True stories: general

The V Force consisted of three four-jet bombers, the Valiant, the Vulcan and the Victor, all required as part of the nuclear deterrent in the Cold War following the end of the Second World War.

Exquisite and sumptuous, immaculately tailored, dignified and, above all, practical.

15 beautiful embroidery projects from the era of Jane Austen.

'We were just sacks of flesh existing as punchbags for their rage, or toys for their entertainment'Chris Wild lost his dad aged 11, leaving him to grow up in the care system.

Hatton Garden.

A man alone in a bedsit with a young woman friend, who suddenly unleashes a deadly onslaught, without warning or reason.

Meet Micky Gluckstad.

The Sunday Times and Irish Times bestseller, as featured in the Sunday Independent'You're all fallen women.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, with an updated chapter from Denise.

Stranger In My Heart is about the search for understanding oneself, answering the question "e;Who am I?

From a young age, Lucy Nichol has always been on edge.

Wine was produced in Burgundy and Bordeaux by the Romans and almost certainly by the Celts before them.

Jeff Bauman woke up on 16th April 2013, in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing his legs.

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING BENICIO DEL TORO, PRODUCED BY LEONARDO DICAPRIOCuba, 1961.

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A shocking expose of the appalling abuse and experimentation carried out on vulnerable children at Aston Hall Hospital, Derbyshire, in the 60s and 70s.

Mark Williams led a content life; from a working-class background, he worked his way up into a promising career and then met the love of his life.

Fifty stories of adventure and exploration over more than two hundred years of human history.

On June 25th, 2009, the world was rocked by the tragic, shocking news that Michael Jackson - the biggest and most influential music icon since Elvis Presley - was pronounced dead on arrival at a Los Angeles hospital.

A risky reportage of the modern city's streets and its dark markets.

The extraordinary true story of Solomon Northup, a free African-American living in New York in 1841, who was kidnapped, sold into slavery, and subjected to unimaginable degradation and abuse until his rescue 12 years later.

They called Meyer Lansky the Godfather of the Godfathers, the Chairman of the Board of the National Crime Syndicate, the Mafia's banker.

It was 1973 and the bomb that exploded at the Railway Station triggered a memory for Janet Foster, taking her back in time to the 1950’s when she was a young girl.

The story of a young Australian adventurer, Edward Presgrave, who enlisted in an irregular unit in the Boer War and stayed on in the Northern part of the Cape Colony to fight alongside Jakob Morengo and the Nama peoples in their epic guerrilla war against the Germans in German Southwest Africa, or present day Namibia.

Ever since its publication in 2007, Eric MacLeod's memoir of his young family's years reconstructing and living in one of the most remote crofthouses in Scotland has remained one of our most popular titles, selling mostly in Scotland but travelling far and worldwide thanks to the area's many visitors.

The definitive version of one of the greatest books ever written.

'We took some prisoners and tied them up on the airstrip and left them out in the sun to die.

Officially the war in Laos did not exist - both North Vietnam and the USA denied they had troops there.

An inspirational read that will take you to one of the last great frontiers, the mighty Mt McKinley, and an expedition that not only challenged a team of British Mountaineers both physically, mentally and morally, but a trip that nearly cost them their lives.

Here is an outstanding personal memoir penned by a German infantry officer recalling his experiences during the initial days and weeks of the war in the West, July-September 1914.

Charles 'Lucky' Luciano was a vicious mobster who rose to become the multimillionaire king of the New York underworld.

Philip Carlo's successful and acclaimed books reveal the truth about notorious characters such as LA serial killer Richard Ramirez, Mafia contract killer Richard Kuklinski and crime-family boss Anthony Casso.

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

In the spring of 1892, Frank G.

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.

British Antarctic Expedition 1910 - 1913.

This is the story of the most successful cocaine dealers in the world: Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Jorge Luis Ochoa Vasquez, Carlos Lehder Rivas and Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha.

Published in the 1920s, this is a fascinating and engrossing account of the southern prison system as told by a man on the inside.

On New Year's Eve in New Orleans, 1972, Mark Essex began one of the most violent and deadly sniper attacks on policemen that any American city had ever seen.

"e;Self-published in 1918, The Mother of the Hoboes is an extremely rare book about the life of train vagabonds culled from the personal experiences of A-No.

First published in 1914, this detailed account of female hobos is a rare and beautiful example of early American storytelling.

It is recommended the reader drink moonshine before reading this hardnosed edition of A No.

Connie Krauser Chaney had a troubled childhood that she hoped to escape by creating her own stable and caring family.