True Stories of Heroism, Endurance & Survival

The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passe...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER Like A Streecat Named Bob before it, Finding Gobi is a truly heart-warming story for animal lovers world...

This is the story of the author''s prostate cancer and how he reacted to his diagnosis and coped with treatment (a robotic prostatectomy). This boo...

It was a beautiful fall day in Connecticut when Colleen Alexander, a lifelong competitive athlete, rode her bike home from work, having just learne...

A powerful, heartbreaking, and redemptive account of a boy who endured a childhood of poverty and abuse in an American Southwest trailer park named...

'IT TOOK ME LONGER TO FORGIVE MY DAD FOR NOT HELPING ME WHEN I WAS TORTURED, THAN TO FORGIVE THOSE SOLDIERS WHO TORTURED ME'Mirsad Solakovic surviv...

Like most Americans at the time, Plennie Wingo was hit hard by the effects of the Great Depression. When the bank foreclosed on his small restauran...

This is the triumphant and powerful true story of one woman who has chosen to forgive. At the age of ten, Alison Buttenshaw witnessed the brutal at...

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JESS PHILLIPSSoldier, criminal, militant, hooligan, revolutionary: th...

Annabel Beam is one of three sisters raised in the Texas countryside by loving parents. But what should have been a happy, carefree childhood was b...

If theres an adventure to be had, its likely that David Hempleman-Adams has been there first. Ranking alongside Ranulph Fiennes and Chris Bonningto...

If there''s an adventure to be had, it''s likely that David Hempleman-Adams has been there first. Ranking alongside Ranulph Fiennes and Chris Bonni...

On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken from her home in the middle of the night ...

On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken from her home in the middle of the night ...

**THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED BBC DRAMA THREE GIRLS ** What do they find attractive about me? An underage girl who just lies the...

In 2004, Maggie Lane fell to her death from the cliffs at Beachy Head. While trying to come to terms with his wife's tragic death, Keith Lane sough...

Written by the people who could say 'I was there!' My Life as an Explorer is a classic of Polar literature, written by the first man to set foot on...

This is the true story of an unusual hero. Tall, dark and handsome and often surrounded by an admiring crowd, this is no film star but an eight-yea...

''''There''''s water in the engine,'''' he said. ''''The engine has stopped.'''' This chan...

On 6 November 1942 70 captured Red Army soldiers staged an extraordinary mass escape from Auschwitz. Among these men was prisoner number 1418 Andre...

Go here. Do that. Work here. Buy that.Spend each day bored, staring at a screen, wondering if this is really all there is.There is another way.My n...

Twelve lost boys, their coach, and the heroes who rescued them. When the 12 young members of the Wild Boars soccer club walked into a Thai cave wit...

Sam Boatwright is an ordinary bloke. He does have limitations. The difference between him and everyone else? He doesn''t seem to have found his lim...