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Against My Will: Groomed, trapped and abused. This is my true story of survival. by Sophie Crockett
RRP: €11.89€7.90'Asperger's made me a prisoner in my own home. When I finally entered the real world, evil was waiting.' A shocking true account of one girl's harrowing journey to survival. ... -
A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: €13.08€9.25A moving and extraordinary book about courage and survival, friendship and endurance - a portrait of ordinary women who faced the horror of the holocaust together.On an icy morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were... -
Sky Burial by Xinran
RRP: €11.89€8.46As 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... -
Tornado Down: The Centenary Collection by John Nichol
RRP: €13.08€9.25Discover the brave, shocking and remarkable true story of two RAF lieutenants' capture during the Gulf War'HEROISM UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY' Independent'THE MOST COMPELLING STORY OF THE GULF WAR' Daily Mail_________RAF Flight Lieutenants John Peters and... -
Lost Child: The True Story of a Girl who Couldn't Ask for Help by Torey Hayden 9781509864485 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€3.20From Torey Hayden, the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of One Child comes Lost Girl, a poignant and deeply moving account of a lost little girl and an extraordinary educational psychologist's courage and determination.Jessie is nine years old... -
Lost Child: The True Story of a Girl who Couldn't Ask for Help by Torey Hayden
RRP: €11.89€8.65From Torey Hayden, the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of One Child comes Lost Girl, a poignant and deeply moving account of a lost little girl and an extraordinary educational psychologist's courage and determination.Jessie is nine years old... -
Under Pressure: Living Life and Avoiding Death on a Nuclear Submarine by Richard Humphreys
RRP: €13.08€8.47'One of the finest memoirs published in recent years.' Dan Jones 'An utterly fascinating and wonderfully detailed insight into the hidden world of the modern submarine.' James Holland A candid, visceral, and incredibly... -
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day by Peter Zuckerman 9780393345414
RRP: €16.65€13.66When eleven climbers died on K2 in 2008, two Sherpas survived. Their astonishing tale became the stuff of mountaineering legend. This white-knuckle adventure follows the Sherpas from their remote villages in Nepal to the peak of the world's most... -
Groomed By A Gang by Christina O'Connor 9781915306401 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€2.62"He had raped me, had me beaten up, drained me of every last shred of self-respect. Surely he would leave me alone now? But that evening, as I was eating with my parents, the phone rang. My blood ran cold..." Christina O'Connor is the main prosecution... -
Groomed By A Gang by Christina O'Connor 9781915306401
RRP: €11.89€8.46"He had raped me, had me beaten up, drained me of every last shred of self-respect. Surely he would leave me alone now? But that evening, as I was eating with my parents, the phone rang. My blood ran cold..." Christina O'Connor is the main prosecution... -
Blood and Sand: 10th Anniversary Edition by Frank Gardner
RRP: €13.08€9.25On the June 6, 2004, while on assignment in Riyadh, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed outright. Frank was hit in the shoulder and leg. As he lay in the dust, a figure... -
The Last Secret of the Secret Annex by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl 9781398518216
RRP: €23.80€18.75The 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... -
Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother's Letter to her Son by Homeira Qaderi
RRP: €11.89€7.90An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother's unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. How far would you go to protect yourself? Your dignity?... -
And There Was Light: The Autobiography of a Blind Hero in the French Resistance by Jacques Lusseyran 9780863155079
RRP: €17.84€11.45'Light is in us even if we have no eyes.'It is a rare man who can maintain a love of life through the infirmity of blindness, the terrors of war, and the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp. Such a man was Jacques Lusseyran, a French underground... -
Another Forgotten Child by Cathy Glass
RRP: €10.70€7.16A new memoir from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass. Eight-year-old Aimee was on the child protection register at birth. Her five older siblings were taken into care many years ago. So no one can understand why she... -
No Comment: What I Wish I'd Known About Becoming A Detective by Jess McDonald
RRP: €20.22€13.415 ***** Mail on Sunday 'An absolutely gripping read' Andrew Marr 'Probably the most important book on the state of British policing you'll ever read' Graham Bartlett Jess McDonald was a true crime junkie and Line of Duty sofa sleuth with a... -
One Hundred Days by Sandy Woodward
RRP: €20.22€13.65Updated 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... -
How Shostakovich Changed My Mind by Stephen Johnson 9781912559206
RRP: €11.89€9.72Through interviews conducted with surviving members of Soviet orchestras, through his reading of philosophers, psychoanalysts, and neurologists, Johnson paints a compelling picture of one man's music and its power to validate and sustain another man's... -
A Delayed Life: The true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz by Dita Kraus
RRP: €15.46€10.82The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of AuschwitzBorn in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Here, Dita writes... -
The Uncaged Sky: My 804 days in an Iranian prison by Kylie Moore-Gilbert
RRP: €11.89€8.15'The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free.'The Uncaged Sky is Kylie Moore-Gilbert's remarkable story of courage and resilience, and a powerful meditation on hope, solidarity and what it means to be free. On 12 September 2018... -
Keeping My Sisters' Secrets: A True Story of Sisterhood, Hardship, and Survival by Beezy Marsh
RRP: €11.89€8.46The Sunday Times Bestseller and #1 international bestseller'A moving and bittersweet story' Sun Keeping My Sister's Secrets by Beezy Marsh is the heartwarming true story of three sisters and their fearless fight to survive the hardships of poverty and... -
Operation Mayhem by Steve Heaney
RRP: €11.89€8.09'Captures the confusion, black humour, raw courage and sheer exhilaration of combat brilliantly' THE TIMES'Read this account of his stint with the 26-man strong X Platoon in the sweltering jungle, living on grubs, outnumbered 80 to one, battling heavily... -
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Man Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
RRP: €13.08€8.63The worst storm in history seem from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape. The 'perfect storm' is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high... -
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand 9780007580576
RRP: €13.08€9.39The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER In 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Against all odds, one young lieutenant... -
Hope Not Fear: Finding My Way from Refugee, to Filmmaker to NHS Hospital Cleaner by Hassan Akkad
RRP: €22.60€16.20A poignant and powerful memoir from BAFTA award-winning filmmaker, Syrian refugee, hospital cleaner and activist, Hassan Akkad.I've experienced the best and worst of humanity. I've been detained and beaten, and welcomed and respected. And yet, this story... -
The Pursuit Of Happyness by Chris Gardner 9780060744878
RRP: €11.89€7.90Soon to be a major film starring Will Smith, this is the inspiring rags-to-riches story of the charismatic Chris Gardner, a once homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and then went on to become a crown... -
Escape from St-Valery-en-Caux: The Adventures of Captain B.C. Bradford by Andrew Bradford 9781803995922
RRP: €19.03€14.58The dramatic story of Captain Bill Bradford, Adjutant of the 1st Battalion Black Watch, compiled using diaries and letters, coded messages and correspondence between his family and the War Office in their desperate effort to hear news of his safety... -
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 by Graham Bowley
RRP: €13.08€9.25THE 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... -
Snatched by Elizabeth Harper
RRP: €10.70€7.16Groomed and procured by a woman, raped by several men and labelled 'one of the most abused girl in Rotherham', now Elizabeth Harper is fighting for answers as to why so many people paid to protect our children simply turned a blind eye. ... -
The Never Ending Journey: Living with Brain Injury by Antoinette Anthony-Pillai 9780955913563
€9.95Apologies 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 -
Bright Lights, Prairie Dust: Reflections on Life, Loss, and Love from Little House's Ma by Karen Grassle 9781647423131
RRP: €15.46€11.64Karen Grassle, the beloved actress who played Ma on Little House on the Prairie, grew up at the edge of the Pacific Ocean in a family where love was plentiful but alcohol wreaked havoc. In this candid memoir, Grassle reveals her journey to succeed as an... -
The Girl in the Dark: The True Story of Runaway Child with a Secret. A Devastating Discovery that Changes Everything. by Angela Hart 9781529004151
RRP: €15.46€9.58The true story of runaway child with a secret. A devastating discovery that changes everything.Melissa is a sweet-natured girl with a disturbing habit of running away and mixing with the wrong crowd. After she's picked up by the police, and with nowhere... -
Bad Karma: The True Story of a Mexican Surf Trip from Hell by Paul Wilson 9780578579061
RRP: €14.22€10.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578579061Author Paul WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Paul WilsonPublisher Paul WilsonWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 15mm -
The Traitor of Colditz by Robert Verkaik
RRP: €23.80€14.34'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating read' Sunday Telegraph'Brilliant ... An amazing story, one I hadn't heard too much about' Dan SnowIT IS THE DEPTHS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.The... -
When You Lose It by Roxy Spiegel
RRP: €20.22€11.40'Read this book. Then talk to your sons. It is essential reading' Jamie Theakston 'An extraordinary and important book. Read it immediately' Claudia Winkleman 'Superbly written, this deeply moving book underlines how truly precious mother-daughter... -
Six Years a Hostage: The Extraordinary Story of the Longest-Held Al Qaeda Captive in the World by Stephen McGown
RRP: €15.46€8.94THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE LONGEST-HELD AL QAEDA CAPTIVE IN THE WORLDStephen McGown was en route from London to South Africa, on a once-in-a-lifetime trip by motorbike, returning home to Johannesburg. He had reached Timbuktu, in Mali, when he was... -
Skeletons On The Zahara by Dean King
RRP: €11.89€8.46The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub. On 28 August 1815 the US brig Commerce was dashed against Mauritania's Cape Bojador and lost, although through bravery... -
The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible by John Geiger
RRP: €13.08€8.71The Third Man Factor tells the revealing story behind an extraordinary idea: that people at the very edge of death, often adventurers or explorers, experience a benevolent presence beside them who encourages them to make one final effort to survive. If... -
Standing on the Shoulders: Incredible Heroes and How They Inspire Us by Dan Walker, Jr. 9781472291288
RRP: €13.08€8.81'SUCH AN INCREDIBLE READ' ZOE BALL'ONE OF THE YEAR'S MOST INSPIRING BOOKS' HOLLY WILLOUGHBYWith a foreword by 2021 Strictly Come Dancing winner Rose Ayling-Ellis, and including chapters on Rose and her mum, the 3 Dads Walking, Martin Hibbert, Paul and... -
Unbroken: One Woman's Journey to Rebuild a Life Shattered By Violence. A True Story of Survival and Hope by Madeleine Black 9781786062765
RRP: €13.08€8.89For many years after that night, my memories of what happened after he held the blade to my throat and threatened my life were fragmented...difficult to piece together. It was too extreme, too violent for me to understand. Living in a state of shock and...