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He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry-the pride in poverty,... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lee, Laurie - I Can't Stay Long ( Vintage PB 1980) They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.'When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lord Longford - Kennedy : A Biography of JFK - Vintage PB 1978 The fascination of President Kennedy is as strong as ever. The atmosphere of adulation has evaporated and is no great loss: the detractors have had their say: the time is propitious for a new assessment of the man and his achievement. Lord Longford has... 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MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view O Dulaing, Donncha - Voices of Ireland - Interviews - PB - 1984 This book contains conversations - in full transcript form - with the following; Eamon De Valera, Micheal Mac Liammoir, Seamus Murphy - sculptor, Julia Grenan, Nora Connolly O' Brien and Leslie Bean de Barra, Fr. Patrick Peyton - rosary priest, Siobhan... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wlkerson, David - The Cross and the Switchblade - Vintage PB - Film Tie-In 1980 The tortured face of a young killer, one of seven boys on trial for a brutal murder, started country preacher David Wilkerson on his lonely crusade to the most dangerous streets in the world.Violent gangs ruled by warlords, drug pushers and pimps held... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN609 Szpilman, Wladyslaw - The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Rhodes James - Victor Cazalet 1896-1943 : A Portrait - HB - WW2 Biography Hardcover in dustjacket, published by Hamish Hamilton UK , 1976. Victor cazalet was a complictaed man - and this book is largely based on his own detailed journals and diaries, which he had kept since tha age of 13. Born into a well connected... 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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN872 Kelly, Julia - Matchstick Man - PB - BRAND NEW Julia Kelly met a charismatic and successful artist, Charlie Whisker, while she was working on her first novel. He was twenty years older than her. Their relationship was passionate and extraordinary; each of them inspired the other. Their friends were... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cagney, James - Cagney by Cagney - HB - 1976 This book is for the true fan of James Cagney. Mr. Cagney tells his story as no one can. 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Laurie Lee - A Rose For Winter - Travels in Andalusia ( Vintage PB 1980) ( Originally 1955) Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry-the pride in poverty,... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lee, Laurie - I Can't Stay Long ( Vintage PB 1980) They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.'When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lord Longford - Kennedy : A Biography of JFK - Vintage PB 1978 The fascination of President Kennedy is as strong as ever. 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MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view O Dulaing, Donncha - Voices of Ireland - Interviews - PB - 1984 This book contains conversations - in full transcript form - with the following; Eamon De Valera, Micheal Mac Liammoir, Seamus Murphy - sculptor, Julia Grenan, Nora Connolly O' Brien and Leslie Bean de Barra, Fr. Patrick Peyton - rosary priest, Siobhan... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wlkerson, David - The Cross and the Switchblade - Vintage PB - Film Tie-In 1980 The tortured face of a young killer, one of seven boys on trial for a brutal murder, started country preacher David Wilkerson on his lonely crusade to the most dangerous streets in the world.Violent gangs ruled by warlords, drug pushers and pimps held... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN609 Szpilman, Wladyslaw - The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Rhodes James - Victor Cazalet 1896-1943 : A Portrait - HB - WW2 Biography Hardcover in dustjacket, published by Hamish Hamilton UK , 1976. Victor cazalet was a complictaed man - and this book is largely based on his own detailed journals and diaries, which he had kept since tha age of 13. Born into a well connected... 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Casey, Daniel J - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Premiership Football | sku: BN104 Paul Merson - Hooked - BRAND NEW PB Paul Merson's wonderfully moving and brutally honest memoir of battling addiction for three decades.For twenty-one years Paul Merson played professional football. He won two First Division titles with Arsenal and was one of the finest players of his... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Ronald Knox ( Translator) - Autobiography of A Saint : Therese of Lisieux : The Story of a Soul - PB 1977 Ed Born in France, young Thérèse Martin (1873-1897) entered the Carmel Convent of Lisieux at the age of fifteen. Also known as "the Little Flower," her autobiography, written at the request of her Carmelite Superiors in the last years of her... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Russia Leopold Labedz ( Editor) - Solzhenitsyn : A Documentary Record ( Vintage Penguin PB 1974) A collection of notable letters, speeches and articles from the Russian writer, dissident and Nobel Prize winner. Tanning to pages, fade to spine. 1974, Penguin UK MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Picador Robert Sabbag - Snowblind : A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade - 1979 When it was first published in the mid-seventies, Snowblind established itself as an essential piece of true crime writing. The story of the legendary Zachary Swan, a mover in the cocaine trade in the sixties who set the standard for all who... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N156K Kevin Haugh / An Imperfect Storm All those involved in cancer care are repeatedly astonished by what the human frame can support and the human spirit can endure. Everyone looks forward to the time when the treatment of cancer, that pernicious and elusive enemy, will not require... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N148K Joe Osborne / Poise and Stride (Coffee Table Book) “Poise and Stride” is a collection of fascinating observations by Joe Osborne, beautifully illustrated by Declan Considine, raising money for R.A.C.E Ireland. Poise and stride offers inspiration in a time where we all have to adapt... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Rock, Pop & Music Biography | sku: N127K Daniell O'Donnell: My Pictures & Places (Coffee Table Book) Daniel O'Donnell is a phenomenon in the history of music and entertainment. Idolized by millions, he is a top box-office attraction whose concerts sell out a year in advance.Join Daniel on a pictorial journey through the landmarks of his life, as... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Rock, Pop & Music Biography | sku: N91K Andrew Vaugham / Danny Boy: A Life of Daniel O'Donnell (Coffee Table Book) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57774H Tony Holohan / We Need To Talk (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Mario Puzo - The Godfather Papers and Other Confessions - PB 1973 Mario Puzo's tantalizing look behind the scenes in the writing and production of The Godfather. Part biography, part film histoiry, partly an exploration of being Italian-American, and growing up in a downtrodden part of New York. Originally... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson - Day Dreams of a Schoolmaster - HB ( Harrap Library edition) Undated , but preface added to this edition dated 1912. Originally published in 1864-5. D'arcy Thompson was professor of Classics at UCG ( then Queen's College Galway) during the 19th century ( one of the lecture theatres is named after him) ... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Eva Gabrielsson & Marie Francoise Colombani - Millénium, Stieg et moi - PB - 2012 À travers le regard privilégié d'Eva Gabrielsson, qui a partagé la vie de Stieg Larsson pendant trente-deux ans, la trilogie "Millénium" apparaît comme bien plus que la série policière connue dans le... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lily O'Connor - Dreams of Hope - From Dublin to Australia This powerful story of an Irish emigrant family is filled with love, life, and the struggle to make them fit together. When Lily O'Connor married Paddy in Dublin, she soon found herself emigrating to England and finally Australia. While courageously... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view France André Gide - Si le Grain Ne Meurt - PB 1985 Reprint Si le grain ne meurt est un récit autobiograpie de l'ecrivain André Gide. Il décrit la vie de l'auteur depuis sa première enfance à Paris jusqu'à ses fiançailles avec sa cousine Madeleine... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Christopher Nolan / Under the Eye of the Clock - HB US Edition 1988 A powerful and moving autobiography from a gifted writer who has been compared to Joyce and Yeats.'A book of sheer wonder. 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Laurence Whistler - The Laughter and the Urn : The Life of Rex Whistler - HB 1985 A biography of the British artist Rex Whistler, written by his brother ( also an artist) Laurence Whistler. Hardcover 1985. Illustrated, some illustrations in colour. Published by Weidenfeld UK. MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Painter, George D - Marcel Proust : A Biography - PB 1983 No biography has ever before thrown so much light on the making of a masterpiece. ' Raymond Mortimer. 'Mr Painter has done his work so well that it is hard to speak in moderate terms of his skill and unobtrusive wit. ' Anthony Powell. 'Brilliant and... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lucia Maraver - The Wonder Year - Life and Love of an Exchange Student - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED - SPAIN Lucía is a Spanish teenager going as an exchange student to Pennsylvania. She is seventeen but she could just as well be thirteen, naïve as she is. Lucia has watched too many teen movies that have filled her head with unrealistic... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN478 Saedi, Sara - Americanized : Rebel Without A Green Card - PB In development as a television series from Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine production company and ABC Studios!This hilarious, poignant and true story of one teen's experience growing up in America as an undocumented immigrant from the Middle East is... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Laurie Lee - A Rose For Winter - Travels in Andalusia ( Vintage PB 1980) ( Originally 1955) Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. 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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view France André Gide - Si le Grain Ne Meurt - PB 1985 Reprint Si le grain ne meurt est un récit autobiograpie de l'ecrivain André Gide. Il décrit la vie de l'auteur depuis sa première enfance à Paris jusqu'à ses fiançailles avec sa cousine Madeleine... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Christopher Nolan / Under the Eye of the Clock - HB US Edition 1988 A powerful and moving autobiography from a gifted writer who has been compared to Joyce and Yeats.'A book of sheer wonder. As an author he competes as an equal with the ablest of them' DAILY EXPRESSThis is the story of Joseph Meehan, born... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Collins - Past Imperfect : An Autobiography - HB - 1983 Faint ghostmark from a circular price label on the fornt cover, tanning to pages, otherwise good. 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cagney, James - Cagney by Cagney - HB - 1976 This book is for the true fan of James Cagney. Mr. Cagney tells his story as no one can. James Cagney was an Academy Award–nominated American actor and dancer on stage and screen. He was the recipient of the American Film... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lucia Maraver - The Wonder Year - Life and Love of an Exchange Student - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED - SPAIN Lucía is a Spanish teenager going as an exchange student to Pennsylvania. She is seventeen but she could just as well be thirteen, naïve as she is. Lucia has watched too many teen movies that have filled her head with unrealistic... 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Casey, Daniel J - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Premiership Football | sku: BN104 Paul Merson - Hooked - BRAND NEW PB Paul Merson's wonderfully moving and brutally honest memoir of battling addiction for three decades.For twenty-one years Paul Merson played professional football. He won two First Division titles with Arsenal and was one of the finest players of his... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Ronald Knox ( Translator) - Autobiography of A Saint : Therese of Lisieux : The Story of a Soul - PB 1977 Ed Born in France, young Thérèse Martin (1873-1897) entered the Carmel Convent of Lisieux at the age of fifteen. 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MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Christopher Nolan / Under the Eye of the Clock - HB US Edition 1988 A powerful and moving autobiography from a gifted writer who has been compared to Joyce and Yeats.'A book of sheer wonder. As an author he competes as an equal with the ablest of them' DAILY EXPRESSThis is the story of Joseph Meehan, born... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Collins - Past Imperfect : An Autobiography - HB - 1983 Faint ghostmark from a circular price label on the fornt cover, tanning to pages, otherwise good. Joan Collins - the internationally famous actress whose career brought her to a new peak of stardom as Alexis Carrington Colby in "Dynasty" - a role... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59134H Charlie Bird, Ray Burke / Time and Tide (Hardback) A poignant and introspective memoir from Irish journalist and broadcaster Charlie Bird. 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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN872 Kelly, Julia - Matchstick Man - PB - BRAND NEW Julia Kelly met a charismatic and successful artist, Charlie Whisker, while she was working on her first novel. He was twenty years older than her. Their relationship was passionate and extraordinary; each of them inspired the other. Their friends were... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cagney, James - Cagney by Cagney - HB - 1976 This book is for the true fan of James Cagney. Mr. Cagney tells his story as no one can. 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Laurie Lee - A Rose For Winter - Travels in Andalusia ( Vintage PB 1980) ( Originally 1955) Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry-the pride in poverty,... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lee, Laurie - I Can't Stay Long ( Vintage PB 1980) They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.'When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lord Longford - Kennedy : A Biography of JFK - Vintage PB 1978 The fascination of President Kennedy is as strong as ever. 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MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view O Dulaing, Donncha - Voices of Ireland - Interviews - PB - 1984 This book contains conversations - in full transcript form - with the following; Eamon De Valera, Micheal Mac Liammoir, Seamus Murphy - sculptor, Julia Grenan, Nora Connolly O' Brien and Leslie Bean de Barra, Fr. Patrick Peyton - rosary priest, Siobhan... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wlkerson, David - The Cross and the Switchblade - Vintage PB - Film Tie-In 1980 The tortured face of a young killer, one of seven boys on trial for a brutal murder, started country preacher David Wilkerson on his lonely crusade to the most dangerous streets in the world.Violent gangs ruled by warlords, drug pushers and pimps held... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN609 Szpilman, Wladyslaw - The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Rhodes James - Victor Cazalet 1896-1943 : A Portrait - HB - WW2 Biography Hardcover in dustjacket, published by Hamish Hamilton UK , 1976. Victor cazalet was a complictaed man - and this book is largely based on his own detailed journals and diaries, which he had kept since tha age of 13. Born into a well connected... 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Casey, Daniel J - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Premiership Football | sku: BN104 Paul Merson - Hooked - BRAND NEW PB Paul Merson's wonderfully moving and brutally honest memoir of battling addiction for three decades.For twenty-one years Paul Merson played professional football. He won two First Division titles with Arsenal and was one of the finest players of his... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Ronald Knox ( Translator) - Autobiography of A Saint : Therese of Lisieux : The Story of a Soul - PB 1977 Ed Born in France, young Thérèse Martin (1873-1897) entered the Carmel Convent of Lisieux at the age of fifteen. 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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view France André Gide - Si le Grain Ne Meurt - PB 1985 Reprint Si le grain ne meurt est un récit autobiograpie de l'ecrivain André Gide. Il décrit la vie de l'auteur depuis sa première enfance à Paris jusqu'à ses fiançailles avec sa cousine Madeleine... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Christopher Nolan / Under the Eye of the Clock - HB US Edition 1988 A powerful and moving autobiography from a gifted writer who has been compared to Joyce and Yeats.'A book of sheer wonder. As an author he competes as an equal with the ablest of them' DAILY EXPRESSThis is the story of Joseph Meehan, born... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Collins - Past Imperfect : An Autobiography - HB - 1983 Faint ghostmark from a circular price label on the fornt cover, tanning to pages, otherwise good. 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Victor cazalet was a complictaed man - and this book is largely based on his own detailed journals and diaries, which he had kept since tha age of 13. Born into a well connected... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: BNL55 Tina Brown - Vanity Fair Diaries : 1983-1992 - PB - Journalism - BRAND NEW During the 1980s, Tina Brown spent eight years in New York as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Her diaries tell the inside story of rivalries, scoops and groundbreaking covers – from the Reagan kiss to a naked, pregnant Demi Moore – that... MSRP: Was: €12.00 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Muggeridge, Malcolm - Something Beautiful For God - Mother Teresa - Vintage Fontana PB -1975 From the author's description - Something beautiful for God is about ( Mother Teresa) and the religious order she has instituted. It is not, in the ordinary sense , a biography but arises largely out of a film ( Muggeridge) made in calcutta on the same... 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Also known as "the Little Flower," her autobiography, written at the request of her Carmelite Superiors in the last years of her... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN872 Kelly, Julia - Matchstick Man - PB - BRAND NEW Julia Kelly met a charismatic and successful artist, Charlie Whisker, while she was working on her first novel. He was twenty years older than her. Their relationship was passionate and extraordinary; each of them inspired the other. Their friends were... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cagney, James - Cagney by Cagney - HB - 1976 This book is for the true fan of James Cagney. Mr. Cagney tells his story as no one can. James Cagney was an Academy Award–nominated American actor and dancer on stage and screen. He was the recipient of the American Film... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lucia Maraver - The Wonder Year - Life and Love of an Exchange Student - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED - SPAIN Lucía is a Spanish teenager going as an exchange student to Pennsylvania. She is seventeen but she could just as well be thirteen, naïve as she is. Lucia has watched too many teen movies that have filled her head with unrealistic... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN478 Saedi, Sara - Americanized : Rebel Without A Green Card - PB In development as a television series from Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine production company and ABC Studios!This hilarious, poignant and true story of one teen's experience growing up in America as an undocumented immigrant from the Middle East is... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Laurie Lee - A Rose For Winter - Travels in Andalusia ( Vintage PB 1980) ( Originally 1955) Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry-the pride in poverty,... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lee, Laurie - I Can't Stay Long ( Vintage PB 1980) They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.'When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lord Longford - Kennedy : A Biography of JFK - Vintage PB 1978 The fascination of President Kennedy is as strong as ever. 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MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view O Dulaing, Donncha - Voices of Ireland - Interviews - PB - 1984 This book contains conversations - in full transcript form - with the following; Eamon De Valera, Micheal Mac Liammoir, Seamus Murphy - sculptor, Julia Grenan, Nora Connolly O' Brien and Leslie Bean de Barra, Fr. Patrick Peyton - rosary priest, Siobhan... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wlkerson, David - The Cross and the Switchblade - Vintage PB - Film Tie-In 1980 The tortured face of a young killer, one of seven boys on trial for a brutal murder, started country preacher David Wilkerson on his lonely crusade to the most dangerous streets in the world.Violent gangs ruled by warlords, drug pushers and pimps held... 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Casey, Daniel J - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Premiership Football | sku: BN104 Paul Merson - Hooked - BRAND NEW PB Paul Merson's wonderfully moving and brutally honest memoir of battling addiction for three decades.For twenty-one years Paul Merson played professional football. He won two First Division titles with Arsenal and was one of the finest players of his... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Ronald Knox ( Translator) - Autobiography of A Saint : Therese of Lisieux : The Story of a Soul - PB 1977 Ed Born in France, young Thérèse Martin (1873-1897) entered the Carmel Convent of Lisieux at the age of fifteen. 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While courageously... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view France André Gide - Si le Grain Ne Meurt - PB 1985 Reprint Si le grain ne meurt est un récit autobiograpie de l'ecrivain André Gide. Il décrit la vie de l'auteur depuis sa première enfance à Paris jusqu'à ses fiançailles avec sa cousine Madeleine... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Christopher Nolan / Under the Eye of the Clock - HB US Edition 1988 A powerful and moving autobiography from a gifted writer who has been compared to Joyce and Yeats.'A book of sheer wonder. As an author he competes as an equal with the ablest of them' DAILY EXPRESSThis is the story of Joseph Meehan, born... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Collins - Past Imperfect : An Autobiography - HB - 1983 Faint ghostmark from a circular price label on the fornt cover, tanning to pages, otherwise good. 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Victor cazalet was a complictaed man - and this book is largely based on his own detailed journals and diaries, which he had kept since tha age of 13. Born into a well connected... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: BNL55 Tina Brown - Vanity Fair Diaries : 1983-1992 - PB - Journalism - BRAND NEW During the 1980s, Tina Brown spent eight years in New York as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Her diaries tell the inside story of rivalries, scoops and groundbreaking covers – from the Reagan kiss to a naked, pregnant Demi Moore – that... MSRP: Was: €12.00 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Muggeridge, Malcolm - Something Beautiful For God - Mother Teresa - Vintage Fontana PB -1975 From the author's description - Something beautiful for God is about ( Mother Teresa) and the religious order she has instituted. It is not, in the ordinary sense , a biography but arises largely out of a film ( Muggeridge) made in calcutta on the same... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Casey, Daniel J - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Premiership Football | sku: BN104 Paul Merson - Hooked - BRAND NEW PB Paul Merson's wonderfully moving and brutally honest memoir of battling addiction for three decades.For twenty-one years Paul Merson played professional football. He won two First Division titles with Arsenal and was one of the finest players of his... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Ronald Knox ( Translator) - Autobiography of A Saint : Therese of Lisieux : The Story of a Soul - PB 1977 Ed Born in France, young Thérèse Martin (1873-1897) entered the Carmel Convent of Lisieux at the age of fifteen. Also known as "the Little Flower," her autobiography, written at the request of her Carmelite Superiors in the last years of her... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN872 Kelly, Julia - Matchstick Man - PB - BRAND NEW Julia Kelly met a charismatic and successful artist, Charlie Whisker, while she was working on her first novel. He was twenty years older than her. Their relationship was passionate and extraordinary; each of them inspired the other. Their friends were... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cagney, James - Cagney by Cagney - HB - 1976 This book is for the true fan of James Cagney. Mr. Cagney tells his story as no one can. 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Laurie Lee - A Rose For Winter - Travels in Andalusia ( Vintage PB 1980) ( Originally 1955) Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry-the pride in poverty,... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lee, Laurie - I Can't Stay Long ( Vintage PB 1980) They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.'When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lord Longford - Kennedy : A Biography of JFK - Vintage PB 1978 The fascination of President Kennedy is as strong as ever. 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MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view O Dulaing, Donncha - Voices of Ireland - Interviews - PB - 1984 This book contains conversations - in full transcript form - with the following; Eamon De Valera, Micheal Mac Liammoir, Seamus Murphy - sculptor, Julia Grenan, Nora Connolly O' Brien and Leslie Bean de Barra, Fr. Patrick Peyton - rosary priest, Siobhan... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wlkerson, David - The Cross and the Switchblade - Vintage PB - Film Tie-In 1980 The tortured face of a young killer, one of seven boys on trial for a brutal murder, started country preacher David Wilkerson on his lonely crusade to the most dangerous streets in the world.Violent gangs ruled by warlords, drug pushers and pimps held... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN609 Szpilman, Wladyslaw - The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Rhodes James - Victor Cazalet 1896-1943 : A Portrait - HB - WW2 Biography Hardcover in dustjacket, published by Hamish Hamilton UK , 1976. Victor cazalet was a complictaed man - and this book is largely based on his own detailed journals and diaries, which he had kept since tha age of 13. Born into a well connected... 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Casey, Daniel J - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Premiership Football | sku: BN104 Paul Merson - Hooked - BRAND NEW PB Paul Merson's wonderfully moving and brutally honest memoir of battling addiction for three decades.For twenty-one years Paul Merson played professional football. He won two First Division titles with Arsenal and was one of the finest players of his... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Ronald Knox ( Translator) - Autobiography of A Saint : Therese of Lisieux : The Story of a Soul - PB 1977 Ed Born in France, young Thérèse Martin (1873-1897) entered the Carmel Convent of Lisieux at the age of fifteen. Also known as "the Little Flower," her autobiography, written at the request of her Carmelite Superiors in the last years of her... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Joan Collins - Past Imperfect : An Autobiography - HB - 1983 Faint ghostmark from a circular price label on the fornt cover, tanning to pages, otherwise good. Joan Collins - the internationally famous actress whose career brought her to a new peak of stardom as Alexis Carrington Colby in "Dynasty" - a role... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59134H Charlie Bird, Ray Burke / Time and Tide (Hardback) A poignant and introspective memoir from Irish journalist and broadcaster Charlie Bird. In 2021, Charlie Bird was diagnosed with motor neurone disease – a man whose voice was so synonymous with his career faced losing it completely. Yet... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Laurence Whistler - The Laughter and the Urn : The Life of Rex Whistler - HB 1985 A biography of the British artist Rex Whistler, written by his brother ( also an artist) Laurence Whistler. Hardcover 1985. Illustrated, some illustrations in colour. Published by Weidenfeld UK. MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Painter, George D - Marcel Proust : A Biography - PB 1983 No biography has ever before thrown so much light on the making of a masterpiece. ' Raymond Mortimer. 'Mr Painter has done his work so well that it is hard to speak in moderate terms of his skill and unobtrusive wit. ' Anthony Powell. 'Brilliant and... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN872 Kelly, Julia - Matchstick Man - PB - BRAND NEW Julia Kelly met a charismatic and successful artist, Charlie Whisker, while she was working on her first novel. He was twenty years older than her. Their relationship was passionate and extraordinary; each of them inspired the other. Their friends were... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cagney, James - Cagney by Cagney - HB - 1976 This book is for the true fan of James Cagney. Mr. Cagney tells his story as no one can. James Cagney was an Academy Award–nominated American actor and dancer on stage and screen. He was the recipient of the American Film... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lucia Maraver - The Wonder Year - Life and Love of an Exchange Student - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED - SPAIN Lucía is a Spanish teenager going as an exchange student to Pennsylvania. She is seventeen but she could just as well be thirteen, naïve as she is. Lucia has watched too many teen movies that have filled her head with unrealistic... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN478 Saedi, Sara - Americanized : Rebel Without A Green Card - PB In development as a television series from Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine production company and ABC Studios!This hilarious, poignant and true story of one teen's experience growing up in America as an undocumented immigrant from the Middle East is... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Laurie Lee - A Rose For Winter - Travels in Andalusia ( Vintage PB 1980) ( Originally 1955) Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry-the pride in poverty,... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lee, Laurie - I Can't Stay Long ( Vintage PB 1980) They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.'When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lord Longford - Kennedy : A Biography of JFK - Vintage PB 1978 The fascination of President Kennedy is as strong as ever. The atmosphere of adulation has evaporated and is no great loss: the detractors have had their say: the time is propitious for a new assessment of the man and his achievement. Lord Longford has... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN678 Katz, Jon - A Dog Year : Rescuing Devon, The Most Troublesome Dog in the World - PB Change loves me, defines and stalks me like a laser-guided smart bomb. It comes at me in all forms, suddenly and with enormous impact, from making shifts in work to having and raising a kid to buying a cabin on a distant mountaintop. Sometimes, change... 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MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN872 Kelly, Julia - Matchstick Man - PB - BRAND NEW Julia Kelly met a charismatic and successful artist, Charlie Whisker, while she was working on her first novel. He was twenty years older than her. Their relationship was passionate and extraordinary; each of them inspired the other. Their friends were... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cagney, James - Cagney by Cagney - HB - 1976 This book is for the true fan of James Cagney. Mr. Cagney tells his story as no one can. 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MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view O Dulaing, Donncha - Voices of Ireland - Interviews - PB - 1984 This book contains conversations - in full transcript form - with the following; Eamon De Valera, Micheal Mac Liammoir, Seamus Murphy - sculptor, Julia Grenan, Nora Connolly O' Brien and Leslie Bean de Barra, Fr. Patrick Peyton - rosary priest, Siobhan... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wlkerson, David - The Cross and the Switchblade - Vintage PB - Film Tie-In 1980 The tortured face of a young killer, one of seven boys on trial for a brutal murder, started country preacher David Wilkerson on his lonely crusade to the most dangerous streets in the world.Violent gangs ruled by warlords, drug pushers and pimps held... 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Casey, Daniel J - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Premiership Football | sku: BN104 Paul Merson - Hooked - BRAND NEW PB Paul Merson's wonderfully moving and brutally honest memoir of battling addiction for three decades.For twenty-one years Paul Merson played professional football. He won two First Division titles with Arsenal and was one of the finest players of his... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Ronald Knox ( Translator) - Autobiography of A Saint : Therese of Lisieux : The Story of a Soul - PB 1977 Ed Born in France, young Thérèse Martin (1873-1897) entered the Carmel Convent of Lisieux at the age of fifteen. 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Quick view Laurence Whistler - The Laughter and the Urn : The Life of Rex Whistler - HB 1985 A biography of the British artist Rex Whistler, written by his brother ( also an artist) Laurence Whistler. Hardcover 1985. Illustrated, some illustrations in colour. Published by Weidenfeld UK. MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Painter, George D - Marcel Proust : A Biography - PB 1983 No biography has ever before thrown so much light on the making of a masterpiece. ' Raymond Mortimer. 'Mr Painter has done his work so well that it is hard to speak in moderate terms of his skill and unobtrusive wit. ' Anthony Powell. 'Brilliant and... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. 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MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view O Dulaing, Donncha - Voices of Ireland - Interviews - PB - 1984 This book contains conversations - in full transcript form - with the following; Eamon De Valera, Micheal Mac Liammoir, Seamus Murphy - sculptor, Julia Grenan, Nora Connolly O' Brien and Leslie Bean de Barra, Fr. Patrick Peyton - rosary priest, Siobhan... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wlkerson, David - The Cross and the Switchblade - Vintage PB - Film Tie-In 1980 The tortured face of a young killer, one of seven boys on trial for a brutal murder, started country preacher David Wilkerson on his lonely crusade to the most dangerous streets in the world.Violent gangs ruled by warlords, drug pushers and pimps held... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN609 Szpilman, Wladyslaw - The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Rhodes James - Victor Cazalet 1896-1943 : A Portrait - HB - WW2 Biography Hardcover in dustjacket, published by Hamish Hamilton UK , 1976. Victor cazalet was a complictaed man - and this book is largely based on his own detailed journals and diaries, which he had kept since tha age of 13. Born into a well connected... 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Casey, Daniel J - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Premiership Football | sku: BN104 Paul Merson - Hooked - BRAND NEW PB Paul Merson's wonderfully moving and brutally honest memoir of battling addiction for three decades.For twenty-one years Paul Merson played professional football. He won two First Division titles with Arsenal and was one of the finest players of his... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Ronald Knox ( Translator) - Autobiography of A Saint : Therese of Lisieux : The Story of a Soul - PB 1977 Ed Born in France, young Thérèse Martin (1873-1897) entered the Carmel Convent of Lisieux at the age of fifteen. 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Quick view Painter, George D - Marcel Proust : A Biography - PB 1983 No biography has ever before thrown so much light on the making of a masterpiece. ' Raymond Mortimer. 'Mr Painter has done his work so well that it is hard to speak in moderate terms of his skill and unobtrusive wit. ' Anthony Powell. 'Brilliant and... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN872 Kelly, Julia - Matchstick Man - PB - BRAND NEW Julia Kelly met a charismatic and successful artist, Charlie Whisker, while she was working on her first novel. He was twenty years older than her. 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN478 Saedi, Sara - Americanized : Rebel Without A Green Card - PB In development as a television series from Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine production company and ABC Studios!This hilarious, poignant and true story of one teen's experience growing up in America as an undocumented immigrant from the Middle East is... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Laurie Lee - A Rose For Winter - Travels in Andalusia ( Vintage PB 1980) ( Originally 1955) Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry-the pride in poverty,... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lee, Laurie - I Can't Stay Long ( Vintage PB 1980) They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . 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Victor cazalet was a complictaed man - and this book is largely based on his own detailed journals and diaries, which he had kept since tha age of 13. Born into a well connected... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: BNL55 Tina Brown - Vanity Fair Diaries : 1983-1992 - PB - Journalism - BRAND NEW During the 1980s, Tina Brown spent eight years in New York as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Her diaries tell the inside story of rivalries, scoops and groundbreaking covers – from the Reagan kiss to a naked, pregnant Demi Moore – that... MSRP: Was: €12.00 Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Muggeridge, Malcolm - Something Beautiful For God - Mother Teresa - Vintage Fontana PB -1975 From the author's description - Something beautiful for God is about ( Mother Teresa) and the religious order she has instituted. It is not, in the ordinary sense , a biography but arises largely out of a film ( Muggeridge) made in calcutta on the same... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Casey, Daniel J - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Premiership Football | sku: BN104 Paul Merson - Hooked - BRAND NEW PB Paul Merson's wonderfully moving and brutally honest memoir of battling addiction for three decades.For twenty-one years Paul Merson played professional football. He won two First Division titles with Arsenal and was one of the finest players of his... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Ronald Knox ( Translator) - Autobiography of A Saint : Therese of Lisieux : The Story of a Soul - PB 1977 Ed Born in France, young Thérèse Martin (1873-1897) entered the Carmel Convent of Lisieux at the age of fifteen. 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Quick view Symons, A.J.A. - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN872 Kelly, Julia - Matchstick Man - PB - BRAND NEW Julia Kelly met a charismatic and successful artist, Charlie Whisker, while she was working on her first novel. He was twenty years older than her. Their relationship was passionate and extraordinary; each of them inspired the other. Their friends were... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Cagney, James - Cagney by Cagney - HB - 1976 This book is for the true fan of James Cagney. Mr. Cagney tells his story as no one can. James Cagney was an Academy Award–nominated American actor and dancer on stage and screen. He was the recipient of the American Film... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lucia Maraver - The Wonder Year - Life and Love of an Exchange Student - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED - SPAIN Lucía is a Spanish teenager going as an exchange student to Pennsylvania. She is seventeen but she could just as well be thirteen, naïve as she is. Lucia has watched too many teen movies that have filled her head with unrealistic... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN478 Saedi, Sara - Americanized : Rebel Without A Green Card - PB In development as a television series from Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine production company and ABC Studios!This hilarious, poignant and true story of one teen's experience growing up in America as an undocumented immigrant from the Middle East is... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Laurie Lee - A Rose For Winter - Travels in Andalusia ( Vintage PB 1980) ( Originally 1955) Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry-the pride in poverty,... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lee, Laurie - I Can't Stay Long ( Vintage PB 1980) They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.'When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lord Longford - Kennedy : A Biography of JFK - Vintage PB 1978 The fascination of President Kennedy is as strong as ever. 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MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view O Dulaing, Donncha - Voices of Ireland - Interviews - PB - 1984 This book contains conversations - in full transcript form - with the following; Eamon De Valera, Micheal Mac Liammoir, Seamus Murphy - sculptor, Julia Grenan, Nora Connolly O' Brien and Leslie Bean de Barra, Fr. Patrick Peyton - rosary priest, Siobhan... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wlkerson, David - The Cross and the Switchblade - Vintage PB - Film Tie-In 1980 The tortured face of a young killer, one of seven boys on trial for a brutal murder, started country preacher David Wilkerson on his lonely crusade to the most dangerous streets in the world.Violent gangs ruled by warlords, drug pushers and pimps held... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN609 Szpilman, Wladyslaw - The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Rhodes James - Victor Cazalet 1896-1943 : A Portrait - HB - WW2 Biography Hardcover in dustjacket, published by Hamish Hamilton UK , 1976. Victor cazalet was a complictaed man - and this book is largely based on his own detailed journals and diaries, which he had kept since tha age of 13. Born into a well connected... 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Casey, Daniel J - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Premiership Football | sku: BN104 Paul Merson - Hooked - BRAND NEW PB Paul Merson's wonderfully moving and brutally honest memoir of battling addiction for three decades.For twenty-one years Paul Merson played professional football. He won two First Division titles with Arsenal and was one of the finest players of his... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Ronald Knox ( Translator) - Autobiography of A Saint : Therese of Lisieux : The Story of a Soul - PB 1977 Ed Born in France, young Thérèse Martin (1873-1897) entered the Carmel Convent of Lisieux at the age of fifteen. 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Casey, Daniel J - Benedict Kiely - Irish Writers Series - HB 1974 A hardcover first edition, Bucknell University Press, 1974, on the noted Tyrone born author, novelsit , writer and critic benedict Kiely, ( 1919 - 2007) This covers the earlier years of his career, his work as a print journalist, short story writera nd... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Premiership Football | sku: BN104 Paul Merson - Hooked - BRAND NEW PB Paul Merson's wonderfully moving and brutally honest memoir of battling addiction for three decades.For twenty-one years Paul Merson played professional football. He won two First Division titles with Arsenal and was one of the finest players of his... MSRP: €14.00 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Ronald Knox ( Translator) - Autobiography of A Saint : Therese of Lisieux : The Story of a Soul - PB 1977 Ed Born in France, young Thérèse Martin (1873-1897) entered the Carmel Convent of Lisieux at the age of fifteen. 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MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view O Dulaing, Donncha - Voices of Ireland - Interviews - PB - 1984 This book contains conversations - in full transcript form - with the following; Eamon De Valera, Micheal Mac Liammoir, Seamus Murphy - sculptor, Julia Grenan, Nora Connolly O' Brien and Leslie Bean de Barra, Fr. Patrick Peyton - rosary priest, Siobhan... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wlkerson, David - The Cross and the Switchblade - Vintage PB - Film Tie-In 1980 The tortured face of a young killer, one of seven boys on trial for a brutal murder, started country preacher David Wilkerson on his lonely crusade to the most dangerous streets in the world.Violent gangs ruled by warlords, drug pushers and pimps held... 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Also known as "the Little Flower," her autobiography, written at the request of her Carmelite Superiors in the last years of her... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Compare Selected × OK
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MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view O Dulaing, Donncha - Voices of Ireland - Interviews - PB - 1984 This book contains conversations - in full transcript form - with the following; Eamon De Valera, Micheal Mac Liammoir, Seamus Murphy - sculptor, Julia Grenan, Nora Connolly O' Brien and Leslie Bean de Barra, Fr. Patrick Peyton - rosary priest, Siobhan... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Wlkerson, David - The Cross and the Switchblade - Vintage PB - Film Tie-In 1980 The tortured face of a young killer, one of seven boys on trial for a brutal murder, started country preacher David Wilkerson on his lonely crusade to the most dangerous streets in the world.Violent gangs ruled by warlords, drug pushers and pimps held... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BN609 Szpilman, Wladyslaw - The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 - PB - BRAND NEW The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Robert Rhodes James - Victor Cazalet 1896-1943 : A Portrait - HB - WW2 Biography Hardcover in dustjacket, published by Hamish Hamilton UK , 1976. Victor cazalet was a complictaed man - and this book is largely based on his own detailed journals and diaries, which he had kept since tha age of 13. Born into a well connected... 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