True stories: general

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Growing up in Rhodesia in the 1960s, Peter Godwin inhabited a magical and frightening world of leopard-hunting, lepers, witch doctors, snakes and forest fires.

Scratch the surface of any family and you will find stories of intrigue, abuse and illegitimacy.

As never before.

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

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE FIVEIn this gripping examination of one of the most infamous murders of the twentieth century, prizewinning social historian Hallie Rubenhold gives voice to those who have never properly been heard the women.

'Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in.

'Riveting.

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

Coming to cinemas in November 2019, under the title LE MANS '66 ____________________In the 1960s Enzo Ferrari emerged as the dominant force in sports cars in the world, creating speed machines that were unbeatable on the race track.

Der True-Crime-Bestseller von Michael Tsokos in einer Taschenbuchneuausgabe!

Heard the one about the airline that has introduced 'corpse cupboards' on new planes to cope with the number of people who die in the air?

Brought up as female for fifteen years, Jon can remember feeling different from other girls since he was only five years old.

A crime scene.

THE BEST-SELLING TRUE CRIME BOOK IN HISTORY-----------------------------As seen in the new hit Netflix show Conversations with a Killer: The Charles Manson Tapes-----------------------------The shocking true story of the Tate-LaBianca murders, revealed in this harrowing, terrifying book penned by the prosecutor who finally put Charles Manson behind bars.

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.

'Of all the gifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat, ' wrote David Maurer, a proposition he definitively proved in The Big Con.

Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA programme had an idea - a romantic, albeit crazy, idea.

AN IMPOSSBLE CHOICEJorge Salcedo was trapped.

'Utterly compulsive' Daily Telegraph'A gripping gothic read' Sarah Hall, Guardian'So seductive .

'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.

In his bestselling book Join Me, Danny Wallace instructs his legions of followers to perform a 'Random Act of Kindness' every Friday.

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

The Lives Less Ordinary series brings you the most exciting, adventurous and entertaining true-life writing that is out there, for men who are time-poor but want the best.

The Lives Less Ordinary series brings you the most exciting, adventurous and entertaining true-life writing that is out there, for men who are time-poor but want the best.

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

'Superb.

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

In the brilliant AWKWARD SITUATIONS FOR MEN, Danny Wallace entertained us with wonderfully funny true stories from his often embarrassing and bewildering everyday life as a man.

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

** Winner of the British Sports Book Awards 2014 New Writer of the Year **Where there is hope there can be redemption.

It seemed like any other season on Mount Everest.

-------------------------------On 8 July 1998 Festina team soigneur Willy Voet was stopped by the police.

Hospital Babylon is an in-depth, amusing and highly insightful expose of the extraordinary world of modern medicine.

This memoir was recently discovered and appears to have been written in the 1920s by somone who asserts that he was Jack the Ripper.

On 12 October 2010 the world's attention was fixed on a remote copper mine in the Atacama desert in Chile.

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

_______The shocking, gripping autobiography from one of the UK's most infamous criminals and gang leaders, and one half of the legendary Kray Twins, Reggie Kray.

MEET EL SICARIO.

_____________________________At Ronnie Kray's funeral, London crime expert John Pearson saw a man he didn't recognise - but who all the notorious criminals present deferred to.

In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task.

In December 1968 two girls who lived next door to each other - Mary, aged eleven, and Norma, thirteen - stood before a criminal court in Newcastle, accused of strangling two little boys; Martin Brown, four years old, and Brian Howe, three.

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.

___________________________THE BESTSELLING ACCOUNT OF FOOTBALL VIOLENCEWelcome to the world of football thuggery.

____________________________________Liz Murray never really had a chance in life.

WINNER OF THE GOLD DAGGER AWARD FOR CRIME NON-FICTIONThe definitive, Sunday Times bestselling true story of serial-killer Dennis Nilsen and the murders he committed, written with Nilsen's full cooperation.

Nearly every week the headlines of national newspapers shout allegations about the latest credit card fraud, internet paedophile, or major corporations whose computers have been hacked.

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.