True Stories of Heroism, Endurance & Survival
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Forgers
Roger Moorhouse€17.50**A Telegraph Best History Book 2023 and Spectator Book of the Year**The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that s...
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Until the Sea Shall Free Them
Robert FrumpCurrent price €26.50Original price €36.50`A spellbinding and eloquent story of tragedy, courage, and the triumph of one man determined to see that his shipmates did not die in vain.’ –Mark...
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Tri Again
Chris Sheard€19.99Tri Again is a rip-roaring, wetsuit-struggling, pedal-pushing odyssey that charts one man's journey from a pneumonia-stricken heap to the starting ...
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Paris
Paris Hilton€17.50Updated edition including new material Heiress. Party girl. Problem child. Model. Reality star. Self-created. Ico...
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Adrift
Susea McGearhartCurrent price €14.50Original price €16.99THE HEART-STOPPING MEMOIR, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING SHAILENE WOODLEY AND SAM CLAFLIN, AND DIRECTED BY BALTASAR KORMAKUR (EV...
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens€11.99HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Please, sir, I want some more.' An orphan b...
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How Was It for You?
Eve Smith€21.99The author of How Was It for You? is a sex worker.Let’s call her Eve.Eve is someone’s daughter. Someone’s partner.Eve has worked across the sex ind...
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Hope – How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life
Niall Harbison€15.99THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Most people think I save dogs, but really they saved me. Niall Harbison i...
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It Happened Like This
Vicky Foster€21.99A searing, inventive memoir that interrogates misogyny, heroism and women’s power in an often-unsafe world through the lens of Vicky’s Foster’s own...
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Moby Dick
Herman Melville€16.99HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying...
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Greatest Escape
Neil Churches€17.50The gripping, vividly told story of the largest prisoner of war escape in of the Second World War – organized by an Australian bank clerk, a Britis...
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Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
Annette Dumbach€17.50A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF 1943 Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the grippin...
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Way of the Hermit
Ken Smith€17.50The International Bestseller 'A love story to the mountains in the mist, the pulsating northern lights and the red deer at dawn. And to independenc...
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Lili
Anna Blasiak€16.99This is the story of Lili Pohlmann's incredible childhood and survival. During the Second World War she was helped by many people, sometimes by si...
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Why, Father?
Tim Harford€15.99From No.1 bestselling author Toni Maguire comes a new true story of abuse and survival. Gerry was only a young girl when she was first abused by h...
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How To Say Babylon
Safiya Sinclair€17.50SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON 'A stunn...
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Mother's Courage
Malka Levine€17.50'A deeply humane memoir of immense power - there is nothing more affecting than a first-hand experience finely told' - Philippe Sands, author of Th...
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Fearless
Louise Minchin€17.50WINNER OF THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 SELECTED FOR THE BBC AND READING AGENCY'S BIG SPORTING READ 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPORTS...
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Seized!
Max Hardberger€18.50Capt. Max Hardberger uses every trick, tool and tactic at his disposal to right wrongs and out-pirate pirates in this action-packed exposé of the s...
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Tunnel 29
Helena Merriman€17.50'Merriman excels at recreating the physicality of their experiences: the smell of dense clay, the click-clack of a woman walking down the street ab...
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Roxanne de BastionCurrent price €27.50Original price €28.50One man, his piano and their miraculous survival.'Extraordinary' Baroness Julia Neuberger'Powerful and gruelling ... an almost unimaginable story o...
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Modern Slave
Gaia Cooper€15.99Gaia was groomed, abused and enslaved – but then she fought back Gaia Cooper is just 14 years old when she is groomed by a criminal gang ...
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SAS: Sea King Down
Mark Aston€18.50The thrilling, edge-of-your-seat true story of one soldier's Special Forces operations in the Falklands War'BRILLIANT. A ROLLERCOASTER OF BLISTERIN...
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Sebastian Junger€21.99'Mind blowingly brilliant' PHILIPPA PERRY 'Few other writers have such passion for granular detail, intellectual heft and bo...
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SAS Great Escapes Three
Damien LewisCurrent price €27.50Original price €28.50'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee Child'Now that's a Great Escape! How 34 members of the SAS evaded 5,000 Na...
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Rescue
Andy McNab€16.99The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab.It is 2012 and in Northern Afghan...
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Traces of Memory
Sandra Alfers€19.99The remarkable, untold story of one Holocaust survivor's resilience against all odds, discovered through a chance encounter with a collection of he...
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My Journey Home
Zsuzsanna Ozsvath€19.99In the spring of 1944, nearly 500,000 Jews were deported from the Hungarian countryside and killed in Auschwitz. In Budapest, only 150,000 Jews sur...
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Wheat Songs
Perry Giuseppe Rizopoulos€19.99Wheat Songs is a memoir of two interconnected Greek-American journeys—an actual physical journey for the grandfather, Pericles Rizopoulos, and a ph...
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Defiant Dreams
Malaina Kapoor€17.50'I began to grow up the day my mother warned me to stop laughing''Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola Mahfouz think about...
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Behind these Doors
Alex South€17.50*A Radio 4 Book of the Week*'Powerful' Observer 'Superb' Daily Mail 'Brilliant' Radio Times __________Few people leave prison unchanged. It's a pla...
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Tale of a Wall
Nasser Abu Srour€23.99LONGLISTED FOR A NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA Palestinian prisoner’s memoir of thirty years’ captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and co...
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Inseparable
Faris Cassell€18.50See the Holocaust through the Eyes of Children.Stefan and Marion Hess's happy childhood was shattered in 1943. Torn from their home in Amsterdam, t...
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Bring Back Our Girls
Drew Hinshaw€17.50A 2021 Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 'Had me gripped from the outset' Fergal Keane 'Everyone should read the testimonies of the Chibok girls who...
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Top of the World
Fiona Duffy€16.99Martin Hibbert was left paralysed from the waist down by the Manchester Arena bombing which killed twenty-two people on 22 May 2017. Martin's teena...
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Wavewalker
Suzanne Heywood€17.50THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 ‘Grippingly vivid and ...
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Forbidden Daughter
Zipora Klein Jakob€16.99The unforgettable true story of one Jewish orphan’s survival against impossible odds, and her lifelong quest for family, safety and a sense of belo...
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Emerging Heroes
Akira Kitade€19.99Inspired by seven photographs of WWII refugees in an old album, the author embarked on a quest to uncover the story behind each portrait. Had the r...
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Emerging Heroes
Akira Kitade€104.99Inspired by seven photographs of WWII refugees in an old album, the author embarked on a quest to uncover the story behind each portrait. Had the r...
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Brothers in Arms
Geraint Jones€23.99Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier's tour of Afghanistan, the brutal reality of war – every...
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Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag
Zvi Preigerzon€19.99Zvi Preigerzon wrote memoirs about his time in the Gulag in 1958, long before Solzhenitsyn and without any knowledge of the other publications on t...
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Brothers in Arms
Geraint Jones€15.99Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier's tour of Afghanistan, the brutal reality of war – every...
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Survival Guide for Life
Bear GryllsCurrent price €14.55Original price €16.99Life in the wild teaches us invaluable lessons. Extreme situations force us to seize opportunities, face up to dangers and rely on our instinct...
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White Fang
Jack London€5.25HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on…‘ ...
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Inside Job
Dr Rebecca Myers€15.99And here I am. Totally alone in a cell with a convicted sex offender who is free to do what he wants. There is no officer. No handcuff...
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Britain's Lost Tragedies Uncovered
Richard M. Jones€18.50Is any disaster really forgotten?It is never forgotten by the survivors who lived through the trauma. It is never forgotten by the emergency servic...
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Adam HigginbothamCurrent price €31.99Original price €32.50From the New York Times-bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger space ...
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