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Evil Relations (formerly published as Witness): The Man Who Bore Witness Against the Moors Murderers by David Smith
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92The chief prosecution witness in the Moors Murders trial gives his account of the case after more than four decades of silenceDespite standing as chief prosecution witness in the Moors Murders... -
The Cancer Enigma: Cracking the Code by Jane Ridder-Patrick 9781840185300 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $5.33The Success Through the Zodiac Series goes far beyond the Sun signs to provide penetrating and eerily accurate insights into readers' personalities. In addition to an in-depth analysis of the Sun... -
Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes by Martha Long
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin, Martha has to be a fighter from the very start.As her mother moves from man to man, and more children follow, they live hand-to-mouth... -
The Dodger: The Extraordinary Story of Churchill's Cousin and the Great Escape by Tim Carroll 9781780576060 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $2.53The Dodger is the long-awaited story of Johnny Dodge, a wartime hero and a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the legendary Hollywood film The Great Escape.Of all the Allied prisoners... -
Manx Murders: 150 Years of Island Madness, Mayhem and Manslaughter by Keith Wilkinson 9781840186925
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.19A beautiful island lying in the northern part of the Irish Sea between England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, the Isle of Man was once a popular holiday destination. It is perhaps better known today... -
Trouble in Mind: An Autobiography by Bernard O'Mahoney 9781845967789
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Trouble in Mind is bernard o'mahoney's unblinkingly honest account of his eventful life so far. Growing up in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, O'Mahoney regularly bore the brunt of his father's psychotic... -
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story Of A Real Fake by Frank Abagnale
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous... -
The Cocaine Diaries: A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare by Jeff Farrell
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81'It won't happen to me. That's what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did - I got caught.'Caught smuggling half a million euros' worth of cocaine, Paul Keany was sexually... -
The Ghost That Haunted Itself: The Gruesome Ghoul of Edinburgh's Greyfriars Graveyard Jan-Andrew Henderson 9781840184822
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Greyfrair's Cemetery in Edinburgh has a centuries old reputation for being haunted. Its gruesome history includes use as a mass prison, headstone removal, witchcraft, bodysnatching, desecration,... -
The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood by Eugenie Fraser
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92The House by the Dvina is the riveting story of two families separated in culture and geography but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage. It includes episodes as romantic and dramatic as any... -
JFK: The Second Plot by Matthew Smith 9781840185010 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $3.50A tale of conspiracy and corruption-the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1963 remains one of the greatest mysteries of the twentieth century. At the centre of the puzzle... -
William Wallace: Brave Heart by James A. Mackay 9781851588237 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $3.14Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history's greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas - a shadowy figure whose edges have been blurred by myth and legend. Even the date and place... -
Under and Alone: Infiltrating the World's Most Violent Motorcycle Gang by William Queen
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.81When veteran law-enforcement officer and lifelong motorcycle lover William Queen penetrated the San Fernando chapter of the notorious Mongols, he was at the mercy of psychopaths who sought to have... -
Red Machine: Liverpool FC in the '80s: The Players' Stories Simon Hughes 9781780576916
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81During the 1980s, Liverpool Football Club dominated English football, winning six league titles, two European Cups, two FA Cups and four League Cups. In Red Machine, Simon Hughes interviews some of... -
Ma, Jackser's Dyin Alone Martha Long 9781780576770
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.81On hearing that Jackser, her childhood abuser, is seriously ill, Martha is elated, thinking that finally she will be able to watch him suffer. But in the hospital she sees a frightened, lonely old... -
Sex, Lies and Handlebar Tape: The Remarkable Life of Jacques Anquetil, the First Five-Times Winner of the Tour de France Paul Howard 9781910948002
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Sex, Lies and Handlebar Tape is the astonishing biography of French cycling star Jacques Anquetil. For the first time since his death in 1987, it reveals the extraordinary truth behind the legend,... -
William Wallace: Brave Heart by James A. Mackay 9781851588237
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $15.29Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history's greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas - a shadowy figure whose edges have been blurred by myth and legend. Even the date and place... -
The Damage Done: Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison by Warren Fellows 9781840182750 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $2.95Think about the most wretched day of your life. Maybe it was when someone you loved died, or when you were badly hurt in an accident, or a day when you were so terrified you could scarcely bear it... -
Colin Bell - Reluctant Hero: The Autobiography of a Manchester City and England Legend Ian Cheeseman 9781845960872
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.81Most Manchester City supporters regard Colin Bell as their club's best ever player. He graced the midfield during their greatest years as they won all domestic and European honours, and represented... -
Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War by Gerry Docherty
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.62Think you know about British history and the causes of the First World War? Think again. This fascinating and gripping study of events at the turn of the Twentieth Century is a remarkable insight... -
After They Killed Our Father: A Refugee from the Killing Fields Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind by Loung Ung 9781845963088 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.23In 1980, at the age of ten, Loung Ung escaped a devastated Cambodia and flew to the US as a refugee. She and her eldest brother, with whom she escaped, left behind their three surviving siblings, and... -
Great Glasgow Stories John Burrowes 9781845966782
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.81Few cities in the world abound with so many extraordinary stories as Glasgow. The city has been the silent witness to some of the most significant events of the past century, from major triumphs to... -
Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran and the Last Great Era of Boxing by George Kimball
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07Sports fans and boxing enthusiasts alike will love this compelling study of the resurgence of boxing in the early 1980s - and the four 'greats' who effected that change. Four Kings captures the... -
Bare-Arsed Banditti: The Men of the '45 Maggie Craig 9781910948309
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'Deftly told' The HeraldThey were modern men, the soldiers of the '45: doctors and lawyers, students and teachers, gardeners and weavers. These are the men often written out of history, or else... -
Young Blood: The Inside Story of How Street Gangs Hijacked Britain's Biggest Drugs Cartel Graham Johnson 9781780576763
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.45'The young bloods did not care whether they killed criminals or civilians . . .' The Cartel is Britain's biggest drugs gang, a global corporation employing thousands of criminals and flooding Britain... -
Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero Richard Bath 9781845967086
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a Legion d'honneur and a papal knighthood for his heroics during the Second World War, Sir Tommy Macpherson is the most decorated living soldier of... -
Essex Boys, The New Generation by Bernard O'Mahoney
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71In December 1995, three key members of the infamous Essex Boys firm were executed in their Range Rover after being lured to a deserted farm track by the promise of a lucrative drug deal. The police... -
Rogue Warrior of the SAS: The Blair Mayne Legend by Martin Dillon
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81More than half a century after his death, Lt Col. Robert Blair Mayne is still regarded as one of the greatest soldiers in the history of military special operations. He was the most decorated British... -
Nobody Beats Us: The Inside Story of the 1970s Wales Rugby Team by David Tossell 9781845967314 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.97In the 1970s, an age long before World Cups, rugby union to the British public meant Bill McLaren, rude songs and, most of all, Wales. Between 1969 and 1979, the men in red shirts won or shared eight... -
The Ferris Conspiracy by Paul Ferris
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92On Glasgow's meanest streets life started well for the young Paul Ferris. How did he become Glasgow's most feared gangster, deemed a risk to national security?Arthur Thompson, Godfather of the crime...Qty in Cart: 0Price:RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Subtotal: -
The Cartel: The Inside Story of Britain's Biggest Drugs Gang by Graham Johnson
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81A global workforce. Billions in sales. But, unlike Tesco or BP, few have heard of it. The Cartel is Britain's biggest drugs organisation, a shadowy network stretching from the freezing, fog-banks of... -
The Real Gorbals Story: True Tales from Glasgow's Meanest Streets by Colin MacFarlane
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Colin MacFarlane was born in the Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of No Mean City, the classic novel about pre-war life in what was once Glasgow's most deprived district. He lived... -
The Virgo Enigma: Cracking the Code by Jane Ridder-Patrick 9781840185317
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.61The Success Through the Zodiac Series goes far beyond the Sun signs to provide penetrating and eerily accurate insights into readers' personalities. In addition to an in-depth analysis of the Sun... -
Polly: The True Story Behind Whisky Galore by Roger Hutchinson 9781840180718 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.75Early on a wartime winter's morning in 1941, an 8,000-ton cargo ship loaded with whisky ran aground in the beautiful and treacherous seas of the Outer Hebrides. The events which followed became the... -
Glasgow: Tales of the City by John Burrowes
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81Not only has Glasgow produced some incredible personalities, it has also been witness to some of the greatest happenings of our times. These outstanding people and epoch-making events are featured in... -
The Ghost Runner: The Tragedy of the Man They Couldn't Stop Bill Jones 9781845966065
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79The mystery man threw off his disguise and started to run. Furious stewards gave chase. The crowd roared.A legend was born. Soon the world would know him as 'the ghost runner'. John Tarrant. The... -
Irish: The Remarkable Saga of a Nation and a City by John Burrowes
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81Irish is the story of the mass migration from Ireland to Glasgow that took place in the wake of the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century. It is an epic account of the coming together of a... -
Ma, It's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed Martha Long 9781845965822
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63In this latest instalment of Martha Long's real-life account of abuse, deprivation and cruelty at the hands of her mother's partner and the establishment, Martha is now 16 and her time at the convent... -
Soldier Five: The Real Truth About The Bravo Two Zero Mission Mike Coburn 9781840189070
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.81SOLDIER FIVE is an elite soldier's explosive memoir of his time within the Special Air Service (SAS) and, in particular, his experiences during the 1991 Gulf War. As a member of the Special Forces... -
Ghostly Tales and Sinister Stories of Old Edinburgh by Alan J. Wilson 9781851584567
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.71Over a hundred gripping tales - of murder and mystery, ghosts and ghouls, body-snatching and witch-burning - reveal the darker side of genteel Edinburgh's history. Ghostly Tales and Sinister Stories...