True stories of heroism, endurance & survival books

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Twice Burned: A Fire Scientist’s Adventures in Overturning and Preventing Wrongful Arson Convictions

Twice Burned: A Fire Scientist’s Adventures in Overturning...
Author: John Lentini (Scientific Fire Analysis, USA) ISBN: 9781032993867 Format: Hardback	$73.99
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When You See It: How I Outsmarted & Outlasted Dirty John

When You See It: How I Outsmarted & Outlasted Dirty...
Author: Tonia Bales , Amy Jauman ISBN: 9798888459409 Format: Paperback	$34.99
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Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder

Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family,...
Author: Matthew Pearl ISBN: 9780063338074 Format: Paperback	$32.99
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story... Read More >>

Back On My Feet: From doctor to patient, a moving and inspirational memoir of traumatic injury, faith and hope, for readers of Turia Pitt and Emma Carey

Back On My Feet: From doctor to patient, a moving and...
Author: Olivia Ong ISBN: 9780733344015 Format: Paperback	$34.99
The inspirational story of how a rehabilitation doctor overcame her devastating spinal injury with faith and determination,... Read More >>

Surviving White Island: An inspiring memoir of physical and mental recovery after surviving the New Zealand volcanic eruption

Surviving White Island: An inspiring memoir of physical...
Author: Kelsey Waghorn ISBN: 9781775542919 Format: Paperback	$34.99
Surviving the unsurvivable. Healing from the unhealable. This is an inspiring memoir of physical and mental recovery,... Read More >>

My Voice Beyond Hearing Loss: How I Discovered Confidence, Freedom, and Inner Peace

My Voice Beyond Hearing Loss: How I Discovered Confidence,...
Author: Maureen Covinsky ISBN: 9798218934965 Format: Paperback	$44.85
My book describes how I overcame the feelings of being unseen and unheard in dealing with and understanding my mother's... Read More >>

The 21 Myths of Street Life: The Lies I Lived, the Truths I Was Forced to Learn

The 21 Myths of Street Life: The Lies I Lived, the Truths...
Author: Russell C Lathom ISBN: 9781544551081 Format: Hardback	$79.17
Behind every myth is a hard truth. In The 21 Myths of Street Life, Russell Lathom draws on his journey from abuse... Read More >>

The Sun Will Shine Again: Book 1

The Sun Will Shine Again: Book 1
Author: George Mueck ISBN: 9781636988252 Format: Paperback	$54.99
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The Hiroshima Boy: His Heartbreaking True Story of Survival and Hope

The Hiroshima Boy: His Heartbreaking True Story of Survival...
Author: Akiko Mikamo , Shinji Mikamo ISBN: 9781800963702 Format: Paperback	$32.99
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A Hymn to Life: Shame has to Change Sides

A Hymn to Life: Shame has to Change Sides
Author: Gisèle Pelicot , Natasha Lehrer ISBN: 9781847928962 Format: Hardback	$59.99
A forthcoming Bodley Head publication brought to you by Penguin Random House, on sale January 2026 Read More >>

JonBenet Ramsey: Prostitution of Justice

JonBenet Ramsey: Prostitution of Justice
Author: Doc Miller ISBN: 9798218945855 Format: Paperback	$47.39
Whoever murdered JonBenét Ramsey got away with it, leaving a mystery wrapped in legal fictions, a timid media, and... Read More >>

Breaking Point: Daniel Just Wants Someone He Can Rely on

Breaking Point: Daniel Just Wants Someone He Can Rely...
Author: Casey Watson ISBN: 9780008776213 Format: Paperback	$24.99
The new fostering memoir from The Sunday Times Bestselling author Casey Watson. Read More >>

Thou Savage Woman: Female Killers in Early Modern Britain

Thou Savage Woman: Female Killers in Early Modern Britain...
Author: Blessin Adams ISBN: 9780008500214 Format: Paperback	$24.99
A Daily Telegraph and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 'Popular history... Read More >>

Looking at Women, Looking at War

Looking at Women, Looking at War
Author: Victoria Amelina , Margaret Atwood ISBN: 9780008727543 Format: Paperback	$24.99
WITH A FOREWORD FROM MARGARET ATWOOD Destined to be a classic, a poet's powerful... Read More >>

To the Limit: The Meaning of Endurance from Mexico to the Himalayas

To the Limit: The Meaning of Endurance from Mexico to...
Author: Michael Crawley (University of Edinburgh) ISBN: 9781399403443 Format: Paperback	$26.99
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Wilderness Mum: An inspiring true story of love and adventure on the UK coastline

Wilderness Mum: An inspiring true story of love and...
Author: Kate Barron ISBN: 9781035068517 Format: Hardback	$50.00
A heartwarming and inspiring true story about breaking free from society’s expectations, connecting with nature... Read More >>

The Cost of Trust: The Butcher Surgeon and the Scandal That Shamed British Medicine

The Cost of Trust: The Butcher Surgeon and the Scandal...
Author: Deborah Douglas , Tracy King ISBN: 9780008712938 Format: Hardback	$49.99
'Courageous and candid… An important story well told' The Independent This... Read More >>

The Nazi Ghost Train

The Nazi Ghost Train
Author: Greg Lewis ISBN: 9781917439695 Format: Paperback	$28.44
Nazi Ghost Train is a story of action, courage and adventure which follows charismatic true characters through sabotage,... Read More >>

#Brooktales

#Brooktales
Author: Kristee Hall ISBN: 9798897410453 Format: Paperback	$58.05
When doctors say, ""Prepare for the worst,"" what do you do when your faith tells you to fight? Brooketales is... Read More >>

Destiny Is Debatable: A Memoir of Meningitis, Losing Sight, and the Love I Didn't See Coming

Destiny Is Debatable: A Memoir of Meningitis, Losing...
Author: John B Grimes ISBN: 9798993981314 Format: Paperback	$52.75
""Survival isn't the end of the journey-it's just the beginning."" Nineteen-year-old John B. Grimes went to bed... Read More >>

From Sorrow to Joy: From Hitler's Darkness to the Sunlight on Mount Carmel

From Sorrow to Joy: From Hitler's Darkness to the Sunlight...
Author: Dr Yakov Adler ISBN: 9789493418783 Format: Paperback	$52.67
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From Sorrow to Joy: From Hitler's Darkness to the Sunlight on Mount Carmel

From Sorrow to Joy: From Hitler's Darkness to the Sunlight...
Author: Dr Yakov Adler ISBN: 9789493418790 Format: Hardback	$71.15
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The Shriek I Do Remember

The Shriek I Do Remember
Author: Brian Sluga ISBN: 9781965341162 Format: Paperback	$47.49
When Brian Sluga was on his junior college cross-country team, he felt unbeatable. The team had a shot at making... Read More >>

Where Grace Lives: A True Atlantic Canadian Coming-of-Age Story of Loss, Survival, and Reclamation

Where Grace Lives: A True Atlantic Canadian Coming-of-Age...
Author: Michelle L Molinari ISBN: 9781069729323 Format: Paperback	$52.77
Where Grace Lives is a coming-of-age memoir set in Atlantic Canada, tracing a girl's movement through foster care,... Read More >>

FILTH: A True Story of Excess, Collapse and Redemption in Britain and Asia

FILTH: A True Story of Excess, Collapse and Redemption...
Author: Peter Olsen ISBN: 9789887175001 Format: Paperback	$38.79
“Failed in London, Try Hong Kong” Peter Olsen was born in London in the middle of World War II. With a bigamist... Read More >>

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