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Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbruck: The Nazi's
From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbruck concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka's first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist...
The Stars Will Still Be There: What my daughter taught me about love,
'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...
For the Love of Julie: A nightmare come true. A mother's courage. A
'It is one of those tales about how life can turn on a sixpence: one minute everything is dandy, the next all is darkness.' - Joe Joseph, The Times In...
Rats, Rust and Two Old Ladies
Delivering two 38-year-old Mississippi river tugboats halfway around the world from Bahrain to Trinidad would not be every ship master's dream employment. However, for Captain David Creamer, the seven-week voyage...
Runaways
Two women. Two cultures. And a friendship that freed them both. 'We don't choose where we're born. Geography ends up being everything.' Shaimaa Khalil and Shelley Davidow met twenty years...
Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story
The award-winning historian returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of war On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured...
Mind over Miles: A Story of Endurance Running, Overcoming Obstacles
Endurance, Determination and Grit- The first ever man to run the length of Africa shares his inspirational story 10,000 miles. 16 countries. 352 days. Hardest Geezer, Russ Cook, is the...
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
The Instant Sunday Times #1 Bestseller - a moving, life-affirming memoir about survival and the power of love to heal, from Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie On the morning of...
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...
Wonder Drug: The Hidden Victims of America's Secret Thalidomide
Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-Fiction The shocking, never-before-told story of America's thalidomide victims In Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears....
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...
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the
THE NEW BOOK THE TRAITORS CIRCLE COMING SOON FROM JONATHAN FREEDLAND SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE, RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE, WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR AND LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE...
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...
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 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...
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 Seventh Circle: A Former Australian Soldier's Extraordinary Story
'I was arrested on Thursday 9th July 2009. On Wednesday I'd quit my job, killed a man and set his body on fire. I was sentenced to death. I'm not...
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...
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...
Out of the Blue: Facing the Tsunami
Kimina Lyall was the Australian's Bangkok correspondent. At the beginning of her posting she underwent a devastating experience. Yet despite everything, she was determined not to let it force her...
After Port Arthur: Personal stories of courage and resilience ten
When the gunshots started no one could quite believe it. A beautiful day. A tranquil setting despite its grim past. It was 28 April 1996, the day of the worst...
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Epic, moving and important' ROBERT HARRIS 'I'm not sure I've ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the...
Sophie's Journey
It could have been anybodys child. ten days before Christmas. A room of children, napping on mattresses in their childcare centre, waiting for Santa to arrive. It's a peaceful scene....
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban
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...
Every Man for Himself and God against All: A Memoir
An exceptional memoir by the world-famous, pioneering filmmaker who directed the multi-award-winning Grizzly Man Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema- building an opera house in the middle...
The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century: A Celebration of Outstanding Travel Storytelling from Around the World
Travel writing matters Explore the world through this beautiful collection of the finest travel writing published in British media in the 21st century - as judged by some of the...
Showing Up: Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable - the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body 'through hell and back 10 times' to prove that anything is possible when you...
Man's Search For Meaning: Classic Editions
The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust. Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding classics to emerge...
The Martyr and the Red Kimono: A Fearless Priest's Sacrifice and A New
The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, his sacrifice in Auschwitz, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever The remarkable true story of Saint...
Maurice and Maralyn: An extraordinary true story of shipwreck,
An extraordinary true tale of love, shipwreck and survival, beautifully told -- Maurice and Maralyn's escape from 1970s England and its oil crisis, strikes and inflation is also a story...
Any Ordinary Day: Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER The day that turns a life upside down usually starts like any other, but what happens the day after? Dual Walkley Award-winner Leigh Sales investigates how ordinary...
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the
Man's Search For Meaning is undoubtedly one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from World War 2- a moving account of Viktor Frankl's experiences in Auschwitz and what...
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the
Translated into at least 24 languages and with over 16 million copies sold worldwide, Man's Search for Meaning is one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from the...
I Will Come Back for You: The undercover Jewish commando who helped defeat the Nazis
'Extraordinary ... one of the most moving and uplifting stories of the war' Keith Lowe 'A remarkable book' - The Telegraph A gripping account of hidden identity, military courage, and...
Saving Sam: The True Story of an American's Disappearance in Syria and
A gripping testament of resilience, family, and faith, this is the incredible and true story of an American traveler who was captured and wrongfully imprisoned in Syria while on 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 group of...
Decoy
The shocking true story of one of Britain's most secretive, groundbreaking and successful police covert operations Bristol, 1979.An attacker roams the streets...Young women are warned not to go out alone...Enter...
The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Holocaust Survival,
One man, his piano and their miraculous survival.'Extraordinary' Baroness Julia Neuberger'Powerful and gruelling ... an almost unimaginable story of horror and survival' Mail on Sunday'Stunning. A beautiful blend of action,...
In the Sea There Are Crocodiles
A beautiful, heartbreaking novel based on the true story of an Afghan boy's journey in search of a place to call home. I read somewhere that the decision to emigrate...
Decoy
The shocking true story of one of Britain's most secretive, groundbreaking and successful police covert operations Bristol, 1979.An attacker roams the streets...Young women are warned not to go out alone...Enter...
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 group of...
Our Stories: 75 Years of the NHS from the People Who Built It, Lived
FOREWORD BY ADAM KAY, AUTHOR OF THIS IS GOING TO HURTPortion of proceeds go to NHS Charities Together.A beautiful and heart-warming collection of stories, this landmark publication tells, for the...
Born For War: One SAS Trooper's Extraordinary Account of the Falklands
'A no holdout account of the Falklands War from a man who was in the fight.' Andy McNabTony Hoare always knew he wanted to be in the SAS and so,...
Up in Smoke - My True Story of Life as a Firefighter: 'Fascinating,
'Firefighters are a unique breed. It takes a certain kind of individual to enter a burning building to rescue someone they have never met before.' A third-generation firefighter, Leigh Hosy-Pickett...
Strong: Life, loss and eternal love for my daughter
'Heartbreaking and powerful - Ashley is an inspiration', Fearne Cotton'Ashley's psychological and emotional resilience is unparalleled, truly in the 0.1 percent', Ant MiddletonSTRENGTH, RESILIENCE, POWER Strong is the moving and...
Save Me from the Waves: An adventure from sea to summit
An adventure story - with a difference Jessica Hepburn is an unlikely athlete - she was labelled the arty' not the sporty' one in school. She hates exercise and believes...
Strong: Life, loss and eternal love for my daughter
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to The Azaylia Foundation.Strong is the moving and heartbreaking memoir from celebrity campaigner, endurance athlete, and...