True stories of heroism, endurance & survival

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Hardest geezer
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10,000 miles. 16 countries. 352 days. Hardest Geezer, Russ Cook, is the first person to run the entire length of Africa. From his starting point in Cape Agulhas, South Africa, through sandstorms in...
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Hildasay to home
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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 ...
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Every Man for Himself and God against All
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Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema: building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano;...
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Chernobyl roulette
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On 24th February 2022, the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. It was the most direct way...
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Society of the snow
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13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends, took off for the very last time. A deadly miscalculation saw F571 crash directly...
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Fearless
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Louise Minchin went from presenting BBC Breakfast to competing for the GB Team in triathlon in World and European championships, a journey she charted in her first book ‘Dare to Tri’. I...
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Knife
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Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12th, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make...
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To save every one
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?The remarkable 200-year history of The RNLI and their invaluable role in British Maritime history. A beautiful book of kindness, courage, and community to treasure for years to co...
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SAS Sea King Down
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After passing the world’s toughest Special Forces selection to get into D Squadron, 22 SAS, in 1979, Mark ‘Splash’ Aston thought he’d missed out on all the action. Then on A...
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Surviving the Storms
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‘There’s water in the engine,’ he said. ‘The engine has stopped.’
This changed everything?
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The Pull of the Stars
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Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and Room Add to basket

Schindler’s Ark: The Booker Prize winning novel filmed as ‘Schindler’s List’
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The basis for the Oscar-winning Spielberg movie, this novel recreates the story of Oskar Schindler, an Aryan who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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Hardest geezer

Hildasay to home

Every Man for Himself and God against All

Chernobyl roulette

Society of the snow

Fearless

Knife

To save every one

SAS Sea King Down

Surviving the Storms

The Pull of the Stars

Schindler’s Ark: The Booker Prize winning novel filmed as ‘Schindler’s List’

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