Quick view A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria by Caroline Crampton Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: A fascinating and revelatory cultural history of hypochondria, from Hippocrates to wellness influencers - for fans of Andrew Solomon and Siddhartha Mukherjee. "There is a twilight zone between illness and health, and that's where … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus.She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintai… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Lady MacBethad by Isabelle Schuler Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: Power. History. Love.Hate. Vengeance. She will be Queen.Whatever it takes... Daughter of an ousted king. Descendant of powerful druids.Destined to take her place in history. As a child, Gruoch's grandmother prophesies that she wil… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Homebodies by Tembe Denton-Hurst Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: She's stayed quiet for too long. Now it's time to speak her truth. --- Until twenty-four hours ago, Mickey Hayward was living the life she'd always dreamed of:- Working as a full-time writer for a trendy media company (tick)- In a… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Pathogenesis: How germs made history by Jonathan Kennedy Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: In this revelatory book, Dr Jonathan Kennedy argues that germs have shaped humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo sapiens over the equally intelligent Neanderthals to the fall of Rome and the rise of Islam.How did… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Philosophy of the Home by Emanuele Coccia Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: A bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom - are these rooms all that make a home? Not at all, argues Emanuele Coccia. The buildings we inhabit are of immense psychological and cultural significance. They play a decisive role in human flour… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: A novelist's gripping investigation of the forces that led his childhood best friend from academic stardom to the psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle, New… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Looshkin: Honk If You See It! by Jamie Smart Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: You never know what to expect from Looshkin - except that it will be very, very funny! Follow the continuing adventures of the maddest cat in the world as he defeats vampires with chicken nuggets, accidentally turns into a duck, b… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: Meet Celine and Luke. To all intents and purposes, the happy couple.But Celine's more interested in playing the piano, and Luke's a serial cheater. And as their big day approaches, the complicated lives of the wedding party begin … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Moving Land: Ireland in Image and Verse by Billy Mundow Now: €27.50 MSRP: Was: This selection of documentary photography by Billy Mundow matches monochrome images of Ireland from the 1960s to the words of Irish poets, recalling lost generations. Themes of a vanished world spool through the pages, capturing t… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard Now: €18.75 MSRP: Was: For fans of Emily St John Mandel and Kazuo Ishiguro, an exhilarating literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighboured by its own past and future, and a young girl who faces an impossible choice...Sixteen-year-old Odil… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Pretentiousness: Why it Matters by Dan Fox Now: €11.25 MSRP: Was: What is pretentiousness? Why do we despise it? And more controversially: why is it vital to a thriving culture? In this brilliant, passionate essay, Dan Fox argues that it has always been an essential mechanism of the arts, from t… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Joy in Service on Rue Tagore by Paul Muldoon Now: €18.75 MSRP: Was: Since his debut, New Weather (1973), Paul Muldoon has created some of the most original and memorable poetry of the past half-century. Joy in Service on Rue Tagore sees him writing with the same verve and distinction that have con… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie.On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux’s mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite her mother’s condition, she had re… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Day I Fell Down the Toilet by Stephen Mangan Now: €9.99 MSRP: Was: A high-energy, laugh-out-loud, fully illustrated adventure story by much-loved actor Stephen Mangan and talented artist Anita Mangan, Celebrity Goggleboxers & creators of Top 10 Fiction Bestsellers Escape the Rooms, The Fart T… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Dinosaur Pie by Jen Wallace Now: €9.99 MSRP: Was: It wasn't really Rory's mum's fault. She just bought Dinosaur Pie for a change and gave it to Rory for his dinner. The next morning he was a dinosaur.Not dressed up as a dinosaur - actually a dinosaur. His friend Daria suggests: '… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: Roach - bookseller, loner and true crime fanatic- is not interested in making friends. She has all the company she needs in her serial killer books, murder podcasts and her pet snail, Bleep.That is, until Laura joins the bookshop.… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston Now: €18.75 MSRP: Was: With foot and mouth disease spreading across the hills of Cumbria, emptying the valleys of sheep and filling the skies with smoke, two neighbouring shepherds lose everything and put aside their rivalry to join forces. They set the… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars by Peter Stothard Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: 14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed.The Forum of Rome, once fought over so fiercely, has become hardly more than a museum. The house of all power is up above on the Palatine Hill, about to become t… Add to Cart The item has been added