True stories of heroism, endurance and survival

Helene Thornton has lived a life of unequalled passion and hartache.

When mystics like Angelus Silesius speak of God, they do so from a vibrant intensity of awareness, and in a tone of voice one trusts at once.

Soldier Magazine's Book of the MonthFascinating.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Nazis spared their lives because they were twins.

Meet Micky Gluckstad.

Aged thirteen, Martha is rescued by the courts from the clutches of her evil stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, Sally.

Lance Corporal Martyn Compton's life was changed beyond recognition when he was blown up in a Taliban ambush that killed three of his colleagues.

This is an incredibly moving account of tragedy and its aftermath, as told by Gill Hicks, survivor of the London bombings in July 2005.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAROn 1 April 2011, rower and adventurer Sarah Outen set off in her kayak from Tower Bridge for France.

The impossibly moving story of how Judy, World War Two's only animal POW, brought hope in the midst of hell.

On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York, when a flock of Canada geese collided with it, destroying both of its engines.

In What the Dog Saw Malcolm Gladwell covers everything from criminology to spaghetti sauce to show how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary things about ourselves and our world.

After an idyllic early childhood in Surrey, Linda's life descended into poverty and chaos when her parents' marriage crumbled and her unstable mother's sanity declined.

Perfect for readers of Last Stop Auschwitz, The Volunteer and The Tattooist of Auschwitz'This is an extraordinary biography.

Imagine standing over a bomb - you need to make a choice.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Why did I survive when so many others did not?

* 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.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER.

An idiosyncratic, richly illustrated guide to Britain's rivers, seas and shores, for everyone who loves the water and the natural world - a Norwegian Wood for Britain's watersThis is a book for those who want to understand better how the waters surrounding us affect our daily lives, how it imperceptibly but crucially shapes our actions, and has shaped our landscape for millenia.

This is the drinker's guide to every aspect of whisky, from Scotch to Japanese, rye to bourbon and beyond.

Cold brew is taking the coffee world by storm, with its sweeter, mellower taste and potential health benefits.

An astonishing true story of mountaineering survivalOn 5 January 2003, former Special Forces soldier Ken Jones was caught in a devastating avalanche as he climbed in the frozen wilderness of Romania's Transylvanian Alps.

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.

At Warburg, Germany, in 1941, four British PoWs find an unexpected means of escape from the horrors of internment when they form a birdwatching society, and embark on an obsessive quest behind barbed wire.

This is a book in which Scots tell the truth about their national drink.

When Sandy Mitchell was arrested for his alleged involvement in two bombings in Saudi Arabia in December 2000, he thought it was a case of mistaken identity and that he would soon be released.

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

Paul Mason s father was a policeman.

On 23 October 2009, British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler were kidnapped from their sailing boat in the archipelago of the Seychelles.

When Eileen Munro's mother became pregnant at 16, she was told to give her baby away to a 'good family', but the couple who paid the fee at the Salvation Army mother-and-baby home in Glasgow in 1963 turned out to be alcoholics who neglected and physically abused Eileen.

In her bestselling memoir As I Lay Me Down to Sleep, Eileen Munro vividly documented the abuse she experienced at the hands of her adoptive parents and, later, within the care system.

In the middle of one of the worst civil wars in Syria's history, Louise Monaghan crossed a heavily guarded border to save her six-year-old daughter from the father who had callously snatched her from her home in Cyprus.

Prepare yourself for a journey into the indonesian penal system, a world where murder, torture and fights to the death are the norm.

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

No one sees clearer than an individual whose life is hanging by the finger tips on the edge of an abyss.

The very best writing on the Antarctic, from James Cook's eighteenth-century assertion that 'no man will ever venture further than I have done' to Lynne Cox's description of her epic, icy swim in the twenty-first century - 32 first-hand accounts of men and women challenging one of the Earth's last true wildernesses.

The dramatic story of the sinking of the Dunedin StarNovember 9th, 1942.

A sweeping history of 80 fascinating years.

One of the greatest escape stories of World War Two.

The Power of Suffering is psychologist David Roland's personal investigation into the nature of human suffering.

'It was all so sudden.

When Geraldine ';Gerry' Largay (AT trail name, Inchworm) first went missing on the Appalachian Trail in remote western Maine in 2013, the people of Maine were wrought with concern.

Flight for Life is the heart-stopping account of one of the most gripping rescue missions in African history.

It was a horrific car crash.

In 1910, hoping that the study of penguin eggs would provide an evolutionary link between birds and reptiles, a group of explorers left Cardiff by boat on Robert Falcon Scotts expedition to Antarctica.

A systematic approach to making intelligent use of our lives: forget the self, live more fully for others, and find happiness deep within.

This collection of survival stories recounts the harrowing true experiences of people across the globe who faced certain death-and survived.

When Geraldine ';Gerry' Largay (AT trail name, Inchworm) first went missing on the Appalachian Trail in remote western Maine in 2013, the people of Maine were wrought with concern.