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An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... 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An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... 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An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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. 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I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... 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Quick view Details sku: rR9920H Mark Bowden / Road Work MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: wW17093H Edith Newman Devlin / Speaking Volumes : A Dublin Childhood (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: wW14082H Amy Chozick / Chasing Hillary (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: X95429H Tony Potter / A Pocket History of the 1916 Rising (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: wW8925H Richard Crowley / No Man's Land : Dispatches from the Middle East (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR19215H Hillary Rodham Clinton / What Happened MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR17515H Thomas Friedman / From Beirut to Jerusalem MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR30435H Stephen Walker / Hide and Seek MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR12470H Surendra Verma / The Cause of Mosquitoes' Sorrow MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30774H Neil MacGregor / A History of the World in 100 Objects Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them.Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, A History of the World in 100... 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Marsh / 365 : Your Date with History (Hardback) Whether it is major political events like the USA's annexation of Texas (1 March) or incredible discoveries like that of Tutankhamun's tomb (26 November), every event in history happened - of course - on one of 365 days. Pore through history... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13603H Asne Seierstad / The Bookseller Of Kabul (Hardback) Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months. For more than 20 years Sultan... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87209H Eamonn O'Hara / A French Renaissance? (Large Paperback) Seeking a more natural and balanced life for their two young children, in 2010 Eamon and Tanya O'Hara set out on a journey to begin a new life. Rural France seemed to be the answer to all their dreams. However, starting a new life in rural... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x65675H Tom Bower / Dangerous Hero (Large Paperback) 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph'The most compelling in-depth study so far' GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4064 Peadar O'Donnell - Salud ! An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7841H Roman Krznaric / The Wonderbox There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16885H Jared Diamond / Collapse From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR26893H James Rebanks / The Shepherd's Life THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87736H Dale Brown / Silver Tower It is 1992 and Silver Tower is America's first permanent space station, used in defence against intercontinental ballistic missiles. As the Middle East war between Iran and Iraq escalates, the Russians and American's are drawn into the first... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23105H Mary O'Rourke / Just Mary (Hardback) Although they have become more frequent in recent years, Irish political memoirs are still relatively rare. Even rarer still are political memoirs that still are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this one from Mary O'Rourke.She writes of personal and... MSRP: Was: €4.95 Now: €2.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97066H Jason O'Toole / Brian Cowen (Large Paperback) Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Despite a high profile at the center of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader. Just who is Brian Cowen? The story begins in the village of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21900H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin (Large Paperback) 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Remarkable and brilliantly researched non-fiction thriller...focussing on... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5773H Seamus Mallon / Seamus Mallon (Large Paperback) This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW22746H,wW23602H Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback) 1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30659H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists. In which case I am in with a chance.' Chris MullinChris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years, and despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention, for... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW22745H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi (Large Paperback) Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age.At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW15413H Fidel Castro / My Life (Hardback) For years people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet, well-known activist and editor of "Le Monde Diplomatique", has succeeded. For the first time, in a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7038H Jack Holland / Phoenix: Policing the Shadows (Hardback) The revealing story of Ian Phoenix who was head of Northern Ireland's police counter-surveillance unit. His position was so secret that most of his family were unaware of it until after his death. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31342H Derek Tait / 1950s Childhood With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69069H Robert Baer / See No Evil See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77125H Pat Barker / Toby's Room From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsThe second novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - a dark and compelling examination of desire, friendship and the horror of war, from one... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW14667H David Rooney / GUERRILLA (Hardback) Since Man's earliest days there has been conflict and, also from that point, unconventional forms of action where the norm was abandoned and the unorthodox employed. Here, David Rooney selects examples of the men who, for personal or national... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x63293H W. B. Marsh / 365 : Your Date with History (Hardback) Whether it is major political events like the USA's annexation of Texas (1 March) or incredible discoveries like that of Tutankhamun's tomb (26 November), every event in history happened - of course - on one of 365 days. Pore through history... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13603H Asne Seierstad / The Bookseller Of Kabul (Hardback) Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months. For more than 20 years Sultan... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87209H Eamonn O'Hara / A French Renaissance? (Large Paperback) Seeking a more natural and balanced life for their two young children, in 2010 Eamon and Tanya O'Hara set out on a journey to begin a new life. Rural France seemed to be the answer to all their dreams. However, starting a new life in rural... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW4469H,wW8913H Philip Ryan / Leo Varadkar - A Very Modern Taoiseach (Large Paperback) The emergence of Leo Varadkar in Irish politics and his election to the post of Taoiseach is a remarkable tale from any perspective. Journalists Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor tell the inside story of how the son of an Indian immigrant battled... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2442 Doris Mary Stenton - English Society in the Early Middle Ages 1066-1307 - Vintage Pelican PB - 1959 A vintage Penguin Pelican , issued as part of the Pelican History of England ( which was an 8 volume chronological set when completed) This is Volume 3 - English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 -1307) by Doris Mary Stenton. In... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x65675H Tom Bower / Dangerous Hero (Large Paperback) 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph'The most compelling in-depth study so far' GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4064 Peadar O'Donnell - Salud ! An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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. 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An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... 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An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... 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Chris MullinChris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years, and despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention, for... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW22745H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi (Large Paperback) Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age.At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW15413H Fidel Castro / My Life (Hardback) For years people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet, well-known activist and editor of "Le Monde Diplomatique", has succeeded. For the first time, in a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7038H Jack Holland / Phoenix: Policing the Shadows (Hardback) The revealing story of Ian Phoenix who was head of Northern Ireland's police counter-surveillance unit. His position was so secret that most of his family were unaware of it until after his death. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31342H Derek Tait / 1950s Childhood With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69069H Robert Baer / See No Evil See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77125H Pat Barker / Toby's Room From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsThe second novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - a dark and compelling examination of desire, friendship and the horror of war, from one... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW14667H David Rooney / GUERRILLA (Hardback) Since Man's earliest days there has been conflict and, also from that point, unconventional forms of action where the norm was abandoned and the unorthodox employed. Here, David Rooney selects examples of the men who, for personal or national... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x63293H W. B. Marsh / 365 : Your Date with History (Hardback) Whether it is major political events like the USA's annexation of Texas (1 March) or incredible discoveries like that of Tutankhamun's tomb (26 November), every event in history happened - of course - on one of 365 days. Pore through history... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13603H Asne Seierstad / The Bookseller Of Kabul (Hardback) Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months. For more than 20 years Sultan... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87209H Eamonn O'Hara / A French Renaissance? (Large Paperback) Seeking a more natural and balanced life for their two young children, in 2010 Eamon and Tanya O'Hara set out on a journey to begin a new life. Rural France seemed to be the answer to all their dreams. However, starting a new life in rural... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x65675H Tom Bower / Dangerous Hero (Large Paperback) 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph'The most compelling in-depth study so far' GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4064 Peadar O'Donnell - Salud ! An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7841H Roman Krznaric / The Wonderbox There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16885H Jared Diamond / Collapse From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR26893H James Rebanks / The Shepherd's Life THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87736H Dale Brown / Silver Tower It is 1992 and Silver Tower is America's first permanent space station, used in defence against intercontinental ballistic missiles. As the Middle East war between Iran and Iraq escalates, the Russians and American's are drawn into the first... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23105H Mary O'Rourke / Just Mary (Hardback) Although they have become more frequent in recent years, Irish political memoirs are still relatively rare. Even rarer still are political memoirs that still are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this one from Mary O'Rourke.She writes of personal and... MSRP: Was: €4.95 Now: €2.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97066H Jason O'Toole / Brian Cowen (Large Paperback) Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Despite a high profile at the center of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader. Just who is Brian Cowen? The story begins in the village of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21900H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin (Large Paperback) 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Remarkable and brilliantly researched non-fiction thriller...focussing on... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5773H Seamus Mallon / Seamus Mallon (Large Paperback) This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW22746H,wW23602H Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback) 1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW22745H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi (Large Paperback) Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age.At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW15413H Fidel Castro / My Life (Hardback) For years people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet, well-known activist and editor of "Le Monde Diplomatique", has succeeded. For the first time, in a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7038H Jack Holland / Phoenix: Policing the Shadows (Hardback) The revealing story of Ian Phoenix who was head of Northern Ireland's police counter-surveillance unit. His position was so secret that most of his family were unaware of it until after his death. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31342H Derek Tait / 1950s Childhood With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69069H Robert Baer / See No Evil See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77125H Pat Barker / Toby's Room From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsThe second novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - a dark and compelling examination of desire, friendship and the horror of war, from one... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW14667H David Rooney / GUERRILLA (Hardback) Since Man's earliest days there has been conflict and, also from that point, unconventional forms of action where the norm was abandoned and the unorthodox employed. Here, David Rooney selects examples of the men who, for personal or national... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x63293H W. B. Marsh / 365 : Your Date with History (Hardback) Whether it is major political events like the USA's annexation of Texas (1 March) or incredible discoveries like that of Tutankhamun's tomb (26 November), every event in history happened - of course - on one of 365 days. Pore through history... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13603H Asne Seierstad / The Bookseller Of Kabul (Hardback) Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months. For more than 20 years Sultan... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87209H Eamonn O'Hara / A French Renaissance? (Large Paperback) Seeking a more natural and balanced life for their two young children, in 2010 Eamon and Tanya O'Hara set out on a journey to begin a new life. Rural France seemed to be the answer to all their dreams. However, starting a new life in rural... 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An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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. 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I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... 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MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5773H Seamus Mallon / Seamus Mallon (Large Paperback) This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW22746H,wW23602H Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback) 1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: rR30435H Stephen Walker / Hide and Seek MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR12470H Surendra Verma / The Cause of Mosquitoes' Sorrow MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30774H Neil MacGregor / A History of the World in 100 Objects Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them.Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, A History of the World in 100... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30659H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists. In which case I am in with a chance.' Chris MullinChris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years, and despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention, for... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW22745H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi (Large Paperback) Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age.At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW15413H Fidel Castro / My Life (Hardback) For years people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet, well-known activist and editor of "Le Monde Diplomatique", has succeeded. For the first time, in a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7038H Jack Holland / Phoenix: Policing the Shadows (Hardback) The revealing story of Ian Phoenix who was head of Northern Ireland's police counter-surveillance unit. His position was so secret that most of his family were unaware of it until after his death. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31342H Derek Tait / 1950s Childhood With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69069H Robert Baer / See No Evil See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77125H Pat Barker / Toby's Room From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsThe second novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - a dark and compelling examination of desire, friendship and the horror of war, from one... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW14667H David Rooney / GUERRILLA (Hardback) Since Man's earliest days there has been conflict and, also from that point, unconventional forms of action where the norm was abandoned and the unorthodox employed. Here, David Rooney selects examples of the men who, for personal or national... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x63293H W. B. Marsh / 365 : Your Date with History (Hardback) Whether it is major political events like the USA's annexation of Texas (1 March) or incredible discoveries like that of Tutankhamun's tomb (26 November), every event in history happened - of course - on one of 365 days. Pore through history... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13603H Asne Seierstad / The Bookseller Of Kabul (Hardback) Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months. For more than 20 years Sultan... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87209H Eamonn O'Hara / A French Renaissance? (Large Paperback) Seeking a more natural and balanced life for their two young children, in 2010 Eamon and Tanya O'Hara set out on a journey to begin a new life. Rural France seemed to be the answer to all their dreams. However, starting a new life in rural... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW4469H,wW8913H Philip Ryan / Leo Varadkar - A Very Modern Taoiseach (Large Paperback) The emergence of Leo Varadkar in Irish politics and his election to the post of Taoiseach is a remarkable tale from any perspective. Journalists Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor tell the inside story of how the son of an Indian immigrant battled... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2442 Doris Mary Stenton - English Society in the Early Middle Ages 1066-1307 - Vintage Pelican PB - 1959 A vintage Penguin Pelican , issued as part of the Pelican History of England ( which was an 8 volume chronological set when completed) This is Volume 3 - English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 -1307) by Doris Mary Stenton. In... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x65675H Tom Bower / Dangerous Hero (Large Paperback) 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph'The most compelling in-depth study so far' GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4064 Peadar O'Donnell - Salud ! An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7841H Roman Krznaric / The Wonderbox There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16885H Jared Diamond / Collapse From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR26893H James Rebanks / The Shepherd's Life THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87736H Dale Brown / Silver Tower It is 1992 and Silver Tower is America's first permanent space station, used in defence against intercontinental ballistic missiles. As the Middle East war between Iran and Iraq escalates, the Russians and American's are drawn into the first... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23105H Mary O'Rourke / Just Mary (Hardback) Although they have become more frequent in recent years, Irish political memoirs are still relatively rare. Even rarer still are political memoirs that still are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this one from Mary O'Rourke.She writes of personal and... MSRP: Was: €4.95 Now: €2.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97066H Jason O'Toole / Brian Cowen (Large Paperback) Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Despite a high profile at the center of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader. Just who is Brian Cowen? The story begins in the village of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21900H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin (Large Paperback) 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Remarkable and brilliantly researched non-fiction thriller...focussing on... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5773H Seamus Mallon / Seamus Mallon (Large Paperback) This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW22746H,wW23602H Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback) 1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: rR12470H Surendra Verma / The Cause of Mosquitoes' Sorrow MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30774H Neil MacGregor / A History of the World in 100 Objects Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them.Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, A History of the World in 100... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30659H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists. In which case I am in with a chance.' Chris MullinChris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years, and despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention, for... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW22745H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi (Large Paperback) Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age.At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW15413H Fidel Castro / My Life (Hardback) For years people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet, well-known activist and editor of "Le Monde Diplomatique", has succeeded. For the first time, in a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7038H Jack Holland / Phoenix: Policing the Shadows (Hardback) The revealing story of Ian Phoenix who was head of Northern Ireland's police counter-surveillance unit. His position was so secret that most of his family were unaware of it until after his death. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31342H Derek Tait / 1950s Childhood With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69069H Robert Baer / See No Evil See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77125H Pat Barker / Toby's Room From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsThe second novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - a dark and compelling examination of desire, friendship and the horror of war, from one... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW14667H David Rooney / GUERRILLA (Hardback) Since Man's earliest days there has been conflict and, also from that point, unconventional forms of action where the norm was abandoned and the unorthodox employed. Here, David Rooney selects examples of the men who, for personal or national... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x63293H W. B. Marsh / 365 : Your Date with History (Hardback) Whether it is major political events like the USA's annexation of Texas (1 March) or incredible discoveries like that of Tutankhamun's tomb (26 November), every event in history happened - of course - on one of 365 days. Pore through history... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13603H Asne Seierstad / The Bookseller Of Kabul (Hardback) Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months. For more than 20 years Sultan... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87209H Eamonn O'Hara / A French Renaissance? (Large Paperback) Seeking a more natural and balanced life for their two young children, in 2010 Eamon and Tanya O'Hara set out on a journey to begin a new life. Rural France seemed to be the answer to all their dreams. However, starting a new life in rural... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW4469H,wW8913H Philip Ryan / Leo Varadkar - A Very Modern Taoiseach (Large Paperback) The emergence of Leo Varadkar in Irish politics and his election to the post of Taoiseach is a remarkable tale from any perspective. Journalists Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor tell the inside story of how the son of an Indian immigrant battled... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2442 Doris Mary Stenton - English Society in the Early Middle Ages 1066-1307 - Vintage Pelican PB - 1959 A vintage Penguin Pelican , issued as part of the Pelican History of England ( which was an 8 volume chronological set when completed) This is Volume 3 - English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 -1307) by Doris Mary Stenton. In... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x65675H Tom Bower / Dangerous Hero (Large Paperback) 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph'The most compelling in-depth study so far' GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4064 Peadar O'Donnell - Salud ! An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7841H Roman Krznaric / The Wonderbox There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16885H Jared Diamond / Collapse From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR26893H James Rebanks / The Shepherd's Life THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87736H Dale Brown / Silver Tower It is 1992 and Silver Tower is America's first permanent space station, used in defence against intercontinental ballistic missiles. As the Middle East war between Iran and Iraq escalates, the Russians and American's are drawn into the first... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? 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Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR30774H Neil MacGregor / A History of the World in 100 Objects Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them.Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, A History of the World in 100... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30659H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists. In which case I am in with a chance.' Chris MullinChris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years, and despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention, for... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW22745H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi (Large Paperback) Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age.At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW15413H Fidel Castro / My Life (Hardback) For years people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet, well-known activist and editor of "Le Monde Diplomatique", has succeeded. For the first time, in a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7038H Jack Holland / Phoenix: Policing the Shadows (Hardback) The revealing story of Ian Phoenix who was head of Northern Ireland's police counter-surveillance unit. His position was so secret that most of his family were unaware of it until after his death. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31342H Derek Tait / 1950s Childhood With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69069H Robert Baer / See No Evil See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77125H Pat Barker / Toby's Room From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsThe second novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - a dark and compelling examination of desire, friendship and the horror of war, from one... 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In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months. For more than 20 years Sultan... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87209H Eamonn O'Hara / A French Renaissance? (Large Paperback) Seeking a more natural and balanced life for their two young children, in 2010 Eamon and Tanya O'Hara set out on a journey to begin a new life. Rural France seemed to be the answer to all their dreams. However, starting a new life in rural... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW4469H,wW8913H Philip Ryan / Leo Varadkar - A Very Modern Taoiseach (Large Paperback) The emergence of Leo Varadkar in Irish politics and his election to the post of Taoiseach is a remarkable tale from any perspective. Journalists Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor tell the inside story of how the son of an Indian immigrant battled... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2442 Doris Mary Stenton - English Society in the Early Middle Ages 1066-1307 - Vintage Pelican PB - 1959 A vintage Penguin Pelican , issued as part of the Pelican History of England ( which was an 8 volume chronological set when completed) This is Volume 3 - English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 -1307) by Doris Mary Stenton. In... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x65675H Tom Bower / Dangerous Hero (Large Paperback) 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph'The most compelling in-depth study so far' GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4064 Peadar O'Donnell - Salud ! An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7841H Roman Krznaric / The Wonderbox There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16885H Jared Diamond / Collapse From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR26893H James Rebanks / The Shepherd's Life THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87736H Dale Brown / Silver Tower It is 1992 and Silver Tower is America's first permanent space station, used in defence against intercontinental ballistic missiles. As the Middle East war between Iran and Iraq escalates, the Russians and American's are drawn into the first... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23105H Mary O'Rourke / Just Mary (Hardback) Although they have become more frequent in recent years, Irish political memoirs are still relatively rare. Even rarer still are political memoirs that still are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this one from Mary O'Rourke.She writes of personal and... MSRP: Was: €4.95 Now: €2.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97066H Jason O'Toole / Brian Cowen (Large Paperback) Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Despite a high profile at the center of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader. Just who is Brian Cowen? The story begins in the village of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21900H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin (Large Paperback) 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Remarkable and brilliantly researched non-fiction thriller...focussing on... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5773H Seamus Mallon / Seamus Mallon (Large Paperback) This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW22746H,wW23602H Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback) 1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR30659H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists. In which case I am in with a chance.' Chris MullinChris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years, and despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention, for... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW22745H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi (Large Paperback) Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age.At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW15413H Fidel Castro / My Life (Hardback) For years people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet, well-known activist and editor of "Le Monde Diplomatique", has succeeded. For the first time, in a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7038H Jack Holland / Phoenix: Policing the Shadows (Hardback) The revealing story of Ian Phoenix who was head of Northern Ireland's police counter-surveillance unit. His position was so secret that most of his family were unaware of it until after his death. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31342H Derek Tait / 1950s Childhood With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69069H Robert Baer / See No Evil See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77125H Pat Barker / Toby's Room From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsThe second novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - a dark and compelling examination of desire, friendship and the horror of war, from one... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW14667H David Rooney / GUERRILLA (Hardback) Since Man's earliest days there has been conflict and, also from that point, unconventional forms of action where the norm was abandoned and the unorthodox employed. Here, David Rooney selects examples of the men who, for personal or national... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x63293H W. B. Marsh / 365 : Your Date with History (Hardback) Whether it is major political events like the USA's annexation of Texas (1 March) or incredible discoveries like that of Tutankhamun's tomb (26 November), every event in history happened - of course - on one of 365 days. Pore through history... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13603H Asne Seierstad / The Bookseller Of Kabul (Hardback) Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months. For more than 20 years Sultan... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87209H Eamonn O'Hara / A French Renaissance? (Large Paperback) Seeking a more natural and balanced life for their two young children, in 2010 Eamon and Tanya O'Hara set out on a journey to begin a new life. Rural France seemed to be the answer to all their dreams. However, starting a new life in rural... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW4469H,wW8913H Philip Ryan / Leo Varadkar - A Very Modern Taoiseach (Large Paperback) The emergence of Leo Varadkar in Irish politics and his election to the post of Taoiseach is a remarkable tale from any perspective. Journalists Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor tell the inside story of how the son of an Indian immigrant battled... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2442 Doris Mary Stenton - English Society in the Early Middle Ages 1066-1307 - Vintage Pelican PB - 1959 A vintage Penguin Pelican , issued as part of the Pelican History of England ( which was an 8 volume chronological set when completed) This is Volume 3 - English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 -1307) by Doris Mary Stenton. In... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x65675H Tom Bower / Dangerous Hero (Large Paperback) 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph'The most compelling in-depth study so far' GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4064 Peadar O'Donnell - Salud ! An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7841H Roman Krznaric / The Wonderbox There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16885H Jared Diamond / Collapse From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR26893H James Rebanks / The Shepherd's Life THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87736H Dale Brown / Silver Tower It is 1992 and Silver Tower is America's first permanent space station, used in defence against intercontinental ballistic missiles. As the Middle East war between Iran and Iraq escalates, the Russians and American's are drawn into the first... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23105H Mary O'Rourke / Just Mary (Hardback) Although they have become more frequent in recent years, Irish political memoirs are still relatively rare. Even rarer still are political memoirs that still are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this one from Mary O'Rourke.She writes of personal and... MSRP: Was: €4.95 Now: €2.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97066H Jason O'Toole / Brian Cowen (Large Paperback) Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Despite a high profile at the center of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader. Just who is Brian Cowen? The story begins in the village of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21900H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin (Large Paperback) 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Remarkable and brilliantly researched non-fiction thriller...focussing on... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5773H Seamus Mallon / Seamus Mallon (Large Paperback) This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW22746H,wW23602H Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback) 1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW22745H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi (Large Paperback) Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age.At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW15413H Fidel Castro / My Life (Hardback) For years people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet, well-known activist and editor of "Le Monde Diplomatique", has succeeded. For the first time, in a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7038H Jack Holland / Phoenix: Policing the Shadows (Hardback) The revealing story of Ian Phoenix who was head of Northern Ireland's police counter-surveillance unit. His position was so secret that most of his family were unaware of it until after his death. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31342H Derek Tait / 1950s Childhood With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69069H Robert Baer / See No Evil See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77125H Pat Barker / Toby's Room From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsThe second novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - a dark and compelling examination of desire, friendship and the horror of war, from one... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW14667H David Rooney / GUERRILLA (Hardback) Since Man's earliest days there has been conflict and, also from that point, unconventional forms of action where the norm was abandoned and the unorthodox employed. Here, David Rooney selects examples of the men who, for personal or national... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x63293H W. B. Marsh / 365 : Your Date with History (Hardback) Whether it is major political events like the USA's annexation of Texas (1 March) or incredible discoveries like that of Tutankhamun's tomb (26 November), every event in history happened - of course - on one of 365 days. Pore through history... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13603H Asne Seierstad / The Bookseller Of Kabul (Hardback) Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months. For more than 20 years Sultan... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87209H Eamonn O'Hara / A French Renaissance? (Large Paperback) Seeking a more natural and balanced life for their two young children, in 2010 Eamon and Tanya O'Hara set out on a journey to begin a new life. Rural France seemed to be the answer to all their dreams. However, starting a new life in rural... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW4469H,wW8913H Philip Ryan / Leo Varadkar - A Very Modern Taoiseach (Large Paperback) The emergence of Leo Varadkar in Irish politics and his election to the post of Taoiseach is a remarkable tale from any perspective. Journalists Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor tell the inside story of how the son of an Indian immigrant battled... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2442 Doris Mary Stenton - English Society in the Early Middle Ages 1066-1307 - Vintage Pelican PB - 1959 A vintage Penguin Pelican , issued as part of the Pelican History of England ( which was an 8 volume chronological set when completed) This is Volume 3 - English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 -1307) by Doris Mary Stenton. In... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x65675H Tom Bower / Dangerous Hero (Large Paperback) 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph'The most compelling in-depth study so far' GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4064 Peadar O'Donnell - Salud ! An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7841H Roman Krznaric / The Wonderbox There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16885H Jared Diamond / Collapse From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR26893H James Rebanks / The Shepherd's Life THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87736H Dale Brown / Silver Tower It is 1992 and Silver Tower is America's first permanent space station, used in defence against intercontinental ballistic missiles. As the Middle East war between Iran and Iraq escalates, the Russians and American's are drawn into the first... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23105H Mary O'Rourke / Just Mary (Hardback) Although they have become more frequent in recent years, Irish political memoirs are still relatively rare. Even rarer still are political memoirs that still are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this one from Mary O'Rourke.She writes of personal and... MSRP: Was: €4.95 Now: €2.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97066H Jason O'Toole / Brian Cowen (Large Paperback) Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Despite a high profile at the center of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader. Just who is Brian Cowen? The story begins in the village of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21900H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin (Large Paperback) 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Remarkable and brilliantly researched non-fiction thriller...focussing on... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5773H Seamus Mallon / Seamus Mallon (Large Paperback) This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW22746H,wW23602H Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback) 1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW15413H Fidel Castro / My Life (Hardback) For years people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet, well-known activist and editor of "Le Monde Diplomatique", has succeeded. For the first time, in a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7038H Jack Holland / Phoenix: Policing the Shadows (Hardback) The revealing story of Ian Phoenix who was head of Northern Ireland's police counter-surveillance unit. His position was so secret that most of his family were unaware of it until after his death. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31342H Derek Tait / 1950s Childhood With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69069H Robert Baer / See No Evil See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77125H Pat Barker / Toby's Room From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsThe second novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - a dark and compelling examination of desire, friendship and the horror of war, from one... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW14667H David Rooney / GUERRILLA (Hardback) Since Man's earliest days there has been conflict and, also from that point, unconventional forms of action where the norm was abandoned and the unorthodox employed. Here, David Rooney selects examples of the men who, for personal or national... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x63293H W. B. Marsh / 365 : Your Date with History (Hardback) Whether it is major political events like the USA's annexation of Texas (1 March) or incredible discoveries like that of Tutankhamun's tomb (26 November), every event in history happened - of course - on one of 365 days. Pore through history... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13603H Asne Seierstad / The Bookseller Of Kabul (Hardback) Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months. For more than 20 years Sultan... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87209H Eamonn O'Hara / A French Renaissance? (Large Paperback) Seeking a more natural and balanced life for their two young children, in 2010 Eamon and Tanya O'Hara set out on a journey to begin a new life. Rural France seemed to be the answer to all their dreams. However, starting a new life in rural... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW4469H,wW8913H Philip Ryan / Leo Varadkar - A Very Modern Taoiseach (Large Paperback) The emergence of Leo Varadkar in Irish politics and his election to the post of Taoiseach is a remarkable tale from any perspective. Journalists Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor tell the inside story of how the son of an Indian immigrant battled... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2442 Doris Mary Stenton - English Society in the Early Middle Ages 1066-1307 - Vintage Pelican PB - 1959 A vintage Penguin Pelican , issued as part of the Pelican History of England ( which was an 8 volume chronological set when completed) This is Volume 3 - English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 -1307) by Doris Mary Stenton. In... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x65675H Tom Bower / Dangerous Hero (Large Paperback) 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph'The most compelling in-depth study so far' GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4064 Peadar O'Donnell - Salud ! An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7841H Roman Krznaric / The Wonderbox There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16885H Jared Diamond / Collapse From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR26893H James Rebanks / The Shepherd's Life THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87736H Dale Brown / Silver Tower It is 1992 and Silver Tower is America's first permanent space station, used in defence against intercontinental ballistic missiles. As the Middle East war between Iran and Iraq escalates, the Russians and American's are drawn into the first... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23105H Mary O'Rourke / Just Mary (Hardback) Although they have become more frequent in recent years, Irish political memoirs are still relatively rare. Even rarer still are political memoirs that still are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this one from Mary O'Rourke.She writes of personal and... MSRP: Was: €4.95 Now: €2.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97066H Jason O'Toole / Brian Cowen (Large Paperback) Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Despite a high profile at the center of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader. Just who is Brian Cowen? The story begins in the village of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21900H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin (Large Paperback) 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Remarkable and brilliantly researched non-fiction thriller...focussing on... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5773H Seamus Mallon / Seamus Mallon (Large Paperback) This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW22746H,wW23602H Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback) 1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW7038H Jack Holland / Phoenix: Policing the Shadows (Hardback) The revealing story of Ian Phoenix who was head of Northern Ireland's police counter-surveillance unit. His position was so secret that most of his family were unaware of it until after his death. All of our books are... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31342H Derek Tait / 1950s Childhood With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69069H Robert Baer / See No Evil See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77125H Pat Barker / Toby's Room From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsThe second novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - a dark and compelling examination of desire, friendship and the horror of war, from one... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW14667H David Rooney / GUERRILLA (Hardback) Since Man's earliest days there has been conflict and, also from that point, unconventional forms of action where the norm was abandoned and the unorthodox employed. Here, David Rooney selects examples of the men who, for personal or national... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x63293H W. B. Marsh / 365 : Your Date with History (Hardback) Whether it is major political events like the USA's annexation of Texas (1 March) or incredible discoveries like that of Tutankhamun's tomb (26 November), every event in history happened - of course - on one of 365 days. Pore through history... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13603H Asne Seierstad / The Bookseller Of Kabul (Hardback) Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months. For more than 20 years Sultan... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87209H Eamonn O'Hara / A French Renaissance? (Large Paperback) Seeking a more natural and balanced life for their two young children, in 2010 Eamon and Tanya O'Hara set out on a journey to begin a new life. Rural France seemed to be the answer to all their dreams. However, starting a new life in rural... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW4469H,wW8913H Philip Ryan / Leo Varadkar - A Very Modern Taoiseach (Large Paperback) The emergence of Leo Varadkar in Irish politics and his election to the post of Taoiseach is a remarkable tale from any perspective. Journalists Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor tell the inside story of how the son of an Indian immigrant battled... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2442 Doris Mary Stenton - English Society in the Early Middle Ages 1066-1307 - Vintage Pelican PB - 1959 A vintage Penguin Pelican , issued as part of the Pelican History of England ( which was an 8 volume chronological set when completed) This is Volume 3 - English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 -1307) by Doris Mary Stenton. In... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x65675H Tom Bower / Dangerous Hero (Large Paperback) 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph'The most compelling in-depth study so far' GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4064 Peadar O'Donnell - Salud ! An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7841H Roman Krznaric / The Wonderbox There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16885H Jared Diamond / Collapse From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR26893H James Rebanks / The Shepherd's Life THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87736H Dale Brown / Silver Tower It is 1992 and Silver Tower is America's first permanent space station, used in defence against intercontinental ballistic missiles. As the Middle East war between Iran and Iraq escalates, the Russians and American's are drawn into the first... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23105H Mary O'Rourke / Just Mary (Hardback) Although they have become more frequent in recent years, Irish political memoirs are still relatively rare. Even rarer still are political memoirs that still are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this one from Mary O'Rourke.She writes of personal and... MSRP: Was: €4.95 Now: €2.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97066H Jason O'Toole / Brian Cowen (Large Paperback) Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Despite a high profile at the center of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader. Just who is Brian Cowen? The story begins in the village of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21900H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin (Large Paperback) 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Remarkable and brilliantly researched non-fiction thriller...focussing on... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5773H Seamus Mallon / Seamus Mallon (Large Paperback) This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW22746H,wW23602H Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback) 1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR31342H Derek Tait / 1950s Childhood With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69069H Robert Baer / See No Evil See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77125H Pat Barker / Toby's Room From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsThe second novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - a dark and compelling examination of desire, friendship and the horror of war, from one... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW14667H David Rooney / GUERRILLA (Hardback) Since Man's earliest days there has been conflict and, also from that point, unconventional forms of action where the norm was abandoned and the unorthodox employed. Here, David Rooney selects examples of the men who, for personal or national... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x63293H W. B. Marsh / 365 : Your Date with History (Hardback) Whether it is major political events like the USA's annexation of Texas (1 March) or incredible discoveries like that of Tutankhamun's tomb (26 November), every event in history happened - of course - on one of 365 days. Pore through history... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13603H Asne Seierstad / The Bookseller Of Kabul (Hardback) Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months. For more than 20 years Sultan... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87209H Eamonn O'Hara / A French Renaissance? (Large Paperback) Seeking a more natural and balanced life for their two young children, in 2010 Eamon and Tanya O'Hara set out on a journey to begin a new life. Rural France seemed to be the answer to all their dreams. However, starting a new life in rural... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW4469H,wW8913H Philip Ryan / Leo Varadkar - A Very Modern Taoiseach (Large Paperback) The emergence of Leo Varadkar in Irish politics and his election to the post of Taoiseach is a remarkable tale from any perspective. Journalists Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor tell the inside story of how the son of an Indian immigrant battled... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2442 Doris Mary Stenton - English Society in the Early Middle Ages 1066-1307 - Vintage Pelican PB - 1959 A vintage Penguin Pelican , issued as part of the Pelican History of England ( which was an 8 volume chronological set when completed) This is Volume 3 - English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 -1307) by Doris Mary Stenton. In... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x65675H Tom Bower / Dangerous Hero (Large Paperback) 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph'The most compelling in-depth study so far' GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4064 Peadar O'Donnell - Salud ! An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7841H Roman Krznaric / The Wonderbox There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16885H Jared Diamond / Collapse From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87736H Dale Brown / Silver Tower It is 1992 and Silver Tower is America's first permanent space station, used in defence against intercontinental ballistic missiles. As the Middle East war between Iran and Iraq escalates, the Russians and American's are drawn into the first... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23105H Mary O'Rourke / Just Mary (Hardback) Although they have become more frequent in recent years, Irish political memoirs are still relatively rare. Even rarer still are political memoirs that still are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this one from Mary O'Rourke.She writes of personal and... MSRP: Was: €4.95 Now: €2.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97066H Jason O'Toole / Brian Cowen (Large Paperback) Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Despite a high profile at the center of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader. Just who is Brian Cowen? The story begins in the village of... 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Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 69069H Robert Baer / See No Evil See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 77125H Pat Barker / Toby's Room From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsThe second novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - a dark and compelling examination of desire, friendship and the horror of war, from one... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW14667H David Rooney / GUERRILLA (Hardback) Since Man's earliest days there has been conflict and, also from that point, unconventional forms of action where the norm was abandoned and the unorthodox employed. Here, David Rooney selects examples of the men who, for personal or national... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x63293H W. B. Marsh / 365 : Your Date with History (Hardback) Whether it is major political events like the USA's annexation of Texas (1 March) or incredible discoveries like that of Tutankhamun's tomb (26 November), every event in history happened - of course - on one of 365 days. Pore through history... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13603H Asne Seierstad / The Bookseller Of Kabul (Hardback) Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months. For more than 20 years Sultan... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87209H Eamonn O'Hara / A French Renaissance? (Large Paperback) Seeking a more natural and balanced life for their two young children, in 2010 Eamon and Tanya O'Hara set out on a journey to begin a new life. Rural France seemed to be the answer to all their dreams. However, starting a new life in rural... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW4469H,wW8913H Philip Ryan / Leo Varadkar - A Very Modern Taoiseach (Large Paperback) The emergence of Leo Varadkar in Irish politics and his election to the post of Taoiseach is a remarkable tale from any perspective. Journalists Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor tell the inside story of how the son of an Indian immigrant battled... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2442 Doris Mary Stenton - English Society in the Early Middle Ages 1066-1307 - Vintage Pelican PB - 1959 A vintage Penguin Pelican , issued as part of the Pelican History of England ( which was an 8 volume chronological set when completed) This is Volume 3 - English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 -1307) by Doris Mary Stenton. In... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x65675H Tom Bower / Dangerous Hero (Large Paperback) 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph'The most compelling in-depth study so far' GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4064 Peadar O'Donnell - Salud ! An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7841H Roman Krznaric / The Wonderbox There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16885H Jared Diamond / Collapse From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR26893H James Rebanks / The Shepherd's Life THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87736H Dale Brown / Silver Tower It is 1992 and Silver Tower is America's first permanent space station, used in defence against intercontinental ballistic missiles. As the Middle East war between Iran and Iraq escalates, the Russians and American's are drawn into the first... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23105H Mary O'Rourke / Just Mary (Hardback) Although they have become more frequent in recent years, Irish political memoirs are still relatively rare. Even rarer still are political memoirs that still are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this one from Mary O'Rourke.She writes of personal and... MSRP: Was: €4.95 Now: €2.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97066H Jason O'Toole / Brian Cowen (Large Paperback) Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Despite a high profile at the center of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader. Just who is Brian Cowen? The story begins in the village of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21900H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin (Large Paperback) 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Remarkable and brilliantly researched non-fiction thriller...focussing on... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5773H Seamus Mallon / Seamus Mallon (Large Paperback) This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW22746H,wW23602H Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback) 1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 77125H Pat Barker / Toby's Room From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsThe second novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - a dark and compelling examination of desire, friendship and the horror of war, from one... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW14667H David Rooney / GUERRILLA (Hardback) Since Man's earliest days there has been conflict and, also from that point, unconventional forms of action where the norm was abandoned and the unorthodox employed. Here, David Rooney selects examples of the men who, for personal or national... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x63293H W. B. Marsh / 365 : Your Date with History (Hardback) Whether it is major political events like the USA's annexation of Texas (1 March) or incredible discoveries like that of Tutankhamun's tomb (26 November), every event in history happened - of course - on one of 365 days. Pore through history... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13603H Asne Seierstad / The Bookseller Of Kabul (Hardback) Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months. For more than 20 years Sultan... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87209H Eamonn O'Hara / A French Renaissance? (Large Paperback) Seeking a more natural and balanced life for their two young children, in 2010 Eamon and Tanya O'Hara set out on a journey to begin a new life. Rural France seemed to be the answer to all their dreams. However, starting a new life in rural... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW4469H,wW8913H Philip Ryan / Leo Varadkar - A Very Modern Taoiseach (Large Paperback) The emergence of Leo Varadkar in Irish politics and his election to the post of Taoiseach is a remarkable tale from any perspective. Journalists Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor tell the inside story of how the son of an Indian immigrant battled... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2442 Doris Mary Stenton - English Society in the Early Middle Ages 1066-1307 - Vintage Pelican PB - 1959 A vintage Penguin Pelican , issued as part of the Pelican History of England ( which was an 8 volume chronological set when completed) This is Volume 3 - English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 -1307) by Doris Mary Stenton. In... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x65675H Tom Bower / Dangerous Hero (Large Paperback) 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph'The most compelling in-depth study so far' GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4064 Peadar O'Donnell - Salud ! An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7841H Roman Krznaric / The Wonderbox There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16885H Jared Diamond / Collapse From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR26893H James Rebanks / The Shepherd's Life THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87736H Dale Brown / Silver Tower It is 1992 and Silver Tower is America's first permanent space station, used in defence against intercontinental ballistic missiles. As the Middle East war between Iran and Iraq escalates, the Russians and American's are drawn into the first... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23105H Mary O'Rourke / Just Mary (Hardback) Although they have become more frequent in recent years, Irish political memoirs are still relatively rare. Even rarer still are political memoirs that still are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this one from Mary O'Rourke.She writes of personal and... MSRP: Was: €4.95 Now: €2.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97066H Jason O'Toole / Brian Cowen (Large Paperback) Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Despite a high profile at the center of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader. Just who is Brian Cowen? The story begins in the village of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21900H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin (Large Paperback) 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Remarkable and brilliantly researched non-fiction thriller...focussing on... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5773H Seamus Mallon / Seamus Mallon (Large Paperback) This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW22746H,wW23602H Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback) 1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW14667H David Rooney / GUERRILLA (Hardback) Since Man's earliest days there has been conflict and, also from that point, unconventional forms of action where the norm was abandoned and the unorthodox employed. Here, David Rooney selects examples of the men who, for personal or national... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x63293H W. B. Marsh / 365 : Your Date with History (Hardback) Whether it is major political events like the USA's annexation of Texas (1 March) or incredible discoveries like that of Tutankhamun's tomb (26 November), every event in history happened - of course - on one of 365 days. Pore through history... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13603H Asne Seierstad / The Bookseller Of Kabul (Hardback) Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months. For more than 20 years Sultan... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87209H Eamonn O'Hara / A French Renaissance? (Large Paperback) Seeking a more natural and balanced life for their two young children, in 2010 Eamon and Tanya O'Hara set out on a journey to begin a new life. Rural France seemed to be the answer to all their dreams. However, starting a new life in rural... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW4469H,wW8913H Philip Ryan / Leo Varadkar - A Very Modern Taoiseach (Large Paperback) The emergence of Leo Varadkar in Irish politics and his election to the post of Taoiseach is a remarkable tale from any perspective. Journalists Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor tell the inside story of how the son of an Indian immigrant battled... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2442 Doris Mary Stenton - English Society in the Early Middle Ages 1066-1307 - Vintage Pelican PB - 1959 A vintage Penguin Pelican , issued as part of the Pelican History of England ( which was an 8 volume chronological set when completed) This is Volume 3 - English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 -1307) by Doris Mary Stenton. In... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x65675H Tom Bower / Dangerous Hero (Large Paperback) 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph'The most compelling in-depth study so far' GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4064 Peadar O'Donnell - Salud ! An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7841H Roman Krznaric / The Wonderbox There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16885H Jared Diamond / Collapse From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR26893H James Rebanks / The Shepherd's Life THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... 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Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x63293H W. B. Marsh / 365 : Your Date with History (Hardback) Whether it is major political events like the USA's annexation of Texas (1 March) or incredible discoveries like that of Tutankhamun's tomb (26 November), every event in history happened - of course - on one of 365 days. Pore through history... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13603H Asne Seierstad / The Bookseller Of Kabul (Hardback) Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months. For more than 20 years Sultan... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87209H Eamonn O'Hara / A French Renaissance? (Large Paperback) Seeking a more natural and balanced life for their two young children, in 2010 Eamon and Tanya O'Hara set out on a journey to begin a new life. Rural France seemed to be the answer to all their dreams. However, starting a new life in rural... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW4469H,wW8913H Philip Ryan / Leo Varadkar - A Very Modern Taoiseach (Large Paperback) The emergence of Leo Varadkar in Irish politics and his election to the post of Taoiseach is a remarkable tale from any perspective. Journalists Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor tell the inside story of how the son of an Indian immigrant battled... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2442 Doris Mary Stenton - English Society in the Early Middle Ages 1066-1307 - Vintage Pelican PB - 1959 A vintage Penguin Pelican , issued as part of the Pelican History of England ( which was an 8 volume chronological set when completed) This is Volume 3 - English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 -1307) by Doris Mary Stenton. In... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x65675H Tom Bower / Dangerous Hero (Large Paperback) 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph'The most compelling in-depth study so far' GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4064 Peadar O'Donnell - Salud ! An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7841H Roman Krznaric / The Wonderbox There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16885H Jared Diamond / Collapse From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR26893H James Rebanks / The Shepherd's Life THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87736H Dale Brown / Silver Tower It is 1992 and Silver Tower is America's first permanent space station, used in defence against intercontinental ballistic missiles. As the Middle East war between Iran and Iraq escalates, the Russians and American's are drawn into the first... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23105H Mary O'Rourke / Just Mary (Hardback) Although they have become more frequent in recent years, Irish political memoirs are still relatively rare. Even rarer still are political memoirs that still are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this one from Mary O'Rourke.She writes of personal and... MSRP: Was: €4.95 Now: €2.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97066H Jason O'Toole / Brian Cowen (Large Paperback) Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Despite a high profile at the center of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader. Just who is Brian Cowen? The story begins in the village of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21900H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin (Large Paperback) 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Remarkable and brilliantly researched non-fiction thriller...focussing on... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5773H Seamus Mallon / Seamus Mallon (Large Paperback) This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW22746H,wW23602H Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback) 1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW13603H Asne Seierstad / The Bookseller Of Kabul (Hardback) Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months. For more than 20 years Sultan... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87209H Eamonn O'Hara / A French Renaissance? (Large Paperback) Seeking a more natural and balanced life for their two young children, in 2010 Eamon and Tanya O'Hara set out on a journey to begin a new life. Rural France seemed to be the answer to all their dreams. However, starting a new life in rural... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW4469H,wW8913H Philip Ryan / Leo Varadkar - A Very Modern Taoiseach (Large Paperback) The emergence of Leo Varadkar in Irish politics and his election to the post of Taoiseach is a remarkable tale from any perspective. Journalists Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor tell the inside story of how the son of an Indian immigrant battled... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2442 Doris Mary Stenton - English Society in the Early Middle Ages 1066-1307 - Vintage Pelican PB - 1959 A vintage Penguin Pelican , issued as part of the Pelican History of England ( which was an 8 volume chronological set when completed) This is Volume 3 - English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 -1307) by Doris Mary Stenton. In... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x65675H Tom Bower / Dangerous Hero (Large Paperback) 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph'The most compelling in-depth study so far' GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4064 Peadar O'Donnell - Salud ! An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7841H Roman Krznaric / The Wonderbox There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16885H Jared Diamond / Collapse From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR26893H James Rebanks / The Shepherd's Life THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87736H Dale Brown / Silver Tower It is 1992 and Silver Tower is America's first permanent space station, used in defence against intercontinental ballistic missiles. As the Middle East war between Iran and Iraq escalates, the Russians and American's are drawn into the first... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23105H Mary O'Rourke / Just Mary (Hardback) Although they have become more frequent in recent years, Irish political memoirs are still relatively rare. Even rarer still are political memoirs that still are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this one from Mary O'Rourke.She writes of personal and... MSRP: Was: €4.95 Now: €2.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97066H Jason O'Toole / Brian Cowen (Large Paperback) Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Despite a high profile at the center of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader. Just who is Brian Cowen? The story begins in the village of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21900H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin (Large Paperback) 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Remarkable and brilliantly researched non-fiction thriller...focussing on... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5773H Seamus Mallon / Seamus Mallon (Large Paperback) This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW22746H,wW23602H Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback) 1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X87209H Eamonn O'Hara / A French Renaissance? (Large Paperback) Seeking a more natural and balanced life for their two young children, in 2010 Eamon and Tanya O'Hara set out on a journey to begin a new life. Rural France seemed to be the answer to all their dreams. However, starting a new life in rural... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW4469H,wW8913H Philip Ryan / Leo Varadkar - A Very Modern Taoiseach (Large Paperback) The emergence of Leo Varadkar in Irish politics and his election to the post of Taoiseach is a remarkable tale from any perspective. Journalists Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor tell the inside story of how the son of an Indian immigrant battled... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2442 Doris Mary Stenton - English Society in the Early Middle Ages 1066-1307 - Vintage Pelican PB - 1959 A vintage Penguin Pelican , issued as part of the Pelican History of England ( which was an 8 volume chronological set when completed) This is Volume 3 - English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 -1307) by Doris Mary Stenton. In... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x65675H Tom Bower / Dangerous Hero (Large Paperback) 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph'The most compelling in-depth study so far' GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4064 Peadar O'Donnell - Salud ! An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7841H Roman Krznaric / The Wonderbox There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16885H Jared Diamond / Collapse From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR26893H James Rebanks / The Shepherd's Life THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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. 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I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... 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MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5773H Seamus Mallon / Seamus Mallon (Large Paperback) This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW22746H,wW23602H Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback) 1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x65675H Tom Bower / Dangerous Hero (Large Paperback) 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph'The most compelling in-depth study so far' GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4064 Peadar O'Donnell - Salud ! An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7841H Roman Krznaric / The Wonderbox There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16885H Jared Diamond / Collapse From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR26893H James Rebanks / The Shepherd's Life THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87736H Dale Brown / Silver Tower It is 1992 and Silver Tower is America's first permanent space station, used in defence against intercontinental ballistic missiles. As the Middle East war between Iran and Iraq escalates, the Russians and American's are drawn into the first... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23105H Mary O'Rourke / Just Mary (Hardback) Although they have become more frequent in recent years, Irish political memoirs are still relatively rare. Even rarer still are political memoirs that still are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this one from Mary O'Rourke.She writes of personal and... MSRP: Was: €4.95 Now: €2.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97066H Jason O'Toole / Brian Cowen (Large Paperback) Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Despite a high profile at the center of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader. Just who is Brian Cowen? The story begins in the village of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21900H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin (Large Paperback) 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Remarkable and brilliantly researched non-fiction thriller...focussing on... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5773H Seamus Mallon / Seamus Mallon (Large Paperback) This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW22746H,wW23602H Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback) 1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view sku: x65675H Tom Bower / Dangerous Hero (Large Paperback) 'THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ' Mail on Sunday'Meticulous and highly readable ... Funny and devastating' Daily Telegraph'The most compelling in-depth study so far' GuardianA gripping expose of the man, his politics and what Corbyn in Downing... MSRP: Was: €3.50 Now: €1.75 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: MED4064 Peadar O'Donnell - Salud ! An Irishman in Spain - PB BRAND NEW 2020 - Spanish Civil War - 9781527274068 First published in 1937, and unavailable in the main since then, this book is an essential eye-witness account of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Peadar O'Donnell was a veteran campaigner, with an established reputation for his republican,... MSRP: Now: €15.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7841H Roman Krznaric / The Wonderbox There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16885H Jared Diamond / Collapse From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR26893H James Rebanks / The Shepherd's Life THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87736H Dale Brown / Silver Tower It is 1992 and Silver Tower is America's first permanent space station, used in defence against intercontinental ballistic missiles. As the Middle East war between Iran and Iraq escalates, the Russians and American's are drawn into the first... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23105H Mary O'Rourke / Just Mary (Hardback) Although they have become more frequent in recent years, Irish political memoirs are still relatively rare. Even rarer still are political memoirs that still are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this one from Mary O'Rourke.She writes of personal and... MSRP: Was: €4.95 Now: €2.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97066H Jason O'Toole / Brian Cowen (Large Paperback) Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Despite a high profile at the center of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader. Just who is Brian Cowen? The story begins in the village of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21900H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin (Large Paperback) 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Remarkable and brilliantly researched non-fiction thriller...focussing on... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5773H Seamus Mallon / Seamus Mallon (Large Paperback) This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW22746H,wW23602H Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback) 1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR30451H Thomas E. Ricks / Fiasco Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24183H Paul Kennedy / The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEPaul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7841H Roman Krznaric / The Wonderbox There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16885H Jared Diamond / Collapse From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR26893H James Rebanks / The Shepherd's Life THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87736H Dale Brown / Silver Tower It is 1992 and Silver Tower is America's first permanent space station, used in defence against intercontinental ballistic missiles. As the Middle East war between Iran and Iraq escalates, the Russians and American's are drawn into the first... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23105H Mary O'Rourke / Just Mary (Hardback) Although they have become more frequent in recent years, Irish political memoirs are still relatively rare. Even rarer still are political memoirs that still are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this one from Mary O'Rourke.She writes of personal and... MSRP: Was: €4.95 Now: €2.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97066H Jason O'Toole / Brian Cowen (Large Paperback) Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Despite a high profile at the center of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader. Just who is Brian Cowen? The story begins in the village of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21900H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin (Large Paperback) 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Remarkable and brilliantly researched non-fiction thriller...focussing on... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5773H Seamus Mallon / Seamus Mallon (Large Paperback) This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW22746H,wW23602H Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback) 1865. The American Civil War is ending. 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I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... 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Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7841H Roman Krznaric / The Wonderbox There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR16885H Jared Diamond / Collapse From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR26893H James Rebanks / The Shepherd's Life THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87736H Dale Brown / Silver Tower It is 1992 and Silver Tower is America's first permanent space station, used in defence against intercontinental ballistic missiles. As the Middle East war between Iran and Iraq escalates, the Russians and American's are drawn into the first... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW23105H Mary O'Rourke / Just Mary (Hardback) Although they have become more frequent in recent years, Irish political memoirs are still relatively rare. Even rarer still are political memoirs that still are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this one from Mary O'Rourke.She writes of personal and... MSRP: Was: €4.95 Now: €2.48 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97066H Jason O'Toole / Brian Cowen (Large Paperback) Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. Despite a high profile at the center of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader. Just who is Brian Cowen? The story begins in the village of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21900H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin (Large Paperback) 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Remarkable and brilliantly researched non-fiction thriller...focussing on... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5773H Seamus Mallon / Seamus Mallon (Large Paperback) This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW22746H,wW23602H Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback) 1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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