True stories of heroism, endurance & survival
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A very private school
£25.00A very private school
In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend a boarding school.
SKU: 9780008666088 Category: Biography Tags: Biography: general, Child abuse, Independent schools, private education, Memoirs, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival£25.00 -
Adventureholic
£20.00Adventureholic
Adventureholic invites readers on a roller-coaster ride around seven continents, as adventurer Neil Laughton details the extraordinary expeditions undertaken by him and his friends: from summiting Mount Everest with Bear Grylls to piloting the world’s first road-legal flying car on a 10,000km journey across the Sahara Desert to Timbuktu.
SKU: 9781915635464 Category: Travel Tags: Autobiography: general, Climbing & mountaineering, Expeditions, Memoirs, Travel writing, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival£20.00 -
Find a way
£10.99Find a way
The ultimate sporting memoir from the world’s greatest ultra-distance swimmer, in Find a Way Diana Nyad celebrates her accomplishments and shows how perseverance towards your own life goals can impact the hearts of millions.
SKU: 9781035007158 Category: Sport Tags: Autobiography: sport, Memoirs, Swimming & diving, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival£10.99 -
Finding Hildasay
£10.99Finding Hildasay
A life-affirming story of one man’s journey around Britain’s coastline.
SKU: 9781035006823 Category: Travel Tags: Memoirs, Travel writing, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival£10.99 -
Great and horrible news
£10.99Great and horrible news
‘Grimly fascinating ? engrossing’ Daily Mail
NINE HISTORIC CRIMES. ONE FAMILIAR OBSESSION.
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Hildasay to home
£20.00Hildasay to home
Sunday Times bestselling Chris Lewis meets the love of his life and starts the real adventure of a lifetime as he builds a family and finishes his epic walk along the whole coastline of the UK.
SKU: 9781035033782 Category: Sport Tags: Memoirs, Travel writing, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival£20.00 -
Hitler, Stalin, mum and dad
£25.00Hitler, Stalin, mum and dad
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘Epic, moving and important’ ROBERT HARRIS
‘A modern classic’ OBSERVER
‘An unforgettable epic of a book’DAILY MAIL
SKU: 9780008483845 Category: Biography Tags: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography: historical, political & military, Memoirs, Second World War, The Holocaust, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival£25.00 -
How to say Babylon
£16.99How to say Babylon
‘Dazzling. Potent. Vital’ TARA WESTOVER
‘To read it is to believe that words can save’ MARLON JAMES
‘I adored this book ? Unforgettable, heartbreaking and heartwarming’ ELIF SHAFAK
‘A breathless, scorching memoir of a girlhood’NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
SKU: 9780008491284 Category: Biography Tags: Autobiography: literary, Feminism & feminist theory, Memoirs, Poetry, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival£16.99 -
Landlines
£10.99Landlines
Raynor Winn knows that her husband Moth’s health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only one cure. It worked once before. But will he – can he? – set out with her on another healing walk? The Cape Wrath Trail is over two hundred miles of gruelling terrain through Scotland’s remotest mountains and lochs. But the lure of the wilderness and the beguiling beauty of the awaiting glens draw them northwards. Being one with nature saved them in their darkest hour and their hope is that it can work its magic again. As they set out on their incredible thousand-mile journey back to the familiar shores of the South-west Coast Path, Raynor and Moth map the landscape of an island nation facing an uncertain path ahead. In this book, she records in luminous prose the strangers and friends, wilderness and wildlife they encounter on the way – it’s a journey that begins in fear but can only end in hope.
SKU: 9781405947787 Category: Travel Tags: Housing & homelessness, Memoirs, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Walking, hiking, trekking£10.99 -
Man’s search for meaning
£12.99Man’s search for meaning
In ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’, Dr. Frankl offers an account of his life amid the horrors of the Nazi death camps, chronicling the harrowing experience that led to the discovery of his theory of logotherapy.
SKU: 9781846046384 Category: Current And Social Affairs Tags: Prisoners of war, Psychology, Second World War, The Holocaust, The self, ego, identity, personality, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival£12.99 -
My friend Anne Frank
£10.99My friend Anne Frank
When Hannah’s family flee from the Nazis to Amsterdam, she soon strikes up a friendship with a girl just like her. The girl’s name is Anne Frank and for seven blissful years they are inseparable. Then one day in 1942, as the Nazi occupation intensifies, they are separated without warning. Hannah calls on Anne and can’t find a trace of her. They are told the Franks have fled to Switzerland. As Hannah is tormented by the fate of her friend, hoping she is alive and well elsewhere, her own family’s fate unfolds. After attempts to flee themselves, the SS finally come for them and they are taken to the transit camp Westerbork. Eventually Hannah, her father and younger sister Gabi are transported to Bergen-Belsen. Amid horrific conditions with death all around, it is during Hannah’s darkest point at the concentration camp that she hears astonishing of news of Anne. Hannah risks her life to help her.
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One life
£10.99One life
Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Jewish children from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw their parents again. This is his story. In 1938, 29-year-old ‘Nicky’ cancelled a ski holiday and instead spent 9 months masterminding a seemingly impossible plan to rescue hundreds of children and find them homes in the UK. There are around 6000 people who are alive today because of him. What motivated an ordinary man to do something so extraordinary? This book, written by his daughter, Barbara, explores the 106-year life of an incredible humanitarian, a man whose astounding feats only came to public light decades later. His legacy is to encourage us all to act when we see injustice or need, and to remind us that every one of us can change the world for the better.’If something is not impossible, then there must be a way to do it.’
SKU: 9781472148667 Category: History Tags: Biography: historical, political & military, British & Irish history, Film, TV & radio, The Holocaust, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival£10.99 -
Our bodies their battlefield
£10.99Our bodies their battlefield
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE
‘A wake-up call’ Amal Clooney
‘Devastating? rape and sexual abuse continue to be a pervasive and all-too-often hidden feature of conflict zones the world over’ HM Queen Camilla
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The doctor of Hiroshima
£8.99The doctor of Hiroshima
With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who would care for her little baby? To conceal the fear and terror in my heart I left her, trying to put up a cheerful front. But no one could conceal from her the ominous import of the dark spots that had appeared on her chest. ‘The Doctor of Hiroshima’ is the extraordinary true story of Dr Michihiko Hachiya, whose hospital was less than a mile from the centre of the atomic bomb that hit on that warm August day. Somehow, in immense shock and pain and extremely weak, the doctor and his wife manage to drag themselves to the hospital, where their horrific wounds are treated, and they slowly begin to recover. Tentatively, the doctor starts to reckon with the utter devastation of the bomb, and to investigate the strange symptoms afflicting his patients.
SKU: 9781800961517 Category: History Tags: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, History, Memoirs, Military history, Military history: post WW2 conflicts, Nuclear weapons, Second World War, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival£8.99 -
The Wild Silence
£10.99The Wild Silence
Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After walking 630 miles homeless along the Salt Path, the windswept and wild English coastline now feels like their home. And despite Moth’s terminal diagnosis, against all medical odds, he seems revitalised in nature – outside, they discover that anything is possible. Now, life beyond the Salt Path awaits. As they return to four walls, the sense of home is illusive and returning to normality is proving difficult – until an incredible gesture by someone who reads their story changes everything: a chance to breathe life back into a beautiful but neglected farmhouse in the Cornish hills – rewilding the land and returning nature to its hedgerows becomes their new path. Along the way, Raynor and Moth learn more about the land that envelopes them, find friends both new and old, and embark on another windswept adventure when the opportunity arises.
SKU: 9780241401477 Category: Natural History Tags: Coping with illness & specific conditions, Housing & homelessness, Memoirs, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Walking, hiking, trekking£10.99 -
Wavewalker
£10.99Wavewalker
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023
‘Grippingly vivid and pacey’ THE TIMES
‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing’ SIMON WINCHESTER
SKU: 9780008498535 Category: Biography Tags: Biography: general, Memoirs, Sailing, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival£10.99