True Stories of Heroism, Endurance & Survival
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The Choice: A true story of hope
Edith EgerCurrent price €13.92Original price €14.50THE AWARD-WINNING SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREven in hell, hope can flower'I'll be forever changed by her story' - Oprah Winfrey'Ext...
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Last Stop Auschwitz: My story of survival from within the camp
Eddy de WindCurrent price €14.35Original price €14.50THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The ultimate Holocaust testimony.' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's ...
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The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
Rosemary SullivanCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation New York Times Less a mystery unsolved than...
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The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
Eddie JakuCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku made a vow to smile every day and believed he was the happiest man on earth. In his inspirational memoir, he paid tri...
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Man''s Search For Meaning: Classic Editions
Viktor E FranklCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holo...
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The Girl Who Wanted to Belong: The True Story of a Devastated Little Girl and the Foster Carer who Healed her Broken Heart
Angela HartCurrent price €11.99Original price €12.99The Sunday Times bestseller about a young girl in need of some care and compassion.Lucy is eight years old and ends up in foster care after being a...
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A Life Lost: Jackson Is Haunted by a Secret from His Past
Cathy GlassCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99Jackson is aggressive, confrontational and often volatile. His mother, Kayla, is crippled with grief after tragically losing her husband and eldest...
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The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz Costa Book of the Year 2019
Jack FairweatherCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50One of the Sunday Times paperbacks of the Year 2020One of the Financial Times best books of 2020 'Totally gripping'-- Simon Sebag Montefiore'Pileck...
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Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?: A powerful true story of love and survival
Horace GreasleyCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a not...
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Too Scared to Tell: Abused and alone, Oskar has no one. A true story.
Cathy GlassCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99The true story of a 6-year-old boy with a dreadful secret. Oskars school teacher raises the alarm. Oskars mother is abroad and he has bee...
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The Optician of Lampedusa
Emma-Jane KirbyCurrent price €12.99Original price €15.99'Poetically written, absorbing, harrowing' The Times'The raw and emotional account of an optician whose family fishing trip suddenly placed him am...
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The Girl With Two Lives: A Shocking Childhood. A Foster Carer Who Understood. A Young Girl''s Life Forever Changed
Angela HartCurrent price €10.78Original price €12.99The Girl With Two Lives is the fourth book from well loved foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Angela Hart, in which she tells the sto...
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A Hope More Powerful than the Sea
Melissa Fleming€15.99Soon to be a major film produced by Steven Spielberg and J. J. Abrams.This is the story of Doaa, an ordinary girl from a village in Syria, who in 2...
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I Want You to Know Were Still Here: My family, the Holocaust and my search for truth
Esther Safran FoerCurrent price €12.63Original price €15.99A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK Esther Safran Foer has written of her family in a way that is both uniquely and heartbreakingl...
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Innocent: The True Story of Siblings Struggling to Survive
Cathy GlassCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Innocent is the shocking true story of little Molly and Kit, siblings, aged 3 years and 18 months, who are brought into care as an emergency after ...
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My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the Worlds Deadliest Migration Route
Sally HaydenCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE The most import...
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Nobodys Son: All Alex ever wanted was a family of his own
Cathy GlassCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99Born in a prison and removed from his drug-dependent mother, rejection is all that 7-year-old Alex knows. When Cathy is asked to foster l...
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No Wall Too High: One Mans Extraordinary Escape from Maos Infamous Labour Camps
Xu HongciCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50One of the greatest escape stories Ive ever read Mail on SundayAn ordinary mans extraordinary escape from Maos brutal labour campsXu Hongci was an ...
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Please, Let Me Go: The Horrific True Story of a Girl''s Life in the Hands of Sex Traffickers
Caitlin SpencerCurrent price €11.61Original price €13.99From the age of 14, Caitlin was completely controlled, repeatedly raped, provided with alcohol, given drugs, sold and passed on to new gangs over a...
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Paris: The Memoir
Paris HiltonCurrent price €18.03Original price €21.99PARIS: A MILLION MEANINGS IN A SINGLE NAME Heiress. Party girl. Problem child. Selfie taker. Model. Reality star. Self-crea...
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The Last Survivor: The miraculous true story of the Holocaust prisoner who survived three concentration camps
Frank KrakeCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99Perfect for readers of Last Stop Auschwitz, The Volunteer and The Tattooist of Auschwitz'This is an extraordinary biography. A gripping narrative t...
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Sky''s Story
Louise AllenCurrent price €12.04Original price €14.50When Sky and her older sister Avril were taken into care, the social workers knew this was a case like no other. Raised by troubled parents who hoa...
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Neglected: Scared, hungry and alone, Jamey craves affection
Cathy GlassCurrent price €11.61Original price €13.99Little Jamey, 2½ years old, is placed with experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, as an emergency. The police and social services have no...
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Holocaust Child: Lalechka - An Inspirational Story of Survival
Amira KeidarCurrent price €12.04Original price €14.50A little girl is smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto. Two courageous women. And an inspirational story of survival. In 1941 at the height of World War...
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster
Jon KrakauerCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm an...
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Cruel to Be Kind: Saying no can save a childs life
Cathy GlassCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes....
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The Wild Silence: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Million-Copy Bestselling Author of The Salt Path
Raynor WinnCurrent price €15.50Original price €15.99The incredible Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller from the million-copy bestselling author of the phenomenon and 80-week Sunday Times bestselling The S...
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Nowhere to Hide: Trapped, abused and sold for sex
Hannah MorganCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99A shocking true story that reveals how one woman was tormented to the very depths of despair by her husband through coercive control and continual ...
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The Salt Path: The prize-winning, Sunday Times bestseller from the million-copy bestselling author
Raynor WinnCurrent price €15.35Original price €15.99Bring nature into your home with the inspiring true story of hope and the healing powers of the natural world, in one of the most talked about book...
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A Terrible Secret: Scared for her safety, Tilly places herself into care. A shocking true story.
Cathy GlassCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Tilly hates her stepfather, Dave. He abuses her mother, but she refuses to leave him. Frightened for her own safety, Tilly asks to go int...
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The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
Anatoli BoukreevCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50In May 1996 a number of expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route. Each group contained world class climbers and re...
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Breathe: A Life in Flow
Rickson GracieCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99From legendary Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA master Rickson Gracie comes a riveting, insightful memoir that weaves together the story of Gracies stun...
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Down the Drain
Julia FoxCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99The hotly anticipated book from one of the all-time pop-culture greats (New York magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyie...
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Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the Worlds Greatest Survival Story
Pablo VierciCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99It was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends, took off for the very l...
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Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith and Family
Garrard ConleyCurrent price €12.04Original price €14.50NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING LUCAS HEDGES, RUSSELL CROWE AND NICOLE KIDMAN, AND WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JOEL EDGERTON ...
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Mummy Told Me Not to Tell: The true story of a troubled boy with a dark secret
Cathy GlassCurrent price €12.47Original price €12.99When Reece arrives at Cathy's door aged 7 years old, he has already passed through the hands of four different carers in four weeks. As the details...
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Be Good, Love Brian: Growing up with Brian Clough
Craig BromfieldCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2022 Craig Bromfield was just 13 years old when Brian Clough, o...
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How We Disappeared: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020
Jing-Jing LeeCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99A beautiful tale of endurance, identity, and memory in WWII Singapore, for fans of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Nguyen Phan Que Mai's The Mountain...
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Wavewalker: Breaking Free
Suzanne HeywoodCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 Grippingly vivid and p...
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How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir
Safiya SinclairCurrent price €15.76Original price €18.99LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION Dazzling. Potent. Vital TARA WESTOVER To read it ...
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man''s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Blaine HardenCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50'This is a story unlike any other' - Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea.Now a major documentary film.Twenty-s...
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The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocausts Most Audacious Rescue Operation
Roger MoorhouseCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50**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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The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival
Thomas GeveCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people s...
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Cabin Fever: Trapped on board a cruise ship when the pandemic hit. A true story of heroism and survival at sea
Jonathan FranklinCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50'The authors of this absorbing book have a strong command of detail, context and narrative structure... the results are impressively claustrophobic...
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Landlines: The No 1 Sunday Times bestseller about a thousand-mile journey across Britain from the author of The Salt Path
Raynor WinnCurrent price €13.90Original price €17.50THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SALT PATH AND THE WILD SILENCEJoin Raynor and Moth on their remarkable 1000-mile walk from...
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I Want My Daddy
Casey WatsonCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99A 5-year-old boy, Ethan, is brought to Casey in the middle of the night after the sudden death of his young mother after a drug overdose. ...
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The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: ''Truly revelatory'' Damien Lewis
Robert VerkaikCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99THE GRIPPING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating r...
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