True stories
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True stories
Paperback. On the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago's Iroquois Theatre. This work provides a chronicle of this event to assess the titanic tragedy of the fire itself and also the municipal corruption that kindled the flames beforehand and the political cover-ups hidden in the smoke. Num Pages: 240 pages, 48 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJC; BT; HBTB; JFFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809327218
- ISBN
- 9780809327218
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.75
€ 35.75
Paperback. A memoir of former KPMG CEO Eugene O'Kelly, completed in the three and a half months between his diagnosis with brain cancer and his death in September 2005. It offers a glimpse of the strategies Gene embraced to accept and live the final stages of his life with vibrancy and calm - and what his preparations for death taught him about life. Num Pages: 201 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BT; VFJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Mcgraw-Hill Education
- Number of pages
- 201
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- UK
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780077118471
- ISBN
- 9780077118471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.76
€ 16.99
€ 13.76
Paperback. From birth to jail, from triumph to tragedy - the sensational story of Oscar Pistorius, from the acclaimed author of Playing the Enemy (filmed as Invictus). Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; BGS; BTC; WSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 36. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782393290
- ISBN
- 9781782393290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.69
€ 11.99
€ 9.69
Paperback. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; BTM; HBJD1; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 303 x 16. Weight in Grams: 272. Good clean copy showing light shelf and reading wear, remains a nice copy Keywords: Northern Ireland
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Merrion Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0025328
- ISBN
- 9781785370854
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.64
€ 7.64
Paperback. Forty years after the Manson Family murders, this is the definitive account of the crimes that shocked the world. Num Pages: 464 pages, 2 B & W plate sections. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 32. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- Hodder Paperbacks
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340977033
- ISBN
- 9780340977033
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.46
€ 14.99
€ 11.46
Paperback. Presents twenty-five historic cases of murder committed in the Channel Islands that include: a fatal assault on John Francis in 1894, which remains unsolved; the murder by Philippe Jolin of his father in 1829; the murder and suicide committed by Eugenie Toupin in 1881, and more. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKX; BTC; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 160 x 11. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- The History Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752479781
- ISBN
- 9780752479781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.25
€ 18.25
Paperback. As a young mum-of-three, the author was determined to get her troubled life back on track. But then she met Gary Heidnik and the next four months became a living nightmare. Along with five women she was held captive in a cellar where she was starved, beaten, and repeatedly raped to fulfil Heidnik's desire of creating a 'family' of ten children. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Ebury Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780091955717
- ISBN
- 9780091955717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.97
€ 16.99
€ 12.97
Paperback. 19 March 2011, D S Stephen Fulcher receives a call that thrusts him into a race against time to save missing 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan, who was last seen at a nightclub. Steve knows from experience that he has a small window of time to find Sian alive, but his hopes are quickly dashed when his investigation leads him to Christopher Halliwell. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JMC; 3JMG; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Ebury Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781785036279
- ISBN
- 9781785036279
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 11.34
€ 19.99
€ 11.34
Paperback. The full true story of Casper, the extraordinary cat, who rode the bus in Plymouth, Devon, and made international news Num Pages: 240 pages, 8pp colour. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWD; BT; WNGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849831758
- ISBN
- 9781849831758
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.42
€ 13.99
€ 10.42
Paperback. For years, Lefty provided the smarts, while Tony kept the bosses happy with weekly suitcases filled with millions in skimmed cash. Lefty's obsessions with running the town and Tony's obsession with Lefty's beautiful showgirl wife, Geri eventually led to betrayals and investigations that exploded into one of the greatest scandals in mob history. Num Pages: 432 pages, N/A. BIC Classification: 1KBBWN; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Ebury Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785031540
- ISBN
- 9781785031540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.48
€ 18.99
€ 14.48
Paperback. Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring story of the half-French Violette Szabo. Num Pages: 192 pages, 24 pages of plates. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; BTM; HBJD; HBWQ; JWKF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848847422
- ISBN
- 9781848847422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.39
€ 18.99
€ 15.39
Paperback. Carstairs, the State Hospital in Lanarkshire, Scotland, is a hospital like no other. Effectively a prison for some of the most violent and insane criminals in our society, it houses men who have committed the most horrific and frightening crimes imaginable. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 266 x 23. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Publisher
- Black and White Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845029982
- ISBN
- 9781845029982
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.49
€ 16.99
€ 12.49
Paperback. Explores life in the Victorian police force from the time of Jack the Ripper, from training to discovering a murder. Num Pages: 288 pages, 72. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 125 x 34. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Amberley
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445655208
- ISBN
- 9781445655208
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.13
€ 14.99
€ 12.13
Paperback. 21-year-old Michelle Knight disappears walking home. Amanda Berry goes missing the day before her seventeenth birthday. 14-year-old Gina DeJesus fails to come home from school. For over a decade these girls remained undetected in a house just three miles from the block where they all went missing, held captive by a terrifying sexual predator. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241003619
- ISBN
- 9780241003619
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.46
€ 14.99
€ 11.46
Paperback. 8th April 2009 was just an ordinary day for the author, captain of the United States-registered cargo vessel, the Maersk Alabama, as it headed towards the port of Mombasa. Ordinary that is until, two hundred or so miles off the east coast of Africa, armed Somali pirates attacked and boarded the freighter. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8pp b & w photos; b & w map. BIC Classification: 1HFGS; 3JMC; BTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857502469
- ISBN
- 9780857502469
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.46
€ 14.99
€ 11.46
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306812859
- ISBN
- 9780306812859
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.66
€ 24.99
€ 18.66
Paperback. Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in Cambridgeshire's history. Series: Sutton True Crime History. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations, map., ports. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAC; BTC; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 247 x 11. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 152
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750939140
- ISBN
- 9780750939140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.17
€ 18.17
Paperback. A frank, funny and shocking memoir of one woman's struggle to free her family from debt - by becoming an escort. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BT; JFMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Sphere
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- KLN0017617
- ISBN
- 9780751536980
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A frank, funny and shocking memoir of one woman's struggle to free her family from debt - by becoming an escort. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BT; JFMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New Ed
- Publisher
- Sphere
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- SKU
- KLN0017616
- ISBN
- 9780751536980
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Offers an account of the US Drug Enforcement Administration's four-year hunt to bring down Tommy 'Karate' Pitera, a drug-dealing, murderous capo in the Bonanno crime family. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 x 8pp b/w. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 199 x 20. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Mainstream Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845965884
- ISBN
- 9781845965884
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
€ 13.99
€ 10.71