True stories of heroism, endurance and survival

This poignant story of survival, friendship, and love begins with the the author's childhood during the Holocaust in Hungary.

Through the lives of three outstanding naval officers - each considered the most brilliant commander of his generation - David Crane offers a unique portrait of the Royal Navy at a time when it held unchallenged dominion over the world's oceans.

Kurt and Sonja Messerschmidt were among the last Jews deported from Nazi Berlin.

This classic sea story recounts Frank Dye's intrepid voyagesin his open 16ft Wayfarer dinghy to Iceland and Norway, which must rankamong the most hazardous sea adventures of our time.

This is the story of a father, as seen through the prism of a daughter's memories of him.

'A highly readable and spiritually uplifting book about a dream come true' Wanderlust 'Touching and memorable .

From the moment I am born, I am like no-one else around me.

100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood.

"e;Soul of the Hurricane is a remarkable debut from a singular storyteller.

This is the extraordinary story of the author's twenty year quest to find gold coins which his father's family buried in their backyard in Poland just prior to being deported by the Nazis into concentration camps.

Gruenwald paints his life story onto the larger canvas of some of the great conflicts and movements of the twentieth century.

In 1977 Eamonn Cooke was a household name in Ireland.

'Corporal Baird was a modern-day warrior who set a standard that every soldier aspires to achieve.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'This book is beautiful .

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Run or Die by Kilian Jornet - the autobiography of the world's most dominating athlete in ultra runningShortlisted for the 2014 William Hill Sports Book of the Year AwardNational Geographic Adventurer of the Year 2014Marca Legend Award 2014 'This man can run 100 miles.

'In many ways we were an ordinary family: mum, dad, two kids, three dogs, one rabbit, two guinea pigs.

Abandoned by her mother, who left to pursue a career as a camp guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau, loathed by her step-mother, cooped up in a cellar, starved, parched, lonely amidst the fetid crush of her neighbours, Helga Schneider endured the horrors of wartime Berlin.

Josep Pla is Catalonia's foremost twentieth-century prose writer.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'I'd been in so many scrapes with Theo and he'd always saved me.

'I squeezed through the narrow gap and out into the hallway and I stood for a moment, unable to decide where to go.

AS HEARD ON DESERT ISLAND DISCSAS SEEN ON THE CHANGEMAKERS, a Paramount+ docuseries profiling activists fighting for changeA WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR'A riveting story of loss, exile, and rebirth.

A 2021Daily TelegraphBook of the YearWinner of the Overseas Press Club of Americas Cornelius Ryan Award Everyone should read the testimonies of the Chibok girls who survived the capture.

____________________________________Liz Murray never really had a chance in life.

One October night in 1975 Richard, aged five, was alone in the house with his three sisters.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, an extraordinary story of redemption in the darkest of places.

Help your daughter fulfil her potential and achieve success in a challenging world.

A crab boat off Newfoundland catches fire, and a rescue is undertaken by helicopter.

I stood on the beach truly alone for the first time.

2022 National Jewish Book Award Finalist in Autobiography & Memoir;2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist; anda 2022 WNBA Great Group Reads SelectionLike a Drop of Ink in a Downpouris more ambitious than the average memoir.

Determined to cover the Syrian regime's brutal crackdown on dissent and the devastating impact of the war on Syria's civilians, veteran photographer Paul Conroy and Marie Colvin, one of the foremost war correspondents of her generation, decided to smuggle themselves across enemy lines and into the blood and terror of Homs.

The satanic sex ring takes place around a quarry, near your friend s house.

From Darkness to Light is a compilation of personal testimonies of six Holocaust survivors, written in a short story format.

In July 2003 young Englishman Tig Hague was on a routine business trip to Moscow when he was arrested at the airport.

Based on the powerful true story of Auschwitz prisoner number 3444 Wilhelm Brasse, whose photographs helped to expose the atrocities of the Holocaust.

He pushed open the door, and I saw that he was pulling something out of a bag he was carrying.

Originally published in 1955, this must be one of the most dramatic adventures of our time.

Growing up with him was like being in my own war zone, living in perpetual fear of when the bombs would fall.

From the bestselling author of Jupiter's Travels and Dreaming of Jupiter comes an entertaining and inspiring new journey round Britain.

Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin, Martha has to be a fighter from the very start.

In the tradition of 'Agent Zigzag' comes a breathtaking biography of WWII's 'Scarlet Pimpernel' as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the best spy thrillers.

Irish singing star Daniel O'Donnell's mother, Julia, grew up on a remote island off the northwest coast of Ireland, going barefoot and doing hard labour as as child during the poverty-stricken 1920s.

Discover 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 John Nichol were shot down over enemy territory on their first mission of the Gulf War.

Written by and for teens and young adults with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (NLD), as well as for their parents, teachers, therapists, and others who care about them, and backed by the latest neuropsychological research, NLD from the Inside Out offers hundreds of useful tips on: - Organization and planning, including study skills- How to successfully navigate the transition from dependent child to independent adult - Creating more harmonious family and peer relationships- Changing disabling attitudes.

* Winner of the 2024 National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature * Winner of the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Air Mail, Smithsonian Magazine, and Financial Times ';A triumph.

'I was filled with apprehension about crossing the front line, but I would have risked my life to save just one child.

The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away on the most remarkable feat of science and daring of the Jazz Age, The Stowaway is ';a thrilling adventure that captures not only the making of a man but of a nation' (David Grann, bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon).