True Stories of Heroism, Endurance & Survival

The powerful, refreshingly honest, first-hand account of a childhood spent in the Care system.At the age of nine, Hope Daniels walked into Stoke Ne...

During the Great War almost 650 men enlisted from the small market town of Alton, Hampshire. These soldiers served all over the globe, including th...

What do you do when your wife abducts your children? This was the question facing Douglas Galbraith when, in 2003, he returned home to Scotland fro...

For almost sixty years after their deaths, three men, whose brave actions shortened the Second World War by as much as two years, remained virtuall...

Shortlisted for the HW Fisher Best First Biography Prize 2012 The only Western woman to enlist as a soldier in the First World War, the Englishwom...

'We have written here about terrible things that we never wanted to think about again . . . Now we want the world to know: we survived, we are fre...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the worlds most ruthless and secretive dictatorships and the s...

From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger's almost fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army. ...

Paul Masons father was a policeman. He was also a member of a sadistic paedophile ring. He would keep Paul locked up and naked in a tiny cupboard u...

Cathy Glass, international bestselling author, tells the shocking story of Zeena, a young Asian girl desperate to escape from her family. ...

This moving and timely book explores the way the First World War has been thought about and commemorated, and how it has affected its own, and late...

A moving and extraordinary book about courage and survival, friendship and endurance a portrait of ordinary women who faced the horror of the holo...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. First published in 1898, Moonfleet is a rivetin...

Irish Sunday Times Bestseller A true story of war, peace and friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priest The story begins in...

At 2,922 miles, the Congo is the eighth longest river and the deepest in the world, with a flow rate second only to the Amazon. Ex-Marine Phil Harw...

Slowly Down the Ganges is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush and Love and War in the Apennines. Told wit...

The hilarious, heartwarming and - unbelievably - true story of Maurice Flitcroft, the World's Worst GolferWhen 46-year-old crane driver Maurice Fli...

A completely original history of one of the most extraordinary movements in the world the Girl Guides and how they helped win the war. ...

'Victor Gregg is the most remarkable spokesman for the war generation' Dan Snow In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut fictionalised his time as a ...

'I hated the thought of his child growing inside me...but at least I'd soon have somebody to love and, finally, somebody to love me back.'Tina has ...