Trouble Boys - The True Story of the Replacements
Trouble Boys - The True Story of the Replacements
Based on all-new interviews and including 72 rare photos, T...

Helter Skelter - The True Story of the Manson Murders
Helter Skelter - The True Story of the Manson Murders
The shocking true story of the Manson murders, revealed in t...

Catching Thunder - The True Story of the World's Longest Sea Chase
Catching Thunder - The True Story of the World's Longes...
A remarkable true story of courage and perseverance – and a...

Wonder Horse - The True Story of the World's Smartest Horse
Wonder Horse - The True Story of the World's Smartest H...
From a Caldecott Medalist (“Mirette on the High Wire”) com...

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
A hilarious retelling of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Sciesz...

And Tango Makes Three: The True Story of the Very First Chinstrap Penguin to Have Two Daddies
And Tango Makes Three: The True Story of the Very First...
And Tango Makes Three: The True Story of the Very First Chin...

Modoc - The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
Modoc - The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ev...
Spanning seven decades and three continents, Modoc is one of...

The Finest Hours - The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue
The Finest Hours - The True Story of the U.S. Coast Gua...
The story behind the major motion picture from Disney-starri...

The Good Mothers - The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia
The Good Mothers - The True Story of the Women Who Took...
You are born into it or marry in. Loyalty is absolute, blood...

Travelling to Infinity - The True Story Behind the Theory of Everything
Travelling to Infinity - The True Story Behind the Theo...
In this compelling memoir his first wife, Jane Hawking, rela...

Magna Carta - The True Story Behind the Charter
Magna Carta - The True Story Behind the Charter
‘A soaring account of the months that transformed a messy f...

Whispering Hope - The True Story of the Magdalene Women
Whispering Hope - The True Story of the Magdalene Women...
“At the conclusion of my discussions with one group of the ...

Helter Skelter - The True Story of the Manson Murders
Helter Skelter - The True Story of the Manson Murders
In the summer of 1969, in Los Angeles, a series of brutal, s...

Evil Life - The True Story of the Calabrian Mafia in Australia
Evil Life - The True Story of the Calabrian Mafia in Au...
The Calabrian mafia is Australia’s oldest, largest and most...

Trouble Boys - The True Story Of The Replacements

A Long Way Gone - The True Story of a Child Soldier

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 haven’t 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...
Zero Night - The Untold Story of the Second World War's Most Daring Great Escape

Zero Night - The Untold Story of the Second World War's Most Daring Great Escape

Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany: On the night of 30 August 1942 – ‘Zero Night’ – 40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa staged the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War. It was the first ‘Great Escape’ – but instead of tunnelling, the escapers boldly went over the huge perimeter fences using wooden scaling contraptions. This was the notorious ‘Warburg ...
Whispering Hope - The True Story of the Magdalene Women

Whispering Hope - The True Story of the Magdalene Women

“At the conclusion of my discussions with one group of the Magdalene Women one of those present sang ‘Whispering Hope’. A line from that song stays in my mind – ‘when the dark midnight is over, watch for the breaking of day’.Let me hope that this day and this debate heralds a new dawn for all those who feared that the dark midnight might never end.” Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s State apology to...
The Amazing True Story of How Babies Are Made

The Amazing True Story of How Babies Are Made

THE GO-TO BOOK FOR PARENTS WANTING HELP WITH THAT TALK …SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 CHILDREN’S BOOK COUNCIL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS It’s one of the most amazing stories ever told – and it’s 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 you’re looking for a book for ...
Hana'S Suitcase Anniversary Edition - A True Story

Hana'S Suitcase Anniversary Edition - A True Story

‘Really, it’s 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 girl’s name, Hana Brady. A date of birth: May 16 1931. And Waisenkind. That’s the German word for orphan.’ Where did Hana Brady come from? Where was she going? What did she pack? What Fumiko finds in Hana’s suitcase is a ...
Wombat and Fox - the Whole Story

Wombat and Fox - the Whole Story

‘There’s only one thing better than a summer holiday and that’s spending a summer holiday with Wombat and Fox. This book’s got everything … Wombat and Fox rocks!’ – Andy Griffiths Wherever Wombat and Fox go, trouble is never far behind. They like to live on the edge. Well, actually, Wombat likes to live on the edge – Fox likes to stay well back from the edge. But the city is a surprising ...
Not your Average Nurse - The Entertaining True Story of a Student Nurse in 1970s London

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 it’s never easy. So when Maggie Groff embarks on her training at London’s King’s College Hospital she must quickly get to grips with a demanding career. It’s...
Not Your Average Nurse - From 1970s London to Outback Australia, the True Story of an Unlikely Girl and an Extraordinary Career

Not Your Average Nurse - From 1970s London to Outback Australia, the True Story of an Unlikely Girl and an Extraordinary...

‘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 student nurse sounds exciting, but with long hours and short shrift it’s never easy. So when Maggie Groff embarks as a student nurse at London’s King’s College Hospital she must quickly get to grips with the demands of her chosen career. It’s sin...
Red Platoon - A True Story of American Valour

Red Platoon - A True Story of American Valour

“‘It doesn’t get better.’ To us, that phrase nailed one of the essential truths, maybe even the essential truth, about being stuck at an outpost whose strategic and tactical vulnerabilities were so glaringly obvious to every soldier who had ever set foot in that place that the name itself – Keating – had become a kind of backhanded joke.” In 2009, Clinton Romesha of Red Platoon and the rest...
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer

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

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 Cann’s 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, he’d survived five venomous snake bites. Many of those fa...
Sniper One - The Blistering True Story of a British Battle Group Under Siege

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 I’ve 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 Making of Home - The 500-year story of how our houses became homes

The Making of Home - The 500-year story of how our houses became homes

The idea that ‘home’ is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows in this revealing book, ‘home’ is a relatively new concept. When in 1900 Dorothy assured the citizens of Oz that ‘There is no place like home’, she was expressing a view that was a culmination of 3...
The People Smuggler - The True Story Of Ali Al Jenabi

The People Smuggler - The True Story Of Ali Al Jenabi

Robin de Crespigny’s The People Smuggler is the gripping, inspring story of one man’s escape from Saddam’s Iraq to become ‘the Oskar Schindler of Asia’. When Ali Al Jenabi flees Saddam Hussein’s 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 ...
Finding Gobi (Younger Readers edition) - The True Story of One Little Dog's Big Journey

Finding Gobi (Younger Readers edition) - The True Story of One Little Dog's Big Journey

For fans of A Streetcat Named Bob comes Finding Gobi, the heart-warming true story of a dog who captured the hearts of the world. Younger readers’ edition. Finding Gobi is the ultimate story of hope and friendship – proving once again, that dogs really are `man’s best friend.’ In 2016, Dion Leonard, an ultramarathon runner, stumbled across a little stray dog while competing in a gruelling 15...
The House of Lies - A shocking true story of secrets, abuse, murder - and surviving it all

The House of Lies - A shocking true story of secrets, abuse, murder - and surviving it all

From the outside, Renee McBryde had a fairly typical childhood – school, working mum, swimming lessons with loving grandparents. But waiting for her was a secret so awful that it would rock her to the core. Renee’s mother was a teenage runaway who found herself pregnant and alone when Renee’s father was jailed for killing two men. When Renee discovered the truth, she knew her life would never ...
Bon: The Last Highway - The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back in Black

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/DC’s Back In Black is a special – and unli...
The Brittle Star - An epic story of the American West

The Brittle Star - An epic story of the American West

Perfect for fans of Cormac McCarthy and True Grit, The Brittle Star is the epic story of a young man’s unquenchable spirit. When his mother’s ranch is attacked, sixteen-year-old John Evert is wounded and left to die. But John Evert is no ordinary young man. He’s a frontiersman’s son, a rancher who’s lived his whole life in the untamed Southern California wilderness of 1860. In a journey th...
Dead Mountain - The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

Dead Mountain - The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

This popular book is now in paperback! Imagine you are in the midst of the Siberian wilderness, the weather closing in, frozen and tired and hungry, but you can’t quit yet. You can’t because what you’re doing is too important – you’re looking for your friends who disappeared here weeks ago. And then you find their tent, torn and snow covered. Your friends are nowhere in sight. In Februar...
In the Heart of the Sea - The Epic True Story That Inspired `Moby-Dick'

In the Heart of the Sea - The Epic True Story That Inspired `Moby-Dick'

The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the nineteenth century – and inspiration for `Moby-Dick’ – reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in December 2015, directed by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker and Cillian Murphy. When the whaleship Essex set sail from Nantucket in 1819, the unthinkable happened. A mere sp...
Leadbelly - The True Inside Story of an Underworld War

Leadbelly - The True Inside Story of an Underworld War

‘Jason Moran was in his blue Mitsubishi van when he was gunned down with his friend, Pasquale Bardora, in front of up to 250 people in the car park of the Cross Keys Hotel. At least five children, including Moran’s twin girl and boy, aged six, and his brother’s own fatherless children were in the van when the gunman fired. While murdering two men in front of hundreds of people might, at first, ...