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...