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Hildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK's Coastline
Walking saved his life. Now it will help find him a family. In the follow-up to his Sunday Times bestselling Finding Hildasay, Christian Lewis takes his next steps - along...
Freedom
A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm 'Sebastian Junger bears witness to a hard-won and an uncertain new world, framed in...
The Stranger in the Woods: 'A meditation on solitude, wildness and
*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* Could you leave behind all that you know and live in solitude for three decades? This is the extraordinary story of the last true hermit...
Queerstories: Reflections on lives well lived from some of Australia's
There's more to being queer than coming out and getting married. This exciting and contemporary collection contains stories that are as diverse as the LGBTQIA+ community from which they're drawn...
Survivor: The Autobiography
This collection of classic tales comprises over 50 accounts of true-life adventure taken from contemporary memoirs, letters and journals. They span the years 1800 to the end of the 20th...
The Crossing: Conquering the Atlantic in the World's Toughest Rowing
When James Cracknell and Ben Fogle decided to compete in the Atlantic Rowing Race, they thought they knew what awaited them: nearly three thousand miles of empty ocean, stormy weather...
The Girl Who Smiled Beads
A riveting story of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save us A riveting tale of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or...
Kursk: Film tie-in
The acclaimed and harrowing bestseller that tells the true story of the fate of Russia's most powerful submarine, the Kursk - and soon to be a major motion picture, starring...
Walking with the Wounded: The Incredible Story of Britain's Bravest
In April 2011, four soldiers - each a hero of recent conflicts who suffered devastating injuries in the line of duty - set out on a challenge that even an...
Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life
The Sunday Times bestseller 'Jay can teach us all something about the simple power of compassion and creativity.' - Radio Times Making It is an inspirational memoir about beating the...
Wylie: The Brave Street Dog Who Never Gave Up
'When people gave up on Wylie, Wylie refused to give up on people.' For a street dog born in the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan, to be crowned top dog at...
Not Alone
Jenny Tomlin suffered horrendous neglect and physical and sexual abuse throughout her childhood at the hands of her father. This harrowing story is told in the number one bestseller Behind...
No Time for Makeup: The life of a flying doctor and paediatrician
The incredible story of a woman who took the path less travelled to work for the Royal Flying Doctor Service in outback Australia, and what the experience taught her about...
My Dream Time: A Memoir of Tennis and Teamwork
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It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where and who I am today. I'm only in my...
Lucky
'What a story and what an inspirational human. Ed is a total legend.' Joe Wicks 'A life-affirming story . . . inspirational' Tim Peake As seen in the Daily Mail...
Aberfan - A Story of Survival, Love and Community in One of Britain's
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On 21 October 1966, thousands of tonnes of coal tip waste slid down a mountainside and devastated the mining village of Aber-fan. The black mass crashed through the local school....
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...
A Hope More Powerful than the Sea
This is the story of Doaa, an ordinary girl from a village in Syria, who in 2015 became one of five hundred people crammed on to a fishing boat setting...
Street Hearts: An Extraordinary Story of Saving Street Dogs
A heartwarming tale of abandoned dogs and their saviours Among the cobblestone villages and towns of rural Bulgaria, a dedicated team of unsung heroes led by Emma and Anthony Smith...
Tina: The Dog Who Changed the World
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. _ Hope taught me the meaning of life, Tina taught me the meaning of love....
Undercover: A Duchess and a Journalist Bringing Hope to Abandoned
Award-winning investigative journalist Chris Rogers, smuggled himself into state-run orphanages in Romania and found proof that the appalling treatment of abandoned children continues, long after the fall of communism and...
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...
Bush Doctors
Sixteen stories of amazing outback doctors and their heroic deeds, from the bestselling author of Bush Nurses and Nurses of the Outback. Imagine yourself critically injured or seriously ill in...
In My Dreams I Dance: A story of prejudice, perseverance and pushing
The inspirational memoir from Paralympian and disability advocate Anne Wafula Strike, updated for 2024 Left partially paralysed below the rib cage by polio, Anne Wafula Strike was forced to flee...
Tina: The Dog Who Changed the World
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. _ Hope taught me the meaning of life, Tina taught me the meaning of love....
Hero Dogs: Remarkable Stories of Courage and Devotion
A book of canine courage published in association with Hearing Dogs for Deaf People and Cruft's 'Friends for Life'. Amongst the stories are that of Gander, the Newfoundland mascot of...
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...
Operation Jihadi Bride: My Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from
Soldier Magazine's Book of the Month Fascinating... Incredibly dangerous. The Times Gripping. Adrenalin fuelled true-life account with all the makings of a military thriller. The action unfolds like a Le...
Quake Dogs
Strange-but-true dog stories from the Christchurch earthquakes, with beautiful photographs illustrating each story. A collection of stories about Christchurch dogs and the earthquakes true tales of heroism, odd and quirky...
Milkshakes for Marleigh: Extraordinary Stories of survival thanks to
If you have ever donated blood you may be responsible for one of these extraordinary tales of survival! One in three Australians will need blood in their lifetime and yet...
Broken Dreams: First Nations Classics
Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Gayle Kennedy, Broken Dreams is a moving and inspiring story of a life transformed in an accident, told...
Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to
Advance Praise for Behind the Burqa "Whenever and wherever adults make war, children die and women are subjected to fear and humiliation. This is true of Afghanistan too. Read this...
My Heroes: Extraordinary Courage, Exceptional People
Wherever in the world Ranulph gives one of his lectures or motivational speeches, someone always asks: 'Who inspired you to do all the crazy things you've done?' For the first...
Adrenalin Rush: The Adventures of an Undercover Cop
Andy Bell is a police constable with a problem. It's not that his chief hates his guts. It's not that he's an undercover cop living in a brothel and sleeping...
The Wide World: True Adventures For Men
From 1898 to 1965, The Wide World was the bestselling magazine for men who craved adventure. Each issue was filled with extraordinarily eccentric, but true, tales from around the world,...
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...
Girl in the Cellar: The Natasha Kampusch Story
When Natascha Kampusch made her bid for freedom on 23 August 2006 after eight years held captive in a seemingly ordinary Austrian suburban house, her story horrified and astonished the...
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Man Against the Sea (Collins Modern
The worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape. The...
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Collins
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. But is not the slave trade entirely a war with the heart of man? In 1789, Olaudah Equiano...
Daddy's Rules
Her father ruled her world. Her mother couldn't save her. So she had to save herself. Rachel Sontag grew up in a family of four whose apparently happy exterior concealed...
Safari
The true story of Safari, an African boy deformed by burns who won the hearts of millions through the hit TV series, RPA. When retired couple Janet Seath and Frank...
Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Adventure, Danger and Survival
I heard the rustle again, too close and too real to ignore. I clutched the flashlight, stuck my head out of the mosquito net... and found myself face-to-face with a...
Moderate Becoming Good Later: Sea Kayaking the Shipping Forecast - as
An exhilarating and deeply moving story of one man's attempt to sea kayak the areas of the Shipping Forecast, perfect for fans of The Salt Path and Attention All Shipping...
A Galaxy of Her Own: Amazing Stories of Women in Space
Want to be an astronaut or a rocket scientist? - 50 brilliant stories of women who have blazed the way for space travel. From small steps to giant leaps, A...
I've Got a Home in Glory Land: The True Story of Two Runaway Slaves
It was the day before Independence Day, 1833. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be sold down the river, Thornton Blackburn planned a daring and successful daylight escape from...
Miracle In The Andes: The True Story of Surviving 72 Days on the
The true story of the 1972 Andes plane crash and rescue dramatised in Netflix's Society of the Snow In October 1972, Nando Parrado and his rugby club teammates were on...