siblings trapped in a world of abuse. One woman determined to free them
Maggie HartleyCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99Evie and Elliot are scrawny, filthy and wide-eyed with fear when they turn up on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep. Aged just two and three ye...
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Hope in a Ballet Shoe: Orphaned by war, saved by ballet: an extraordinary true story
Elaine DePrinceCurrent price €13.11Original price €15.99Hope in a Ballet Shoe tells the story of Michaela DePrince. Growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone, she witnessed atrocities that no child ever should...
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My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
Hannah Pick-GoslarCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50Two best friends' lives were about to change for ever, neither would ever be forgotten...'As a girl I witnessed the world I loved crumble and vanis...
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The Boys In The Boat: An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler''s Berlin
Daniel James BrownCurrent price €11.25Original price €13.55Now a major motion picture, directed by George Clooney.From the Great Depression to Nazi Germany, The Boys in the Boat is the astonishing true stor...
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Rainbows and Brainstorms Collector''s Edition: Navigating through Brain Surgery and Depression amid the Arrival of Rainbow Babies
Chrissy L WhittenCurrent price €25.72Original price €30.99Current price €25.72Original price €30.99Save 17% -
Black Sheep: A Manic Mike Autobiography - Destroying The Monster Within
Mike BlackCurrent price €19.91Original price €23.99Current price €19.91Original price €23.99Save 17% -
No Comment: What I Wish I''d Known About Becoming A Detective
Jess McDonaldCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Probably the most important book on the state of British policing youll ever read' Graham Bartlett 'Vivid and harrowing... Hammers home how urgentl...
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Forever Max: The lasting adventures of the world''s most loved dog
Kerry IrvingCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50The heartwarming, inspiring final chapter in the life of Max the Miracle dog A dog can be more than ...
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The Crucible: An Autobiography by Colonel Yay, Filipina American Guerrilla
Yay PanlilioCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99Current price €16.59Original price €19.99Save 17% -
Survival in Paradise: The true story of surviving a tropical storm and remote deserted island in the middle of the Indian Ocean
Gordon S BraceCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99Current price €16.59Original price €19.99Save 17% -
Hamilton Hume: Our Greatest Explorer - the critically acclaimed bestselling biography
Robert MacklinCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy ...
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Sex Cult Nun
Faith JonesCurrent price €15.76Original price €18.99Both inspiring and disturbing, Sex Cult Nun unravels Jones complicated upbringing, the trauma she endured as a result and her eventual...
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Error of Judgement: The Birmingham Bombings and the Scandal That Shook Britain
Chris MullinCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50'Very occasionally a journalist starts an avalanche with a single gunshot... Chris Mullin and his TV colleagues belong in the glorious company.-The...
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Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mothers Letter to her Son
Homeira QaderiCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mothers unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afgh...
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Recovering
Richie SadlierCurrent price €15.76Original price €18.99Winner of the An Post Irish Sports Book of the Year Award Longlisted for The William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award Not only the sports book ...
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Miss Mary: The Irish woman who saved the lives of hundreds of children during World War II
Bernard S. WilsonCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99Mary Elmes was a brilliant young woman from Cork who ventured into war zones to rescue children in trouble. When she learned that children in war-...
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No Beast So Fierce: The Champawat Tiger and Her Hunter, the First Tiger Conservationist
Dane HuckelbridgeCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99The deadliest animal of all time meets the world's most legendary hunter in a classic battle between man and wild. But this pulse-pounding narrativ...
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True Grit
Bear GryllsCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50Bear Grylls knows what it takes to survive. But he's not the first.Take the American bombardier Louis Zamperini, who survived 47 days stranded ...
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How Now, Butterfly?: A Memoir Of Murder, Survival, and Transformation
Brian WhitneyCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99Current price €18.25Original price €21.99Save 17% -
Maurice and Maralyn: A Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story
Sophie ElmhirstCurrent price €19.91Original price €23.99**A Guardian, Observer & Waterstones Nonfiction Book of 2024**'One of those very special books that makes you put everything on hold so you can...
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The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law A Hidden History
Kate MorganCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50'Compulsively readable' Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' Philippa Gregory ...
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The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law A Hidden History
Kate MorganCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99'Compulsively readable' Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' Philippa Gregory ...
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In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl''s Journey to Freedom
Yeonmi ParkCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50'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 wh...
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Bold: A Story of Survival Through Ireland''s Institutions
Mary Forde O'NeillCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99An amazing story of survival, after a life spent under the control of some of Irelands most notorious institutions. Born in the Tuam Mother and Ba...
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The Doctor of Hiroshima: His heart-breaking and inspiring true life story
Dr. Michihiko HachiyaCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who would care ...
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Agent André: The German Jew at the Heart of the SIS and French Resistance
Diana Mara HenryCurrent price €23.66Original price €28.50As intriguing and compelling as a work of fiction, the memoirs of André Joseph Scheinmann mesmerize and enthral the reader. His true-life story of ...
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Why It''s OK to Talk About Trauma: How to Make Sense of the Past and Grow Through the Pain
Charlie WebsterCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99THIS IS THE BOOK YOUR BRAIN, BODY AND FUTURE SELF NEED TO READ.More than half of us will have experienced some kind of trauma in our lives - many o...
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Undercover Copper: One Woman on the Track of Dangerous Criminals
Danni BrookeCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50Fast-paced and eye-opening, Undercover Copper is an exciting account of life as a covert investigator by Danni Brooke.For over a decade, Danni Broo...
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The Survivor Champion: The Remarkable Story of a Refugee Child
Josée Kana BizimanaCurrent price €14.93Original price €17.99Josee's story has put the reality of life out there. You wake up in the morning with a normal life, and in the afternoon, gunshots make you leav...
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The Martyr and the Red Kimono: A Fearless Priests Sacrifice and A New Generation of Hope in Japan
Naoko AbeCurrent price €23.66Original price €28.50The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever.On the 14th of August 1941, a...
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