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You will not forget it' Elie WieselFrom her small, sunny hometown between the beautiful Carpathian Mountains and the blue Danube River, Elli Friedmann was taken - at a time when most girls... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR19321H Cressida Connolly / The Rare and the Beautiful : The Lives of the Garmans The compelling biography of the beautiful, talented Garman sisters and the glittering, romantic era in which they lived.Each of the seven Garman sisters were strikingly beautiful, artistic and wild. Born around the turn of the nineteenth century,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58822H Ant Middleton / First Man In : Leading from the Front NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNo one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life's challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership. In First Man In, he shares the core lessons he's learned... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59925H Andrew Roberts / Eminent Churchillians A controversial account of the Churchill years by a bestselling historian.'The best sort of history - revealing, gossipy and acidulous' OBSERVERThis highly praised book by the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of SALISBURY tackles six aspects of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR54004H George Johnny Johnson / The Last British Dambuster : One man's extraordinary life and the raid that changed history Johnny Johnson has been awarded an MBE for his remarkable services in World War II'I was anxious to fight. Hitler was the bastard who had started all this and he needed sorting out. We were under threat. Everything we stood for: our country, our... 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59969H Brendon Colvert / On My Honour : One Man's Lifelong Struggle to Clear His Name Superintendent William Geary was unjustly dismissed by the Irish Executive Council on 25 June 1928 contrary to his legal rights under Police Rules, Statutory Law and the Irish Constitution; he was a resourceful Officer and a thorn in the side... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED1440 Leonard Cottrell - Life Under the Pharaohs- Vintage illustrated Pan PB Life Under the Pharaohs - Pan PB Edition, 1957 ( 1st published 1955) This work is an introduction to everyday life in ancient Egypt: homes, dress, amusements, the life of women and children, scribes, doctors, craftsmen, and administrators... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8499 F.C Copleston - Aquinas - Vintage Pelican PB 1975 - Philosophy Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3839 Vance Packard - The Status Seekers : An Exploration of Class Behaviour in America - Vintage Pelican PB 1962 Study of the informal class system in mid 20th century America and the characteristics of the individual social levels. this edition Pelican UK, 1971, originally published 1959 in the USA. Condition - Very good, sole flaw is previous owners name... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58090H Andrew Sinclair / Secret Scroll Although references to this famous order of military knights rarely appears in standard histories of the time, a great deal of information about them can be gleaned from other, more esoteric sources, such as sculpture and architecture... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49304H,rR51648H Kieran Connolly / Sam Maguire : The Man and The Cup Originally from a Church of Ireland family in west Cork, Sam Maguire played a leading role in the GAA and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in London before and during the War of Independence in 1919-1921 when he was the main agent of Michael... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW38636H Emma Marriott / I Used to Know That: History : Stuff You Forgot from School (Hardback) Perfect follow-up to the universally acclaimed I `Used to Know That`; written in a highly accessible and lighthearted way, helps you brush up on your history, while enjoying a walk down memory lane - and remembering the stuff you really... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4700H Joachim E. Fest / Not Me : Memoirs of a German Childhood (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36659H Patrick French / India : A Portrait (Hardback) One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of cliches: 'hi-tech',... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43213H Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback) In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90813H Andrew O'Hagan / The Illuminations (Large Paperback) How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR22157H Ian Buruma / Murder in Amsterdam It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4847H Bill Emmott / 20:21 Vision : The Lessons of the 20th Century for the 21st (Hardback) What can the successes and failures of the 20th century teach us as the world faces an uncertain future in the 21st? The attacks on 11 September 2001 shook the rich West out of its complacency: suddenly, peace looked to be in peril. Even before... 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Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: rR19215H Hillary Rodham Clinton / What Happened The Sunday Times Number One BestsellerComplete with new afterword where she discusses the past eighteen months since President Donald Trump has been serving in office.'A compelling read' - Financial Times'A sporadically absorbing, pleasingly... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37075H Mario Masini / Lectio Divina 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: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR40424H Emma Sky / The Unravelling : High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015Emma Sky was working for the British Council during the invasion of Iraq, when the ad went around calling for volunteers. Appalled at what she saw as a wrongful war,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33706H Stephen Walker / Hide and Seek Irish Sunday Times BestsellerA true story of war, peace and friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priestThe story begins in Rome at the outbreak of WWII, when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler, SS Obersturmbanfuhrer, and Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty would... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45944H Eric Hobsbawm / The Age Of Revolution : 1789-1848 Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by the Dual revolution - the 1789 French revolution and the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. This... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35253H Akbar S. Ahmed / Living Islam : From Samarkand to Stornoway An examination of Islam, its history, culture and values. 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Bitton Jackson / Elli : Coming of Age in the Holocaust `Among the most moving documents I have read in years ... You will not forget it' Elie WieselFrom her small, sunny hometown between the beautiful Carpathian Mountains and the blue Danube River, Elli Friedmann was taken - at a time when most girls... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR19321H Cressida Connolly / The Rare and the Beautiful : The Lives of the Garmans The compelling biography of the beautiful, talented Garman sisters and the glittering, romantic era in which they lived.Each of the seven Garman sisters were strikingly beautiful, artistic and wild. Born around the turn of the nineteenth century,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58822H Ant Middleton / First Man In : Leading from the Front NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNo one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life's challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58090H Andrew Sinclair / Secret Scroll Although references to this famous order of military knights rarely appears in standard histories of the time, a great deal of information about them can be gleaned from other, more esoteric sources, such as sculpture and architecture... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49304H,rR51648H Kieran Connolly / Sam Maguire : The Man and The Cup Originally from a Church of Ireland family in west Cork, Sam Maguire played a leading role in the GAA and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in London before and during the War of Independence in 1919-1921 when he was the main agent of Michael... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW38636H Emma Marriott / I Used to Know That: History : Stuff You Forgot from School (Hardback) Perfect follow-up to the universally acclaimed I `Used to Know That`; written in a highly accessible and lighthearted way, helps you brush up on your history, while enjoying a walk down memory lane - and remembering the stuff you really... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4700H Joachim E. Fest / Not Me : Memoirs of a German Childhood (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36659H Patrick French / India : A Portrait (Hardback) One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of cliches: 'hi-tech',... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43213H Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback) In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90813H Andrew O'Hagan / The Illuminations (Large Paperback) How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... 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A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of cliches: 'hi-tech',... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43213H Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback) In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... 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Quick view sku: rR40424H Emma Sky / The Unravelling : High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015Emma Sky was working for the British Council during the invasion of Iraq, when the ad went around calling for volunteers. Appalled at what she saw as a wrongful war,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33706H Stephen Walker / Hide and Seek Irish Sunday Times BestsellerA true story of war, peace and friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priestThe story begins in Rome at the outbreak of WWII, when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler, SS Obersturmbanfuhrer, and Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty would... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR45944H Eric Hobsbawm / The Age Of Revolution : 1789-1848 Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by the Dual revolution - the 1789 French revolution and the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. This... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35253H Akbar S. Ahmed / Living Islam : From Samarkand to Stornoway An examination of Islam, its history, culture and values. It discusses the conflict between Islam and Western ideologies, and the problems that Muslims face in the modern world. The pressures and practices of Muslims living as minorities in... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12470H Surendra Verma / The Cause of Mosquitoes' Sorrow This book features quirky, enjoyable and entirely true instances of science going wrong, right and in totally unexpected directions from 600 BC onwards ...Just how did the scientific discoveries that have changed our world come about? Surendra... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG157 Christine Clark - The British Malting Industry since 1830 - HB - Brewing - 1998 Malt is the main ingredient in the national beverage, beer. For centuries the malting industry has provided a principal bridge between agriculture and the brewing industry, yet its history has been little studied. The British Malting Industry since... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR54241H Livia E. Bitton Jackson / Elli : Coming of Age in the Holocaust `Among the most moving documents I have read in years ... You will not forget it' Elie WieselFrom her small, sunny hometown between the beautiful Carpathian Mountains and the blue Danube River, Elli Friedmann was taken - at a time when most girls... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR19321H Cressida Connolly / The Rare and the Beautiful : The Lives of the Garmans The compelling biography of the beautiful, talented Garman sisters and the glittering, romantic era in which they lived.Each of the seven Garman sisters were strikingly beautiful, artistic and wild. Born around the turn of the nineteenth century,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58822H Ant Middleton / First Man In : Leading from the Front NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNo one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life's challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership. In First Man In, he shares the core lessons he's learned... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59925H Andrew Roberts / Eminent Churchillians A controversial account of the Churchill years by a bestselling historian.'The best sort of history - revealing, gossipy and acidulous' OBSERVERThis highly praised book by the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of SALISBURY tackles six aspects of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR54004H George Johnny Johnson / The Last British Dambuster : One man's extraordinary life and the raid that changed history Johnny Johnson has been awarded an MBE for his remarkable services in World War II'I was anxious to fight. Hitler was the bastard who had started all this and he needed sorting out. We were under threat. Everything we stood for: our country, our... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84383H Simon Elmes / Hello Again : Nine decades of radio voices It's now ninety years since the BBC made its first broadcast and the British love affair with radio began.This book is a journey through that fascinating history and a celebration of the many wonderful voices that were part of it: Marion Cran, who... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30440H Paul Strathern / The Medici : Godfathers of the Renaissance A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money and ambition. Against the background of an age which saw the rebirth of ancient and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59969H Brendon Colvert / On My Honour : One Man's Lifelong Struggle to Clear His Name Superintendent William Geary was unjustly dismissed by the Irish Executive Council on 25 June 1928 contrary to his legal rights under Police Rules, Statutory Law and the Irish Constitution; he was a resourceful Officer and a thorn in the side... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED1440 Leonard Cottrell - Life Under the Pharaohs- Vintage illustrated Pan PB Life Under the Pharaohs - Pan PB Edition, 1957 ( 1st published 1955) This work is an introduction to everyday life in ancient Egypt: homes, dress, amusements, the life of women and children, scribes, doctors, craftsmen, and administrators... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8499 F.C Copleston - Aquinas - Vintage Pelican PB 1975 - Philosophy Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3839 Vance Packard - The Status Seekers : An Exploration of Class Behaviour in America - Vintage Pelican PB 1962 Study of the informal class system in mid 20th century America and the characteristics of the individual social levels. this edition Pelican UK, 1971, originally published 1959 in the USA. Condition - Very good, sole flaw is previous owners name... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5667H Kathy McKeon / Jackie's Girl : My Life with the Kennedy Family All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93186H Paul Scott / Tony and Cherie : A Special Relationship (Hardback) This is a highly entertaining biography that looks at how the Blairs have survived life in Downing Street with all its stresses and strains. Written with access to well-placed sources, Tony and Cherie takes the reader on an eventful journey from... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X72998H Rand Flem-Ath / The Atlantis Blueprint (Hardback) In June 1990, Egyptologist John West accompanied geologist Robert Schoch to Cairo, to take a closer look at the Sphinx. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58090H Andrew Sinclair / Secret Scroll Although references to this famous order of military knights rarely appears in standard histories of the time, a great deal of information about them can be gleaned from other, more esoteric sources, such as sculpture and architecture... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49304H,rR51648H Kieran Connolly / Sam Maguire : The Man and The Cup Originally from a Church of Ireland family in west Cork, Sam Maguire played a leading role in the GAA and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in London before and during the War of Independence in 1919-1921 when he was the main agent of Michael... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW38636H Emma Marriott / I Used to Know That: History : Stuff You Forgot from School (Hardback) Perfect follow-up to the universally acclaimed I `Used to Know That`; written in a highly accessible and lighthearted way, helps you brush up on your history, while enjoying a walk down memory lane - and remembering the stuff you really... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4700H Joachim E. Fest / Not Me : Memoirs of a German Childhood (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36659H Patrick French / India : A Portrait (Hardback) One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of cliches: 'hi-tech',... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43213H Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback) In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90813H Andrew O'Hagan / The Illuminations (Large Paperback) How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR22157H Ian Buruma / Murder in Amsterdam It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4847H Bill Emmott / 20:21 Vision : The Lessons of the 20th Century for the 21st (Hardback) What can the successes and failures of the 20th century teach us as the world faces an uncertain future in the 21st? The attacks on 11 September 2001 shook the rich West out of its complacency: suddenly, peace looked to be in peril. Even before... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92947H Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice (Hardback) This is a portrait of the First Lady, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school, through the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair, and the drama of the impeachment battle to reveal the power shifts, the genuine passion and the ultimate... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4012H Jung Chang / Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister : Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China (Large Paperback) The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her... 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A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of cliches: 'hi-tech',... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43213H Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback) In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... 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Quick view sku: rR45944H Eric Hobsbawm / The Age Of Revolution : 1789-1848 Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by the Dual revolution - the 1789 French revolution and the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. This... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35253H Akbar S. Ahmed / Living Islam : From Samarkand to Stornoway An examination of Islam, its history, culture and values. It discusses the conflict between Islam and Western ideologies, and the problems that Muslims face in the modern world. The pressures and practices of Muslims living as minorities in... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12470H Surendra Verma / The Cause of Mosquitoes' Sorrow This book features quirky, enjoyable and entirely true instances of science going wrong, right and in totally unexpected directions from 600 BC onwards ...Just how did the scientific discoveries that have changed our world come about? Surendra... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG157 Christine Clark - The British Malting Industry since 1830 - HB - Brewing - 1998 Malt is the main ingredient in the national beverage, beer. For centuries the malting industry has provided a principal bridge between agriculture and the brewing industry, yet its history has been little studied. The British Malting Industry since... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR54241H Livia E. Bitton Jackson / Elli : Coming of Age in the Holocaust `Among the most moving documents I have read in years ... You will not forget it' Elie WieselFrom her small, sunny hometown between the beautiful Carpathian Mountains and the blue Danube River, Elli Friedmann was taken - at a time when most girls... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR19321H Cressida Connolly / The Rare and the Beautiful : The Lives of the Garmans The compelling biography of the beautiful, talented Garman sisters and the glittering, romantic era in which they lived.Each of the seven Garman sisters were strikingly beautiful, artistic and wild. Born around the turn of the nineteenth century,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58822H Ant Middleton / First Man In : Leading from the Front NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNo one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life's challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership. In First Man In, he shares the core lessons he's learned... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59925H Andrew Roberts / Eminent Churchillians A controversial account of the Churchill years by a bestselling historian.'The best sort of history - revealing, gossipy and acidulous' OBSERVERThis highly praised book by the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of SALISBURY tackles six aspects of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR54004H George Johnny Johnson / The Last British Dambuster : One man's extraordinary life and the raid that changed history Johnny Johnson has been awarded an MBE for his remarkable services in World War II'I was anxious to fight. Hitler was the bastard who had started all this and he needed sorting out. We were under threat. Everything we stood for: our country, our... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84383H Simon Elmes / Hello Again : Nine decades of radio voices It's now ninety years since the BBC made its first broadcast and the British love affair with radio began.This book is a journey through that fascinating history and a celebration of the many wonderful voices that were part of it: Marion Cran, who... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30440H Paul Strathern / The Medici : Godfathers of the Renaissance A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money and ambition. Against the background of an age which saw the rebirth of ancient and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59969H Brendon Colvert / On My Honour : One Man's Lifelong Struggle to Clear His Name Superintendent William Geary was unjustly dismissed by the Irish Executive Council on 25 June 1928 contrary to his legal rights under Police Rules, Statutory Law and the Irish Constitution; he was a resourceful Officer and a thorn in the side... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED1440 Leonard Cottrell - Life Under the Pharaohs- Vintage illustrated Pan PB Life Under the Pharaohs - Pan PB Edition, 1957 ( 1st published 1955) This work is an introduction to everyday life in ancient Egypt: homes, dress, amusements, the life of women and children, scribes, doctors, craftsmen, and administrators... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8499 F.C Copleston - Aquinas - Vintage Pelican PB 1975 - Philosophy Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3839 Vance Packard - The Status Seekers : An Exploration of Class Behaviour in America - Vintage Pelican PB 1962 Study of the informal class system in mid 20th century America and the characteristics of the individual social levels. this edition Pelican UK, 1971, originally published 1959 in the USA. Condition - Very good, sole flaw is previous owners name... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5667H Kathy McKeon / Jackie's Girl : My Life with the Kennedy Family All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93186H Paul Scott / Tony and Cherie : A Special Relationship (Hardback) This is a highly entertaining biography that looks at how the Blairs have survived life in Downing Street with all its stresses and strains. Written with access to well-placed sources, Tony and Cherie takes the reader on an eventful journey from... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X72998H Rand Flem-Ath / The Atlantis Blueprint (Hardback) In June 1990, Egyptologist John West accompanied geologist Robert Schoch to Cairo, to take a closer look at the Sphinx. For almost two decades, West had been arguing that the erosion of the Sphinx revealed that it had been weathered by rain... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: rR52000H Paul Rouse / The Hurlers : The First All-Ireland Championship and the Making of Modern Hurling 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... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR19253H Maxim Leo / Red Love : The Story of an East German Family A Sunday Telegraph, Irish Times and Glasgow Herald Book of the Year"Tender, acute and utterly absorbing" Anna Funder, author of Stasiland"A wry and unheroic witness... an unofficial history of a country that no longer exists" Julian... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58090H Andrew Sinclair / Secret Scroll Although references to this famous order of military knights rarely appears in standard histories of the time, a great deal of information about them can be gleaned from other, more esoteric sources, such as sculpture and architecture... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49304H,rR51648H Kieran Connolly / Sam Maguire : The Man and The Cup Originally from a Church of Ireland family in west Cork, Sam Maguire played a leading role in the GAA and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in London before and during the War of Independence in 1919-1921 when he was the main agent of Michael... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW38636H Emma Marriott / I Used to Know That: History : Stuff You Forgot from School (Hardback) Perfect follow-up to the universally acclaimed I `Used to Know That`; written in a highly accessible and lighthearted way, helps you brush up on your history, while enjoying a walk down memory lane - and remembering the stuff you really... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4700H Joachim E. Fest / Not Me : Memoirs of a German Childhood (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36659H Patrick French / India : A Portrait (Hardback) One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of cliches: 'hi-tech',... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43213H Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback) In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90813H Andrew O'Hagan / The Illuminations (Large Paperback) How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR22157H Ian Buruma / Murder in Amsterdam It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4847H Bill Emmott / 20:21 Vision : The Lessons of the 20th Century for the 21st (Hardback) What can the successes and failures of the 20th century teach us as the world faces an uncertain future in the 21st? The attacks on 11 September 2001 shook the rich West out of its complacency: suddenly, peace looked to be in peril. Even before... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92947H Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice (Hardback) This is a portrait of the First Lady, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school, through the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair, and the drama of the impeachment battle to reveal the power shifts, the genuine passion and the ultimate... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4012H Jung Chang / Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister : Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China (Large Paperback) The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94502H Catherine Richards / A Dark Devotion (Hardback) Alexandra O'Neill is drawn back to the Norfolk village where she grew up, to help Will Dearden find his missing paragon of a wife. But can any wife be so perfect that she doesn't have secrets? And can a devoted husband have failed to see the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6927H James B. Comey / A Higher Loyalty : Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Large Paperback) The sensational number one bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.In his Number One bestselling memoir A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8856H Elaine Crowley / Cowslips and Chainies : Memoir of Dublin in the 1930s (Large Paperback) This account of growing up in inner-city Dublin during the 1930s is a combination of personal memoir and social document. It gives descriptions of pawnbrokers and money-lenders, of how a family could manage life in one room, and of the workings... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43619H Finbar Dwyer / Life in Medieval Ireland (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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For centuries the malting industry has provided a principal bridge between agriculture and the brewing industry, yet its history has been little studied. The British Malting Industry since... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR54241H Livia E. Bitton Jackson / Elli : Coming of Age in the Holocaust `Among the most moving documents I have read in years ... You will not forget it' Elie WieselFrom her small, sunny hometown between the beautiful Carpathian Mountains and the blue Danube River, Elli Friedmann was taken - at a time when most girls... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR19321H Cressida Connolly / The Rare and the Beautiful : The Lives of the Garmans The compelling biography of the beautiful, talented Garman sisters and the glittering, romantic era in which they lived.Each of the seven Garman sisters were strikingly beautiful, artistic and wild. Born around the turn of the nineteenth century,... 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Quick view sku: BIG157 Christine Clark - The British Malting Industry since 1830 - HB - Brewing - 1998 Malt is the main ingredient in the national beverage, beer. For centuries the malting industry has provided a principal bridge between agriculture and the brewing industry, yet its history has been little studied. The British Malting Industry since... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR54241H Livia E. Bitton Jackson / Elli : Coming of Age in the Holocaust `Among the most moving documents I have read in years ... You will not forget it' Elie WieselFrom her small, sunny hometown between the beautiful Carpathian Mountains and the blue Danube River, Elli Friedmann was taken - at a time when most girls... 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A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of cliches: 'hi-tech',... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43213H Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback) In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... 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MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8499 F.C Copleston - Aquinas - Vintage Pelican PB 1975 - Philosophy Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3839 Vance Packard - The Status Seekers : An Exploration of Class Behaviour in America - Vintage Pelican PB 1962 Study of the informal class system in mid 20th century America and the characteristics of the individual social levels. this edition Pelican UK, 1971, originally published 1959 in the USA. Condition - Very good, sole flaw is previous owners name... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5667H Kathy McKeon / Jackie's Girl : My Life with the Kennedy Family All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93186H Paul Scott / Tony and Cherie : A Special Relationship (Hardback) This is a highly entertaining biography that looks at how the Blairs have survived life in Downing Street with all its stresses and strains. Written with access to well-placed sources, Tony and Cherie takes the reader on an eventful journey from... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X72998H Rand Flem-Ath / The Atlantis Blueprint (Hardback) In June 1990, Egyptologist John West accompanied geologist Robert Schoch to Cairo, to take a closer look at the Sphinx. 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW38636H Emma Marriott / I Used to Know That: History : Stuff You Forgot from School (Hardback) Perfect follow-up to the universally acclaimed I `Used to Know That`; written in a highly accessible and lighthearted way, helps you brush up on your history, while enjoying a walk down memory lane - and remembering the stuff you really... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4700H Joachim E. Fest / Not Me : Memoirs of a German Childhood (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36659H Patrick French / India : A Portrait (Hardback) One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of cliches: 'hi-tech',... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43213H Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback) In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90813H Andrew O'Hagan / The Illuminations (Large Paperback) How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... 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Quick view sku: rR19321H Cressida Connolly / The Rare and the Beautiful : The Lives of the Garmans The compelling biography of the beautiful, talented Garman sisters and the glittering, romantic era in which they lived.Each of the seven Garman sisters were strikingly beautiful, artistic and wild. Born around the turn of the nineteenth century,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58822H Ant Middleton / First Man In : Leading from the Front NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNo one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life's challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership. In First Man In, he shares the core lessons he's learned... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59925H Andrew Roberts / Eminent Churchillians A controversial account of the Churchill years by a bestselling historian.'The best sort of history - revealing, gossipy and acidulous' OBSERVERThis highly praised book by the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of SALISBURY tackles six aspects of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR54004H George Johnny Johnson / The Last British Dambuster : One man's extraordinary life and the raid that changed history Johnny Johnson has been awarded an MBE for his remarkable services in World War II'I was anxious to fight. Hitler was the bastard who had started all this and he needed sorting out. We were under threat. Everything we stood for: our country, our... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84383H Simon Elmes / Hello Again : Nine decades of radio voices It's now ninety years since the BBC made its first broadcast and the British love affair with radio began.This book is a journey through that fascinating history and a celebration of the many wonderful voices that were part of it: Marion Cran, who... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30440H Paul Strathern / The Medici : Godfathers of the Renaissance A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money and ambition. Against the background of an age which saw the rebirth of ancient and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59969H Brendon Colvert / On My Honour : One Man's Lifelong Struggle to Clear His Name Superintendent William Geary was unjustly dismissed by the Irish Executive Council on 25 June 1928 contrary to his legal rights under Police Rules, Statutory Law and the Irish Constitution; he was a resourceful Officer and a thorn in the side... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED1440 Leonard Cottrell - Life Under the Pharaohs- Vintage illustrated Pan PB Life Under the Pharaohs - Pan PB Edition, 1957 ( 1st published 1955) This work is an introduction to everyday life in ancient Egypt: homes, dress, amusements, the life of women and children, scribes, doctors, craftsmen, and administrators... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8499 F.C Copleston - Aquinas - Vintage Pelican PB 1975 - Philosophy Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3839 Vance Packard - The Status Seekers : An Exploration of Class Behaviour in America - Vintage Pelican PB 1962 Study of the informal class system in mid 20th century America and the characteristics of the individual social levels. this edition Pelican UK, 1971, originally published 1959 in the USA. Condition - Very good, sole flaw is previous owners name... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5667H Kathy McKeon / Jackie's Girl : My Life with the Kennedy Family All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93186H Paul Scott / Tony and Cherie : A Special Relationship (Hardback) This is a highly entertaining biography that looks at how the Blairs have survived life in Downing Street with all its stresses and strains. Written with access to well-placed sources, Tony and Cherie takes the reader on an eventful journey from... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X72998H Rand Flem-Ath / The Atlantis Blueprint (Hardback) In June 1990, Egyptologist John West accompanied geologist Robert Schoch to Cairo, to take a closer look at the Sphinx. For almost two decades, West had been arguing that the erosion of the Sphinx revealed that it had been weathered by rain... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: rR52000H Paul Rouse / The Hurlers : The First All-Ireland Championship and the Making of Modern Hurling 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... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR19253H Maxim Leo / Red Love : The Story of an East German Family A Sunday Telegraph, Irish Times and Glasgow Herald Book of the Year"Tender, acute and utterly absorbing" Anna Funder, author of Stasiland"A wry and unheroic witness... an unofficial history of a country that no longer exists" Julian... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58090H Andrew Sinclair / Secret Scroll Although references to this famous order of military knights rarely appears in standard histories of the time, a great deal of information about them can be gleaned from other, more esoteric sources, such as sculpture and architecture... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49304H,rR51648H Kieran Connolly / Sam Maguire : The Man and The Cup Originally from a Church of Ireland family in west Cork, Sam Maguire played a leading role in the GAA and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in London before and during the War of Independence in 1919-1921 when he was the main agent of Michael... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW38636H Emma Marriott / I Used to Know That: History : Stuff You Forgot from School (Hardback) Perfect follow-up to the universally acclaimed I `Used to Know That`; written in a highly accessible and lighthearted way, helps you brush up on your history, while enjoying a walk down memory lane - and remembering the stuff you really... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4700H Joachim E. Fest / Not Me : Memoirs of a German Childhood (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36659H Patrick French / India : A Portrait (Hardback) One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of cliches: 'hi-tech',... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43213H Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback) In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90813H Andrew O'Hagan / The Illuminations (Large Paperback) How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... 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A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of cliches: 'hi-tech',... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43213H Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback) In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90813H Andrew O'Hagan / The Illuminations (Large Paperback) How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... 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MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8499 F.C Copleston - Aquinas - Vintage Pelican PB 1975 - Philosophy Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3839 Vance Packard - The Status Seekers : An Exploration of Class Behaviour in America - Vintage Pelican PB 1962 Study of the informal class system in mid 20th century America and the characteristics of the individual social levels. this edition Pelican UK, 1971, originally published 1959 in the USA. Condition - Very good, sole flaw is previous owners name... 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW38636H Emma Marriott / I Used to Know That: History : Stuff You Forgot from School (Hardback) Perfect follow-up to the universally acclaimed I `Used to Know That`; written in a highly accessible and lighthearted way, helps you brush up on your history, while enjoying a walk down memory lane - and remembering the stuff you really... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4700H Joachim E. Fest / Not Me : Memoirs of a German Childhood (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36659H Patrick French / India : A Portrait (Hardback) One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of cliches: 'hi-tech',... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43213H Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback) In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90813H Andrew O'Hagan / The Illuminations (Large Paperback) How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94502H Catherine Richards / A Dark Devotion (Hardback) Alexandra O'Neill is drawn back to the Norfolk village where she grew up, to help Will Dearden find his missing paragon of a wife. But can any wife be so perfect that she doesn't have secrets? And can a devoted husband have failed to see the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6927H James B. Comey / A Higher Loyalty : Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Large Paperback) The sensational number one bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.In his Number One bestselling memoir A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8856H Elaine Crowley / Cowslips and Chainies : Memoir of Dublin in the 1930s (Large Paperback) This account of growing up in inner-city Dublin during the 1930s is a combination of personal memoir and social document. It gives descriptions of pawnbrokers and money-lenders, of how a family could manage life in one room, and of the workings... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43619H Finbar Dwyer / Life in Medieval Ireland (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30440H Paul Strathern / The Medici : Godfathers of the Renaissance A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money and ambition. Against the background of an age which saw the rebirth of ancient and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59969H Brendon Colvert / On My Honour : One Man's Lifelong Struggle to Clear His Name Superintendent William Geary was unjustly dismissed by the Irish Executive Council on 25 June 1928 contrary to his legal rights under Police Rules, Statutory Law and the Irish Constitution; he was a resourceful Officer and a thorn in the side... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED1440 Leonard Cottrell - Life Under the Pharaohs- Vintage illustrated Pan PB Life Under the Pharaohs - Pan PB Edition, 1957 ( 1st published 1955) This work is an introduction to everyday life in ancient Egypt: homes, dress, amusements, the life of women and children, scribes, doctors, craftsmen, and administrators... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8499 F.C Copleston - Aquinas - Vintage Pelican PB 1975 - Philosophy Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3839 Vance Packard - The Status Seekers : An Exploration of Class Behaviour in America - Vintage Pelican PB 1962 Study of the informal class system in mid 20th century America and the characteristics of the individual social levels. this edition Pelican UK, 1971, originally published 1959 in the USA. Condition - Very good, sole flaw is previous owners name... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5667H Kathy McKeon / Jackie's Girl : My Life with the Kennedy Family 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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A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of cliches: 'hi-tech',... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43213H Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback) In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... 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Quick view sku: 84383H Simon Elmes / Hello Again : Nine decades of radio voices It's now ninety years since the BBC made its first broadcast and the British love affair with radio began.This book is a journey through that fascinating history and a celebration of the many wonderful voices that were part of it: Marion Cran, who... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30440H Paul Strathern / The Medici : Godfathers of the Renaissance A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money and ambition. Against the background of an age which saw the rebirth of ancient and... 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MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8499 F.C Copleston - Aquinas - Vintage Pelican PB 1975 - Philosophy Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3839 Vance Packard - The Status Seekers : An Exploration of Class Behaviour in America - Vintage Pelican PB 1962 Study of the informal class system in mid 20th century America and the characteristics of the individual social levels. this edition Pelican UK, 1971, originally published 1959 in the USA. Condition - Very good, sole flaw is previous owners name... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58090H Andrew Sinclair / Secret Scroll Although references to this famous order of military knights rarely appears in standard histories of the time, a great deal of information about them can be gleaned from other, more esoteric sources, such as sculpture and architecture... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49304H,rR51648H Kieran Connolly / Sam Maguire : The Man and The Cup Originally from a Church of Ireland family in west Cork, Sam Maguire played a leading role in the GAA and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in London before and during the War of Independence in 1919-1921 when he was the main agent of Michael... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW38636H Emma Marriott / I Used to Know That: History : Stuff You Forgot from School (Hardback) Perfect follow-up to the universally acclaimed I `Used to Know That`; written in a highly accessible and lighthearted way, helps you brush up on your history, while enjoying a walk down memory lane - and remembering the stuff you really... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4700H Joachim E. Fest / Not Me : Memoirs of a German Childhood (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36659H Patrick French / India : A Portrait (Hardback) One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of cliches: 'hi-tech',... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43213H Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback) In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90813H Andrew O'Hagan / The Illuminations (Large Paperback) How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94502H Catherine Richards / A Dark Devotion (Hardback) Alexandra O'Neill is drawn back to the Norfolk village where she grew up, to help Will Dearden find his missing paragon of a wife. But can any wife be so perfect that she doesn't have secrets? And can a devoted husband have failed to see the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6927H James B. Comey / A Higher Loyalty : Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Large Paperback) The sensational number one bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.In his Number One bestselling memoir A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8856H Elaine Crowley / Cowslips and Chainies : Memoir of Dublin in the 1930s (Large Paperback) This account of growing up in inner-city Dublin during the 1930s is a combination of personal memoir and social document. It gives descriptions of pawnbrokers and money-lenders, of how a family could manage life in one room, and of the workings... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43619H Finbar Dwyer / Life in Medieval Ireland (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR30440H Paul Strathern / The Medici : Godfathers of the Renaissance A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money and ambition. Against the background of an age which saw the rebirth of ancient and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR59969H Brendon Colvert / On My Honour : One Man's Lifelong Struggle to Clear His Name Superintendent William Geary was unjustly dismissed by the Irish Executive Council on 25 June 1928 contrary to his legal rights under Police Rules, Statutory Law and the Irish Constitution; he was a resourceful Officer and a thorn in the side... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED1440 Leonard Cottrell - Life Under the Pharaohs- Vintage illustrated Pan PB Life Under the Pharaohs - Pan PB Edition, 1957 ( 1st published 1955) This work is an introduction to everyday life in ancient Egypt: homes, dress, amusements, the life of women and children, scribes, doctors, craftsmen, and administrators... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8499 F.C Copleston - Aquinas - Vintage Pelican PB 1975 - Philosophy Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3839 Vance Packard - The Status Seekers : An Exploration of Class Behaviour in America - Vintage Pelican PB 1962 Study of the informal class system in mid 20th century America and the characteristics of the individual social levels. this edition Pelican UK, 1971, originally published 1959 in the USA. Condition - Very good, sole flaw is previous owners name... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5667H Kathy McKeon / Jackie's Girl : My Life with the Kennedy Family All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93186H Paul Scott / Tony and Cherie : A Special Relationship (Hardback) This is a highly entertaining biography that looks at how the Blairs have survived life in Downing Street with all its stresses and strains. Written with access to well-placed sources, Tony and Cherie takes the reader on an eventful journey from... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X72998H Rand Flem-Ath / The Atlantis Blueprint (Hardback) In June 1990, Egyptologist John West accompanied geologist Robert Schoch to Cairo, to take a closer look at the Sphinx. For almost two decades, West had been arguing that the erosion of the Sphinx revealed that it had been weathered by rain... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: rR52000H Paul Rouse / The Hurlers : The First All-Ireland Championship and the Making of Modern Hurling 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... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR19253H Maxim Leo / Red Love : The Story of an East German Family A Sunday Telegraph, Irish Times and Glasgow Herald Book of the Year"Tender, acute and utterly absorbing" Anna Funder, author of Stasiland"A wry and unheroic witness... an unofficial history of a country that no longer exists" Julian... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58090H Andrew Sinclair / Secret Scroll Although references to this famous order of military knights rarely appears in standard histories of the time, a great deal of information about them can be gleaned from other, more esoteric sources, such as sculpture and architecture... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49304H,rR51648H Kieran Connolly / Sam Maguire : The Man and The Cup Originally from a Church of Ireland family in west Cork, Sam Maguire played a leading role in the GAA and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in London before and during the War of Independence in 1919-1921 when he was the main agent of Michael... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW38636H Emma Marriott / I Used to Know That: History : Stuff You Forgot from School (Hardback) Perfect follow-up to the universally acclaimed I `Used to Know That`; written in a highly accessible and lighthearted way, helps you brush up on your history, while enjoying a walk down memory lane - and remembering the stuff you really... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4700H Joachim E. Fest / Not Me : Memoirs of a German Childhood (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36659H Patrick French / India : A Portrait (Hardback) One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of cliches: 'hi-tech',... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43213H Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback) In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90813H Andrew O'Hagan / The Illuminations (Large Paperback) How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR22157H Ian Buruma / Murder in Amsterdam It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4847H Bill Emmott / 20:21 Vision : The Lessons of the 20th Century for the 21st (Hardback) What can the successes and failures of the 20th century teach us as the world faces an uncertain future in the 21st? The attacks on 11 September 2001 shook the rich West out of its complacency: suddenly, peace looked to be in peril. Even before... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92947H Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice (Hardback) This is a portrait of the First Lady, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school, through the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair, and the drama of the impeachment battle to reveal the power shifts, the genuine passion and the ultimate... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4012H Jung Chang / Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister : Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China (Large Paperback) The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94502H Catherine Richards / A Dark Devotion (Hardback) Alexandra O'Neill is drawn back to the Norfolk village where she grew up, to help Will Dearden find his missing paragon of a wife. But can any wife be so perfect that she doesn't have secrets? And can a devoted husband have failed to see the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6927H James B. Comey / A Higher Loyalty : Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Large Paperback) The sensational number one bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.In his Number One bestselling memoir A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8856H Elaine Crowley / Cowslips and Chainies : Memoir of Dublin in the 1930s (Large Paperback) This account of growing up in inner-city Dublin during the 1930s is a combination of personal memoir and social document. It gives descriptions of pawnbrokers and money-lenders, of how a family could manage life in one room, and of the workings... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43619H Finbar Dwyer / Life in Medieval Ireland (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR59969H Brendon Colvert / On My Honour : One Man's Lifelong Struggle to Clear His Name Superintendent William Geary was unjustly dismissed by the Irish Executive Council on 25 June 1928 contrary to his legal rights under Police Rules, Statutory Law and the Irish Constitution; he was a resourceful Officer and a thorn in the side... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED1440 Leonard Cottrell - Life Under the Pharaohs- Vintage illustrated Pan PB Life Under the Pharaohs - Pan PB Edition, 1957 ( 1st published 1955) This work is an introduction to everyday life in ancient Egypt: homes, dress, amusements, the life of women and children, scribes, doctors, craftsmen, and administrators... 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Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED1440 Leonard Cottrell - Life Under the Pharaohs- Vintage illustrated Pan PB Life Under the Pharaohs - Pan PB Edition, 1957 ( 1st published 1955) This work is an introduction to everyday life in ancient Egypt: homes, dress, amusements, the life of women and children, scribes, doctors, craftsmen, and administrators... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED8499 F.C Copleston - Aquinas - Vintage Pelican PB 1975 - Philosophy Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology... 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MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90813H Andrew O'Hagan / The Illuminations (Large Paperback) How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... 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Quick view sku: MED8499 F.C Copleston - Aquinas - Vintage Pelican PB 1975 - Philosophy Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3839 Vance Packard - The Status Seekers : An Exploration of Class Behaviour in America - Vintage Pelican PB 1962 Study of the informal class system in mid 20th century America and the characteristics of the individual social levels. this edition Pelican UK, 1971, originally published 1959 in the USA. Condition - Very good, sole flaw is previous owners name... 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MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90813H Andrew O'Hagan / The Illuminations (Large Paperback) How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... 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Quick view sku: MED3839 Vance Packard - The Status Seekers : An Exploration of Class Behaviour in America - Vintage Pelican PB 1962 Study of the informal class system in mid 20th century America and the characteristics of the individual social levels. this edition Pelican UK, 1971, originally published 1959 in the USA. Condition - Very good, sole flaw is previous owners name... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5667H Kathy McKeon / Jackie's Girl : My Life with the Kennedy Family All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93186H Paul Scott / Tony and Cherie : A Special Relationship (Hardback) This is a highly entertaining biography that looks at how the Blairs have survived life in Downing Street with all its stresses and strains. Written with access to well-placed sources, Tony and Cherie takes the reader on an eventful journey from... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X72998H Rand Flem-Ath / The Atlantis Blueprint (Hardback) In June 1990, Egyptologist John West accompanied geologist Robert Schoch to Cairo, to take a closer look at the Sphinx. For almost two decades, West had been arguing that the erosion of the Sphinx revealed that it had been weathered by rain... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: rR52000H Paul Rouse / The Hurlers : The First All-Ireland Championship and the Making of Modern Hurling 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... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR19253H Maxim Leo / Red Love : The Story of an East German Family A Sunday Telegraph, Irish Times and Glasgow Herald Book of the Year"Tender, acute and utterly absorbing" Anna Funder, author of Stasiland"A wry and unheroic witness... an unofficial history of a country that no longer exists" Julian... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58090H Andrew Sinclair / Secret Scroll Although references to this famous order of military knights rarely appears in standard histories of the time, a great deal of information about them can be gleaned from other, more esoteric sources, such as sculpture and architecture... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49304H,rR51648H Kieran Connolly / Sam Maguire : The Man and The Cup Originally from a Church of Ireland family in west Cork, Sam Maguire played a leading role in the GAA and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in London before and during the War of Independence in 1919-1921 when he was the main agent of Michael... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW38636H Emma Marriott / I Used to Know That: History : Stuff You Forgot from School (Hardback) Perfect follow-up to the universally acclaimed I `Used to Know That`; written in a highly accessible and lighthearted way, helps you brush up on your history, while enjoying a walk down memory lane - and remembering the stuff you really... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4700H Joachim E. Fest / Not Me : Memoirs of a German Childhood (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36659H Patrick French / India : A Portrait (Hardback) One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of cliches: 'hi-tech',... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43213H Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback) In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90813H Andrew O'Hagan / The Illuminations (Large Paperback) How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR22157H Ian Buruma / Murder in Amsterdam It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4847H Bill Emmott / 20:21 Vision : The Lessons of the 20th Century for the 21st (Hardback) What can the successes and failures of the 20th century teach us as the world faces an uncertain future in the 21st? The attacks on 11 September 2001 shook the rich West out of its complacency: suddenly, peace looked to be in peril. Even before... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92947H Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice (Hardback) This is a portrait of the First Lady, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school, through the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair, and the drama of the impeachment battle to reveal the power shifts, the genuine passion and the ultimate... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4012H Jung Chang / Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister : Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China (Large Paperback) The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94502H Catherine Richards / A Dark Devotion (Hardback) Alexandra O'Neill is drawn back to the Norfolk village where she grew up, to help Will Dearden find his missing paragon of a wife. But can any wife be so perfect that she doesn't have secrets? And can a devoted husband have failed to see the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6927H James B. Comey / A Higher Loyalty : Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Large Paperback) The sensational number one bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.In his Number One bestselling memoir A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8856H Elaine Crowley / Cowslips and Chainies : Memoir of Dublin in the 1930s (Large Paperback) This account of growing up in inner-city Dublin during the 1930s is a combination of personal memoir and social document. It gives descriptions of pawnbrokers and money-lenders, of how a family could manage life in one room, and of the workings... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43619H Finbar Dwyer / Life in Medieval Ireland (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR5667H Kathy McKeon / Jackie's Girl : My Life with the Kennedy Family All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X93186H Paul Scott / Tony and Cherie : A Special Relationship (Hardback) This is a highly entertaining biography that looks at how the Blairs have survived life in Downing Street with all its stresses and strains. Written with access to well-placed sources, Tony and Cherie takes the reader on an eventful journey from... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X72998H Rand Flem-Ath / The Atlantis Blueprint (Hardback) In June 1990, Egyptologist John West accompanied geologist Robert Schoch to Cairo, to take a closer look at the Sphinx. For almost two decades, West had been arguing that the erosion of the Sphinx revealed that it had been weathered by rain... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: rR52000H Paul Rouse / The Hurlers : The First All-Ireland Championship and the Making of Modern Hurling 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... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR19253H Maxim Leo / Red Love : The Story of an East German Family A Sunday Telegraph, Irish Times and Glasgow Herald Book of the Year"Tender, acute and utterly absorbing" Anna Funder, author of Stasiland"A wry and unheroic witness... an unofficial history of a country that no longer exists" Julian... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58090H Andrew Sinclair / Secret Scroll Although references to this famous order of military knights rarely appears in standard histories of the time, a great deal of information about them can be gleaned from other, more esoteric sources, such as sculpture and architecture... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49304H,rR51648H Kieran Connolly / Sam Maguire : The Man and The Cup Originally from a Church of Ireland family in west Cork, Sam Maguire played a leading role in the GAA and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in London before and during the War of Independence in 1919-1921 when he was the main agent of Michael... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW38636H Emma Marriott / I Used to Know That: History : Stuff You Forgot from School (Hardback) Perfect follow-up to the universally acclaimed I `Used to Know That`; written in a highly accessible and lighthearted way, helps you brush up on your history, while enjoying a walk down memory lane - and remembering the stuff you really... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4700H Joachim E. Fest / Not Me : Memoirs of a German Childhood (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36659H Patrick French / India : A Portrait (Hardback) One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of cliches: 'hi-tech',... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43213H Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback) In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90813H Andrew O'Hagan / The Illuminations (Large Paperback) How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR22157H Ian Buruma / Murder in Amsterdam It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4847H Bill Emmott / 20:21 Vision : The Lessons of the 20th Century for the 21st (Hardback) What can the successes and failures of the 20th century teach us as the world faces an uncertain future in the 21st? The attacks on 11 September 2001 shook the rich West out of its complacency: suddenly, peace looked to be in peril. Even before... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92947H Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice (Hardback) This is a portrait of the First Lady, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school, through the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair, and the drama of the impeachment battle to reveal the power shifts, the genuine passion and the ultimate... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4012H Jung Chang / Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister : Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China (Large Paperback) The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94502H Catherine Richards / A Dark Devotion (Hardback) Alexandra O'Neill is drawn back to the Norfolk village where she grew up, to help Will Dearden find his missing paragon of a wife. But can any wife be so perfect that she doesn't have secrets? And can a devoted husband have failed to see the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6927H James B. Comey / A Higher Loyalty : Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Large Paperback) The sensational number one bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.In his Number One bestselling memoir A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8856H Elaine Crowley / Cowslips and Chainies : Memoir of Dublin in the 1930s (Large Paperback) This account of growing up in inner-city Dublin during the 1930s is a combination of personal memoir and social document. It gives descriptions of pawnbrokers and money-lenders, of how a family could manage life in one room, and of the workings... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43619H Finbar Dwyer / Life in Medieval Ireland (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view sku: X93186H Paul Scott / Tony and Cherie : A Special Relationship (Hardback) This is a highly entertaining biography that looks at how the Blairs have survived life in Downing Street with all its stresses and strains. Written with access to well-placed sources, Tony and Cherie takes the reader on an eventful journey from... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: X72998H Rand Flem-Ath / The Atlantis Blueprint (Hardback) In June 1990, Egyptologist John West accompanied geologist Robert Schoch to Cairo, to take a closer look at the Sphinx. For almost two decades, West had been arguing that the erosion of the Sphinx revealed that it had been weathered by rain... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view GAA BOOKS | sku: rR52000H Paul Rouse / The Hurlers : The First All-Ireland Championship and the Making of Modern Hurling 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... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR19253H Maxim Leo / Red Love : The Story of an East German Family A Sunday Telegraph, Irish Times and Glasgow Herald Book of the Year"Tender, acute and utterly absorbing" Anna Funder, author of Stasiland"A wry and unheroic witness... an unofficial history of a country that no longer exists" Julian... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58090H Andrew Sinclair / Secret Scroll Although references to this famous order of military knights rarely appears in standard histories of the time, a great deal of information about them can be gleaned from other, more esoteric sources, such as sculpture and architecture... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49304H,rR51648H Kieran Connolly / Sam Maguire : The Man and The Cup Originally from a Church of Ireland family in west Cork, Sam Maguire played a leading role in the GAA and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in London before and during the War of Independence in 1919-1921 when he was the main agent of Michael... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW38636H Emma Marriott / I Used to Know That: History : Stuff You Forgot from School (Hardback) Perfect follow-up to the universally acclaimed I `Used to Know That`; written in a highly accessible and lighthearted way, helps you brush up on your history, while enjoying a walk down memory lane - and remembering the stuff you really... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4700H Joachim E. Fest / Not Me : Memoirs of a German Childhood (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36659H Patrick French / India : A Portrait (Hardback) One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of cliches: 'hi-tech',... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43213H Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback) In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90813H Andrew O'Hagan / The Illuminations (Large Paperback) How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR22157H Ian Buruma / Murder in Amsterdam It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4847H Bill Emmott / 20:21 Vision : The Lessons of the 20th Century for the 21st (Hardback) What can the successes and failures of the 20th century teach us as the world faces an uncertain future in the 21st? The attacks on 11 September 2001 shook the rich West out of its complacency: suddenly, peace looked to be in peril. Even before... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92947H Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice (Hardback) This is a portrait of the First Lady, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school, through the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair, and the drama of the impeachment battle to reveal the power shifts, the genuine passion and the ultimate... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4012H Jung Chang / Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister : Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China (Large Paperback) The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94502H Catherine Richards / A Dark Devotion (Hardback) Alexandra O'Neill is drawn back to the Norfolk village where she grew up, to help Will Dearden find his missing paragon of a wife. But can any wife be so perfect that she doesn't have secrets? And can a devoted husband have failed to see the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6927H James B. Comey / A Higher Loyalty : Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Large Paperback) The sensational number one bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.In his Number One bestselling memoir A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8856H Elaine Crowley / Cowslips and Chainies : Memoir of Dublin in the 1930s (Large Paperback) This account of growing up in inner-city Dublin during the 1930s is a combination of personal memoir and social document. It gives descriptions of pawnbrokers and money-lenders, of how a family could manage life in one room, and of the workings... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43619H Finbar Dwyer / Life in Medieval Ireland (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR19253H Maxim Leo / Red Love : The Story of an East German Family A Sunday Telegraph, Irish Times and Glasgow Herald Book of the Year"Tender, acute and utterly absorbing" Anna Funder, author of Stasiland"A wry and unheroic witness... an unofficial history of a country that no longer exists" Julian... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58090H Andrew Sinclair / Secret Scroll Although references to this famous order of military knights rarely appears in standard histories of the time, a great deal of information about them can be gleaned from other, more esoteric sources, such as sculpture and architecture... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR49304H,rR51648H Kieran Connolly / Sam Maguire : The Man and The Cup Originally from a Church of Ireland family in west Cork, Sam Maguire played a leading role in the GAA and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in London before and during the War of Independence in 1919-1921 when he was the main agent of Michael... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW38636H Emma Marriott / I Used to Know That: History : Stuff You Forgot from School (Hardback) Perfect follow-up to the universally acclaimed I `Used to Know That`; written in a highly accessible and lighthearted way, helps you brush up on your history, while enjoying a walk down memory lane - and remembering the stuff you really... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4700H Joachim E. Fest / Not Me : Memoirs of a German Childhood (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36659H Patrick French / India : A Portrait (Hardback) One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of cliches: 'hi-tech',... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43213H Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback) In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90813H Andrew O'Hagan / The Illuminations (Large Paperback) How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR22157H Ian Buruma / Murder in Amsterdam It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4847H Bill Emmott / 20:21 Vision : The Lessons of the 20th Century for the 21st (Hardback) What can the successes and failures of the 20th century teach us as the world faces an uncertain future in the 21st? The attacks on 11 September 2001 shook the rich West out of its complacency: suddenly, peace looked to be in peril. Even before... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92947H Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice (Hardback) This is a portrait of the First Lady, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school, through the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair, and the drama of the impeachment battle to reveal the power shifts, the genuine passion and the ultimate... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4012H Jung Chang / Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister : Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China (Large Paperback) The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94502H Catherine Richards / A Dark Devotion (Hardback) Alexandra O'Neill is drawn back to the Norfolk village where she grew up, to help Will Dearden find his missing paragon of a wife. But can any wife be so perfect that she doesn't have secrets? And can a devoted husband have failed to see the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6927H James B. Comey / A Higher Loyalty : Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Large Paperback) The sensational number one bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.In his Number One bestselling memoir A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8856H Elaine Crowley / Cowslips and Chainies : Memoir of Dublin in the 1930s (Large Paperback) This account of growing up in inner-city Dublin during the 1930s is a combination of personal memoir and social document. It gives descriptions of pawnbrokers and money-lenders, of how a family could manage life in one room, and of the workings... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43619H Finbar Dwyer / Life in Medieval Ireland (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW38636H Emma Marriott / I Used to Know That: History : Stuff You Forgot from School (Hardback) Perfect follow-up to the universally acclaimed I `Used to Know That`; written in a highly accessible and lighthearted way, helps you brush up on your history, while enjoying a walk down memory lane - and remembering the stuff you really... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4700H Joachim E. Fest / Not Me : Memoirs of a German Childhood (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36659H Patrick French / India : A Portrait (Hardback) One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of cliches: 'hi-tech',... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43213H Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback) In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90813H Andrew O'Hagan / The Illuminations (Large Paperback) How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8856H Elaine Crowley / Cowslips and Chainies : Memoir of Dublin in the 1930s (Large Paperback) This account of growing up in inner-city Dublin during the 1930s is a combination of personal memoir and social document. It gives descriptions of pawnbrokers and money-lenders, of how a family could manage life in one room, and of the workings... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43619H Finbar Dwyer / Life in Medieval Ireland (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR49304H,rR51648H Kieran Connolly / Sam Maguire : The Man and The Cup Originally from a Church of Ireland family in west Cork, Sam Maguire played a leading role in the GAA and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in London before and during the War of Independence in 1919-1921 when he was the main agent of Michael... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW38636H Emma Marriott / I Used to Know That: History : Stuff You Forgot from School (Hardback) Perfect follow-up to the universally acclaimed I `Used to Know That`; written in a highly accessible and lighthearted way, helps you brush up on your history, while enjoying a walk down memory lane - and remembering the stuff you really... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4700H Joachim E. Fest / Not Me : Memoirs of a German Childhood (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW36659H Patrick French / India : A Portrait (Hardback) One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of cliches: 'hi-tech',... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43213H Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback) In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90813H Andrew O'Hagan / The Illuminations (Large Paperback) How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR22157H Ian Buruma / Murder in Amsterdam It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4847H Bill Emmott / 20:21 Vision : The Lessons of the 20th Century for the 21st (Hardback) What can the successes and failures of the 20th century teach us as the world faces an uncertain future in the 21st? The attacks on 11 September 2001 shook the rich West out of its complacency: suddenly, peace looked to be in peril. Even before... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92947H Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice (Hardback) This is a portrait of the First Lady, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school, through the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair, and the drama of the impeachment battle to reveal the power shifts, the genuine passion and the ultimate... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4012H Jung Chang / Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister : Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China (Large Paperback) The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94502H Catherine Richards / A Dark Devotion (Hardback) Alexandra O'Neill is drawn back to the Norfolk village where she grew up, to help Will Dearden find his missing paragon of a wife. But can any wife be so perfect that she doesn't have secrets? And can a devoted husband have failed to see the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6927H James B. Comey / A Higher Loyalty : Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Large Paperback) The sensational number one bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.In his Number One bestselling memoir A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8856H Elaine Crowley / Cowslips and Chainies : Memoir of Dublin in the 1930s (Large Paperback) This account of growing up in inner-city Dublin during the 1930s is a combination of personal memoir and social document. It gives descriptions of pawnbrokers and money-lenders, of how a family could manage life in one room, and of the workings... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43619H Finbar Dwyer / Life in Medieval Ireland (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. 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SALE Quick view sku: wW38636H Emma Marriott / I Used to Know That: History : Stuff You Forgot from School (Hardback) Perfect follow-up to the universally acclaimed I `Used to Know That`; written in a highly accessible and lighthearted way, helps you brush up on your history, while enjoying a walk down memory lane - and remembering the stuff you really... MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view sku: wW43213H Gene Kerrigan / The Scrap (Large Paperback) In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse.In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion.It required the sacrifice of... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90813H Andrew O'Hagan / The Illuminations (Large Paperback) How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR22157H Ian Buruma / Murder in Amsterdam It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4847H Bill Emmott / 20:21 Vision : The Lessons of the 20th Century for the 21st (Hardback) What can the successes and failures of the 20th century teach us as the world faces an uncertain future in the 21st? The attacks on 11 September 2001 shook the rich West out of its complacency: suddenly, peace looked to be in peril. Even before... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92947H Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice (Hardback) This is a portrait of the First Lady, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school, through the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair, and the drama of the impeachment battle to reveal the power shifts, the genuine passion and the ultimate... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4012H Jung Chang / Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister : Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China (Large Paperback) The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94502H Catherine Richards / A Dark Devotion (Hardback) Alexandra O'Neill is drawn back to the Norfolk village where she grew up, to help Will Dearden find his missing paragon of a wife. But can any wife be so perfect that she doesn't have secrets? And can a devoted husband have failed to see the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6927H James B. Comey / A Higher Loyalty : Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Large Paperback) The sensational number one bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.In his Number One bestselling memoir A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8856H Elaine Crowley / Cowslips and Chainies : Memoir of Dublin in the 1930s (Large Paperback) This account of growing up in inner-city Dublin during the 1930s is a combination of personal memoir and social document. It gives descriptions of pawnbrokers and money-lenders, of how a family could manage life in one room, and of the workings... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43619H Finbar Dwyer / Life in Medieval Ireland (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW31268H Caroline Moorehead / Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (Large Paperback) Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90813H Andrew O'Hagan / The Illuminations (Large Paperback) How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR22157H Ian Buruma / Murder in Amsterdam It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4847H Bill Emmott / 20:21 Vision : The Lessons of the 20th Century for the 21st (Hardback) What can the successes and failures of the 20th century teach us as the world faces an uncertain future in the 21st? The attacks on 11 September 2001 shook the rich West out of its complacency: suddenly, peace looked to be in peril. Even before... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92947H Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice (Hardback) This is a portrait of the First Lady, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school, through the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair, and the drama of the impeachment battle to reveal the power shifts, the genuine passion and the ultimate... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4012H Jung Chang / Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister : Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China (Large Paperback) The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94502H Catherine Richards / A Dark Devotion (Hardback) Alexandra O'Neill is drawn back to the Norfolk village where she grew up, to help Will Dearden find his missing paragon of a wife. But can any wife be so perfect that she doesn't have secrets? And can a devoted husband have failed to see the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6927H James B. Comey / A Higher Loyalty : Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Large Paperback) The sensational number one bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.In his Number One bestselling memoir A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8856H Elaine Crowley / Cowslips and Chainies : Memoir of Dublin in the 1930s (Large Paperback) This account of growing up in inner-city Dublin during the 1930s is a combination of personal memoir and social document. It gives descriptions of pawnbrokers and money-lenders, of how a family could manage life in one room, and of the workings... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43619H Finbar Dwyer / Life in Medieval Ireland (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X90813H Andrew O'Hagan / The Illuminations (Large Paperback) How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR22157H Ian Buruma / Murder in Amsterdam It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4847H Bill Emmott / 20:21 Vision : The Lessons of the 20th Century for the 21st (Hardback) What can the successes and failures of the 20th century teach us as the world faces an uncertain future in the 21st? The attacks on 11 September 2001 shook the rich West out of its complacency: suddenly, peace looked to be in peril. Even before... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92947H Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice (Hardback) This is a portrait of the First Lady, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school, through the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair, and the drama of the impeachment battle to reveal the power shifts, the genuine passion and the ultimate... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4012H Jung Chang / Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister : Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China (Large Paperback) The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94502H Catherine Richards / A Dark Devotion (Hardback) Alexandra O'Neill is drawn back to the Norfolk village where she grew up, to help Will Dearden find his missing paragon of a wife. But can any wife be so perfect that she doesn't have secrets? And can a devoted husband have failed to see the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6927H James B. Comey / A Higher Loyalty : Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Large Paperback) The sensational number one bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.In his Number One bestselling memoir A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8856H Elaine Crowley / Cowslips and Chainies : Memoir of Dublin in the 1930s (Large Paperback) This account of growing up in inner-city Dublin during the 1930s is a combination of personal memoir and social document. It gives descriptions of pawnbrokers and money-lenders, of how a family could manage life in one room, and of the workings... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43619H Finbar Dwyer / Life in Medieval Ireland (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR38640H Robert Widders / Spitting on a Soldier's Grave : Court Martialed after death, the story of the forgotten Irish and British soldiers The story of the Irishmen who deserted from the Irish Army to join the Allies in the struggle against fascism and Nazism during the Second World War, has been kept secret for over half a century. These men fought, and sometimes died, in some of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR22157H Ian Buruma / Murder in Amsterdam It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW4847H Bill Emmott / 20:21 Vision : The Lessons of the 20th Century for the 21st (Hardback) What can the successes and failures of the 20th century teach us as the world faces an uncertain future in the 21st? The attacks on 11 September 2001 shook the rich West out of its complacency: suddenly, peace looked to be in peril. Even before... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X92947H Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice (Hardback) This is a portrait of the First Lady, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school, through the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair, and the drama of the impeachment battle to reveal the power shifts, the genuine passion and the ultimate... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4012H Jung Chang / Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister : Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China (Large Paperback) The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94502H Catherine Richards / A Dark Devotion (Hardback) Alexandra O'Neill is drawn back to the Norfolk village where she grew up, to help Will Dearden find his missing paragon of a wife. But can any wife be so perfect that she doesn't have secrets? And can a devoted husband have failed to see the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6927H James B. Comey / A Higher Loyalty : Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Large Paperback) The sensational number one bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.In his Number One bestselling memoir A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8856H Elaine Crowley / Cowslips and Chainies : Memoir of Dublin in the 1930s (Large Paperback) This account of growing up in inner-city Dublin during the 1930s is a combination of personal memoir and social document. It gives descriptions of pawnbrokers and money-lenders, of how a family could manage life in one room, and of the workings... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43619H Finbar Dwyer / Life in Medieval Ireland (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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SALE Quick view sku: X92947H Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice (Hardback) This is a portrait of the First Lady, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school, through the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair, and the drama of the impeachment battle to reveal the power shifts, the genuine passion and the ultimate... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: wW4012H Jung Chang / Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister : Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China (Large Paperback) The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X94502H Catherine Richards / A Dark Devotion (Hardback) Alexandra O'Neill is drawn back to the Norfolk village where she grew up, to help Will Dearden find his missing paragon of a wife. But can any wife be so perfect that she doesn't have secrets? And can a devoted husband have failed to see the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6927H James B. Comey / A Higher Loyalty : Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Large Paperback) The sensational number one bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.In his Number One bestselling memoir A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8856H Elaine Crowley / Cowslips and Chainies : Memoir of Dublin in the 1930s (Large Paperback) This account of growing up in inner-city Dublin during the 1930s is a combination of personal memoir and social document. It gives descriptions of pawnbrokers and money-lenders, of how a family could manage life in one room, and of the workings... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43619H Finbar Dwyer / Life in Medieval Ireland (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view sku: X94502H Catherine Richards / A Dark Devotion (Hardback) Alexandra O'Neill is drawn back to the Norfolk village where she grew up, to help Will Dearden find his missing paragon of a wife. But can any wife be so perfect that she doesn't have secrets? And can a devoted husband have failed to see the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: wW6927H James B. Comey / A Higher Loyalty : Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Large Paperback) The sensational number one bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.In his Number One bestselling memoir A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8856H Elaine Crowley / Cowslips and Chainies : Memoir of Dublin in the 1930s (Large Paperback) This account of growing up in inner-city Dublin during the 1930s is a combination of personal memoir and social document. It gives descriptions of pawnbrokers and money-lenders, of how a family could manage life in one room, and of the workings... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43619H Finbar Dwyer / Life in Medieval Ireland (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW8856H Elaine Crowley / Cowslips and Chainies : Memoir of Dublin in the 1930s (Large Paperback) This account of growing up in inner-city Dublin during the 1930s is a combination of personal memoir and social document. It gives descriptions of pawnbrokers and money-lenders, of how a family could manage life in one room, and of the workings... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW43619H Finbar Dwyer / Life in Medieval Ireland (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW43619H Finbar Dwyer / Life in Medieval Ireland (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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