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This is a book about how to optimise your mental health. Written with kindness and sympathy, it is a practical guide to emotional well-being, calm and psychological maturity. Alain de Botton explores how we can cope with a variety…

Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry became a national salve during the pandemic, uniquely capturing the mood of the country as read live on radio from RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor Show. This collection of poetry, containing the bank holiday poems …

At her death in 2020, Eavan Boland left a formidable body of work – poems and prose. Together they transformed Irish poetry and had a considerable influence throughout the English-speaking world. She was also a major essayist, who…

How do you feel about embracing Ireland's native tongue? At odds after a tricky relationship at school? Maybeyou've given up, or don't know where to start?Well, is fada an bóthar nach mbíonn casadh ann - long is the road that has …

Want to keep your brain active and your wits trim? Challenge your mind with The Penguin Book of Puzzles and find out if you've got what it takes to beat the Penguin. These challenges will require all the reader's wits to solve, bu…

Mia feels alone; so alone that it's as if she lives on a small island, far out to sea. But then one day, Mia is given a book - the first she has ever been able to call her own.As Mia reads the book, bridges appear and her island f…

A rugged mountain town seemed like the perfect escape from a life in shambles. But on day one, she ran full tilt into the world's hottest single dad, and now all her plans are ruined.As a chart-topping country singer with a recent…

The year is 1588. Ships of the Spanish Armada, one of the most magnificent fleets ever to set sail, are wrecked off the west coast of Ireland. Maximo, a young Spanish sailor, hides from English soldiers in an ancient portal tomb, …

In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was late…

From the ‘10,000 hours rule’ to the power of tiger parenting, we have been taught that success in any field requires early specialization and many hours of deliberate practice.If you only dabble or delay, you'll never catch up wit…

A magical page-turner inspired by the true story of George Brewster, the last child chimney sweep. Brewster has been sold to a cruel Master Sweep to risk his life up the narrow jungle of chimneys to reach the sky. But Brewster has…

As a chronic procrastinator, Henry Turner always knew his junior year in college wasn’t going to be easy. That was before he made ice hockey captain as well as landing himself in a difficult class with his least favourite professo…

How does your food get on your plate? Where does it come from? How does it grow? How does it travel around the globe to get to you? And once you have it, how do you cook and eat it? Seed to Supper takes you through every stage of …

Get ready to blast off and enjoy the ride!'Jack Carr, former Navy SEAL Sniper and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the James Reece Terminal List series'Continuous action, Mach-speed mayhem, sharp intrigue, and well-rounded …

From the award-winning author of The Silver Road comes a new tale of contemporary Ireland and ancient myth . . .When Ben and his family have to leave Dublin and move into the remote house where his mother grew up, he's not optimis…

From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century's most spectacular financial collapses'I asked him how much it would take for hi…

How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway?Have your sense of art history overturned, and your eyes opened to many art for…

I was the guy who always found a way.I was the guy that couldn't be stopped.A drug-dealing hit man unburdens his fears to a stranger. An overlooked rookie cop is assigned to the department's file room.A ruthless killer only kills …

An engrossing guide to fraudulent elections around the world—fully updated to mark the biggest election year in history in 2024, as over four billion people cast their votes   Contrary to popular belief, authoritarian leaders who …

It was love at first taste for fifteen-year-old Tadhg Hickey when he drank a can of Scrumpy Jack on the night of his exam results. Straight away it provided a cure for that constant feeling of 'something wrong, something not quite…

Uncovering secrets is like undoing braids, one at a time… Abidemi can’t wait for summer, her last one at home in Ennistymon before she heads off to college. She’s ready to say goodbye to school, spend some time learning new braids…

And Yet... gathers the previously uncollected essays of the late Christopher Hitchens into a final volume of peerless prose from one of the great thinkers of our times. Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, wh…

*Now a live-action Netflix series!* Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love.Heartstopper is the bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel: this new edition - with a cover including Alice Oseman's artwork and photographs showi…

Ever sworn off alcohol for a month and found yourself drinking by the 7th? Think there's 'no point' in just one drink? Welcome! There are millions of us. 64% of Brits want to drink less. Catherine Gray was stuck in a hellish whirl…

A visual pilgrimage through holy mountains, great pyramids, and golden shrines, Sacred Sites celebrates the ways we transform the world around us through ritual, creativity, and worship. Essays, interviews and more than 400 images…

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious – and learning to go on. In a cosy brownstone in Brooklyn, the venee…

The riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—a record-breaking, critically-acclaimed no.1 bestseller, now out in paperback. In the stirring first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the s…

Whale, seal, ray, eel, crab, starfish, periwinkle: This book introduces our youngest readers to all the wonderful creatures in our seas and on our shores!With simple text and pictures, this bright and colourful board book is perfe…

With an irresistible enemies-to-lovers romance, and perfect for fans of Alice Oseman and Becky Albertalli, Lover Birds is a beautifully-written, inclusive and heart-pounding romance. When Isabel Williams moves to Liverpool, she cr…

A radical, joyful novel from Goldsmiths Prize-winning author Isabel Waidner. In flight from a traumatic rural childhood, Corey Fah has come to earth in a one-bed council flat in the capital. Trapped, with partner Drew, in the limi…