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International titles

Welcome to Hell is released in Britain, Australia, Thailand and New Zealand in the 2006. The book has remained in the top five of the Irish bestsellers charts since it was released in May 2005.

Written from his cell and smuggled out page by page, Colin Martin’s autobiography chronicles an innocent man’s struggle to survive inside one of the world’s most dangerous prisons, the Bangkok Hilton. Honest and often disturbing – but told with a surprising humour – Welcome to Hell is the remarkable story of how Colin was denied justice again and again. In this extraordinary account he describes the swindle, his arrest and vicious torture by police, the unfair trial, and the 8 years of brutality and squalor he was forced to endure.

A career criminal all his life, Londoner Martin Bengtsson has been involved in espionage, diamond smuggling, gunrunning and piracy on the high seas. He has killed twice; worked for MI5, the CIA and the Foreign Office; and he’s even smuggled for the Italian Mafia.

If You're Not In Bed by 10PM, Come Home is the riveting story of Bengsston’s extraordinary life. His book is a tale of murder, intrigue, sex and espionage containing all the elements of best-selling fiction but it’s all true. Part rogue, part criminal, part gentleman adventurer, Bengtsson has written a real page-turner for those with a taste for mayhem, madness or just a darn good read

Heroin is the moving story of a young woman’s emergence from the depths of drug addiction.
Julie O'Toole's brutally honest memoir details how she spent months living on the streets of Dublin; dealing drugs and stealing to feed her habit, before her life was saved by a chance encounter with a drugs counsellor.

With honesty and insight, Julie tells of the horror and degradation that come with life as a drug addict, and reveals the extraordinary strength of will that enabled her to conquer heroin.

Monica Loughman’s story is the enchanting tale of a 14-year-old girl leaving her family in Dublin to train in a strict Russian ballet school. She brought her dreams of becoming a professional ballerina with her. While many young ballerinas’ aspirations are unfulfilled, Loughman became Ireland’s success story and was the first Western European to join the distinguished Perm State Theatre of Opera and Ballet.

Not just for ballet lovers, this gripping tale also details the endurance and stamina needed to survive in post Soviet- Union Russia. Set in Perm, Russia, this book weaves a tale that belongs to the finest fiction.

Black Operations is the acclaimed bestseller on the Real IRA and the Omagh bombing. For the first time, the top secret world of Irish espionage and spying is revealed. From bugging stolen cars to paying off Dublin gangsters with hard cash, the authors expose the covert and often ruthless tactics used by Garda Special Branch to ensnare key Real IRA activists.

Packed with new information, Black Operations names the masterminds behind the 1998 Omagh bombing and rocket attack on the London headquarters of M16. Mooney and O'Toole also tell how Victor Barker, the father of a 12-year-old schoolboy murdered in the Omagh bombing, secretly met the Real IRA in a bid to persuade them to abandon violence.

Fully revised and updated, Black Operations also names the Dublin criminal who betrayed the republican movement to help save the Peace Process. When first published, Black Operations caused a major political storm. The Irish government was forced to admit it held face to face talks with IRA godfather Michael McKevitt - talks which the Taoiseach previous denied.