Quick view Minor Monuments by Ian Maleney Now: €13.99 MSRP: Was: Set around a small family farm on the edge of a bog, a few miles from the river Shannon, Minor Monuments is a collection of essays unfolding from the landscape of the Irish midlands. Taking in the physical and philo- sophical powe… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal MSRP: Was: Now: €5.00 - €13.75 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the 'netsuke', they unlock… Choose Options
Quick view A Waiter in Paris by Edward Chisholm Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Ah, Paris... gastronomie magnifique and... insane shit going on behind the scenes. A Waiter in Paris charts Edward Chisholm's jaw-dropping experiences while serving tables in the French capital, a demi-monde of sadistic managers,… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view I Don't Want to Talk About Home: A migrant's search for belonging by Suad Aldarra Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: rowing up in conservative Saudi Arabia, Suad Aldarra felt stifled by the strictures placed on women. She yearned for the vibrant Syrian streets of her family's origin. When the opportunity arose to study at Damascus University, sh… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Jay, The Beech and the Limpetshell: Finding Wild Things With My Kids by Richard Smyth Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: Richard Smyth had always been drawn to the natural world, but when he became a father he found a new joy and a new urgency in showing his kids the everyday wild things around them. As he and his children explore rockpools in Whitl… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, Donne was incapable of being just one thing. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Past Mortems: Life and death behind mortuary doors by Carla Valentine Now: €5.00 MSRP: €11.25 Was: A day in the life of Carla Valentine - curator, pathology technician and 'death professional' - is not your average day. She spent ten years training and working as an Anatomical Pathology Technologist: where the mortuary slab was… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World by Jonathan Bate Now: €5.99 MSRP: €13.75 Was: A dazzling new biography of Wordsworth's radical life as a thinker and poetical innovator, published to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth. William Wordsworth wrote the first great poetic autobiography.We owe to him the idea… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Murder in the Neighbourhood: The true story of America's first recorded mass shooting by Ellen J. Green Now: €5.00 MSRP: €11.25 Was: On 6th September 1949, twenty-eight-year-old Howard Barton Unruh shot thirteen people in less than twelve minutes on his block in East Camden, New Jersey. The shocking true story of the first recorded mass shooting in America has … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Under Water: How holding my breath taught me to live by Claire Walsh Now: €18.99 MSRP: Was: Claire Walsh spent her twenties living the life she thought she was supposed to live, all the while playing hide and seek with depression. As a result, the road to recovery was the only travelling she did. Aged 32, single and livi… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City. Lebowitz turns her trademark caustic… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared that she was quitting stand-up. Now, she takes us through the defining moments in her life that led to the creation of Nanette and her… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Fierce Appetites: Lessons from my year of untamed thinking by Elizabeth Boyle Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty.All three happening together brings a moment of reckoning. Medieval historian Elizabeth Boyle made sense of these events the best way she k… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama Now: €5.00 MSRP: Was: Before he was president, he was senator. Written two years prior to the election that would change the face of the United States, The Audacity of Hope discusses the importance of empathy in politics, Obama's hopes for a different … Choose Options
Quick view The Bookseller Of Kabul by Asne Seierstad MSRP: Was: Now: €5.00 - €10.50 For more than twenty years Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, defied the authorities - be they communist or Taliban - to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned by the communists and watc… Choose Options
Quick view In My Father's House by Miranda Seymour Now: €5.00 MSRP: Was: 'Dear Thrumpton, how I miss you tonight,' wrote George Seymour in 1944, when he was aged twenty-one. But the object of his affection was not a young woman, but a house -- ownership of which was then a distant dream. But he did eve… Choose Options
Quick view Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith by Richard Bradford Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: "My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never give me peace" - Patricia Highsmi… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: A poignant love letter to Bloom's husband and a passionate outpouring of grief, In Love reaffirms the power and value of human relationships. In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Stories I Might Regret Telling You by Martha Wainwright Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: Born into music royalty, daughter of Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III and sister to singer Rufus Wainwright, Martha grew up in a world filled with incomparable folk legends. With the same emotional honesty that has come t… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view My Father's Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love and Die by Kevin Toolis Now: €5.00 MSRP: €11.25 Was: Death is a whisper in the Anglo-Saxon world. But on a remote island, off the coast of County Mayo, it has a louder voice. The local radio station runs a thrice-daily roll-call of the recently departed.The islanders keep vigil with… Add to Cart The item has been added