Quick view Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie.On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux’s mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite her mother’s condition, she had re… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel Now: €5.99 MSRP: €12.50 Was: A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light. In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Boo… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me by Suleika Dawson Now: €5.99 MSRP: €12.50 Was: The astonishing new portrait of the master of spy fiction, by the woman he kept secret for almost half his life. John le Carré led a life entirely constructed of secrets. First as a British ‘spook’ during the Cold War, then as a … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco, her home for the next twenty-five years. There she began the process of forging a voice in a society that preferred women to be silent. Liberated by West Coast ac… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir by Victoria Belim Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: In the Ukrainian city of Poltava stands a building known as the Rooster House, an elegant mansion with two voluptuous red roosters flanking the door. It doesn't look horrifying. And yet, when Victoria was a girl growing up in the … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Reckless: Sex, Lies and JFK by Mike Rothmiller & Douglas Thompson Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: John F. Kennedy’s life is promoted by sentimental and careless myth-makers as pure legend. But a sinister shadow lies across it.His death was such a shocking event that the vivid memory of his assassination still blinds us to much… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne Now: €20.50 MSRP: Was: Sociopath: A Memoir is at once a mesmerizing tale of a life lived on the edge of the law, a redemptive love story and a moving account of one woman's battle to gain a deeper understanding of people who, like her, are sociopaths.Ev… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane Macgowan by Richard Balls Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: The definitive biography of Shane MacGowan, fully updated to include Shane's final months and the response to his passing. Punk protagonist, legendary drinker, Irish musical icon. The complete and extraordinary journey of the Pogu… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view All the Lonely People by Sam Carr Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: In a series of raw and honest interviews with lonely people from all walks of life, Dr Sam Carr addresses the issue of loneliness and explores what we can do about it. In stories of love and loss, of trauma and hope, told from car… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement by Roland Philipps Now: €18.99 MSRP: €21.25 Was: Pioneering human rights campaigner, patriot, romantic, traitor, LGBTQ+ martyr: this is the story of Roger Casement, one of the 20th century's most complex and compelling figures. In 1904, Casement became internationally celebrated… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire by Michael Wolff Now: €9.99 MSRP: €31.25 Was: Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is cracking up and crashing down.In his irresistible tri… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Letters To Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir Now: €18.75 MSRP: Was: In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. They were found by de Beauvoir's adopted daughter, and published to a storm of controversy in France. Tracing the emotional and triangu… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Arrangements in Blue by Amy Key Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: When poet Amy Key was growing up, she looked forward to a life shaped by romance, fuelled by desire, longing and the conventional markers of success that come when you share a life with another person. But that didn't happen for h… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Love's Work by Gillian Rose Now: €3.00 MSRP: Was: An extraordinary, uncompromising and consoling celebration of a life - through childhood, faith, family, love, friendship, pain and loss - written as its author was facing her own mortality. Gillian Rose was a star academic, accla… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view May, Lou and Cass: Jane Austen's Nieces in Ireland by Sophia Hillan Now: €6.99 MSRP: €21.25 Was: Marianne, Louise and Cassandra Knight were nieces of the great 19th century novelist who gave us Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Jane knew the girls well, reading and sewing with them as they grew up, and they were … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view brother. do. you. love. me. by Manni Coe and Reuben Coe Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Reuben, aged 38, was living in a home for adults with learning disabilities and struggling to accept that he had Down's syndrome. Depressed and in a fog of anti-depressants, he hadn't spoken for over a year. Increasingly isolated,… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Friendaholic by Elizabeth Day Now: €12.50 MSRP: €13.75 Was: As a society, there is a tendency to elevate romantic love. But what about friendships? Aren't they just as – if not more – important? So why is it hard to find the right words to express what these uniquely complex bonds mean to … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir by RuPaul Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broke… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Radical: A Life of My Own by Xiaolu Guo Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: The new memoir from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo - playful, provocative and original, it's her deeply personal take on striving for a life of her own. 'When it comes to spinning light and shadow on the complexitie… Add to Cart The item has been added