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Looking at Women, Looking at War
WITH A FOREWORD FROM MARGARET ATWOOD 'This book would always have been important evidence that the Ukraine people were suffering criminal attack. Written by a poet, it is also a...
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from
The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab. It is 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted. A...
The Promise: How an everyday hero made the impossible possible
Arnold Dix became an unlikely hero when he promised to save forty-one men trapped after a tunnel collapse in the Himalayas. This is his unforgettable story. In rural Victoria, Arnold...
Behind the Badge
A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER First responders run toward things the rest of us run away from. What makes a person want to become a first responder As in...
An Innocent Baby: Why would anyone abandon little Darcy-May?
When foster carer, Cathy Glass, is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, she is very concerned. The baby is coming to her straight from hospital and will have...
A Terrible Secret: Scared for her safety, Tilly places herself into
Tilly hates her stepfather, Dave. He abuses her mother, but she refuses to leave him. Frightened for her own safety, Tilly asks to go into foster care and is placed...
From the Mountain's Edge
A True Story Of Risk, Resilience and Survival After a life-changing neck injury left him paralysed, Ed Jackson defied the odds to walk again. Driven by a renewed perspective on...
Too Scared to Tell: Abused and alone, Oskar has no one. A true story.
The true story of a 6-year-old boy with a dreadful secret. Oskar's school teacher raises the alarm. Oskar's mother is abroad and he has been left in the care of...
Cycling the Earth: A Life-changing Race Around the World
A funny and inspiring account of one man's solo cycle around the world Sean Conway was stuck in a life dead end of his own making when he heard about...
From the Mountain's Edge
A True Story Of Risk, Resilience and Survival After a life-changing neck injury left him paralysed, Ed Jackson defied the odds to walk again. Driven by a renewed perspective on...
South (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. Now we clung to a battered little boat, 'alone, alone - all, all alone; alone on a wide, wide...
The Forger
In wartime Berlin, Cioma Schonhaus discovered a way of turning his talent for graphic design to good use: he forged documents which helped save hundreds of Jewish lives. His first...
The Girl Who Smiled Beads
A riveting story of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save us A riveting story of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or...
The Songs That Saved Us: My Dad, Dementia and Me
An unforgettable tribute to the unbreakable bond between a father and son When Simon McDermott first noticed his dad Ted's sudden flares of temper and fits of forgetfulness, he couldn't...
I, Vera: The Many Lives of Vera Gedroits, a Radical Princess
'An electric biography' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Thrilling' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A masterclass in the possibilities of biography' FINANCIAL TIMES Vera Gedroits was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian princess, an ardent supporter of...
The Stars Will Still Be There: What losing my daughter taught me about
'Heartbreaking and inspiring in equal measure. A must-read.' Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester 'Nicola is a beautiful human being and her story is full of the joys and sorrows...
Nobody's Son: All Alex ever wanted was a family of his own
Born in a prison and removed from his drug-dependent mother, rejection is all that 7-year-old Alex knows. When Cathy is asked to foster little Alex, aged 7, her immediate reaction...
Operation Pimento: My Great-Grandfather's Great Escape - a gripping
On 14 August 1943, Adam Hart's great-grandfather Frank Griffiths took off from RAF Tempsford, the SOE 'Special Duties' airbase in rural England. Frank and his crew were on a secret...
Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration
100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. We are always captivated by tales of courage and bravery, of world-firsts and death-defying...
Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad's Fake Diving Resort
THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE NETFLIX FILM THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT. In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort...
The Great Divide
'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST ' One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY 'Spectacular' JOANNE SEFTON 'I didn't want it to end' SARA...
How Starbucks Saved My Life
The riches-to-rags story of a man who had it all, then lost it all, and found it again at Starbucks. Mitch Albom meets Nigel Marsh in this moving memoir. In...
Surviving Galeras
The true-life adventure story of one of the world's leading volcano experts. In 1993, Stanley Williams was investigating Galeras, what he thought was a dormant volcano in Colombia. But it...
In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired 'Moby Dick'
The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued alongside Philbrick's new paperback, Sea of Glory. The sinking...
Through the Rubble: From Earthquakes to War Zones. A Story of Survival
An unforgettable life of heroism, sacrifice, and resilience. In Through the Rubble, Alan Playford recounts his extraordinary life, marked by the dramatic moment he emerged from the wreckage of the...
Bad Ground
Bad Ground is the exclusive, authorised story of the 14-day entombment and rescue of Beaconsfield miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell and the fascinating aftermath. The blast and rock fall...
Courage Under Fire
'A man selfless in the face of threat. Courageous in the face of terror. Generous in the face of suffering. And humble in the face of an honour bestowed.' Dame...
The Race of Truth: A Record-Breaking Bike Ride Across Europe
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 - CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR Being the fastest cyclist in the world at the start line means nothing if your mind isn't...
Max and Mia's Story
From the bestselling author of the Thrown Away Children series comes another heartbreaking story of life in foster care. Parents Angelina and Ben exist in enviable luxury: not just wealth,...
Send Them to Hell
Send Them to Hell is a horrifying, authentic chronicle of life as lived by foreign inmates over the past two decades in Bangkok s notorious prison system. Murder, human-rights abuse,...
The Saboteur of Auschwitz: A British POW's Eyewitness Account
For fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Librarian of Auschwitz and The Choice, this is the incredible true story of a British soldier POW. In 1942, young British soldier...
The ISIS Hostage: One Man's True Story of 13 Months in Captivity
In May 2013, freelance photographer Daniel Rye was captured in Syria and held prisoner by Islamic State for thirteen months, along with eighteen other hostages. The ISIS Hostage tells the...
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Man Against the Sea
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The phenomenal, international, million-copy selling true story of the battle to survive the worst storm this century has seen - the 'Halloween' Gale of 1991 - which produced wind speeds...
A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and
This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away from the life I knew and loved, and dragged down to...
Men Without Country: The true story of exploration and rebellion in
'What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian and the mutineers of Men Without Country held me...
The Burden and the Blessing
Edith Wright grew up listening to stories about her great-grandfathers, Harry Hunter and Adrien D Antoine, two white men from Europe came to rule the pearling industry at its peak...
Lost at Sea
On February 3, 1983, the men aboard Americus and Altair, two state-of-the-art crabbing vessels, docked in their home port of Anacortes, Washington, prepared to begin a grueling three-month season fishing...
The Lost Voices of Pompeii: The Final Day in Seven Lives
'Delightful ... Venner builds an excellent narrative of a city that was thriving and bustling with life at the very point it was snuffed out.' The Times We all know...
I, Vera: The Many Lives of Vera Gedroits, a Radical Princess
'An electric biography' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Thrilling' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A masterclass in the possibilities of biography' FINANCIAL TIMES Vera Gedroits was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian princess, an ardent supporter of...
The Escape from Kabul: A True Story of Sisterhood and Defiance
Combining moment-by-moment drama with an emotional story of friendship and bravery, The Escape from Kabul is also a searing insight into the captive fate of women in Afghanistan. In the...
Skies of Thunder: The deadly World War II mission over the roof of the
'Riveting' - The New York Times THE LITTLE-KNOWN STORY OF THE ALLIES' FIGHT IN WWII'S CHAOTIC AND LETHAL CHINA BURMA-INDIA THEATER. In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army captured Burma,...
The Commando: The life and death of Cameron Baird, VC, MG
On 22 June 2013, Corporal Cameron Baird was a 2nd Commando Regiment Special Forces soldier when he led his platoon into a known Taliban stronghold to back-up another Australian unit...
Ellen Savage and the Heroes of AHS Centaur: from the bestselling
The extraordinary true story of courage under fire and survival during one of the deadliest wartime attacks on Australia - the sinking of the hospital ship, the Centaur - and...
Facing Up: A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mount Everest
'No one could fail to be gripped by his heartfelt excitement and emotion over what was the adventure of a lifetime.' Independent At the age of twenty-three, Bear Grylls became...
Lest We Forget: War and Peace in 100 British Monuments
A moving account of how war is remembered - and by whom 'Impressive. A hundred individual histories, skillfully assembled, built into a poignant meditation on why they still matter' David...
100 Ways I Almost Died
'Relentless, raw and just impossible to fake. Bram Connolly has survived more in one lifetime than most of us could ever imagine - and takes us right there, with a...
Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man
The incredible story of the May 1940 rescue of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk SPECIAL 75TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION reveals for the first time five...