Quick view Capote's Women by Laurence Leamer Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: 'There are certain women,' Truman Capote wrote, 'who, though perhaps not born rich, are born to be rich.'These women captivated and enchanted Capote - he befriended them, ingratiated himself into their lives, and received their de… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own .. . When she uncovers his forgotten wif… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Funny Thing Happened On The Way by Nancy Spain Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author and feminist icon - a woman very much ahead of her time - including her time spent on the glorious island of Skiathos. Nancy Spain was one of t… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Eyewitness to War and Peace by Eamonn Mallie Now: €19.99 MSRP: Was: In this gripping memoir, Eamonn Mallie takes us on an extraordinary journey through his life as a journalist in Northern Ireland. From the frontlines of the Troubles to the corridors of power, Mallie’s fearless reporting and unrel… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Hundred to One by Pat Sheedy Now: €18.99 MSRP: Was: At the age of 12, Pat Sheedy placed his first 10p bet and concocted his first scam. This marked the beginning of his descent into a compulsive gambling addiction that would lead to close to one hundred criminal convictions, over a… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Hermit by Jade Angeles Fitton Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: When Jade's partner leaves the barn that they moved into just weeks before, he leaves a dent in the wall and her life unravelled. Numbed from years in a destructive, abusive relationship, she faces an uncertain future and complete… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Out of Thin Air by Michael Crawley Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: What we can learn from Ethiopian running culture – written by an anthropologist and 2:20 marathon runner who trained with the Ethiopians.'Ethiopia is a place where I have been told that energy is controlled by angels and demons an… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris by A.J. Liebling Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Between Meals is the gourmand and journalist A.J. Liebling's delectable account of his time spent eating and drinking in 1920s Paris, under the tutelage of his friend Yves Mirande, 'one of the last of the great around-the-clock ga… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays by Jill Gutowitz Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: The pop songs that have been the soundtrack to the worst moments of her life. And of course, the pivotal day when Orange Is the New Black hit the airwaves and broke down the door to Jill's own sexuality. In these honest examinatio… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view National Dish by Anya von Bremzen Now: €18.75 MSRP: Was: ravelling from Paris to Tokyo, from Seville, Oaxaca and Naples to Istanbul, she investigates the rapid decline of France's pot-au-feu, the misconstrued beginnings of pizza, the meeting of indigenous and European lineages in mole, … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Japanese by Christopher Harding Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: From the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book take the re… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Love in a Dark Time by Colm Toibin Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Toibin looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His subjects range from figures such as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s,… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux Now: €9.99 MSRP: Was: Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who show… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux Now: €14.99 MSRP: Was: 'I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to write about this girl and her desire and madness, her idiocy and pride, her hunger and her blood that ce… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attache to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, bu… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Wild Atlantic Women: Walking Ireland's West Coast by Grainne Lyons Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: A second-generation London Irishwoman walks the Wild Atlantic Way in the footsteps of eleven pioneering women, beginning with her great-grandmother, a lacemaker on Cape Clear Island, and including Ellen Hutchins, Edna O'Brien, Gra… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses by Paula Byrne Now: €21.25 MSRP: €23.75 Was: Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most-read British authors. His influence on literature and the minds of his readers is singular. But how is it that the novelist who created some of the most memorable and modern female … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: ACTRESS. ICON. ACTIVIST.Her story, in her voice, for the first time. In this honest, layered and unforgettable book that alternates between storytelling and her own poetry, Pamela Anderson breaks the mould of the celebrity memoir … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I by Raja Shehadeh Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja. In this new and searingly personal memoir, Raja Shehadeh unpicks the snags and complexities o… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Lost City of Z by David Grann Now: €11.25 MSRP: Was: The story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the inspiration behind Conan Doyle's The Lost World, by the author of the international Number One bestsellers KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE WAGER Fawcett was among the last … Add to Cart The item has been added