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One Hundred Days by Sandy Woodward
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.00Updated for the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War, this is the bestselling, highly-acclaimed and most famous account of the conflict, written by the commander of the British Task Force. On 5 April 1982, three days after the invasion of the... -
In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired `Moby Dick' by Nathaniel Philbrick 9780006531203
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.53The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued alongside Philbrick's new paperback, Sea of Glory. The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged... -
Seconds to Snap - One Explosive Day. A Family Destroyed. My Descent into Anorexia. by Tina McGuff 9781784183820
Booksplease Price: $20.81'I can tell you exactly the day it all went wrong - the day my mum attacked my dad with a kitchen knife. In those few, short seconds, a black hole opened up in my life and I fell right in.' Tina McGuff's life was perfect - or so she thought. Living... -
Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story Pablo Vierci 9781408716397
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.78It 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 last time. A deadly miscalculation saw F571 crash directly into the Andean mountains to devastating... -
Sky's Story by Louise Allen
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $11.70When 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 hoarded compulsively, creating horrific conditions no child should live in, the two girls arrived at foster... -
The Longest Kill: The Story of Maverick 41, One of the World's Greatest Snipers by Craig Harrison
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.72Through conflicts in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan, this is the vivid memoir of British sniper Craig Harrison.It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as you wait for your target, to stay calm on a... -
Out of the Silence: After the Crash by Eduardo Strauch 9781542042956
Booksplease Price: $23.19A personal story of survival, hope, and spiritual awakening in the face of unspeakable tragedy. It's the unfathomable modern legend that has become a testament to the resilience of the human spirit: the 1972 Andes plane crash and the Uruguayan rugby... -
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Dr Maya Angelou 9780349017068
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.81A beautiful new edition of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, the iconic, beloved and deeply moving first volume of Maya Angelou's autobiography. The international classic and bestseller, Maya Angelou's memoir paints a portrait of 'a brilliant writer, a... -
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko 9781501183058
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $43.68Two friends, zero preparation, one dream. From the author of the beloved bestseller The Emerald Mile, a rollicking and poignant account of the epic misadventure of a 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of America's most magnificent national park... -
Nobody's Son: All Alex ever wanted was a family of his own by Cathy Glass
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.31Born 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 little Alex, aged 7, her immediate reaction is: Why can't he stay with his present carers for the last... -
Billy's Story by Louise Allen 9781802791181
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.44From the bestselling author of the Thrown Away Children series comes another heartbreaking story of life in foster care.Louise has trouble on her hands from the first moment that 5-year-old Billy Blackthorn comes to stay. He is one of more than 20... -
The Last Secret of the Secret Annex by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl 9781398518216
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $32.49The extraordinary, never-before-told story of Bep Voskuijl, Anne Frank’s closest friend during the 761 days she spent in the Secret Annex. Bep was just twenty-three when the Franks went into hiding and she risked her life to protect them, plunging into... -
Surviving Hell: The brutal true story of a Chennai Six prisoner by Nick Dunn
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.22'Truly remarkable' DAMIEN LEWISTrapped in a living nightmare, former-para Nick Dunn, one of the 'Chennai Six', was wrongly imprisoned in an Indian jail.While battling to be heard both at home and abroad, Nick summoned the resilience and endurance of his... -
When You Lose It: Two voices. One true story. A mother and daughter on the edge. 'A very important subject' – ITV's This Morning by Roxy Longworth 9781802792195
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.33'An extraordinary and important book. Read it immediately' Claudia Winkleman 'Superbly written, this deeply moving book underlines how truly precious mother-daughter relationships are, and never more so than in those teenage years' Gloria Hunniford 'Read... -
Malta A Childhood Under Siege by Linda Peek 9780645876109
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645876109Author Linda PeekFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Woodlands PublishingPublisher Woodlands PublishingWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 by Graham Bowley
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.12THE GRIPPING, TERRIFYING STORY OF A BRUTAL STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL ON THE UPPER SLOPES OF THE HIMALAYAN K2, THE WORLD'S MOST HOSTILE TERRAIN. 'Unputdownable. A portrait of extreme courage, folly and loss, leavened by a small dose of survival' Financial... -
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie 9781787334793
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $26.54**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman RushdieOn the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the... -
The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.07A classic of mountaineering literature, this is the story of the harrowing first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the most legendary and terrifying climb in history. Heinrich Harrer, author of 'Seven Years in Tibet' and one of the... -
Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story Serhii Plokhy 9780241681251
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.67A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARWhat if Chernobyl was just the beginning?The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of warOn 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia's full-scale... -
The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History by Kate Morgan 9780008559571
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $23.38'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement 'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory 'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' Helen Fry, historian and author of Women... -
The Greatest Escape: A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure by Neil Churches 9781529060355
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.72The gripping, vividly told story of the largest prisoner of war escape in of the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy.In August 1944, the most successful POW escape of the Second World War... -
Coming Back Alive by Spike Walker 9780312302566
Booksplease Price: $26.68On the night of January 31 1998, the fishing vessel La Conte took on water and sank off the coast of Sitka, Alaska, in what was to be the worst storm in the state's history. Abandoning ship, the five-man crew desperately clung to life - and each other -... -
Precious Scars by Julia Engelhorn
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.88"In the beginning, I lived day to day, sometimes even hour to hour. I was pleased at the end of the day, to have survived, more or less. Now I know, I am strong. Life continues, for which I am glad." For Julia Engelhorn life divides into the Before... -
When I Fell From The Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival by Juliane Koepcke
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.78**Soon to be a major film starring Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner - Girl Who Fell From the Sky**On December 24th 1971, the teenage Juliane boarded the packed flight in Peru to meet her father for Christmas. She and her mother fought to get some of the... -
To Save Every One: 200 years of RNLI courage by The RNLI 9780008613051
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.65The remarkable 200-year history of The RNLI and their invaluable role in British Maritime history. A beautiful book of kindness, courage, and community to treasure for years to come. Since 1824, people have counted on the RNLI to keep them... -
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger 9780393040166
RRP: $73.13Booksplease Price: $62.69In October 1991, three weather systems collided off the coast of Nova Scotia to create a storm of singular fury, boasting waves over one hundred feet high. Among its victims was the Gloucester, Massachusetts-based swordfishing boat the Andrea Gail, which... -
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.14In May 1996 a number of expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route. Each group contained world class climbers and relative novices, some of whom had paid tens of thousands of pounds for the climb. As they neared the summit... -
The Luckiest Thirteen: A True Story of a Battle for Survival in the North Atlantic by Brian W. Lavery 9781909954861
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $15.66A relentless nautical drama that would define, or end, men's lives.The English port city of Hull was home to 'three day millionaires' - trawlermen on brief shore leave. They were spilling cash from record catches. With months out working fierce seas, who... -
The Girl with the Saddest Secret: The True Story of a Troubled Little Girl and the Foster Carer who Gives her Hope by Angela Hart
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.97An uplifting true story from foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author, Angela Hart.Why has no one given Jasmine the safety and care she desperately needs? Angela is determined to find a solution.Jasmine is a little girl with a difficult... -
Colleen Hoover Books: The Biography of Colleen Hoover: Author of It Ends with Us by Varsity Press 9781638090236
Booksplease Price: $15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638090236Author Varsity PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Green Print PublishersPublisher Green Print PublishersWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm)... -
Franci's War: The incredible true story of one woman's survival of the Holocaust by Franci Rabinek Epstein
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.58Discover unrelenting spirit and strength in the extraordinary true story of Franci: a woman who survived the holocaust against all of the odds'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope. Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as a... -
That's Alright Mamma by Josie Dias Wallace 9781528993999
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528993999Author Josie Dias WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Sky Burial by Xinran
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and fascinated her. Several decades later Xinran met Shu Wan, a Chinese woman who had... -
Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors by Edward E. Leslie 9780395911501
RRP: $63.38Booksplease Price: $49.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395911501Author Edward E. LeslieFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 563g -
The Bad Room by Jade Kelly
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.31After years of physical and mental abuse, Jade thought her kindly foster mother would be the answer to her prayers. She was wrong ... this is her staggering true story. 'This must be what prison is like,' I thought as another hour crawled by... -
SAS: Sea King Down by Mark Aston
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.17The thrilling, edge-of-your-seat true story of one soldier's Special Forces operations in the Falklands War'BRILLIANT. A ROLLERCOASTER OF BLISTERING ACTION, SURVIVAL AND BEHIND-THE-LINES DARING' DAMIEN LEWIS________THE BIGGEST SINGLE LOSS OF LIFE FOR THE... -
A Race Too Far by Chris Eakin
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.33The true story of the tragic round-the-world yacht race - now the subject of The Mercy, starring Colin Firth and Rachel WeiszIn 1968, the Sunday Times organised the Golden Globe race-an incredible test of endurance never before attempted-a round the... -
Surviving the Storms: Extraordinary Stories of Courage and Compassion at Sea by The RNLI
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.27'There's water in the engine,' he said. 'The engine has stopped.' This changed everything... Surviving the Storms brings together incredible... -
This Isn't Love Hope Daniels 9781915306722
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.88After a life in care, with both good and bad experiences of the system, Hope knows all too well what the risks are for children in care as they approach adolescence. Lacking any sense of self-worth or belonging, children in care are often dismissed by... -
Call of the Wild: My Escape to Alaska by Guy Grieve
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.78Guy Grieve's life was going nowhere - trapped in a job he hated, commuting 2,000 miles a month and up to his neck in debt. But he dreamed of escaping it all to live alone in one of the wildest, most remote places on earth - Alaska. And just when he'd...