True stories of heroism, endurance & survival

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  • The Everest Mystery

    £22.00

    A gripping account of the life of Sandy Irvine and the mystery of his and Mallory’s disappearance on Everest in June 1924.

  • This Is Also a Love Story

    £20.00

    ‘Deeply moving and necessary’ ANNE ENRIGHT

    ‘A must-read’ iPAPER

    ‘Original and heart-warming’ LINDSEY HILSUM

    ‘Remarkable … the perfect antidote to our times’ CHRISTINA LAMB

    From the Orwell Prize-winning author of My Fourth Time, We Drowned comes a powerful account of human resilience, capturing our capacity for love and connection against all odds.

  • The Spy in the Archive

    £10.99

    LONGLISTED for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2026

    The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin – turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West.

  • The Lost Voices of Pompeii

    £22.00

    We all know how the people of Pompeii died. But what about how they lived?

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  • Lifeboat at the End of the World

    £18.99

    ‘Dominic Gregory hasn’t just delivered a survey of courage and determination – Lifeboat at the End of the World is a hymn to human decency, and that makes it a very timely book indeed’ TIM WINTON

    Do you really think all lives are worth saving?

  • Wolfpack

    £25.00

    A Times and Waterstones Book of the Year

    ‘A superb work of history’ JAMES HOLLAND

    ‘A thrilling account from a master of Second World War history’ DAN SNOW

    A landmark history of the U-Boat war told through the experiences and recollections of the U-Boat crews themselves.

  • Hitler, Stalin, mum and dad

    £10.99

    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 horror and the sadness it’s also a ‘memoir of miraculous survival’. I can’t recommend it enough’ ANTHONY HOROWITZ

  • Boy Who Harnessed The Wind

    £9.99

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURED DIRECTED BY AND STARRING CHIWETEL EJIOFOR – AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX AND A NEW WEST END MUSICAL.

  • Man’s Search For Meaning

    £10.99

    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.