True stories: general

Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize.

"e;I, Jeronimus, am a man of phials, a measurer of powders on bronze scales, a potion brewer, an opium and arsenic merchant.

'An epic story of hardship, friendship and faith.

A body is found in the woods .

A Cold Case is the story of how Andy Rosenzweig, retired Manhattan cop, reopened an investigation into a double murder that had happened more than thirty years earlier.

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.

'The shadowy Gangster Squad was formed in 1946 with eight men operating out of two rusted old Fords.

A body is found in a chicken run .

Jon Ronson is well known for some downright crazy escapades, and these three bestselling books encompass his most madcap adventures.

All Terrie ever wanted was to be part of a normal family.

On Easter Monday 1983 armed robbers got into the supposedly impregnable Security Express depot in Shoreditch, neatly capturing the guards and holding them hostage.

Based on a real-life scandal that gripped England in 1864.

The compelling story of a woman who survived marriage to one of the UK's most notorious serial killers.

BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION DAGGER AWARD 'THE MOST IMPORTANT CRIME STORY OF THE DECADE' Scottish Mail Manchester.

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 BESTSELLERThe new page-turning, feminist retelling of the historical true-crime story of infamous wife-murderer Dr Crippen, brought to justice by an extraordinary group of 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 Taschenbuch-Neuausgabe!

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 The true story behind the infamous mass murder case and its perpetrator, the notorious Charles Manson, penned by the prosecutor who finally put 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.

'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.