True stories: general

The inside story of a secret unit that has worked under cover to expose corruption in the Metropolitan Police since the early 1990s - written by Graeme McLagan, contributor to THE REAL LINE OF DUTY.

Edwardian London in 1910, the notorious tale of Dr Crippen and Ethel Le Neve re-investigated by a prizewinning journalist.

A unique and gloriously nostalgic account of one eventful year in the fire service for readers who loved books such as CALL THE MIDWIFE and TRUST ME, I'M A VET.

More tales of a country fireman, from the author of ALL FIRED UP.

A harrowing and inspiring true story of a young boy's abusive childhood, from international bestseller Dave Pelzer, the sequel to million-copy bestseller A Child Called 'It'.

A harrowing and inspiring true story of a young boy's abusive childhood, from international bestseller Dave Pelzer.

'Death is my beat.

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

The true story of the 1972 Andes plane crash and rescue dramatised in Netflix's Society of the SnowIn October 1972, Nando Parrado and his rugby club teammates were on a flight from Uruguay to Chile when their plane crashed into a mountain.

A true story of abuse.

Ever since the Kray twins invited John Pearson to write their 'official' biography more than forty years ago, he has been obsessed with them.

During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio.

When Leslie met her husband Conor she felt she'd found the man of her dreams.

Spoken from the Front is the story of the Afghan Campaign, told for the first time in the words of the servicemen and women who have been fighting there.

What does it feel like to drive a lorry that's out of control?

Susan Orlean first met John Laroche when visiting Florida to write for the New Yorker about his arrest for stealing rare ghost orchids from a nature reserve.

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.

The Years of the Locust is a true story of intrigue, paranoia, murder and money set in the shimmering cities of America's South in the 1990s.

Master of suspense James Patterson re-opens the ultimate cold case - the unsolved death of Tutankhamen.

Caroline Norton, born in 1808, was a society beauty, poet and pamphleteer.

Eight members of the SAS set off on the mission.

From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, M: Maxwell Knight, MI5's Greatest SpymasterIn the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world's great minds.

'A big, bold approach to the writing of narrative non-fiction .

Meet Pete Razanskas, 22-year veteran homicide cop and Marcella Winn, a rookie detective who grew up in the 'hood.

You've installed your breadmaker in your kitchen, bought a couple of books and made delicious breads with rye flour, with seeds on top or even with chocolate and hazelnuts.

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

What do you do when your wife abducts your children?

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Rivals, now a major series on Disney+Pigeons carrying vital messages to and from the beleaguered city during the Siege of Paris; horses and mules struggling through miles of fetid mud to bring ammunition to the front in the Great War; dogs sniffing out mines for the British invasion force in the Second World War - countless brave animals have played their part in the long, cruel history of war.

The only daughter of alcoholic parents, novelist Pip Granger spent much of her childhood outside looking in.

'Impossible to stop reading' OBSERVER'Thrilling, intricate and hilarious' DAILY MAILAPRIL 1945: From the ruins of Berlin, a Luftwaffe transport plane takes off carrying secret papers belonging to Adolf Hitler.

A raw, explicit memoir as high-intensity and riveting as any of Ellroy's novels.

Over seven centuries London has changed dramatically - from walled medieval settlement to bustling modern metropolis.

'In many ways we were an ordinary family: mum, dad, two kids, three dogs, one rabbit, two guinea pigs.

'It wasn't until after he was safely back in the aircraft again that I heard that he'd actually been out on the wing to try to put the fire out .

'The hunt for early Bible manuscripts was among the most romantic of all the 19th century's grand quests.

The sensational story of Mimi Alford and the secret she kept for 40 years - her teenage affair with President John F Kennedy during her time as a White House Intern.

'The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old.

In this charming collection of nineteen stories, you can't help but fall in love with the unlucky fawn who is saved by a nursing home, the troublesome rabbit who warms her way into a new family and the good (German) shepherd who comforts the sick.

FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER'A wonderful book' HILARY MANTEL'Gothic, dark and scandalous' SUNDAY TIMESSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTIONIt is 1938.

The New York Times Bestseller'Simply, utterly brilliant.

_______________'Powerful A humbling and important first-hand account of a brutal civil war in which as many as 500,000 people have died' - Guardian'A memoir of resistance and survival unique in the annals of modern war If the shedding of blood can be beautiful in words, he makes it so' - Wall Street Journal'A valuable perspective absent from much of what has already been written on Syria .

At 2:34pm on Friday 22 June 1979, the jurors in what had been billed as "e;The Trial of the Century"e; filed into Number One Court at the Old Bailey to deliver the verdict on the Rt Hon Jeremy Thorpe, Privy Counsellor, the former MP for North Devon and ex-leader of the Liberal Party.

FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER'The queen of Victorian true crime is back' MAIL ON SUNDAYSHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTIONOn 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his younger brother Nattie set out from their East London home to watch a cricket match.

FINALIST FOR THE HARPER LEE PRIZE FOR LEGAL FICTION 2016FINALIST FOR THE MACAVITY AWARD 2016The year is 1936.

** Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award **'Magnificent.

When Cylin Busby was nine years old, she was obsessed with the Muppets and her pet turtle.

In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal barrels.

In the backstreets of Calcutta, shielded from the scorching sun by a tattered tarpaulin, mothers clutching semi-conscious, emaciated babies, and adults and children with missing or gangrenous limbs or suffering from tuberculosis or leprosy, queue in their hundreds to see Dr Jack Preger.

How does it feel to lose your job in front of ten million people?