Creative card makers take note: the corner rounder punch with a pretty floral motif is just the right thing for you!With our practical floral motif punch, you can give free rein to your creativity. You can quickly add a personal t…

With our motif punches, you can create nice cut-outs in a jiffy that you can decorate to your liking and with the patterns emerging from the cut-outs, you can further enhance cards and envelopes.This motif punch is an indispensabl…

From the outside, Irish dancing seems like a wholesome world of dazzling costumes, intricate footwork and groomed hair. The sport and art form, made world-famous by the smash hit Riverdance, is an instantly recognisable part of Ir…

Leaving Russia follows Jason Corcoran as he and his family flee Moscow after Putin's invasion of Ukraine, joining a historic exodus of Russians escaping repression, fear, and moral collapse. As they struggle to rebuild their lives…

This is the ultimate loaf cake cookbook with tried-and-tested recipes ranging from nostalgic Madeira and zingy lemon drizzle to rich chocolate fudge and a savoury no-knead garlic rosemary loaf. Whether you’re in the mood for somet…

Sophie and her five children, still raw from tragedy, relocate from Canada to her partner Derek's childhood home. There they attempt to forge a new life together - but their new family is shadowed by grief, myth, and a lingering s…

Joan, a public servant in her fifties, is in the habit of living alone. Orrather, she's in the habit of living with the many rituals and routines-some ordinary, some less so-that allow her to navigate her days. It'sa system that w…

In June 1631 pirates from Algiers and armed troops of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, led by the notorious pirate captain Morat Rais, stormed ashore at the little harbour village of Baltimore in West Cork. They captured almost all the…

Calcutta, September 1969Varsha Gupta wants fish for her lunch. Her family can't understand it; the three-year-old has never tasted fish in her life.The Guptas are strict vegetarians and don't allow it inside their Calcutta mansion…

East Cork was a particularly violent area during the War of Independence with many IRA ambushes and attacks on Crown Forces. The first major success nationally for the IRA was the capture and destruction of Carrigtwohill RIC Barra…

The world’s favourite pocket travel guidesMake the most of your trip to Naples and the Amalfi Coast with this Top 10 guide. Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that Naples and the Amalfi Coast…

The deep sea is one of humanity's last frontiers. For most of our history it has been a remote realm, invoking awe and terror as it lays shrouded in darkness. But here, where the light cannot reach, lies a strange, wonderful and b…

In 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious plan to plunder Africa’s resources. The key to cracking open the continent, or so he thought, was its elephants ? if only he could train them.And so he commissioned the cha…

In the first book of this touching and darkly comic duology set in the bestselling world of the Saint of Steel series, a paladin, a forger, an assassin and a scholar ride out of town on an espionage mission with deadly serious sta…

The graphic novel adaptation of Virginia Woolf's feminist classic, which tells the story of a passionate young nobleman traveling through time in the body of a woman.  Virginia Woolf’s Orlando has long stood as a dazzling landmark…

Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father is too kind-hearted to collect his debts.They face poverty, until Miryem hardens her own heart and takes up his work in their village. Her success creates a …

What does it mean to lose yourself – and is that something you should be aiming for? A young woman with little interest in games takes up a job in Frankfurt at a famous gaming company, naively set on reinvention. On her morning co…

Born in Germany to Afghan parents, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice. Now in Berlin’s techno-filled warehouses, their walls still scarred by the ravages of the last century, she …

TO KILL A MONSTER, SHE MUST BECOME ONE . . .As the emperor lays dying, the once-great Azalea Dynasty plunges towards civil war.While its princes plot for power, a more hidden war - to become the next empress - occupies the imperia…

Tuberculosis has been entwined with hu­manity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, aut…

The majority of the world now lives in some form of urban environment. But as the human footprint of brick, concrete and metal expands, our proximity to nature decreases. This is a problem; nature isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity.…

Nature’s Acre grew out of a single acre of Irish ground — a place that shaped me, challenged me, and ultimately taught me how to live with the land rather than on top of it. It’s a memoir about nettles and neighbours, childhood an…

The Word is Murder, the first book in the Hawthorne series, is being made into a major feature film.The actors have been cast, the script written, and filming has already started in Hastings.But when Hawthorne and Anthony visit th…

Anyone can write a bestseller. Here’s how. GO GAY. It’s been seven years since Mallory shot to fame as a literary sensation. But after years of struggling with writer’s block, she’s desperate to resurrect her career before it spir…

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilising novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love. Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant.She’s an accomplished actress in …

Professor Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv and served in the Israel Defence Forces during the Yom Kippur War. He went on to become an expert on the German army and the Holocaust, before turning his attention …

Dublin, 1912. The long summer stretches out before twins Tim and Deirdre. Their friend Joe is over a hundred miles away in Limerick … but when Deirdre spots a boy who looks exactly like him on a Dublin beach, the twins realise the…

Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for more than 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This s…

The first in a mystery series from the much-loved Irish actor, writer and comedian, for readers who enjoy the warmth of Graham Norton and the mystery of Death in Paradise, all wrapped up in one small Irish town.When beloved celebr…