True stories of heroism, endurance and survival

Sometimes the most unlikely of friendships are the ones that save us.

A formally audacious and deeply moving memoir in three timeframes that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a father and son.

The powerful, refreshingly honest, first-hand account of a childhood spent in the Care system.

In the misty dawn of January 31, 1921, a Coast Guardsman on watch at the Cape Hatteras Life-Saving Station sighted a mighty five-masted schooner, all sails set, wrecked on the treacherous Diamond Shoals.

The Sunshine State has an exceptionally stormy past.

Theresa was a normal happy little girl till one day her whole world came crashing down.

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

During the American Revolution and the border conflicts that followed, Simon Girty's name struck terror into the hearts of U.

For the most part, there was nothing particularly unusual about Jean Potter's life.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDMussolini was not only ruthless: he was subtle and manipulative.

Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps.

**THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED BBC DRAMA THREE GIRLS ** What do they find attractive about me?

'This riveting account spares none of the detail and paints fascinating portraits of the desperate young pirates.

Haatchi and Little B tells the inspiring and moving true story of Owen Howkins (also known as Little B, short for 'Buddy') and Haatchi, an Anatolian shepherd dog who was abandoned on a railway line as a puppy and left for dead.

Abandoned as a baby, Andy McNab's start in life was tough.

At just five years old, Dana learned that there was no one she could trust.

'Why did you leave me?

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

This moving memoir tells the story of how a young woman descended into the world of prostitution and drug abuse, yet found the strength to rebuild her life.

Brought up amid near-Dickensian squalour in the tough East End of Glasgow and sexually abused by her uncle, Janey married into a Glasgow criminal family as a teenager, then found herself having to cope with the murder of her mother, violence, religious sectarianism, abject poverty and a frightening family of in-laws.

On the eve of World War II, the Squalus, America's newest submarine, plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic.

Melanie Klein gives a detailed account of the analysis of a ten year old boy, Richard.

A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate, Give Me Everything You Have chronicles the author s strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student, a self-styled verbal terrorist , who began trying, in her words, to ruin him .

On 11 September 2001, in a caf in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers collapsed.

"e;I want to die at a hundred years old after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.

I don't feel sorry for myself.

With an introduction by Henry Marsh, author of Do No HarmMy brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active.

On Ken Follett's Facebook page Pan Macmillan created a storybank, as a place for readers to upload their own, real-life stories of World War Two.

Now a major motion picture, directed by George Clooney.

'A brilliant read.

'An epic story of hardship, friendship and faith.

A heartbreaking and moving true story of two sisters separated at birth, and their journey towards finding each other, celebrating the true meaning of family.

'To read this book is to understand Afghanistan as it exists today.

In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America.

When disaster struck at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Dennis Smith was among the first to arrive on the scene.

On July 4, 1990, eighteen-year-old Stacey Lannert shot and killed her father, who had been sexually and emotionally abusing her since she was eight.

'If you say anything to your mother, I'll tell her it was your brother.

A young girl at the mercy of her abusive stepfather and the religious community that protects him - Bad Things in the Night is a moving true story of pain and triumph.

Dyslexia is a common diagnosable condition that is estimated to affect at least one child in ten.

Traumatised by a terrible event in her childhood, Carla van Raay entered a convent at the age of eighteen.

The mountain paths are as treacherous as they are steep the more so in the dark and in winter.

It seemed like any other season on Mount Everest.

'You'd tell me if Daddy touched your private parts, wouldn't you, Carolina?

Cry Salty Tears is the tale of a mother's survival and eventual triumph over almost unbelievable domestic hardship.

On 29 March 1912, as Scott and his two companions lay dying in their tent, elsewhere on the polar ice-cap six members of his ill-fated expedition were fighting for their lives.

____________________________________Liz Murray never really had a chance in life.

Badly wounded at the battle of Arnhem, and then spirited from his hospital bed by the Dutch Resistance, Brigadier John Hackett spent the winter of 1944 in Nazi-occupied Holland, hidden by a Dutch family, at great risk to their own lives, in a house a stone's throw from a German military police billet.

The Dari n Gap is a place of legend.

On the June 6, 2004, while on assignment in Riyadh, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by Islamist gunmen.