True stories of heroism, endurance & survival books

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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 >>

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

When a wife uncovers her husband’s sinister past and terrifying present, she wages a fierce battle to ensure the...  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 >>

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

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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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A Hymn to Life: Shame has to Change Sides

A Hymn to Life: Shame has to Change Sides

Author: Gisèle Pelicot ,  Natasha Lehrer
ISBN: 9781847928979
Format: Paperback
$36.99

A forthcoming Bodley Head publication brought to you by Penguin Random House, on sale January 2026  Read More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

The author of Out of Thin Air, winner of the Margaret Mead Award 2022, journeys through different cultures to find...  Read More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Beyond The Broken

Beyond The Broken

Author: Josy K
ISBN: 9798233103636
Format: Paperback
$47.49

THEY EXPECTED A WIDOW TO BE SILENT. THEY EXPECTED ORPHANS TO BE SMALL. THEY WERE WRONG. ​This is not a story of...  Read More >>

Darwin Trip: Angel in Disguise

Darwin Trip: Angel in Disguise

Author: Pantzidis
ISBN: 9781968809706
Format: Paperback
$39.57

DARWIN TRIP - ANGEL IN DISGUISETrue Story - Written in First Person by Chris Some trips are planned. Others are...  Read More >>

Darwin Trip: Angel in Disguise

Darwin Trip: Angel in Disguise

Author: Pantzidis
ISBN: 9781968809713
Format: Hardback
$50.13

DARWIN TRIP - ANGEL IN DISGUISETrue Story - Written in First Person by Chris Some trips are planned. Others are...  Read More >>

If It Can Happen To Me: From The Terraces To Trauma And Survival

If It Can Happen To Me: From The Terraces To Trauma...

Author: Alan Bates
ISBN: 9798233374241
Format: Paperback
$39.57

It's a story about survival. About being a rascal who feared no one, then being struck down by a rare and cruel...  Read More >>

Piece by Piece: A Memoir of Survival, Resilience, and the Power of Creativity

Piece by Piece: A Memoir of Survival, Resilience, and...

Author: Sheryl Hauk
ISBN: 9781957343310
Format: Paperback
$65.87

What happens when life doesn't just break-it begins in pieces? Dark humor, tough truths, and the audacity to keep...  Read More >>

If It Can Happen To Me: From The Terraces To Trauma And Survival

If It Can Happen To Me: From The Terraces To Trauma...

Author: Alan Bates
ISBN: 9798900569390
Format: Paperback
$39.57

It's a story about survival. About being a rascal who feared no one, then being struck down by a rare and cruel...  Read More >>

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