True Stories

A book grows rather like a snow crystal. One doesnt write it from start to finish but, in greater or less degree, all at the same time that is why...

The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice. ''A gripping, suspenseful...

''I knew dogs could make a difference to the children''s lives. I knew it the moment I watched a little boy, exhausted by pain and sickness, stretc...

After all this time Frankie Dettori still ranks amongst the all-time greats of the sport LESTER PIGGOTT ...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, an extraordinary story of redemption in the darkest of places. Jarvis Jay Masterss early l...

'A truly astonishing murder mystery  this is proper journalism' Jeremy Clarkson Following a long investigation by the world-famous Sunday Times Ins...

A hugely impressive achievement. Hadley Freeman, author of House of Glass At 8.00am on Monday 18th June 2001, Da...

The story of a single family during the Irish Revolution, Four Killings is a book about political murder, and the powerful hunger for land and the ...

The Dive is a thrilling narrative nonfiction in the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Apollo 13. They were out o...

In the depths of Antarctic winter, hundreds of miles from land or rescue, a small fishing boat is swallowed by waves as high as houses. The captain...

DEAD BY SUNSET is the extraordinary cautionary tale of Bradly Morris Cunningham, a real-estate entrepreneur whose misogyny and rampant egocentricit...

In December 1937, four respectable young men in their twenties, all products of elite English public schools, conspired to lure to the luxurious Hy...

Trevor Tanner is the man at the head of the Tottenham Massive. In this all new account of life with the firm, he reveals the emotional stress and h...

On 22nd November 1963, the 35th president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and his wife Jackie were taking part in a presidential mot...

The story begins with the emergence, in 2005, of a porcelain tea and coffee service made some 200 years ago and a cryptic note found with the servi...

The thirty-three cases in this excellent book give a unique and fascinating insight into life in the Victorian period, in Liverpool and beyond. Alt...

'A grisly treat' Financial Times'These mysteries are all the creepier for being true' TatlerBASED ON THE 'WORLD'S SPOOKIEST PODCAST' OF THE SAME NA...

In November 2009 former national and Olympic swimming coach Ger Doyle was convicted of thirty-five sexual offences against children. This is just t...

A trunk dripping blood, discovered at a railway station in Stockton in 1906, launched one of the most famous murder investigations in California...

The Mullers had a solid marriage and two wonderful children, but over the years sex had fallen low on their to-do list. The lack of intimacy wasn't...

For more than 500 years con artists have been parting the greedy, gullible, unwary or soft-hearted from their money. From the very first recorded c...

Months later, the schoolgirl was systematically groomed and raped by a group of predatory Asian men. They separated her from her friends and passed...

'People reckon my life has been glamorous. Well, if this is glamour, then they are just off their heads' Unbeknown to both of them, it was to be Ca...

What started as a patrol to combat commercial plundering of Somali fish stocks has now grown into a highly organised and lucrative business. In a w...

Drawing on extensive interviews and correspondence with many of Tann's surviving victims, Barbara Raymond shows how Tann not only popularised adopt...

Chopper turns his attention to the vicious Melbourne underworld war that began in the late 1990s and would kill more than 30 gangsters before the p...

The explosive true story of a gun for hire'Hard eyes stare out of massive beards, their faces marked by the scars of battle. With these guys their ...

The impossibly moving story of how Judy, World War Two's only animal POW, brought hope in the midst of hell.Judy, a beautiful liver and white Engli...

Britain and the world were shocked in October 1966 by live television pictures coming from a small mining village in Wales. They showed a human tra...

Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in t...

A Grim Almanac of Lancashire is a day-by-day catalogue of 365 ghastly tales from around the county dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centuri...

This absorbing collection delves into the villainous deeds that have taken place in Stirling during its long history. Cases of murder, robbery, ass...

Warm, funny and moving; the perfect summer read. For fans of Arthur, Finding Gobi and Damien Lewis' A Dog Called Hope.When Steve Jamieson met Bilbo...

I was first drawn to working in oncology while I was a student nurse at St Thomas' Hospital in London. There I met a woman who had been diagnosed w...