True stories of survival of abuse and injustice

**WINNER OF THE 2019 MOORE PRIZE ****THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** A riveting account of the multiple outrages of the criminal justice system of Alabama.

"e;I'm not going to let you go.

A dazzlingly original memoir, Paper Cuts takes us inside the mind of a young Oxford academic devastated by severe mental illness.

He was our abusive father.

He manipulated me by making me feel special then duped me into thinking I was to blame.

Our world as it once was In August 2014, Farida was, like any ordinary teenager, enjoying the last days of summer before her final year at school.

Sent to an Industrial School in Dublin at the age of seven, Patrick Touher was forced into a tough regime of education and training, prayer and punishment, strict discipline and fearful nights.

'A kind, tough, brave, important little story .

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.

'Under Their Roof.

Heart-rending, shocking and totally gripping, The Slave Across the Street is the incredible true story of how an ordinary girl was lured into the sinister world of human trafficking - and how she eventually escaped and rebuilt her life.

No Cake, No Jam is the heart-warming true story of a little girl s London childhood during the Blitz, and of how she rose above adversity through sheer guts and strength of character.

THE BOOK BEHIND THE MAJOR BBC SERIESNow updated and including previously unseen photographs.

The incredible true story of a place where animals heal and children learn to hope When I started The Gentle Barn, some viewed it as a hobby or an obsession, some as an act of selfless devotion.

'Why did you leave me?

'I promised that I would one day write a book and tell the world about the home for unmarried mothers.

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.

Colleen Stan was a sweet-natured, lively twenty-year-old when she set out to hitchhike from her home in Washington to Southern California.

In Truevine, Virginia, in 1899 everyone the Muse brothers knew was either a former slave, or a child or grandchild of slaves.

With an introduction by author Eimear McBride.

Les Cummings was three when he was sent to the Children's Cottage Homes in Portsmouth.

The true story of Donna Ford, who between the ages of five and eleven was abused by her stepmother Helen.

'In retrospect, I can see I was the perfect candidate for child abuse.

'I heard a horrible screaming sound, like an animal being slaughtered .

This edition has been repackages and resized to coincide with the B format publication of Brother Andrew's latest best-seller SECRET BELIEVERS.

Quiet and polite, obsessively neat, clean and tidy, eight-year-old Tom is unlike any child Maggie has ever fostered before.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Want to know the truth about what life is like as a mum and step-mum with a chaotic patchwork family?

Eleven-year-old Leanne is out of control.

When foster carer Maggie Hartley meets Sean and Sheila, they're facing every parent's worst nightmare.

When sixteen-year-old Jess arrives on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep with her newborn son Jimmy, she has nowhere else to go.

The Sunday Times BestsellerAt just ten years old, Kirsty has already suffered a lifetime of heartache and suffering.

'Nobody wants you, so we have to put up with you.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON'A stunning book' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Dazzling' TARA WESTOVER'A story about hope, imagination and resilience'GUARDIANAn award-winning, inspiring memoir of family, education and resilience.

My brother Patrick remembers my first beating, of which I assume I was completely unaware.

The past they tried to hide.

An unforgettable true story of friendship, loyalty, violence and revenge, set against the unmistakable backdrop of New York City.

Leaving his abusive Irish boarding school after eight long years, Patrick Touher thought his troubles were over.

You've seen Manhunt, now read this powerful and personal account from Milly Dowler's sister Gemma .

As featured in Geoffrey Wansell's UPCOMING TRUE CRIME TV series, Murder By The Sea on CBS Reality .

The heartbreaking but inspiring true story of a childhood of abuse, and finding a way out of the darkness.

Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale.

'Compelling, urgent and devastating.

'Brave and groundbreaking' - Lori Gottlieb, psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.

The brand new John Rebus thriller from the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin: one of the must-read books of the year.

PART 2 OF 3After taking a few weeks off work, Casey is presented with a new foster child: 14-year-old Elise, whose Mum left her at just five years old.

The revelatory and urgent story of how an explosion of misogyny is driving a surge of mass and far-right violence throughout the Westfrom an internationally recognized extremism expert and media commentatorWhat two things do most mass shooters, terrorists, or violent extremists have in common?

Davey Sommers should've ended up in a nice job, with a nice wife, living in a nice house.

Cynthia Owen grew up in Ireland, went to the local convent school, said her prayers and took her first communion with all the other girls in her class.