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An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10369E Wherever You Are: The Military Wives From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their story moved millions.Here the wives tell their individual stories in full for the first time - true... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4129H,rR6979H Julia Boyd / Travellers in the Third Reich THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLERWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret... 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An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10369E Wherever You Are: The Military Wives From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their story moved millions.Here the wives tell their individual stories in full for the first time - true... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4129H,rR6979H Julia Boyd / Travellers in the Third Reich THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLERWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret... 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An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10369E Wherever You Are: The Military Wives From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their story moved millions.Here the wives tell their individual stories in full for the first time - true... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4129H,rR6979H Julia Boyd / Travellers in the Third Reich THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLERWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret... 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An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10369E Wherever You Are: The Military Wives From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their story moved millions.Here the wives tell their individual stories in full for the first time - true... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4129H,rR6979H Julia Boyd / Travellers in the Third Reich THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLERWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret... 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An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10369E Wherever You Are: The Military Wives From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their story moved millions.Here the wives tell their individual stories in full for the first time - true... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4129H,rR6979H Julia Boyd / Travellers in the Third Reich THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLERWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret... 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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: 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 Quick view 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. 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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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. 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Drawing on experience of poor people all over the world, the author gives voice to those whose... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7890H Tony Blair / A Journey (Large Paperback) 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: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93626H Elizabeth Grant / A Highland Lady in France (Large Paperback) The early life of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, recorded in her "Memoirs of a Highland Lady", has had an avid readership since the book's first publication in 1898. Less well known, but equally interesting, is this journal describing the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7733H David McCullagh / The Reluctant Taoiseach : A Biography of John A. Costello (Hardback) John A. 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An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10369E Wherever You Are: The Military Wives From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their story moved millions.Here the wives tell their individual stories in full for the first time - true... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4129H,rR6979H Julia Boyd / Travellers in the Third Reich THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLERWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret... 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Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses____________________________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93832H H. Norman Schwarzkopf / It Doesn't Take A Hero (Hardback) In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank... 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: X87209H Eamonn O'Hara / A French Renaissance? 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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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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. 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As an officer in the 1st Cavalry Division during 1967/8, he saw combat in some of the fiercest encounters of the war. His gallantry earned him a chestful of medals, including... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107435c Molly Ivins / Shrub When it comes to reporting on politics, nobody does it smarter or funnier than bestselling author Molly Ivins. In Shrub, Ivins focuses her Texas-size smarts on the biggest politician in her home state: George Walker Bush, or "Shrub," as Ivins has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 14657E Paul Bruce / The Nemesis File Paul Bruce was a tough, idealistic young trooper in the SAS when he was dispatched to Northern Ireland. His squad's top-secret mission, code sign "Nemesis" - to execute unarmed IRA suspects in cold blood. Bruce and his squad shot down one... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 59768H Horace Greasley / Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10369E Wherever You Are: The Military Wives From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their story moved millions.Here the wives tell their individual stories in full for the first time - true... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4129H,rR6979H Julia Boyd / Travellers in the Third Reich THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLERWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11141H Richard Pipes / Russia Under the Old Regime This study analyzes the evolution of the Russian state from the 9th century to the 1880s, and its unique role in managing Russian society. The development of Russia was different from that of the rest of Europe. The natural poverty of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2005H Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan / The Glitter and the Gold Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67208H Michael White / Isaac Newton : The Last Sorcerer A new biography of Isaac Newton that reveals the extraordinary influence that the study of alchemy had on the greatest Early Modern scientific discoveries. In this `ground breaking biography' Michael White destroys the myths of the life of Isaac... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: X95481H Michael Lillis / The Lives of Eliza Lynch (Hardback) Her notorious reputation was invented by Paraguay's enemies in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay (who wiped out over ninety per cent of the male population of Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70), and by Paraguay's tiny Spanish elite... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6520H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin 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: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: rR6064H Paul OBrien / Shadow Warriors In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades that followed, its soldiers have been deployed on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5565H Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know (Hardback) 'There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page' Guardian'A father . . . is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses____________________________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93832H H. Norman Schwarzkopf / It Doesn't Take A Hero (Hardback) In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank... 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: X87209H Eamonn O'Hara / A French Renaissance? 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... 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An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10369E Wherever You Are: The Military Wives From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their story moved millions.Here the wives tell their individual stories in full for the first time - true... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4129H,rR6979H Julia Boyd / Travellers in the Third Reich THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLERWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret... 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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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93626H Elizabeth Grant / A Highland Lady in France (Large Paperback) The early life of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, recorded in her "Memoirs of a Highland Lady", has had an avid readership since the book's first publication in 1898. Less well known, but equally interesting, is this journal describing the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7733H David McCullagh / The Reluctant Taoiseach : A Biography of John A. Costello (Hardback) John A. Costello remains the most elusive of our former Taoisigh, despite his enormous contribution to Irish history. He declared the Republic, led the country's first ever coalition government, and faced the Mother and Child Crisis. A surprise... 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As an officer in the 1st Cavalry Division during 1967/8, he saw combat in some of the fiercest encounters of the war. His gallantry earned him a chestful of medals, including... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107435c Molly Ivins / Shrub When it comes to reporting on politics, nobody does it smarter or funnier than bestselling author Molly Ivins. In Shrub, Ivins focuses her Texas-size smarts on the biggest politician in her home state: George Walker Bush, or "Shrub," as Ivins has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 14657E Paul Bruce / The Nemesis File Paul Bruce was a tough, idealistic young trooper in the SAS when he was dispatched to Northern Ireland. His squad's top-secret mission, code sign "Nemesis" - to execute unarmed IRA suspects in cold blood. Bruce and his squad shot down one... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 59768H Horace Greasley / Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10369E Wherever You Are: The Military Wives From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their story moved millions.Here the wives tell their individual stories in full for the first time - true... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4129H,rR6979H Julia Boyd / Travellers in the Third Reich THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLERWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11141H Richard Pipes / Russia Under the Old Regime This study analyzes the evolution of the Russian state from the 9th century to the 1880s, and its unique role in managing Russian society. The development of Russia was different from that of the rest of Europe. The natural poverty of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2005H Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan / The Glitter and the Gold Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67208H Michael White / Isaac Newton : The Last Sorcerer A new biography of Isaac Newton that reveals the extraordinary influence that the study of alchemy had on the greatest Early Modern scientific discoveries. 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6520H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin 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: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: rR6064H Paul OBrien / Shadow Warriors In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades that followed, its soldiers have been deployed on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5565H Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know (Hardback) 'There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page' Guardian'A father . . . is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses____________________________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93832H H. Norman Schwarzkopf / It Doesn't Take A Hero (Hardback) In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank... 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: 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 Quick view 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2639H Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback) A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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. 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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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. 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Quick view sku: x66126H Hong Ying / Daughter of the River (Hardback) A portrait of a young girl growing up in Mao's China. Born into a slum in 1962 during the Great Famine, Hong Ying describes her life, including the mystery which surrounded her early life, her parents, the death of her lover and child and her... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83531H Michael Smith / Station X - The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park In 1939, several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park. This was to be 'Station X', the Allies'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10630F Jeremy Seabrook / The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty This guide questions conventional thinking about wealth and poverty - is the opposite of poverty really wealth, or is it safety and sufficiency? Drawing on experience of poor people all over the world, the author gives voice to those whose... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7890H Tony Blair / A Journey (Large Paperback) 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: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93626H Elizabeth Grant / A Highland Lady in France (Large Paperback) The early life of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, recorded in her "Memoirs of a Highland Lady", has had an avid readership since the book's first publication in 1898. Less well known, but equally interesting, is this journal describing the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7733H David McCullagh / The Reluctant Taoiseach : A Biography of John A. Costello (Hardback) John A. Costello remains the most elusive of our former Taoisigh, despite his enormous contribution to Irish history. He declared the Republic, led the country's first ever coalition government, and faced the Mother and Child Crisis. A surprise... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8600H Mary McAleese / Here's the Story : A Memoir (Hardback) The groundbreaking two-term President of Ireland tells the stories of her lifeWhen a young Mary McAleese told a priest that she planned to become a lawyer, the priest dismissed the idea: she knew no one in the law, and she was female. The reality... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10583M Bryan Sykes / The Seven Daughters Of Eve In 1994 Professor Brian Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of the discovery of the Ice Man and his age, which was put at... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54461H Michael Moore / Will They Ever Trust Us Again? : Letters from the War Zone Will They Ever Trust Us Again? brings together hundreds of the letters that sent to Michael Moore - author of the international bestseller Stupid White Men - to show the reality beneath the propaganda.He's sparked a furore and turned up the heat by... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12040H Catherine Merridale / Ivan's War 'Essential reading, not just for those interested in the Eastern Front, but for anyone who wants to understand Russia.' Antony Beevor, Sunday TimesThey died in their millions, shattered by German shells and tanks, freezing behind the wire of prison... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72003H Tom Abraham / The Cage Tom 'Bud' Abraham was one of the very few Englishmen to serve in Vietnam. As an officer in the 1st Cavalry Division during 1967/8, he saw combat in some of the fiercest encounters of the war. His gallantry earned him a chestful of medals, including... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107435c Molly Ivins / Shrub When it comes to reporting on politics, nobody does it smarter or funnier than bestselling author Molly Ivins. In Shrub, Ivins focuses her Texas-size smarts on the biggest politician in her home state: George Walker Bush, or "Shrub," as Ivins has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 14657E Paul Bruce / The Nemesis File Paul Bruce was a tough, idealistic young trooper in the SAS when he was dispatched to Northern Ireland. His squad's top-secret mission, code sign "Nemesis" - to execute unarmed IRA suspects in cold blood. Bruce and his squad shot down one... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 59768H Horace Greasley / Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10369E Wherever You Are: The Military Wives From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their story moved millions.Here the wives tell their individual stories in full for the first time - true... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4129H,rR6979H Julia Boyd / Travellers in the Third Reich THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLERWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11141H Richard Pipes / Russia Under the Old Regime This study analyzes the evolution of the Russian state from the 9th century to the 1880s, and its unique role in managing Russian society. The development of Russia was different from that of the rest of Europe. The natural poverty of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2005H Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan / The Glitter and the Gold Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67208H Michael White / Isaac Newton : The Last Sorcerer A new biography of Isaac Newton that reveals the extraordinary influence that the study of alchemy had on the greatest Early Modern scientific discoveries. In this `ground breaking biography' Michael White destroys the myths of the life of Isaac... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: X95481H Michael Lillis / The Lives of Eliza Lynch (Hardback) Her notorious reputation was invented by Paraguay's enemies in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay (who wiped out over ninety per cent of the male population of Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70), and by Paraguay's tiny Spanish elite... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6520H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin 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: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: rR6064H Paul OBrien / Shadow Warriors In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades that followed, its soldiers have been deployed on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5565H Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know (Hardback) 'There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page' Guardian'A father . . . is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses____________________________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93832H H. Norman Schwarzkopf / It Doesn't Take A Hero (Hardback) In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank... 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: 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 Quick view 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2639H Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback) A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 83531H Michael Smith / Station X - The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park In 1939, several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park. This was to be 'Station X', the Allies'... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10630F Jeremy Seabrook / The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty This guide questions conventional thinking about wealth and poverty - is the opposite of poverty really wealth, or is it safety and sufficiency? Drawing on experience of poor people all over the world, the author gives voice to those whose... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7890H Tony Blair / A Journey (Large Paperback) 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: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93626H Elizabeth Grant / A Highland Lady in France (Large Paperback) The early life of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, recorded in her "Memoirs of a Highland Lady", has had an avid readership since the book's first publication in 1898. Less well known, but equally interesting, is this journal describing the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7733H David McCullagh / The Reluctant Taoiseach : A Biography of John A. Costello (Hardback) John A. Costello remains the most elusive of our former Taoisigh, despite his enormous contribution to Irish history. He declared the Republic, led the country's first ever coalition government, and faced the Mother and Child Crisis. A surprise... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8600H Mary McAleese / Here's the Story : A Memoir (Hardback) The groundbreaking two-term President of Ireland tells the stories of her lifeWhen a young Mary McAleese told a priest that she planned to become a lawyer, the priest dismissed the idea: she knew no one in the law, and she was female. The reality... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10583M Bryan Sykes / The Seven Daughters Of Eve In 1994 Professor Brian Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of the discovery of the Ice Man and his age, which was put at... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54461H Michael Moore / Will They Ever Trust Us Again? : Letters from the War Zone Will They Ever Trust Us Again? brings together hundreds of the letters that sent to Michael Moore - author of the international bestseller Stupid White Men - to show the reality beneath the propaganda.He's sparked a furore and turned up the heat by... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12040H Catherine Merridale / Ivan's War 'Essential reading, not just for those interested in the Eastern Front, but for anyone who wants to understand Russia.' Antony Beevor, Sunday TimesThey died in their millions, shattered by German shells and tanks, freezing behind the wire of prison... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72003H Tom Abraham / The Cage Tom 'Bud' Abraham was one of the very few Englishmen to serve in Vietnam. As an officer in the 1st Cavalry Division during 1967/8, he saw combat in some of the fiercest encounters of the war. His gallantry earned him a chestful of medals, including... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107435c Molly Ivins / Shrub When it comes to reporting on politics, nobody does it smarter or funnier than bestselling author Molly Ivins. In Shrub, Ivins focuses her Texas-size smarts on the biggest politician in her home state: George Walker Bush, or "Shrub," as Ivins has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 14657E Paul Bruce / The Nemesis File Paul Bruce was a tough, idealistic young trooper in the SAS when he was dispatched to Northern Ireland. His squad's top-secret mission, code sign "Nemesis" - to execute unarmed IRA suspects in cold blood. Bruce and his squad shot down one... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 59768H Horace Greasley / Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10369E Wherever You Are: The Military Wives From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their story moved millions.Here the wives tell their individual stories in full for the first time - true... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4129H,rR6979H Julia Boyd / Travellers in the Third Reich THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLERWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11141H Richard Pipes / Russia Under the Old Regime This study analyzes the evolution of the Russian state from the 9th century to the 1880s, and its unique role in managing Russian society. The development of Russia was different from that of the rest of Europe. The natural poverty of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2005H Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan / The Glitter and the Gold Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67208H Michael White / Isaac Newton : The Last Sorcerer A new biography of Isaac Newton that reveals the extraordinary influence that the study of alchemy had on the greatest Early Modern scientific discoveries. In this `ground breaking biography' Michael White destroys the myths of the life of Isaac... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: X95481H Michael Lillis / The Lives of Eliza Lynch (Hardback) Her notorious reputation was invented by Paraguay's enemies in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay (who wiped out over ninety per cent of the male population of Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70), and by Paraguay's tiny Spanish elite... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6520H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin 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: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: rR6064H Paul OBrien / Shadow Warriors In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades that followed, its soldiers have been deployed on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5565H Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know (Hardback) 'There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page' Guardian'A father . . . is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses____________________________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93832H H. Norman Schwarzkopf / It Doesn't Take A Hero (Hardback) In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank... 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: 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 Quick view 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2639H Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback) A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view sku: 10630F Jeremy Seabrook / The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty This guide questions conventional thinking about wealth and poverty - is the opposite of poverty really wealth, or is it safety and sufficiency? Drawing on experience of poor people all over the world, the author gives voice to those whose... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: wW7890H Tony Blair / A Journey (Large Paperback) 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: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93626H Elizabeth Grant / A Highland Lady in France (Large Paperback) The early life of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, recorded in her "Memoirs of a Highland Lady", has had an avid readership since the book's first publication in 1898. Less well known, but equally interesting, is this journal describing the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7733H David McCullagh / The Reluctant Taoiseach : A Biography of John A. Costello (Hardback) John A. Costello remains the most elusive of our former Taoisigh, despite his enormous contribution to Irish history. He declared the Republic, led the country's first ever coalition government, and faced the Mother and Child Crisis. A surprise... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8600H Mary McAleese / Here's the Story : A Memoir (Hardback) The groundbreaking two-term President of Ireland tells the stories of her lifeWhen a young Mary McAleese told a priest that she planned to become a lawyer, the priest dismissed the idea: she knew no one in the law, and she was female. The reality... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10583M Bryan Sykes / The Seven Daughters Of Eve In 1994 Professor Brian Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of the discovery of the Ice Man and his age, which was put at... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54461H Michael Moore / Will They Ever Trust Us Again? : Letters from the War Zone Will They Ever Trust Us Again? brings together hundreds of the letters that sent to Michael Moore - author of the international bestseller Stupid White Men - to show the reality beneath the propaganda.He's sparked a furore and turned up the heat by... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12040H Catherine Merridale / Ivan's War 'Essential reading, not just for those interested in the Eastern Front, but for anyone who wants to understand Russia.' Antony Beevor, Sunday TimesThey died in their millions, shattered by German shells and tanks, freezing behind the wire of prison... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72003H Tom Abraham / The Cage Tom 'Bud' Abraham was one of the very few Englishmen to serve in Vietnam. As an officer in the 1st Cavalry Division during 1967/8, he saw combat in some of the fiercest encounters of the war. His gallantry earned him a chestful of medals, including... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107435c Molly Ivins / Shrub When it comes to reporting on politics, nobody does it smarter or funnier than bestselling author Molly Ivins. In Shrub, Ivins focuses her Texas-size smarts on the biggest politician in her home state: George Walker Bush, or "Shrub," as Ivins has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 14657E Paul Bruce / The Nemesis File Paul Bruce was a tough, idealistic young trooper in the SAS when he was dispatched to Northern Ireland. His squad's top-secret mission, code sign "Nemesis" - to execute unarmed IRA suspects in cold blood. Bruce and his squad shot down one... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 59768H Horace Greasley / Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10369E Wherever You Are: The Military Wives From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their story moved millions.Here the wives tell their individual stories in full for the first time - true... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4129H,rR6979H Julia Boyd / Travellers in the Third Reich THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLERWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11141H Richard Pipes / Russia Under the Old Regime This study analyzes the evolution of the Russian state from the 9th century to the 1880s, and its unique role in managing Russian society. The development of Russia was different from that of the rest of Europe. The natural poverty of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2005H Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan / The Glitter and the Gold Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67208H Michael White / Isaac Newton : The Last Sorcerer A new biography of Isaac Newton that reveals the extraordinary influence that the study of alchemy had on the greatest Early Modern scientific discoveries. In this `ground breaking biography' Michael White destroys the myths of the life of Isaac... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: X95481H Michael Lillis / The Lives of Eliza Lynch (Hardback) Her notorious reputation was invented by Paraguay's enemies in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay (who wiped out over ninety per cent of the male population of Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70), and by Paraguay's tiny Spanish elite... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6520H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin 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: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: rR6064H Paul OBrien / Shadow Warriors In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades that followed, its soldiers have been deployed on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5565H Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know (Hardback) 'There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page' Guardian'A father . . . is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses____________________________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93832H H. Norman Schwarzkopf / It Doesn't Take A Hero (Hardback) In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank... 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: 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 Quick view 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2639H Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback) A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X93626H Elizabeth Grant / A Highland Lady in France (Large Paperback) The early life of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, recorded in her "Memoirs of a Highland Lady", has had an avid readership since the book's first publication in 1898. Less well known, but equally interesting, is this journal describing the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7733H David McCullagh / The Reluctant Taoiseach : A Biography of John A. Costello (Hardback) John A. Costello remains the most elusive of our former Taoisigh, despite his enormous contribution to Irish history. He declared the Republic, led the country's first ever coalition government, and faced the Mother and Child Crisis. A surprise... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8600H Mary McAleese / Here's the Story : A Memoir (Hardback) The groundbreaking two-term President of Ireland tells the stories of her lifeWhen a young Mary McAleese told a priest that she planned to become a lawyer, the priest dismissed the idea: she knew no one in the law, and she was female. The reality... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10583M Bryan Sykes / The Seven Daughters Of Eve In 1994 Professor Brian Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of the discovery of the Ice Man and his age, which was put at... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54461H Michael Moore / Will They Ever Trust Us Again? : Letters from the War Zone Will They Ever Trust Us Again? brings together hundreds of the letters that sent to Michael Moore - author of the international bestseller Stupid White Men - to show the reality beneath the propaganda.He's sparked a furore and turned up the heat by... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12040H Catherine Merridale / Ivan's War 'Essential reading, not just for those interested in the Eastern Front, but for anyone who wants to understand Russia.' Antony Beevor, Sunday TimesThey died in their millions, shattered by German shells and tanks, freezing behind the wire of prison... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72003H Tom Abraham / The Cage Tom 'Bud' Abraham was one of the very few Englishmen to serve in Vietnam. As an officer in the 1st Cavalry Division during 1967/8, he saw combat in some of the fiercest encounters of the war. His gallantry earned him a chestful of medals, including... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107435c Molly Ivins / Shrub When it comes to reporting on politics, nobody does it smarter or funnier than bestselling author Molly Ivins. In Shrub, Ivins focuses her Texas-size smarts on the biggest politician in her home state: George Walker Bush, or "Shrub," as Ivins has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 14657E Paul Bruce / The Nemesis File Paul Bruce was a tough, idealistic young trooper in the SAS when he was dispatched to Northern Ireland. His squad's top-secret mission, code sign "Nemesis" - to execute unarmed IRA suspects in cold blood. Bruce and his squad shot down one... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 59768H Horace Greasley / Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10369E Wherever You Are: The Military Wives From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their story moved millions.Here the wives tell their individual stories in full for the first time - true... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4129H,rR6979H Julia Boyd / Travellers in the Third Reich THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLERWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11141H Richard Pipes / Russia Under the Old Regime This study analyzes the evolution of the Russian state from the 9th century to the 1880s, and its unique role in managing Russian society. The development of Russia was different from that of the rest of Europe. The natural poverty of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2005H Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan / The Glitter and the Gold Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67208H Michael White / Isaac Newton : The Last Sorcerer A new biography of Isaac Newton that reveals the extraordinary influence that the study of alchemy had on the greatest Early Modern scientific discoveries. In this `ground breaking biography' Michael White destroys the myths of the life of Isaac... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: X95481H Michael Lillis / The Lives of Eliza Lynch (Hardback) Her notorious reputation was invented by Paraguay's enemies in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay (who wiped out over ninety per cent of the male population of Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70), and by Paraguay's tiny Spanish elite... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6520H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin 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: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: rR6064H Paul OBrien / Shadow Warriors In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades that followed, its soldiers have been deployed on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5565H Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know (Hardback) 'There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page' Guardian'A father . . . is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses____________________________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93832H H. Norman Schwarzkopf / It Doesn't Take A Hero (Hardback) In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank... 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: 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 Quick view 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2639H Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback) A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW7733H David McCullagh / The Reluctant Taoiseach : A Biography of John A. Costello (Hardback) John A. Costello remains the most elusive of our former Taoisigh, despite his enormous contribution to Irish history. He declared the Republic, led the country's first ever coalition government, and faced the Mother and Child Crisis. A surprise... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8600H Mary McAleese / Here's the Story : A Memoir (Hardback) The groundbreaking two-term President of Ireland tells the stories of her lifeWhen a young Mary McAleese told a priest that she planned to become a lawyer, the priest dismissed the idea: she knew no one in the law, and she was female. The reality... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10583M Bryan Sykes / The Seven Daughters Of Eve In 1994 Professor Brian Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of the discovery of the Ice Man and his age, which was put at... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 54461H Michael Moore / Will They Ever Trust Us Again? : Letters from the War Zone Will They Ever Trust Us Again? brings together hundreds of the letters that sent to Michael Moore - author of the international bestseller Stupid White Men - to show the reality beneath the propaganda.He's sparked a furore and turned up the heat by... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12040H Catherine Merridale / Ivan's War 'Essential reading, not just for those interested in the Eastern Front, but for anyone who wants to understand Russia.' Antony Beevor, Sunday TimesThey died in their millions, shattered by German shells and tanks, freezing behind the wire of prison... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72003H Tom Abraham / The Cage Tom 'Bud' Abraham was one of the very few Englishmen to serve in Vietnam. As an officer in the 1st Cavalry Division during 1967/8, he saw combat in some of the fiercest encounters of the war. His gallantry earned him a chestful of medals, including... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107435c Molly Ivins / Shrub When it comes to reporting on politics, nobody does it smarter or funnier than bestselling author Molly Ivins. In Shrub, Ivins focuses her Texas-size smarts on the biggest politician in her home state: George Walker Bush, or "Shrub," as Ivins has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 14657E Paul Bruce / The Nemesis File Paul Bruce was a tough, idealistic young trooper in the SAS when he was dispatched to Northern Ireland. His squad's top-secret mission, code sign "Nemesis" - to execute unarmed IRA suspects in cold blood. Bruce and his squad shot down one... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 59768H Horace Greasley / Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10369E Wherever You Are: The Military Wives From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their story moved millions.Here the wives tell their individual stories in full for the first time - true... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4129H,rR6979H Julia Boyd / Travellers in the Third Reich THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLERWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11141H Richard Pipes / Russia Under the Old Regime This study analyzes the evolution of the Russian state from the 9th century to the 1880s, and its unique role in managing Russian society. The development of Russia was different from that of the rest of Europe. The natural poverty of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2005H Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan / The Glitter and the Gold Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67208H Michael White / Isaac Newton : The Last Sorcerer A new biography of Isaac Newton that reveals the extraordinary influence that the study of alchemy had on the greatest Early Modern scientific discoveries. In this `ground breaking biography' Michael White destroys the myths of the life of Isaac... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: X95481H Michael Lillis / The Lives of Eliza Lynch (Hardback) Her notorious reputation was invented by Paraguay's enemies in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay (who wiped out over ninety per cent of the male population of Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70), and by Paraguay's tiny Spanish elite... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6520H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin 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: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: rR6064H Paul OBrien / Shadow Warriors In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades that followed, its soldiers have been deployed on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5565H Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know (Hardback) 'There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page' Guardian'A father . . . is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses____________________________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93832H H. Norman Schwarzkopf / It Doesn't Take A Hero (Hardback) In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank... 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: 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 Quick view 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2639H Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback) A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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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Quick view sku: wW8600H Mary McAleese / Here's the Story : A Memoir (Hardback) The groundbreaking two-term President of Ireland tells the stories of her lifeWhen a young Mary McAleese told a priest that she planned to become a lawyer, the priest dismissed the idea: she knew no one in the law, and she was female. The reality... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10583M Bryan Sykes / The Seven Daughters Of Eve In 1994 Professor Brian Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of the discovery of the Ice Man and his age, which was put at... 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As an officer in the 1st Cavalry Division during 1967/8, he saw combat in some of the fiercest encounters of the war. His gallantry earned him a chestful of medals, including... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107435c Molly Ivins / Shrub When it comes to reporting on politics, nobody does it smarter or funnier than bestselling author Molly Ivins. In Shrub, Ivins focuses her Texas-size smarts on the biggest politician in her home state: George Walker Bush, or "Shrub," as Ivins has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 14657E Paul Bruce / The Nemesis File Paul Bruce was a tough, idealistic young trooper in the SAS when he was dispatched to Northern Ireland. His squad's top-secret mission, code sign "Nemesis" - to execute unarmed IRA suspects in cold blood. Bruce and his squad shot down one... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 59768H Horace Greasley / Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10369E Wherever You Are: The Military Wives From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their story moved millions.Here the wives tell their individual stories in full for the first time - true... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4129H,rR6979H Julia Boyd / Travellers in the Third Reich THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLERWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11141H Richard Pipes / Russia Under the Old Regime This study analyzes the evolution of the Russian state from the 9th century to the 1880s, and its unique role in managing Russian society. The development of Russia was different from that of the rest of Europe. The natural poverty of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2005H Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan / The Glitter and the Gold Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67208H Michael White / Isaac Newton : The Last Sorcerer A new biography of Isaac Newton that reveals the extraordinary influence that the study of alchemy had on the greatest Early Modern scientific discoveries. In this `ground breaking biography' Michael White destroys the myths of the life of Isaac... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: X95481H Michael Lillis / The Lives of Eliza Lynch (Hardback) Her notorious reputation was invented by Paraguay's enemies in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay (who wiped out over ninety per cent of the male population of Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70), and by Paraguay's tiny Spanish elite... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6520H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin 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: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: rR6064H Paul OBrien / Shadow Warriors In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades that followed, its soldiers have been deployed on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5565H Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know (Hardback) 'There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page' Guardian'A father . . . is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses____________________________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93832H H. Norman Schwarzkopf / It Doesn't Take A Hero (Hardback) In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank... 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: 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 Quick view 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2639H Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback) A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view sku: 10583M Bryan Sykes / The Seven Daughters Of Eve In 1994 Professor Brian Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of the discovery of the Ice Man and his age, which was put at... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view sku: rR12040H Catherine Merridale / Ivan's War 'Essential reading, not just for those interested in the Eastern Front, but for anyone who wants to understand Russia.' Antony Beevor, Sunday TimesThey died in their millions, shattered by German shells and tanks, freezing behind the wire of prison... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72003H Tom Abraham / The Cage Tom 'Bud' Abraham was one of the very few Englishmen to serve in Vietnam. As an officer in the 1st Cavalry Division during 1967/8, he saw combat in some of the fiercest encounters of the war. His gallantry earned him a chestful of medals, including... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 107435c Molly Ivins / Shrub When it comes to reporting on politics, nobody does it smarter or funnier than bestselling author Molly Ivins. In Shrub, Ivins focuses her Texas-size smarts on the biggest politician in her home state: George Walker Bush, or "Shrub," as Ivins has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 14657E Paul Bruce / The Nemesis File Paul Bruce was a tough, idealistic young trooper in the SAS when he was dispatched to Northern Ireland. His squad's top-secret mission, code sign "Nemesis" - to execute unarmed IRA suspects in cold blood. Bruce and his squad shot down one... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 59768H Horace Greasley / Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10369E Wherever You Are: The Military Wives From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their story moved millions.Here the wives tell their individual stories in full for the first time - true... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4129H,rR6979H Julia Boyd / Travellers in the Third Reich THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLERWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11141H Richard Pipes / Russia Under the Old Regime This study analyzes the evolution of the Russian state from the 9th century to the 1880s, and its unique role in managing Russian society. The development of Russia was different from that of the rest of Europe. The natural poverty of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2005H Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan / The Glitter and the Gold Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67208H Michael White / Isaac Newton : The Last Sorcerer A new biography of Isaac Newton that reveals the extraordinary influence that the study of alchemy had on the greatest Early Modern scientific discoveries. In this `ground breaking biography' Michael White destroys the myths of the life of Isaac... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: X95481H Michael Lillis / The Lives of Eliza Lynch (Hardback) Her notorious reputation was invented by Paraguay's enemies in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay (who wiped out over ninety per cent of the male population of Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70), and by Paraguay's tiny Spanish elite... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6520H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin 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: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: rR6064H Paul OBrien / Shadow Warriors In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades that followed, its soldiers have been deployed on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5565H Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know (Hardback) 'There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page' Guardian'A father . . . is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses____________________________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93832H H. Norman Schwarzkopf / It Doesn't Take A Hero (Hardback) In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank... 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: 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 Quick view 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2639H Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback) A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. 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Quick view sku: 107435c Molly Ivins / Shrub When it comes to reporting on politics, nobody does it smarter or funnier than bestselling author Molly Ivins. In Shrub, Ivins focuses her Texas-size smarts on the biggest politician in her home state: George Walker Bush, or "Shrub," as Ivins has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 14657E Paul Bruce / The Nemesis File Paul Bruce was a tough, idealistic young trooper in the SAS when he was dispatched to Northern Ireland. His squad's top-secret mission, code sign "Nemesis" - to execute unarmed IRA suspects in cold blood. Bruce and his squad shot down one... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 59768H Horace Greasley / Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 10369E Wherever You Are: The Military Wives From the moment the Military Wives sang together on BBC Two's The Choir, their lives changed forever. Their journey entranced the nation, and their story moved millions.Here the wives tell their individual stories in full for the first time - true... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR4129H,rR6979H Julia Boyd / Travellers in the Third Reich THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLERWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11141H Richard Pipes / Russia Under the Old Regime This study analyzes the evolution of the Russian state from the 9th century to the 1880s, and its unique role in managing Russian society. The development of Russia was different from that of the rest of Europe. The natural poverty of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2005H Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan / The Glitter and the Gold Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67208H Michael White / Isaac Newton : The Last Sorcerer A new biography of Isaac Newton that reveals the extraordinary influence that the study of alchemy had on the greatest Early Modern scientific discoveries. In this `ground breaking biography' Michael White destroys the myths of the life of Isaac... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6520H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin 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: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: rR6064H Paul OBrien / Shadow Warriors In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades that followed, its soldiers have been deployed on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5565H Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know (Hardback) 'There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page' Guardian'A father . . . is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses____________________________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93832H H. Norman Schwarzkopf / It Doesn't Take A Hero (Hardback) In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank... 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: 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 Quick view 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2639H Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback) A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: rR4129H,rR6979H Julia Boyd / Travellers in the Third Reich THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLERWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11141H Richard Pipes / Russia Under the Old Regime This study analyzes the evolution of the Russian state from the 9th century to the 1880s, and its unique role in managing Russian society. The development of Russia was different from that of the rest of Europe. The natural poverty of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2005H Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan / The Glitter and the Gold Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67208H Michael White / Isaac Newton : The Last Sorcerer A new biography of Isaac Newton that reveals the extraordinary influence that the study of alchemy had on the greatest Early Modern scientific discoveries. In this `ground breaking biography' Michael White destroys the myths of the life of Isaac... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: X95481H Michael Lillis / The Lives of Eliza Lynch (Hardback) Her notorious reputation was invented by Paraguay's enemies in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay (who wiped out over ninety per cent of the male population of Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70), and by Paraguay's tiny Spanish elite... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6520H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin 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: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: rR6064H Paul OBrien / Shadow Warriors In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades that followed, its soldiers have been deployed on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5565H Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know (Hardback) 'There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page' Guardian'A father . . . is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses____________________________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93832H H. Norman Schwarzkopf / It Doesn't Take A Hero (Hardback) In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank... 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: 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 Quick view 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2639H Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback) A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR11141H Richard Pipes / Russia Under the Old Regime This study analyzes the evolution of the Russian state from the 9th century to the 1880s, and its unique role in managing Russian society. The development of Russia was different from that of the rest of Europe. The natural poverty of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR2005H Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan / The Glitter and the Gold Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67208H Michael White / Isaac Newton : The Last Sorcerer A new biography of Isaac Newton that reveals the extraordinary influence that the study of alchemy had on the greatest Early Modern scientific discoveries. In this `ground breaking biography' Michael White destroys the myths of the life of Isaac... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: X95481H Michael Lillis / The Lives of Eliza Lynch (Hardback) Her notorious reputation was invented by Paraguay's enemies in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay (who wiped out over ninety per cent of the male population of Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70), and by Paraguay's tiny Spanish elite... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6520H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin 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: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: rR6064H Paul OBrien / Shadow Warriors In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades that followed, its soldiers have been deployed on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5565H Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know (Hardback) 'There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page' Guardian'A father . . . is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses____________________________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93832H H. Norman Schwarzkopf / It Doesn't Take A Hero (Hardback) In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank... 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: 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 Quick view 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2639H Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback) A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR2005H Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan / The Glitter and the Gold Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67208H Michael White / Isaac Newton : The Last Sorcerer A new biography of Isaac Newton that reveals the extraordinary influence that the study of alchemy had on the greatest Early Modern scientific discoveries. In this `ground breaking biography' Michael White destroys the myths of the life of Isaac... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: X95481H Michael Lillis / The Lives of Eliza Lynch (Hardback) Her notorious reputation was invented by Paraguay's enemies in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay (who wiped out over ninety per cent of the male population of Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70), and by Paraguay's tiny Spanish elite... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6520H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin 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: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: rR6064H Paul OBrien / Shadow Warriors In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades that followed, its soldiers have been deployed on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5565H Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know (Hardback) 'There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page' Guardian'A father . . . is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses____________________________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93832H H. Norman Schwarzkopf / It Doesn't Take A Hero (Hardback) In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank... 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: 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 Quick view 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2639H Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback) A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view sku: 67208H Michael White / Isaac Newton : The Last Sorcerer A new biography of Isaac Newton that reveals the extraordinary influence that the study of alchemy had on the greatest Early Modern scientific discoveries. In this `ground breaking biography' Michael White destroys the myths of the life of Isaac... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: X95481H Michael Lillis / The Lives of Eliza Lynch (Hardback) Her notorious reputation was invented by Paraguay's enemies in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay (who wiped out over ninety per cent of the male population of Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70), and by Paraguay's tiny Spanish elite... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6520H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin 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: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: rR6064H Paul OBrien / Shadow Warriors In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades that followed, its soldiers have been deployed on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5565H Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know (Hardback) 'There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page' Guardian'A father . . . is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses____________________________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93832H H. Norman Schwarzkopf / It Doesn't Take A Hero (Hardback) In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank... 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: 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 Quick view 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2639H Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback) A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X95481H Michael Lillis / The Lives of Eliza Lynch (Hardback) Her notorious reputation was invented by Paraguay's enemies in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay (who wiped out over ninety per cent of the male population of Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70), and by Paraguay's tiny Spanish elite... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6520H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin 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: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: rR6064H Paul OBrien / Shadow Warriors In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades that followed, its soldiers have been deployed on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5565H Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know (Hardback) 'There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page' Guardian'A father . . . is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses____________________________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93832H H. Norman Schwarzkopf / It Doesn't Take A Hero (Hardback) In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank... 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: 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 Quick view 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2639H Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback) A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR6520H Anita Anand / The Patient Assassin 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: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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: rR6064H Paul OBrien / Shadow Warriors In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades that followed, its soldiers have been deployed on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5565H Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know (Hardback) 'There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page' Guardian'A father . . . is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses____________________________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93832H H. Norman Schwarzkopf / It Doesn't Take A Hero (Hardback) In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank... 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: 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 Quick view 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2639H Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback) A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
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MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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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Quick view sku: rR6064H Paul OBrien / Shadow Warriors In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades that followed, its soldiers have been deployed on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5565H Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know (Hardback) 'There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page' Guardian'A father . . . is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses____________________________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93832H H. Norman Schwarzkopf / It Doesn't Take A Hero (Hardback) In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. 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Journalists Philip Ryan and Niall O'Connor tell the inside story of how the son of an Indian immigrant battled... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2639H Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback) A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW5565H Colm Toibin / Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know (Hardback) 'There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page' Guardian'A father . . . is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses____________________________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X93832H H. Norman Schwarzkopf / It Doesn't Take A Hero (Hardback) In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank... 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: 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 Quick view 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2639H Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback) A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X93832H H. Norman Schwarzkopf / It Doesn't Take A Hero (Hardback) In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank... 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: 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 Quick view 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2639H Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback) A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... 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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: 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 Quick view 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. 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 Quick view 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2639H Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback) A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2639H Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback) A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW2639H Robert Fisk / The Age of the Warrior (Large Paperback) A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday 'Independent'. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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? 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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 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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. 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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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing 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 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED2971 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: €15.00 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. 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SALE Quick view sku: 68642H Edmund De Waal / The White Road ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: rR12013H Martin Sixsmith / Russia - a 1000 year Chronicle of the Wild East Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex identity has been formed over a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 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 SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view sku: 69045H Michael Viney / A Year's Turning For 20 years the author has lived on a remote farm in County Mayo. This is an account of a 12-month cycle of the land. The text includes the arrival of the whales and dolphins at the beginning of the year and tales of duck keeping and mussel... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: 87333H T. Ryle Dwyer / Forty Years of Controversy Charles J. Haughey, over the last five decades, has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: the Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane... 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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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 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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X80165H 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X91888H Giles Tremlett / Catherine of Aragon (Hardback) The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents,... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90686H 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: €3.50 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 sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: X96829H Paul Howard / I Read the News Today, Oh Boy (Large Paperback) Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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