The Heavenly Man - The remarkable true story of Chinese...
This is the intensely dramatic story of how God took a young...
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Every Sunday for almost a century John Canns family ran th...
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Corrie ten Booms account of her familys experiences duri...
The Trump Prophecies - The Astonishing True Story of th...
In November of 2016, the world witnessed the impossible. Nea...
The Hot Zone - The Terrifying True Story of the Origins...
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K2, The Savage Mountain - The Classic True Story Of Dis...
When eleven climbers died on K2 on August 1, 2008, it was a ...
The Suitcase Baby - The heartbreaking true story of a s...
True history that is both shocking and too real, this unforg...
The Name of Death - The Extraordinary True Story of the...
The powerful true-life story of one of the worlds most pro...
A Higher Call - The Incredible True Story of Heroism an...
Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bo...
The Amazing True Story of How Babies Are Made
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Cry Silent Tears - The Horrific True Story of the Mute ...
Joe knew his mother was cruel and violent, but he trusted hi...
Beautiful - A beautiful girl. An evil man. One inspirin...
I could hear someone screaming and screaming and kept wishin...
Zero Six Bravo - 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The ...
The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. Sixty sp...
Sniper One - The Blistering True Story of a British Bat...
Sniper One is the gritty, awe-inspiring true story that take...
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A Long Way Gone - The True Story of a Child Soldier
The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. `My new friends have begun to suspect that I havent told them the full story of my life. Why did you leave Sierra Leone? Because there is a war. You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other? Yes, all the time. Cool. I smile a little. You should...
The World of David Walliams CD Story Collection - The Boy in the Dress/Mr Stink/Billionaire Boy/Gangsta Granny/Ratburger...
Five screamingly funny stories from number one bestselling childrens author David Walliams, in this big, bumper CD boxset, performed by the King of Comedy himself. THE BOY IN THE DRESS Denniss very ordinary life is about to get a lot more extraordinary. Why? Theres a clue in the title of this book
MR STINK When Chloe decides to hide a homeless man in her garden shed, she discovers ...
The Private Lives of the Tudors - Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty
Borman approaches her topic with huge enthusiasm and a keen eye for entertaining
this is a very human story of a remarkable family, full of vignettes that sit long in the mind. Dan Jones, The Sunday Times Tracy Bormans eye for detail is impressive; the book is packed with fascinating courtly minutiae
this is a wonderful book. The Times Borman is an authoritative and engaging write...
The Trivia Man
From the author of Mr Chens Emporium comes a quirky and heartwarming tale about finding your true place in the world, set against the backdrop of a weekly trivia competition. Trivia is a serious business, not a social occasion Kevin Dwyer, the trivia man Dubbed brainbox by his peers and weirdo by his sister, Kevin Dwyer is a middle-aged forensic accountant who has never had a r...
Hana'S Suitcase Anniversary Edition - A True Story
Really, its a very ordinary looking suitcase. You could fit quite a lot in it. Books, games, treasures, toys. But nothing is inside it now. Across the front, there is a girls name, Hana Brady. A date of birth: May 16 1931. And Waisenkind. Thats the German word for orphan. Where did Hana Brady come from? Where was she going? What did she pack? What Fumiko finds in Hanas suitcase is a ...
The Amazing True Story of How Babies Are Made
THE GO-TO BOOK FOR PARENTS WANTING HELP WITH THAT TALK
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 CHILDRENS BOOK COUNCIL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS Its one of the most amazing stories ever told and its true! Funny, frank and embarrassment-free, THE AMAZING TRUE STORY OF HOW BABIES ARE MADE gives a fresh take on the incredible tale of where we all come from. REVIEWS: If youre looking for a book for ...
The China Mirage - The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
Bradley is sharp and rueful, and a voice for a more seasoned, constructive vision of our international relations with East Asia. Christian Science Monitor James Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americansincluding FDRs grandfather, Warren Delanowho in the 1800s made their fortunes in the China opium trade. Meanwhile, American missionaries sought a myth: noble Chinese peasants ...
Hotel K - The Shocking Inside Story of Bali's Most Notorious Jail
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Hotel K Balis most notorious jail is Hell in Paradise.Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Balis most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one side, while on the other its a dark, bizarre and truly frightening underworld of sex, drugs, violence and squalor. Hotel Ks filthy and disease ridden cells ...
The Wreck of the Zanzibar
A gripping childrens story from War Horse author, Michael Morpurgo. We all knew what was going to happen. Wed seen it before. A ship about to founder staggers before she falls. A huge wave broke over her stern and she did not come upright again. Life on the Scilly Isles in 1907 is bleak and full of hardship. Lauras twin brother, Billy, disappears, and then a storm devastates everything...
The Mystery of the Missing Man
This is a fantastic childrens crime story from the worlds best-loved childrens author, Enid Blyton. A dangerous criminal is on the run a master of disguise, he seems impossible to catch. But the five Find-Outers are hot on his trail! Will they catch up with him? Find out in The Mystery of the Missing Man. The Mystery series follows the adventures of The Five Find Outers Pip, Bets, ...
Not your Average Nurse - The Entertaining True Story of a Student Nurse in 1970s London
Over time, I nursed victims of war, the posh, the poor, the famous and the infamous
Oh, the stories I can tell! To a young girl the life of a nurse sounds exciting, but with long hours and short shrift its never easy. So when Maggie Groff embarks on her training at Londons Kings College Hospital she must quickly get to grips with a demanding career. Its...
The People Smuggler - The True Story Of Ali Al Jenabi
Robin de Crespignys The People Smuggler is the gripping, inspring story of one mans escape from Saddams Iraq to become the Oskar Schindler of Asia. When Ali Al Jenabi flees Saddam Husseins torture chambers, he is forced to leave his family behind in Iraq. What follows is an incredible international odyssey through the shadowy world of fake passports, crowded camps and illegal border ...
The Outside Man
The outside man is society lawyer Adam Shaw. A northerner in a southern town jealous of its secrets, he finds the dead body of his best friends wealthy wife and his friend is missing.In a world where wealthy people will stop at nothing to maintain a genteel image, Shaw must gamble his career, his marriage, and his very life in a passionate quest for the real murderer and learn the shocking...
You Are Mine - Drugged and Held in a Secret Bunker. This is My True Story of Escape.
Im not going to let you go. It took longer than Id bargained to get you unconscious. Im planning to keep you here for a couple of years or so. When Isabel Eriksson wakes up shes not sure where she is. Shes got a needle in her arm. Next to the bed a man is sitting and staring at her. He tells her that he intends to keep her locked up. Isabel realises that the only way for her to get ...
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer
So impossibly funny, clever, demented, charming and altogether wonderful that I was a convert within three pages. Buy it for everyone you know, regardless of what you think they like. Brilliant stuff Lucy Mangan, Stylist Books of the Year An eye-opener
The more I think about this, the higher I esteem it Nicholas Lezard, Guardian Books of the Year Winner of the British Book Design an...
The Last Snake Man - The remarkable true-life story of an Aussie legend and a century of snake shows
Every Sunday for almost a century John Canns family ran the famous snake show in a pit at La Perouse an area once alive with tiger, brown and black snakes. After growing up with over 300 pet snakes in their backyard, John and his brother George took over the snake show from their parents in 1965. By the time John retired in 2010, hed survived five venomous snake bites. Many of those fa...
The Drowned Man
A chance encounter in a fish-n-chip shop set Brendan Murray on the trail of a mystery. Had a gay man been secretly murdered on HMAS Australia during the Second World War? The veteran he spoke to was certain. I knew about it, he said. We all did. But was the story true? If so, who was the dead man? And why was it so hard to find out? The Drowned Man is a search for the answer, almost st...
Sniper One - The Blistering True Story of a British Battle Group Under Siege
Sniper One is the gritty, awe-inspiring true story that takes you right into the heart of the Iraq war from Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Sgt. Dan Mills. One of the best first-hand accounts of combat that Ive ever read Andy McNab We all saw it at once. Half a dozen voices screamed Grenade! simultaneously. Then everything went into slow motion. The grenade took an age to travel through...
The Billion Dollar Spy - A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel. Ben Macintyre, The Times January, 1977. While the chief of the CIAs Moscow station fills his gas tank, a stranger drops a note into the car. In the years that followed, that stranger, Adolf Tolkachev, became one of the Wests most valuable spies. At enormou...
Bon: The Last Highway - The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back in Black
The death of Bon Scott is the Da Vinci Code of rock. As the legend of the man known around the world simply as Bon has grown with each passing year since his untimely death, AC/DCs trailblazing frontman has become a rock icon. But how much of it is true and how much is myth? At the heart of Bon: The Last Highway: The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DCs Back In Black is a special and unli...
The Nightingale and the Rose
This spectacular new series of artworks by Del Kathryn Barton is inspired by Oscar Wildes classic story The Nightingale and the Rose. The book contains 20 new paintings and drawings by the Archibald winning artist to accompany the words of Wildes timeless tale of love and loss. The theme of ecstatic metamorphosis through song attracted Del Kathryn Barton to this story, where the life of a ...