Quick view The Penguin History of Modern Spain: 1898 to the Present by Nigel Townson Now: €18.75 MSRP: Was: 'Spain is different,' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s, keen to attract foreign tourists. For the most part, the world has agreed. From the end of its 'glorious empire' in 1898 to the dazzling World Cup victory in 2010, t… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky Now: €18.75 MSRP: Was: Alien Clay is a thrilling far-future adventure by acclaimed Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky. They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln lie the r… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Crack-Up Capitalism by Quinn Slobodian Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Look at a map of the world and you'll see a neat patchwork of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides.From the 1990s onwards, globalization has shattered the map, leading to an explosion of new legal entities: … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Girl in the Eagle's Talons by Karin Smirnoff Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: The untapped natural resources of Sweden's far north are sparking a gold rush, with the criminal underworld leading the charge. But it's not the prospect of riches that brings Lisbeth Salander to the small town of Gasskas. Her nie… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Lodgers by Eithne Shortall Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: One house, three strangers... Tessa. Activist, 69 years young. Not ready to sell up her big seaside house, but she knows a little help around the place would do wonders.Conn. Looking for a quiet place to heal after a family trag… 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 Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: A powerful, compressed masterwork for fans of Shirley Jackson and Claire-Louise Bennett. A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The yo… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Acceptance by Pádraig O'Morain Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: In this wise and practical book, psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher Padraig O'Morain explains how practising acceptance can help us find happiness. It can be difficult to make peace with things that happen to you and affect y… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Eyes Guts Throat Bones by Moira Fowley Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: The belly groan of a face unpeeled. A break-up poem recited knee-deep in bog water. An ancient burial mound rising and falling like a chest.The ghost of Stephen Gately reading the ingredients on a ham and cheese sandwich. Startlin… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Gentleman From Peru by André Aciman Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: We spend more time than we know trying to go back. We call it fantasising, we call it dreaming. . . but we're all crawling back, each in his or her own way. A group of college friends find themselves marooned at a luxurious hotel… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The House of Mirrors by Erin Kelly Now: €18.75 MSRP: Was: One of them has killed before.One of them will kill again.In the sweltering summer of 1997, straight-laced, straight-A student Karen met Biba - a bohemian and impossibly glamorous aspiring actress. A few months later, two people w… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Populus by Guy de la Bedoyere Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient worldLiving in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers, and poets who were acutely aware of the seeth… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan Now: €16.50 MSRP: €18.75 Was: From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. May 2021. London. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the em… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes a novel about an ordinary man who thought life’s surprises were behind him – until a chance encounter changed everything. Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his … 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 The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín (Picador Collection) Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: Helen’s beloved brother Declan is dying. Now, she must join her mother and grandmother in a crumbling old house by the sea, three generations calling an uneasy truce after years of strife, to be by his side. Together with Declan’s… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister by Joyce Carol Oates Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: When a woman mysteriously vanishes from her small town home, her sister must tally up the clues to uncover the truth behind the mystery. Beautiful sculptor Marguerite has disappeared from her small town in upstate New York. But wa… 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 The Psychology of Secrets: My Adventures with Murderers, Cults and Influencers by Andrew Gold Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: We all keep secrets. 97 per cent of us are hiding a secret right now, and on average we each hold thirteen at any one time. There’s a one-in-two chance that those secrets involve a breach of trust, a lie or a financial impropriety… Add to Cart The item has been added