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
Quick view The Flow by Amy-Jane Beer Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: On New Year's Day 2012, Amy-Jane Beer's beloved friend Kate set out with a group of others to kayak the River Rawthey in Cumbria. Kate never came home, and her death left her devoted family and friends bereft and unmoored.Returnin… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Bells of Old Tokyo by Anna Sherman Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: For over 300 years, Japan closed itself to outsiders, developing a remarkable and unique culture. During its period of isolation, the inhabitants of the city of Edo, later known as Tokyo, relied on its public bells to tell the tim… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Abominations by Lionel Shriver Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. Novelist, cultural observer and social satirist Lionel Shriver is among the sharpest talents of our age. A writer who embraces 'under-expressed, unpopu… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Masters of the Air by Donald L. Miller Now: €11.25 MSRP: Was: Meet the Flying Fortresses of the American Eighth Air Force, Britain’s Lancaster comrades, who helped to bring down the NazisHistorian and World War II expert Donald Miller brings us the story of the bomber boys who brought the wa… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life by Miriam Margolyes (HB) Now: €6.99 MSRP: €31.25 Was: From declaring my love to Vanessa Redgrave to being fed cockroaches by Steve Buscemi, from turnip-based comedy with Blackadder to being farted on by Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Graham Norton's sofa to Alan Cumming's camper van, my… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Stalin: Man of Steel or Mass Murderer? by Michael Kerrigan Now: €9.99 MSRP: €24.99 Was: Thug, armed robber, activist, revolutionary, tyrant we know the headlines, we know about the atrocities, but what do we really know of the man at the heart of it all? Stalin looks behind the image of the dictator and explores Iose… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view This Accursed Land: An epic solo journey across Antarctica by Lennard Bickel Now: €5.99 MSRP: €13.75 Was: Sir Edmund Hillary described Douglas Mawson's epic and punishing journey across 600 miles of unknown Antarctic wasteland as 'the greatest story of lone survival in polar exploration'. This Accursed Land tells that story; how Mawso… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Be My Baby by Ronnie Spector Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the greatest rock memoirs of all time, Be My Baby is the true story of how Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Ronnie Spector carved out a space for herself against tremendous odds amid the cha… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Cacophony of Bone by Kerri ni Dochartaigh Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: When Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage in the heart of Ireland they were looking for a home, somewhere to stay put. What followed was a year unlike any other. Cacophony of Bone maps the circle of tha… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Strong Female Character by Fern Brady Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: A summary of my book: 1.I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it.2. My terrible Catholic childhood: I hate my parents etc. 3. My friendship with an elderly man who runs the corner shop and is definitely n… Add to Cart The item has been added