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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8762 Anna Kinsella - County Wexford in the Famine Years - 1845-1849 - PB - 1995 Published 1995, a medium format paperback , no ISBN, moderate age spotting to the page block, but no other marks, binding tight, light scuffing to covers. Illustrated. Anna Kinsella also wrote The Windswept Shore - a History of Courtown, as well as... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1325 T.J Barrington - Discovering Kerry - It's History, Heritage and Topography - HB - Illustrated - 1st Edition 1976 Discovering Kerry self published by T.J Barrington . 'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best endowed, scenically and culturally, of Irish... 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8762 Anna Kinsella - County Wexford in the Famine Years - 1845-1849 - PB - 1995 Published 1995, a medium format paperback , no ISBN, moderate age spotting to the page block, but no other marks, binding tight, light scuffing to covers. Illustrated. Anna Kinsella also wrote The Windswept Shore - a History of Courtown, as well as... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1325 T.J Barrington - Discovering Kerry - It's History, Heritage and Topography - HB - Illustrated - 1st Edition 1976 Discovering Kerry self published by T.J Barrington . 'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best endowed, scenically and culturally, of Irish... 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MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31342H Derek Tait / 1950s Childhood With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69069H Robert Baer / See No Evil See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of... 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MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33247H Eva Schloss / After Auschwitz Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her.When Auschwitz was... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28867H John Lukacs / The Hitler of History (Large Paperback) Since 1945 there have been over a hundred biographies of Hitler. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Does Hitler emerge as a mythic anti-hero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8762 Anna Kinsella - County Wexford in the Famine Years - 1845-1849 - PB - 1995 Published 1995, a medium format paperback , no ISBN, moderate age spotting to the page block, but no other marks, binding tight, light scuffing to covers. Illustrated. Anna Kinsella also wrote The Windswept Shore - a History of Courtown, as well as... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1325 T.J Barrington - Discovering Kerry - It's History, Heritage and Topography - HB - Illustrated - 1st Edition 1976 Discovering Kerry self published by T.J Barrington . 'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best endowed, scenically and culturally, of Irish... 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8762 Anna Kinsella - County Wexford in the Famine Years - 1845-1849 - PB - 1995 Published 1995, a medium format paperback , no ISBN, moderate age spotting to the page block, but no other marks, binding tight, light scuffing to covers. Illustrated. Anna Kinsella also wrote The Windswept Shore - a History of Courtown, as well as... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1325 T.J Barrington - Discovering Kerry - It's History, Heritage and Topography - HB - Illustrated - 1st Edition 1976 Discovering Kerry self published by T.J Barrington . 'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best endowed, scenically and culturally, of Irish... 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Quick view sku: rR51002H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR21609H Ed Husain / The Islamist Ed Husain's The Islamist is the shocking inside story of British Islamic fundamentalism, told by a former radical.'When I was sixteen I became an Islamic fundamentalist. Five years later, after much emotional turmoil, I rejected fundamentalist... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR60067H Frank McLynn / Marcus Aurelius Marcus Aurelius is the one great figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today, nearly 2,000 years after his death. A philosopher as well as an emperor, his was an extraordinary reign. He proved himself a great leader, protecting the Empire... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27258H Tosh Lavery / Tosh (Large Paperback) 'An extraordinary book ... a remarkable story' Mark Cagney, TV3'A fascinating book' Matt Cooper, Today FM'Quite a read ... fascinating ... a book that people who don't normally read books would find very readable' Sean O'Rourke, RTE'The classic... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43521H,wW43601H 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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31342H Derek Tait / 1950s Childhood With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. 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The names of the great dynasties are familiar, yet who can actually locate a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32764H Frank Dikotter / Dictators A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMANMussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39087H 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: £3.53 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33247H Eva Schloss / After Auschwitz Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her.When Auschwitz was... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28867H John Lukacs / The Hitler of History (Large Paperback) Since 1945 there have been over a hundred biographies of Hitler. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Does Hitler emerge as a mythic anti-hero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8762 Anna Kinsella - County Wexford in the Famine Years - 1845-1849 - PB - 1995 Published 1995, a medium format paperback , no ISBN, moderate age spotting to the page block, but no other marks, binding tight, light scuffing to covers. Illustrated. Anna Kinsella also wrote The Windswept Shore - a History of Courtown, as well as... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1325 T.J Barrington - Discovering Kerry - It's History, Heritage and Topography - HB - Illustrated - 1st Edition 1976 Discovering Kerry self published by T.J Barrington . 'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best endowed, scenically and culturally, of Irish... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58677H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37641H Alan Sked / Post-War Britain This book brings into focus the major figures of the political scene - Churchill, Eden, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher and Major - and the aims and achievements of the post-war governments, as well as the changing fortunes of Britain in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51625H Peter Robb / Midnight in Sicily A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32672H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Titans of History Our world has been shaped by just a few people.These giants include kings, whores, poets, conquerors, empresses, composers, explorers and psychopaths.This is the history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying and inspiring... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW33519H 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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6788 Paul Rouse -The Hurlers - The First All-Ireland Championship and the making of Modern Hurling - HB - 2018 In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would have been absurd to imagine that, within five years, an... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR21609H Ed Husain / The Islamist Ed Husain's The Islamist is the shocking inside story of British Islamic fundamentalism, told by a former radical.'When I was sixteen I became an Islamic fundamentalist. Five years later, after much emotional turmoil, I rejected fundamentalist... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR60067H Frank McLynn / Marcus Aurelius Marcus Aurelius is the one great figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today, nearly 2,000 years after his death. A philosopher as well as an emperor, his was an extraordinary reign. He proved himself a great leader, protecting the Empire... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30774H Neil MacGregor / A History of the World in 100 Objects Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them.Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, A History of the World in 100... 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His position was so secret that most of his family were unaware of it until after his death. All of our books are... MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31342H Derek Tait / 1950s Childhood With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69069H Robert Baer / See No Evil See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39087H 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: £3.53 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33247H Eva Schloss / After Auschwitz Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her.When Auschwitz was... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28867H John Lukacs / The Hitler of History (Large Paperback) Since 1945 there have been over a hundred biographies of Hitler. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Does Hitler emerge as a mythic anti-hero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8762 Anna Kinsella - County Wexford in the Famine Years - 1845-1849 - PB - 1995 Published 1995, a medium format paperback , no ISBN, moderate age spotting to the page block, but no other marks, binding tight, light scuffing to covers. Illustrated. Anna Kinsella also wrote The Windswept Shore - a History of Courtown, as well as... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1325 T.J Barrington - Discovering Kerry - It's History, Heritage and Topography - HB - Illustrated - 1st Edition 1976 Discovering Kerry self published by T.J Barrington . 'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best endowed, scenically and culturally, of Irish... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58677H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37641H Alan Sked / Post-War Britain This book brings into focus the major figures of the political scene - Churchill, Eden, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher and Major - and the aims and achievements of the post-war governments, as well as the changing fortunes of Britain in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51625H Peter Robb / Midnight in Sicily A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43839H Christopher Catherwood / A Brief History of The Middle East Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51287H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. 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Quick view sku: rR60067H Frank McLynn / Marcus Aurelius Marcus Aurelius is the one great figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today, nearly 2,000 years after his death. A philosopher as well as an emperor, his was an extraordinary reign. He proved himself a great leader, protecting the Empire... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30774H Neil MacGregor / A History of the World in 100 Objects Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them.Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, A History of the World in 100... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30659H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists. In which case I am in with a chance.' Chris MullinChris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years, and despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention, for... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27258H Tosh Lavery / Tosh (Large Paperback) 'An extraordinary book ... a remarkable story' Mark Cagney, TV3'A fascinating book' Matt Cooper, Today FM'Quite a read ... fascinating ... a book that people who don't normally read books would find very readable' Sean O'Rourke, RTE'The classic... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43521H,wW43601H 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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31342H Derek Tait / 1950s Childhood With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69069H Robert Baer / See No Evil See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39087H 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: £3.53 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33247H Eva Schloss / After Auschwitz Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her.When Auschwitz was... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28867H John Lukacs / The Hitler of History (Large Paperback) Since 1945 there have been over a hundred biographies of Hitler. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Does Hitler emerge as a mythic anti-hero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8762 Anna Kinsella - County Wexford in the Famine Years - 1845-1849 - PB - 1995 Published 1995, a medium format paperback , no ISBN, moderate age spotting to the page block, but no other marks, binding tight, light scuffing to covers. Illustrated. Anna Kinsella also wrote The Windswept Shore - a History of Courtown, as well as... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1325 T.J Barrington - Discovering Kerry - It's History, Heritage and Topography - HB - Illustrated - 1st Edition 1976 Discovering Kerry self published by T.J Barrington . 'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best endowed, scenically and culturally, of Irish... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58677H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37641H Alan Sked / Post-War Britain This book brings into focus the major figures of the political scene - Churchill, Eden, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher and Major - and the aims and achievements of the post-war governments, as well as the changing fortunes of Britain in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51625H Peter Robb / Midnight in Sicily A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43839H Christopher Catherwood / A Brief History of The Middle East Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51287H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32672H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Titans of History Our world has been shaped by just a few people.These giants include kings, whores, poets, conquerors, empresses, composers, explorers and psychopaths.This is the history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying and inspiring... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW33519H 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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Quick view sku: rR30774H Neil MacGregor / A History of the World in 100 Objects Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them.Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, A History of the World in 100... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30659H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists. In which case I am in with a chance.' Chris MullinChris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years, and despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention, for... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27258H Tosh Lavery / Tosh (Large Paperback) 'An extraordinary book ... a remarkable story' Mark Cagney, TV3'A fascinating book' Matt Cooper, Today FM'Quite a read ... fascinating ... a book that people who don't normally read books would find very readable' Sean O'Rourke, RTE'The classic... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43521H,wW43601H 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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31342H Derek Tait / 1950s Childhood With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69069H Robert Baer / See No Evil See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45770H Bamber Gascoigne / Dynasties of China Although China's great empire lasted for longer than any other, no country has suffered so great an imbalance between the fame of its art and obscurity of its history. The names of the great dynasties are familiar, yet who can actually locate a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32764H Frank Dikotter / Dictators A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMANMussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39087H 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: £3.53 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33247H Eva Schloss / After Auschwitz Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her.When Auschwitz was... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28867H John Lukacs / The Hitler of History (Large Paperback) Since 1945 there have been over a hundred biographies of Hitler. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Does Hitler emerge as a mythic anti-hero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8762 Anna Kinsella - County Wexford in the Famine Years - 1845-1849 - PB - 1995 Published 1995, a medium format paperback , no ISBN, moderate age spotting to the page block, but no other marks, binding tight, light scuffing to covers. Illustrated. Anna Kinsella also wrote The Windswept Shore - a History of Courtown, as well as... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1325 T.J Barrington - Discovering Kerry - It's History, Heritage and Topography - HB - Illustrated - 1st Edition 1976 Discovering Kerry self published by T.J Barrington . 'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best endowed, scenically and culturally, of Irish... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58677H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37641H Alan Sked / Post-War Britain This book brings into focus the major figures of the political scene - Churchill, Eden, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher and Major - and the aims and achievements of the post-war governments, as well as the changing fortunes of Britain in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51625H Peter Robb / Midnight in Sicily A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43839H Christopher Catherwood / A Brief History of The Middle East Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51287H 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: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52011H,rR53742H Andrew Lambert / Admirals The true story of how Britain's maritime power helped gain this country unparalleled dominance of the world's economy, Admirals celebrates the rare talents of the men who shaped the most successful fighting force in world history. Told through... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32672H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Titans of History Our world has been shaped by just a few people.These giants include kings, whores, poets, conquerors, empresses, composers, explorers and psychopaths.This is the history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying and inspiring... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW33519H 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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6788 Paul Rouse -The Hurlers - The First All-Ireland Championship and the making of Modern Hurling - HB - 2018 In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would have been absurd to imagine that, within five years, an... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR30659H Chris Mullin / A View From The Foothills It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists. In which case I am in with a chance.' Chris MullinChris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years, and despite his refusal to toe the party line - on issues like 90 days detention, for... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27258H Tosh Lavery / Tosh (Large Paperback) 'An extraordinary book ... a remarkable story' Mark Cagney, TV3'A fascinating book' Matt Cooper, Today FM'Quite a read ... fascinating ... a book that people who don't normally read books would find very readable' Sean O'Rourke, RTE'The classic... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43521H,wW43601H 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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31342H Derek Tait / 1950s Childhood With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69069H Robert Baer / See No Evil See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45770H Bamber Gascoigne / Dynasties of China Although China's great empire lasted for longer than any other, no country has suffered so great an imbalance between the fame of its art and obscurity of its history. The names of the great dynasties are familiar, yet who can actually locate a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32764H Frank Dikotter / Dictators A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMANMussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39087H 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: £3.53 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33247H Eva Schloss / After Auschwitz Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her.When Auschwitz was... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28867H John Lukacs / The Hitler of History (Large Paperback) Since 1945 there have been over a hundred biographies of Hitler. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Does Hitler emerge as a mythic anti-hero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8762 Anna Kinsella - County Wexford in the Famine Years - 1845-1849 - PB - 1995 Published 1995, a medium format paperback , no ISBN, moderate age spotting to the page block, but no other marks, binding tight, light scuffing to covers. Illustrated. Anna Kinsella also wrote The Windswept Shore - a History of Courtown, as well as... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1325 T.J Barrington - Discovering Kerry - It's History, Heritage and Topography - HB - Illustrated - 1st Edition 1976 Discovering Kerry self published by T.J Barrington . 'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best endowed, scenically and culturally, of Irish... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58677H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37641H Alan Sked / Post-War Britain This book brings into focus the major figures of the political scene - Churchill, Eden, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher and Major - and the aims and achievements of the post-war governments, as well as the changing fortunes of Britain in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51625H Peter Robb / Midnight in Sicily A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister... 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Quick view sku: wW27258H Tosh Lavery / Tosh (Large Paperback) 'An extraordinary book ... a remarkable story' Mark Cagney, TV3'A fascinating book' Matt Cooper, Today FM'Quite a read ... fascinating ... a book that people who don't normally read books would find very readable' Sean O'Rourke, RTE'The classic... MSRP: Now: £3.53 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW43521H,wW43601H 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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31342H Derek Tait / 1950s Childhood With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69069H Robert Baer / See No Evil See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45770H Bamber Gascoigne / Dynasties of China Although China's great empire lasted for longer than any other, no country has suffered so great an imbalance between the fame of its art and obscurity of its history. The names of the great dynasties are familiar, yet who can actually locate a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32764H Frank Dikotter / Dictators A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMANMussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39087H 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: £3.53 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33247H Eva Schloss / After Auschwitz Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her.When Auschwitz was... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28867H John Lukacs / The Hitler of History (Large Paperback) Since 1945 there have been over a hundred biographies of Hitler. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Does Hitler emerge as a mythic anti-hero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8762 Anna Kinsella - County Wexford in the Famine Years - 1845-1849 - PB - 1995 Published 1995, a medium format paperback , no ISBN, moderate age spotting to the page block, but no other marks, binding tight, light scuffing to covers. Illustrated. Anna Kinsella also wrote The Windswept Shore - a History of Courtown, as well as... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1325 T.J Barrington - Discovering Kerry - It's History, Heritage and Topography - HB - Illustrated - 1st Edition 1976 Discovering Kerry self published by T.J Barrington . 'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best endowed, scenically and culturally, of Irish... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58677H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37641H Alan Sked / Post-War Britain This book brings into focus the major figures of the political scene - Churchill, Eden, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher and Major - and the aims and achievements of the post-war governments, as well as the changing fortunes of Britain in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51625H Peter Robb / Midnight in Sicily A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43839H Christopher Catherwood / A Brief History of The Middle East Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51287H 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: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52011H,rR53742H Andrew Lambert / Admirals The true story of how Britain's maritime power helped gain this country unparalleled dominance of the world's economy, Admirals celebrates the rare talents of the men who shaped the most successful fighting force in world history. Told through... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32672H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Titans of History Our world has been shaped by just a few people.These giants include kings, whores, poets, conquerors, empresses, composers, explorers and psychopaths.This is the history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying and inspiring... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW33519H 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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6788 Paul Rouse -The Hurlers - The First All-Ireland Championship and the making of Modern Hurling - HB - 2018 In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would have been absurd to imagine that, within five years, an... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view sku: wW43521H,wW43601H 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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: rR31342H Derek Tait / 1950s Childhood With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 69069H Robert Baer / See No Evil See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45770H Bamber Gascoigne / Dynasties of China Although China's great empire lasted for longer than any other, no country has suffered so great an imbalance between the fame of its art and obscurity of its history. The names of the great dynasties are familiar, yet who can actually locate a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32764H Frank Dikotter / Dictators A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMANMussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39087H 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: £3.53 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33247H Eva Schloss / After Auschwitz Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her.When Auschwitz was... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28867H John Lukacs / The Hitler of History (Large Paperback) Since 1945 there have been over a hundred biographies of Hitler. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Does Hitler emerge as a mythic anti-hero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8762 Anna Kinsella - County Wexford in the Famine Years - 1845-1849 - PB - 1995 Published 1995, a medium format paperback , no ISBN, moderate age spotting to the page block, but no other marks, binding tight, light scuffing to covers. Illustrated. Anna Kinsella also wrote The Windswept Shore - a History of Courtown, as well as... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1325 T.J Barrington - Discovering Kerry - It's History, Heritage and Topography - HB - Illustrated - 1st Edition 1976 Discovering Kerry self published by T.J Barrington . 'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best endowed, scenically and culturally, of Irish... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58677H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37641H Alan Sked / Post-War Britain This book brings into focus the major figures of the political scene - Churchill, Eden, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher and Major - and the aims and achievements of the post-war governments, as well as the changing fortunes of Britain in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51625H Peter Robb / Midnight in Sicily A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43839H Christopher Catherwood / A Brief History of The Middle East Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51287H 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: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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... 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Quick view sku: 69069H Robert Baer / See No Evil See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45770H Bamber Gascoigne / Dynasties of China Although China's great empire lasted for longer than any other, no country has suffered so great an imbalance between the fame of its art and obscurity of its history. The names of the great dynasties are familiar, yet who can actually locate a... 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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: £3.53 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33247H Eva Schloss / After Auschwitz Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her.When Auschwitz was... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28867H John Lukacs / The Hitler of History (Large Paperback) Since 1945 there have been over a hundred biographies of Hitler. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Does Hitler emerge as a mythic anti-hero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8762 Anna Kinsella - County Wexford in the Famine Years - 1845-1849 - PB - 1995 Published 1995, a medium format paperback , no ISBN, moderate age spotting to the page block, but no other marks, binding tight, light scuffing to covers. Illustrated. Anna Kinsella also wrote The Windswept Shore - a History of Courtown, as well as... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1325 T.J Barrington - Discovering Kerry - It's History, Heritage and Topography - HB - Illustrated - 1st Edition 1976 Discovering Kerry self published by T.J Barrington . 'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best endowed, scenically and culturally, of Irish... 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MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43839H Christopher Catherwood / A Brief History of The Middle East Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51287H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32672H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Titans of History Our world has been shaped by just a few people.These giants include kings, whores, poets, conquerors, empresses, composers, explorers and psychopaths.This is the history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying and inspiring... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW33519H 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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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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45770H Bamber Gascoigne / Dynasties of China Although China's great empire lasted for longer than any other, no country has suffered so great an imbalance between the fame of its art and obscurity of its history. The names of the great dynasties are familiar, yet who can actually locate a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32764H Frank Dikotter / Dictators A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMANMussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39087H 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: £3.53 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33247H Eva Schloss / After Auschwitz Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her.When Auschwitz was... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28867H John Lukacs / The Hitler of History (Large Paperback) Since 1945 there have been over a hundred biographies of Hitler. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Does Hitler emerge as a mythic anti-hero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8762 Anna Kinsella - County Wexford in the Famine Years - 1845-1849 - PB - 1995 Published 1995, a medium format paperback , no ISBN, moderate age spotting to the page block, but no other marks, binding tight, light scuffing to covers. Illustrated. Anna Kinsella also wrote The Windswept Shore - a History of Courtown, as well as... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1325 T.J Barrington - Discovering Kerry - It's History, Heritage and Topography - HB - Illustrated - 1st Edition 1976 Discovering Kerry self published by T.J Barrington . 'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best endowed, scenically and culturally, of Irish... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58677H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37641H Alan Sked / Post-War Britain This book brings into focus the major figures of the political scene - Churchill, Eden, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher and Major - and the aims and achievements of the post-war governments, as well as the changing fortunes of Britain in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51625H Peter Robb / Midnight in Sicily A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43839H Christopher Catherwood / A Brief History of The Middle East Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51287H 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: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52011H,rR53742H Andrew Lambert / Admirals The true story of how Britain's maritime power helped gain this country unparalleled dominance of the world's economy, Admirals celebrates the rare talents of the men who shaped the most successful fighting force in world history. Told through... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32672H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Titans of History Our world has been shaped by just a few people.These giants include kings, whores, poets, conquerors, empresses, composers, explorers and psychopaths.This is the history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying and inspiring... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW33519H 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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6788 Paul Rouse -The Hurlers - The First All-Ireland Championship and the making of Modern Hurling - HB - 2018 In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would have been absurd to imagine that, within five years, an... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR45770H Bamber Gascoigne / Dynasties of China Although China's great empire lasted for longer than any other, no country has suffered so great an imbalance between the fame of its art and obscurity of its history. The names of the great dynasties are familiar, yet who can actually locate a... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32764H Frank Dikotter / Dictators A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMANMussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu,... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW39087H 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: £3.53 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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33247H Eva Schloss / After Auschwitz Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her.When Auschwitz was... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28867H John Lukacs / The Hitler of History (Large Paperback) Since 1945 there have been over a hundred biographies of Hitler. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Does Hitler emerge as a mythic anti-hero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8762 Anna Kinsella - County Wexford in the Famine Years - 1845-1849 - PB - 1995 Published 1995, a medium format paperback , no ISBN, moderate age spotting to the page block, but no other marks, binding tight, light scuffing to covers. Illustrated. Anna Kinsella also wrote The Windswept Shore - a History of Courtown, as well as... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1325 T.J Barrington - Discovering Kerry - It's History, Heritage and Topography - HB - Illustrated - 1st Edition 1976 Discovering Kerry self published by T.J Barrington . 'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best endowed, scenically and culturally, of Irish... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58677H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37641H Alan Sked / Post-War Britain This book brings into focus the major figures of the political scene - Churchill, Eden, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher and Major - and the aims and achievements of the post-war governments, as well as the changing fortunes of Britain in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51625H Peter Robb / Midnight in Sicily A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43839H Christopher Catherwood / A Brief History of The Middle East Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51287H 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: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... 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'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best endowed, scenically and culturally, of Irish... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58677H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37641H Alan Sked / Post-War Britain This book brings into focus the major figures of the political scene - Churchill, Eden, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher and Major - and the aims and achievements of the post-war governments, as well as the changing fortunes of Britain in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51625H Peter Robb / Midnight in Sicily A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43839H Christopher Catherwood / A Brief History of The Middle East Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51287H 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: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... 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And what is it... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32672H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Titans of History Our world has been shaped by just a few people.These giants include kings, whores, poets, conquerors, empresses, composers, explorers and psychopaths.This is the history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying and inspiring... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW33519H 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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6788 Paul Rouse -The Hurlers - The First All-Ireland Championship and the making of Modern Hurling - HB - 2018 In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would have been absurd to imagine that, within five years, an... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
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: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33247H Eva Schloss / After Auschwitz Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her.When Auschwitz was... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28867H John Lukacs / The Hitler of History (Large Paperback) Since 1945 there have been over a hundred biographies of Hitler. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Does Hitler emerge as a mythic anti-hero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8762 Anna Kinsella - County Wexford in the Famine Years - 1845-1849 - PB - 1995 Published 1995, a medium format paperback , no ISBN, moderate age spotting to the page block, but no other marks, binding tight, light scuffing to covers. Illustrated. Anna Kinsella also wrote The Windswept Shore - a History of Courtown, as well as... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1325 T.J Barrington - Discovering Kerry - It's History, Heritage and Topography - HB - Illustrated - 1st Edition 1976 Discovering Kerry self published by T.J Barrington . 'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best endowed, scenically and culturally, of Irish... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58677H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37641H Alan Sked / Post-War Britain This book brings into focus the major figures of the political scene - Churchill, Eden, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher and Major - and the aims and achievements of the post-war governments, as well as the changing fortunes of Britain in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51625H Peter Robb / Midnight in Sicily A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43839H Christopher Catherwood / A Brief History of The Middle East Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51287H 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: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32672H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Titans of History Our world has been shaped by just a few people.These giants include kings, whores, poets, conquerors, empresses, composers, explorers and psychopaths.This is the history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying and inspiring... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW33519H 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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6788 Paul Rouse -The Hurlers - The First All-Ireland Championship and the making of Modern Hurling - HB - 2018 In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would have been absurd to imagine that, within five years, an... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Edward J Bourke Publishing | sku: MED5159,MED5881 Edward J Bourke - Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast : 1582-2000 - Volume 3 - PB A classic of Irish maritime history. The Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast series consists of three main volumes and a fourth photographic edition. 10,000 wrecks are covered with additional chapters on salvage, Lusitania mysteries East india ship... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33247H Eva Schloss / After Auschwitz Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her.When Auschwitz was... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28867H John Lukacs / The Hitler of History (Large Paperback) Since 1945 there have been over a hundred biographies of Hitler. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? 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Quick view sku: rR33247H Eva Schloss / After Auschwitz Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her.When Auschwitz was... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28867H John Lukacs / The Hitler of History (Large Paperback) Since 1945 there have been over a hundred biographies of Hitler. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Does Hitler emerge as a mythic anti-hero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8762 Anna Kinsella - County Wexford in the Famine Years - 1845-1849 - PB - 1995 Published 1995, a medium format paperback , no ISBN, moderate age spotting to the page block, but no other marks, binding tight, light scuffing to covers. Illustrated. Anna Kinsella also wrote The Windswept Shore - a History of Courtown, as well as... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1325 T.J Barrington - Discovering Kerry - It's History, Heritage and Topography - HB - Illustrated - 1st Edition 1976 Discovering Kerry self published by T.J Barrington . 'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best endowed, scenically and culturally, of Irish... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58677H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37641H Alan Sked / Post-War Britain This book brings into focus the major figures of the political scene - Churchill, Eden, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher and Major - and the aims and achievements of the post-war governments, as well as the changing fortunes of Britain in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51625H Peter Robb / Midnight in Sicily A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32672H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Titans of History Our world has been shaped by just a few people.These giants include kings, whores, poets, conquerors, empresses, composers, explorers and psychopaths.This is the history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying and inspiring... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW33519H 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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6788 Paul Rouse -The Hurlers - The First All-Ireland Championship and the making of Modern Hurling - HB - 2018 In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would have been absurd to imagine that, within five years, an... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW28867H John Lukacs / The Hitler of History (Large Paperback) Since 1945 there have been over a hundred biographies of Hitler. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Does Hitler emerge as a mythic anti-hero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and... MSRP: Now: £3.53 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: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8762 Anna Kinsella - County Wexford in the Famine Years - 1845-1849 - PB - 1995 Published 1995, a medium format paperback , no ISBN, moderate age spotting to the page block, but no other marks, binding tight, light scuffing to covers. Illustrated. Anna Kinsella also wrote The Windswept Shore - a History of Courtown, as well as... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1325 T.J Barrington - Discovering Kerry - It's History, Heritage and Topography - HB - Illustrated - 1st Edition 1976 Discovering Kerry self published by T.J Barrington . 'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best endowed, scenically and culturally, of Irish... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58677H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37641H Alan Sked / Post-War Britain This book brings into focus the major figures of the political scene - Churchill, Eden, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher and Major - and the aims and achievements of the post-war governments, as well as the changing fortunes of Britain in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51625H Peter Robb / Midnight in Sicily A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43839H Christopher Catherwood / A Brief History of The Middle East Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51287H 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: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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... 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MSRP: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6788 Paul Rouse -The Hurlers - The First All-Ireland Championship and the making of Modern Hurling - HB - 2018 In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would have been absurd to imagine that, within five years, an... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
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'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best endowed, scenically and culturally, of Irish... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58677H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37641H Alan Sked / Post-War Britain This book brings into focus the major figures of the political scene - Churchill, Eden, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher and Major - and the aims and achievements of the post-war governments, as well as the changing fortunes of Britain in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51625H Peter Robb / Midnight in Sicily A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43839H Christopher Catherwood / A Brief History of The Middle East Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51287H 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: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52011H,rR53742H Andrew Lambert / Admirals The true story of how Britain's maritime power helped gain this country unparalleled dominance of the world's economy, Admirals celebrates the rare talents of the men who shaped the most successful fighting force in world history. Told through... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32672H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Titans of History Our world has been shaped by just a few people.These giants include kings, whores, poets, conquerors, empresses, composers, explorers and psychopaths.This is the history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying and inspiring... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW33519H 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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6788 Paul Rouse -The Hurlers - The First All-Ireland Championship and the making of Modern Hurling - HB - 2018 In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would have been absurd to imagine that, within five years, an... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED8762 Anna Kinsella - County Wexford in the Famine Years - 1845-1849 - PB - 1995 Published 1995, a medium format paperback , no ISBN, moderate age spotting to the page block, but no other marks, binding tight, light scuffing to covers. Illustrated. Anna Kinsella also wrote The Windswept Shore - a History of Courtown, as well as... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG1325 T.J Barrington - Discovering Kerry - It's History, Heritage and Topography - HB - Illustrated - 1st Edition 1976 Discovering Kerry self published by T.J Barrington . 'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best endowed, scenically and culturally, of Irish... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58677H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... 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Quick view sku: BIG1325 T.J Barrington - Discovering Kerry - It's History, Heritage and Topography - HB - Illustrated - 1st Edition 1976 Discovering Kerry self published by T.J Barrington . 'A work of discovery and synthesis - the first to marry modern scholarship and acute observation to the county of Kerry, perhaps the best endowed, scenically and culturally, of Irish... MSRP: Now: £26.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58677H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37641H Alan Sked / Post-War Britain This book brings into focus the major figures of the political scene - Churchill, Eden, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher and Major - and the aims and achievements of the post-war governments, as well as the changing fortunes of Britain in... 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For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51287H 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: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6450H Will Hutton / The Writing On The Wall China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32672H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Titans of History Our world has been shaped by just a few people.These giants include kings, whores, poets, conquerors, empresses, composers, explorers and psychopaths.This is the history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying and inspiring... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW33519H 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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6788 Paul Rouse -The Hurlers - The First All-Ireland Championship and the making of Modern Hurling - HB - 2018 In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would have been absurd to imagine that, within five years, an... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR58677H 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: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37641H Alan Sked / Post-War Britain This book brings into focus the major figures of the political scene - Churchill, Eden, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher and Major - and the aims and achievements of the post-war governments, as well as the changing fortunes of Britain in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51625H Peter Robb / Midnight in Sicily A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43839H Christopher Catherwood / A Brief History of The Middle East Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51287H 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: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32672H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Titans of History Our world has been shaped by just a few people.These giants include kings, whores, poets, conquerors, empresses, composers, explorers and psychopaths.This is the history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying and inspiring... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW33519H 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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6788 Paul Rouse -The Hurlers - The First All-Ireland Championship and the making of Modern Hurling - HB - 2018 In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would have been absurd to imagine that, within five years, an... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR27570H Kari Rosvall / Nowhere's Child 'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37641H Alan Sked / Post-War Britain This book brings into focus the major figures of the political scene - Churchill, Eden, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher and Major - and the aims and achievements of the post-war governments, as well as the changing fortunes of Britain in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51625H Peter Robb / Midnight in Sicily A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43839H Christopher Catherwood / A Brief History of The Middle East Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51287H 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: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52011H,rR53742H Andrew Lambert / Admirals The true story of how Britain's maritime power helped gain this country unparalleled dominance of the world's economy, Admirals celebrates the rare talents of the men who shaped the most successful fighting force in world history. Told through... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32672H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Titans of History Our world has been shaped by just a few people.These giants include kings, whores, poets, conquerors, empresses, composers, explorers and psychopaths.This is the history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying and inspiring... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW33519H 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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6788 Paul Rouse -The Hurlers - The First All-Ireland Championship and the making of Modern Hurling - HB - 2018 In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would have been absurd to imagine that, within five years, an... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 71993H Charles Higham / Howard Hughes All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37641H Alan Sked / Post-War Britain This book brings into focus the major figures of the political scene - Churchill, Eden, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher and Major - and the aims and achievements of the post-war governments, as well as the changing fortunes of Britain in... MSRP: Now: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51625H Peter Robb / Midnight in Sicily A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43839H Christopher Catherwood / A Brief History of The Middle East Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR51287H 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: £2.64 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR25474H Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men 'The story read "Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the CIA, were arrested yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee." The thought that the break-in... MSRP: Now: £2.23 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: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR52011H,rR53742H Andrew Lambert / Admirals The true story of how Britain's maritime power helped gain this country unparalleled dominance of the world's economy, Admirals celebrates the rare talents of the men who shaped the most successful fighting force in world history. Told through... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32672H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Titans of History Our world has been shaped by just a few people.These giants include kings, whores, poets, conquerors, empresses, composers, explorers and psychopaths.This is the history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying and inspiring... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW33519H 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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6788 Paul Rouse -The Hurlers - The First All-Ireland Championship and the making of Modern Hurling - HB - 2018 In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would have been absurd to imagine that, within five years, an... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: rR52011H,rR53742H Andrew Lambert / Admirals The true story of how Britain's maritime power helped gain this country unparalleled dominance of the world's economy, Admirals celebrates the rare talents of the men who shaped the most successful fighting force in world history. Told through... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR17499H Susie Dent / What Made The Crocodile Cry? The Blackout Crew have a song with the title 'Put a donk on it' - but what is a 'donk'? Which ending came first: '-ise' or '-ize'? Where does the idea of a 'white elephant' come from? Who decides on the collective noun for something? And what is it... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32672H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Titans of History Our world has been shaped by just a few people.These giants include kings, whores, poets, conquerors, empresses, composers, explorers and psychopaths.This is the history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying and inspiring... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW33519H 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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6788 Paul Rouse -The Hurlers - The First All-Ireland Championship and the making of Modern Hurling - HB - 2018 In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would have been absurd to imagine that, within five years, an... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: rR32672H Simon Sebag Montefiore / Titans of History Our world has been shaped by just a few people.These giants include kings, whores, poets, conquerors, empresses, composers, explorers and psychopaths.This is the history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying and inspiring... MSRP: Now: £2.64 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. | sku: wW33519H 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: £4.42 Was: £4.42 Now: £1.79 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6788 Paul Rouse -The Hurlers - The First All-Ireland Championship and the making of Modern Hurling - HB - 2018 In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would have been absurd to imagine that, within five years, an... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: MED6788 Paul Rouse -The Hurlers - The First All-Ireland Championship and the making of Modern Hurling - HB - 2018 In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would have been absurd to imagine that, within five years, an... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view
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