Survival

Jimmy Holland was born into a family suffering at the hands of their drunk and abusive father. At the age of just two weeks, he was placed into care. The beginning of a life lived in a constantly changing environment of homes, authorities and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408641Author Kathryn HeymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions

'This is an urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. Delphine Minoui has crafted a book that champions books and the individuals who risk everything to preserve them.' Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book In 2012 the rebel suburb...

'Absorbing . . . testaments such as Janina Bauman's are important and should never be allowed to fade away. The drama of Anne Frank is rightly always before us but the equally vital stories of those who suffered but survived need to be listened to with...

From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and information comes the definitive account of the dramatic story that gripped the world: the miracle rescue of twelve boys and their soccer...

'I took hold of the fence and pressed my face into the wire, asking myself what I had done to be made a prisoner?'On the Indonesian island of Java, eight-year-old Lise enjoys a happy childhood, thousands of miles away from the war raging in Europe. Then,...

'Both inspiring and disturbing, Sex Cult Nun unravels Jones' complicated upbringing, the trauma she endured as a result and her eventual path to liberation.' TIME 'A moving story about family, courage, religious...

Great explorers are known for their hard-earned skills and meticulously honed character traits which have made their astonishing endeavours possible. Valuable lessons are waiting to be learned from the feats attained by the most revered names in...

Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks-the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger-the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549...

John Peel first brought Judy's moving childhood story to light on ‘Home Truths’. Abducted by her psychotic spiritualist father and kept like a dog in the backyard, she went on to suffer at the brutal hands of nuns in a Manchester orphanage, before living...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982185763Author Mike RinderFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 160mm * 32mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915009074Author Simon SmalleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Butterworth BooksPublisher Butterworth BooksWeight(grams) 511gDimensions(mm) 214mm *...

Send Them to Hell is a horrifying, authentic chronicle of life as lived by foreign inmates over the past two decades in Bangkok's notorious prison system.Murder, human-rights abuse, drugs, blackmail, extortion, extreme violence, medical maltreatment and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451475633Author Brandon WebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 310g

What are you willing to do to survive? What are you willing to endure if it means you might live?'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope . . . Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as a stand-out memoir' Daily Express'A story that...

From the Amazon Charts bestselling author of An American Princess comes the true story of an unconventional family divided by war and prejudice during WWII. When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more different. She was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913166694Author John GuiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 582Imprint Heddon PublishingPublisher Heddon Publishing

'That night I lay in my new bed and the pain came. I thought about Irene. I would find her again. I had to.'Alan and Irene first met in a cold, regimented children's home when he was seven and she was nine. Both had lost their mothers when they were very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312206550Author William Laird McKinlayFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint GriffinPublisher GriffinWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 13mm

This powerful book will provide children with a better understanding of life in Afghanistan as Kabul fell to the Taliban. Using extracts from their collective diary on WhatsApp, kept during and following the fall of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471404200Author Scott CookmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Colin O'Brady's awe-inspiring memoir spans his triumphant recovery from a tragic accident to his gripping 932-mile solo crossing of Antarctica. Prior to December 2018, no individual had ever crossed the landmass of Antarctica...

Escaping Hitler is the true story, covering ninety years, of a fourteen-year-old boy Gunter Stern who, when Adolf Hitler threatened hisfamily, education and future, resolved to escape from his rural village of Nickenich in the German Rhineland. In July...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955913563Author Antoinette Anthony-PillaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Instant ApostlePublisher Instant Apostle

The Telling is a story of European Jewish identity set against the backdrop of the chronicles of one family, going back through history as far as Napoleonic times. Author, Daniel Tabor, tracks the experiences and changing perceptions of his family as...

A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runner-an astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women's rights in the Muslim world."She is...

'Haunting and powerfully resonant... this is a story not just of remarkable individuals, but also a tribute to the wider indomitability of the human spirit at the darkest moment in European history' - Sinclair McKay, bestselling author of Berlin and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915206008Author Phil P WoodfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Phil WoodfordPublisher Phil WoodfordWeight(grams) 481g

In this expanded edition of a widely praised book, now available for the first time in North America, the renowned journalist Patrick Cockburn looks at his experience of contracting polio as a child in the context of a new pandemic, that of COVID-19. The...

In this gripping memoir, originally published in 1957, the Dutch author, codename 'Zip', recounts her extraordinary journey. A young fighter for the resistance during World War II, Zip is captured and held prisoner as part of the 'Night and Fog' unit,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493276529Author Oren SchneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Amsterdam PublishersPublisher Amsterdam PublishersWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm)...

'Mind blowingly brilliant' PHILIPPA PERRY 'Few other writers have such passion for granular detail, intellectual heft and boundless curiosity' THE TIMES 'As suspenseful and pacy as an episode of peak-era ER' GUARDIAN A near-fatal health emergency...

Author, photographer and explorer Peter Clutterbuck's love of adventure developed as a child growing up within the British Army. Subsequently, Peter's thirst for adventure, and his work as an engineer in the energy sector, have taken him to 105 countries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986875200Author Faith BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint R. R. BowkerPublisher R. R. BowkerWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765745601Author DeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing CompanyPublisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798989820405Author Nandi CharlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Nandi CharlesPublisher Nandi CharlesWeight(grams) 118g

"My eyes are filling with tears. I'm transported back - as I often am - nearly thirteen years, to a very different place, to the lonely side of a remote Brazilian highway, to a night so dark it felt like it would swallow us, to the very first girl..." In...

Sarah Sidebottom was repeatedly raped by both her father and her brother as a child has secured justice thanks to a forgotten letter. Sarah Sidebottom, 54, was raped and sexually abused by her father, Arthur William Bowditch, and her brother, Arthur...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335454966Author Ken SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684815524Author Toni MaguireFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint MangoPublisher MangoWeight(grams) 249g