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Books > Fiction > True stories

Live Now, Age Later - Proven Ways to Slow down the Clock (Hardcover): Rosonfeld Live Now, Age Later - Proven Ways to Slow down the Clock (Hardcover)
Rosonfeld
R1,179 R793 Discovery Miles 7 930 Save R386 (33%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dr. Rosenfeld spells out the details on how to prevent, treat, and/or slow down virtually every disorder and complication of aging, including Alzheimer's, cancer, heart disease, impotence, cataracts, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, stroke, and loss of vision.

The Wolf Catcher - The true story of how one woman exposed the world's biggest heist (Paperback): Clare Rewcastle Brown The Wolf Catcher - The true story of how one woman exposed the world's biggest heist (Paperback)
Clare Rewcastle Brown
R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
GIRL - On Black Womanhood and Belonging (Paperback): Kenya Hunt GIRL - On Black Womanhood and Belonging (Paperback)
Kenya Hunt
R287 R261 Discovery Miles 2 610 Save R26 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'Powerful, intelligent and vital - one of the year's must-reads' Hannah Nathanson, Features Director, ELLE Featuring contributions from Candice Carty-Williams, Jessica Horn, Ebele Okobi, Funmi Fetto and Freddie Harrel. In the vein of Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, but wholly its own, Girl is a provocative, heartbreaking and frequently hilarious collection of original essays on what it means to be black, a woman, a mother and a global citizen in today's ever-changing world. Black women have never been more visible or more publicly celebrated. But for every new milestone, every magazine cover, every box office record smashed, the reality of everyday life remains a complex, nuanced, contradiction-laden experience. Award-winning journalist and American in London Kenya Hunt threads razor sharp cultural observation through evocative and relatable stories, both illuminating our current cultural moment and transcending it.

Aftermath - Coming of Age on Three Continents (Hardcover): Annette Libeskind Berkovits Aftermath - Coming of Age on Three Continents (Hardcover)
Annette Libeskind Berkovits
R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Personal Identity in the Modern World - A Society of Strangers (Hardcover): Lawrence M. Friedman Personal Identity in the Modern World - A Society of Strangers (Hardcover)
Lawrence M. Friedman
R3,018 Discovery Miles 30 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In a society of strangers, there develops what can be called crimes of mobility -- forms of criminality rare in traditional societies: bigamy, the confidence game, and blackmail, for example. What they have in common is a kind of fraudulent role-playing, which the new society makes possible. This book explores the social and legal consequences of social and geographical mobility in the United States and Great Britain from the beginning of the 19th century on. Personal identity became more fluid. Lines between classes blurred. Impostors abound.

The Man with the Poison Gun - A Cold War Spy Story (Paperback): Serhii Plokhy The Man with the Poison Gun - A Cold War Spy Story (Paperback)
Serhii Plokhy 1
R350 R320 Discovery Miles 3 200 Save R30 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his young wife flee for the West before the Iron Curtain comes down and traps them in the East forever. This gripping story of real-life espionage and intrigue began when the Soviets invented a special weapon that killed without leaving a trace and put it in the hands of Bogdan Stashinsky. It is a tale of exploding parcels, fake identities, forbidden love and a man who knew the truth about the USSR's most classified programme. By the time Stashinsky had his day in court, the whole world was watching.

Savage Appetites - True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession (Paperback): Rachel Monroe Savage Appetites - True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession (Paperback)
Rachel Monroe
R409 R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Save R27 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Peaky Blinders: The Legacy - The real story of Britain's most notorious 1920s gangs - As seen on BBC's The Real Peaky... Peaky Blinders: The Legacy - The real story of Britain's most notorious 1920s gangs - As seen on BBC's The Real Peaky Blinders (Paperback)
Carl Chinn
R224 Discovery Miles 2 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Carl Chinn The Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family have become cult anti-heroes. Well-known social historian, broadcaster and author, Carl Chinn, revealed the true story of the notorious gang in his bestselling Peaky Blinders: The Real Story and now in this follow-up book, he explores the legacy they created in Birmingham and beyond. What happened to them and their gangland rivals? In Peaky Blinders: The Legacy we revisit the world of Billy Kimber's Peaky Blinders, exploring their legacy throughout the 1920s and 30s, and how their burgeoning empires spread across the UK. Delve into the street wars across the country, the impact of the declaration of War on Gangs by the Home Secretary after The Racecourse War in 1921, and how the blackmailing of bookmakers gave way to new and daring opportunities for the likes of Sabini, Alfie Solomon and some new faces in the murky gangland underworld. Drawing on Carl's inimitable research, interviews and original sources, find out just what happened to this incredible cast of characters, revealing the true legacy of the Peaky Blinders.

A Bookshop in Berlin - The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis (Paperback): Francoise... A Bookshop in Berlin - The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis (Paperback)
Francoise Frenkel; Preface by Patrick Modiano
R405 R377 Discovery Miles 3 770 Save R28 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Betrayal of Anne Frank - A Cold Case Investigation (Paperback): Rosemary Sullivan The Betrayal of Anne Frank - A Cold Case Investigation (Paperback)
Rosemary Sullivan
R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Confessions of a Lonely Lover - An Exploration of Online Dating Scams (Hardcover): Joe Eweka Confessions of a Lonely Lover - An Exploration of Online Dating Scams (Hardcover)
Joe Eweka
R1,336 Discovery Miles 13 360 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
We Are Bellingcat - An Intelligence Agency for the People (Paperback): Eliot Higgins We Are Bellingcat - An Intelligence Agency for the People (Paperback)
Eliot Higgins
R285 R259 Discovery Miles 2 590 Save R26 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

_____________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION _____________ 'John le Carre demystified the intelligence services; Higgins has demystified intelligence gathering itself' - Financial Times 'Uplifting . . . Riveting . . . What will fire people through these pages, gripped, is the focused, and extraordinary investigations that Bellingcat runs . . . Each runs as if the concluding chapter of a Holmesian whodunit' - Telegraph 'We Are Bellingcat is Higgins's gripping account of how he reinvented reporting for the internet age . . . A manifesto for optimism in a dark age' - Luke Harding, Observer _____________ How did a collective of self-taught internet sleuths end up solving some of the biggest crimes of our time? Bellingcat, the home-grown investigative unit, is redefining the way we think about news, politics and the digital future. Here, their founder - a high-school dropout on a kitchen laptop - tells the story of how they created a whole new category of information-gathering, galvanising citizen journalists across the globe to expose war crimes and pick apart disinformation, using just their computers. From the downing of Malaysia Flight 17 over the Ukraine to the sourcing of weapons in the Syrian Civil War and the identification of the Salisbury poisoners, We Are Bellingcat digs deep into some of Bellingcat's most successful investigations. It explores the most cutting-edge tools for analysing data, from virtual-reality software that can build photorealistic 3D models of a crime scene, to apps that can identify exactly what time of day a photograph was taken. In our age of uncertain truths, Bellingcat is what the world needs right now - an intelligence agency by the people, for the people.

Detective in the White City - The Real Story of Frank Geyer (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Jd... Detective in the White City - The Real Story of Frank Geyer (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Jd Crighton
R803 Discovery Miles 8 030 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
World's Top Twenty Worst Crimes (Paperback): Kate Kray World's Top Twenty Worst Crimes (Paperback)
Kate Kray
R264 Discovery Miles 2 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, The Hillside Strangler . . . serial murderers are the most horrific of all criminals. Kate Kray, whose marriage to gangster Ronnie Kray offered her access to a gruesome underworld few would dare to enter, peers into the minds of the worst killers to reveal the awful truth of their abominable acts. The extreme nature of their violence and their shocking lack of remorse makes for uncomfortable yet fascinating reading. From obsessive sexual predators and extreme sadists to cannibals and head hunters, each type of psychopath is examined, their crimes told with grim frankness. Kate's connections allow her to ask uncomfortable questions few would dare to ask such men. Offering extraordinary insight into the motivations of violent perpetrators often portrayed as monsters, this book begs the question of whether such individuals can themselves be viewed as victims of a troubled past, or merely as exponents of pure evil.

Strangeways - A Prison Officer's Story (Paperback): Neil Samworth Strangeways - A Prison Officer's Story (Paperback)
Neil Samworth 1
R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This Sunday Times bestseller is a shocking and at times darkly funny account of life as a prison officer in one of the country's most notorious jails. 'Authentic, tough, horrifying in some places and hilarious in others . . . the author's honesty and decency shine through' - Jonathan Aitken ______________ Neil 'Sam' Samworth spent eleven years working as a prison officer in HMP Manchester, aka Strangeways. A tough Yorkshireman with a soft heart, Sam had to deal with it all - gangsters and gangbangers, terrorists and psychopaths, addicts and the mentally ill. Men who should not be locked up and men who should never be let out. He tackles cell fires and self-harmers, and goes head to head with some of the most dangerous men in the country. He describes being attacked by prisoners, and reveals the problems caused by radicalization and the drugs flooding our prisons. As staffing cuts saw Britain's prison system descend into crisis, the stress of the job - the suicides, the inhumanity of the system, and one assault too many - left Sam suffering from PTSD. Strangeways by Neil Samworth is a raw, searingly honest memoir that is a testament to the men and women of the prison service and the incredibly difficult job we ask them to do. ______________ 'A frequently shocking read' - Daily Express

El Narco - The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels (Paperback): Ioan Grillo El Narco - The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels (Paperback)
Ioan Grillo 1
R371 R336 Discovery Miles 3 360 Save R35 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'War' is no exaggeration in discussing the bloodshed that has terrorized Mexico in the past decades. As rival cartels battle for control of a billion-dollar drug trade, the body count- 23,000 dead in five years - and sheer horror beggar the imagination of journalistic witnesses. Cartel gunmen have shot up schools and rehabilitation centers, and murdered the entire families of those who defy them. Reformers and law enforcement officials have been gunned down within hours of taking office. Headless corpses are dumped on streets to intimidate rivals, and severed heads are rolled onto dancefloors as messages to would-be opponents. And the war is creeping northward. El Narco is the story of the ultraviolent criminal organizations that have turned huge areas of Mexico into a combat zone. It is a piercing portrait of a drug trade that turns ordinary men into mass murderers, as well as a diagnosis of what drives the cartels and what gives them such power. Veteran Mexico correspondent Ioan Grillo traces the gangs from their origins as smugglers to their present status as criminal empires. The narco cartels are a threat to the Mexican government, and their violence has now reached as far as North Carolina. El Narco is required reading for anyone concerned about one of the most important news stories of the decade.

A Child Of War (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Ewa Reid-Hammer A Child Of War (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Ewa Reid-Hammer
R773 R689 Discovery Miles 6 890 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Three Women (Paperback): Lisa Taddeo Three Women (Paperback)
Lisa Taddeo 1
R320 R292 Discovery Miles 2 920 Save R28 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The International No. 1 Bestseller 'Cuts to the heart of who we are' Sunday Times 'A book that begs discussion' Vanity Fair All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town? All Sloane wanted was to be admired. How did she end up a sexual object of men, including her husband, who liked to watch her have sex with other men and women? Three Women, which was nearly a decade in the making, is a staggering work of non-fiction for our times. *The book Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Alexa Chung, Jodie Comer, Reese Witherspoon, Harry Styles, Fearne Cotton, Caitriona Balfe, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sharon Horgan, Zoe Ball, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Davina McCall, Gemma Chan, Christine and the Queens and Gillian Anderson are all reading* 'I will probably re-read it every year of my life' Caitlin Moran 'Will have millions nodding in recognition' The Times 'As gripping as the most gripping thriller' Marian Keyes 'When I picked it up, I felt I'd been waiting half my life to read it' Observer 'The kind of bold, timely, once-in-a-generation book that every house should have a copy of, and probably will before too long' New Statesman The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller The No. 1 New York Times Bestseller Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year A Stylist Book of the Decade The Most-Picked Book of the Year of 2019

The Queen - The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth (Paperback): Josh Levin The Queen - The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth (Paperback)
Josh Levin
R448 R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Save R25 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Nowhere Girl - A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood (Paperback): Cheryl Diamond Nowhere Girl - A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood (Paperback)
Cheryl Diamond
R389 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R24 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

By the age of nine, I will have lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities. I'll know how a document is forged, how to withstand an interrogation, and most important, how to disappear . . . To the young Cheryl Diamond, life felt like one big adventure, whether she was hurtling down the Himalayas in a rickety car or mingling with underworld fixers. Her family appeared to be an unbreakable gang of five. One day they were in Australia, the next in South Africa, the pattern repeating as they crossed continents, changed identities, and erased their pasts. What Diamond didn't yet know was that she was born into a family of outlaws fleeing from the highest international law enforcement agencies, a family with secrets that would eventually catch up to all of them. By the time she was in her teens, Diamond had lived dozens of lives and lies, but as she grew older, love and trust turned to fear and violence, and her family--the only people she had in the world--began to unravel. She started to realize that her life itself might be a big con, and the people she loved, the most dangerous of all. With no way out and her identity burned so often that she had no proof she even existed, all that was left was a girl from nowhere. Surviving would require her to escape, and to do so Diamond would have to unlearn all the rules she grew up with. Wild, heartbreaking, and often unexpectedly funny, Nowhere Girl is an impossible-to-believe true story of self-discovery and triumph.

Born For War - One SAS Trooper's Extraordinary Account of the Falklands War (Hardcover): Tony Hoare Born For War - One SAS Trooper's Extraordinary Account of the Falklands War (Hardcover)
Tony Hoare
R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

'Tony is the real deal.' Andy McNab The full, explosive, boots-on-the-ground story of the Falklands War, from a soldier at the heart of the action, published for the 40th anniversary of the conflict. Tony Hoare always knew he wanted to be in the SAS. Both his grandfather and father had been soldiers, and so Tony signed up for the Cadets at 13, then the Infantry at 17 and enlisted into the Royal Green Jackets before passing arduous SAS selection in 1978. Less than four years later, Tony and his team were sent to a collection of islands just off the coast of Argentina called the Falklands, where tensions were rising and war was on the horizon. No amount of training could prepare Tony for what happened over the course of the next twelve weeks, as the Falkland Islands became a battleground between British and Argentinian forces. As helicopters crashed and ships sank, Tony, at the centre of the action, battled across treacherous terrain and against a fearsome enemy, doing whatever it took to retake the islands. From one of the only soldiers who was on the frontline throughout the entire conflict, this is a thrilling account of what really happened in the Falklands, an explosive story of land, sea and air battles from a trooper who saw it all.

Milwaukee Mafia (Hardcover): Gavin Schmitt Milwaukee Mafia (Hardcover)
Gavin Schmitt
R719 R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Save R81 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Westies - Inside New York's Irish Mob (Paperback): T.J. English The Westies - Inside New York's Irish Mob (Paperback)
T.J. English 2
R379 R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Save R33 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Out of a partnership between two sadistic thugs - James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone - the gang dominated the decaying slice of New York City's West Side known as Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s and '80s. Excelling in extortion, numbers running, loansharking and drug-peddling, they became the most notorious gang in the history of organized crime. The then prosecutor Rudolf Giuliani called them 'the most savage organisation in the long history of New York street gangs'. Upping the ante on brutality and depravity, their speciality when it came to punishment and killings was dismemberment. Their reign lasted almost twenty - their end would come as their own violent natures got the best of them and precipitated a downfall as infamous as their rise. This revised and updated edition, brings the story of the Westies up to date with 'where are they now' snapshots of the men - and women - of the Westies.

Tweak - Growing up on Crystal Meth (Paperback, Reissue): Nic Sheff Tweak - Growing up on Crystal Meth (Paperback, Reissue)
Nic Sheff 1
R294 R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Save R24 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR FILM, STARRING STEVE CARELL AND BAFTA AND GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATED TIMOTHEE CHALAMET 'It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago.' Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age 11. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. He paints an extraordinary picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. Tweak is a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery and complements his father's parallel memoir, Beautiful Boy. Praise for Nic Sheff:- 'Difficult to read and impossible to put down.'Chicago Tribune 'Nic Sheff's wrenching tale is told with electrifying honesty and insight.' Armistead Maupin

Code Name Helene : Inspired by the gripping true story of World War 2 spy Nancy Wake (Paperback): Ariel Lawhon Code Name Helene : Inspired by the gripping true story of World War 2 spy Nancy Wake (Paperback)
Ariel Lawhon
R322 R294 Discovery Miles 2 940 Save R28 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Woman. Wife. Smuggler. Spy . . . TV SERIES IN DEVELOPMENT STARRING ELIZABETH DEBICKI (TENET, THE CROWN) AS NANCY WAKE A thrilling and heart-wrenching novel inspired by the astonishing real life story of Nancy Wake. Perfect for fans of Suzanne Goldring's MY NAME IS EVA, Kate Quinn's THE ALICE NETWORK and Imogen Kealey's LIBERATION, soon to be a blockbuster movie. 'Lawhon breathes new life into Nancy Wake's extraordinary story. Rich and thoroughly researched, an exciting, well-written account of wartime valour and the protagonist's qualities shine through' The Times 'This is the next book I won't be able to stop talking about...so, so good!' 5 stars (Goodreads reviewer) 'Readers will be transfixed by this story of a woman who should be a household name' Library Journal 'A gripping thriller based on the life of Nancy Wake... Will keep readers turning the pages' Publishers Weekly In 1936, foreign correspondent, Nancy Wake, witnesses first-hand the terror of Hitler's rise in Europe. No sooner has Nancy met, fallen in love with and agreed to marry French industrialist Henri Fiocca, than the Germans invade France and force her to take on her first code name of many. The Gestapo call her the White Mouse for her remarkable ability to evade capture when smuggling Allied soldiers across borders. She becomes Helene when she leaves France to train in espionage with an elite special forces group in London. Then, when she returns to France, she is the deadly Madame Andree. But the closer France gets to liberation, the more exposed Nancy - and the people she loves - will become. Inspired by true wartime events, Code Name Helene is a gripping and moving story of extraordinary courage, unfaltering resolve, remarkable sacrifice - and enduring love. Just some of the 5-star reader reviews for Code Name Helene: 'I finished this a few weeks ago and I'm still thinking about Helene . . . exceptional' 5 stars (Goodreads reviewer) 'Will have you turning off phones and TVs and staying up late to read it' 5 stars (Goodreads reviewer)

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