Parenting and Childcare

Jools Oliver / Minus Nine to One : The Diary of an Honest Mum

 Being pregnant for the first time changed Jools Oliver's life. Having longed for children since before she can remember, she was suddenly faced with an array of unfamiliar, unexpected and sometimes downright embarrassing emotional and physical...

Arlene Eisenberg / What to Expect the Toddler Years (Large Paperback)

 Overflowing with intelligence and good common sense, this comprehensive guide provides clear explanations and useful guidelines on everything a parent might want to know about the second and third years of their child's life. On a month-by-month...

Heidi Murkoff / What to Expect the First Year (Large Paperback)

 WHAT TO EXPECT THE 1st YEAR is a comprehensive and practical month-by-month guide that clearly explains everything parents need to know - or might be worrying about - in the first year with a new baby. Featuring dozens of Q&A sections, as well...

Brian Gilsenan / The Essential Parent's Guide for the Primary School Years (Large Paperback)

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Tony Humphreys / Leaving the Nest : What Families Are All About

 We don't all come from happy families. The reality is that families are a mixture of positive and hurtful experiences. Families are all about bringing children to a place of independence, so that as young adults they can fly the nest. However, some...

Nicola Morgan / The Leaving Home Survival Guide (Large Paperback)

   The ultimate guide to first-time home-leavers - don't leave home without it! Everybody has at least one horror story about leaving home for the first time - when the pipes burst, the cooker caught fire, or your flatmate got scurvy from...

Laurence Flanagan / Favourite Irish Names for Children

 Looks at the 200 most popular Irish Christian names, with a short, witty and authoritative commentary on each. The book details the origin of each name and - in the case of saints' names - gives a potted life of the original eponym. The author also...

Miriam Stoppard / Pregnancy & Birth Handbook

   Britain's best-loved and respected baby care author Dr Miriam Stoppard gives guidance to both partners on every aspect of pregnancy and birth from conception to the first weeks of life.    All of our books are second hand, and...

Lucy Taylor / The Mum's Guide to Having Your Baby in Ireland (Large Paperback)

I wish I had had this resource when I had my own children. It strikes just the right balance between reassurance and crisp information and readers will feel comforted and supported through the experience.' Alison Walsh, author of In My Mother's Shoes If...

Clive Gifford / Teenage Kicks: 101 Things To Do Before You're 16

Have you ever ... Eaten with chopsticks for a week? Had a shopping trolley race? Helped out for a night at a homeless centre? This book will tell you how. With 101 challenges and targets for readers to try out, work towards or aspire to before reaching...

Liz Fraser / The Yummy Mummy's Survival Guide

Forget the frump. Wave goodbye to those leggings - there's a new breed of mothers on the baby block. Yummy Mummies don't leave their sense of style in the maternity ward - the loving hands that rock today's cradles are manicured and moisturised.Becoming...

Tony Wolf / Get Out of My Life

This bestselling survival manual is for parents who find themselves marooned among volatile and incomprehensible aliens on Planet Teen. It looks at all the difficult issues of bringing up teenagers - school, sex, drugs and more. But it's the title of the...

Kevin Flanagan / Maximum Points, Minimum Panic: The Parents' Guide: Essential Guide to Surviving Ex

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Going on to Solids: Feeding Baby - From Four Months

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Your Body Matters

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Jenny Saville / Baby's Names

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Tracey Zabar / Best Loved Baby Names and Their Meanings

Tracey Zabar makes naming Baby a fun and enjoyable adventure. She guides you through the maze of endless choices, and helps you discover the right name for your baby girl or boy. Overflowing with more than 4,000 name ideas - from the timeless and...

Gina Ford / Potty Training In One Week

Many parents experience a long and bumpy ride along the road to a nappy-free existence. Advice on offer from grandparents, friends and professionals is often conflicting, leaving parents unsure of how and when to potty train their child. In Potty...

Anne Enright / Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood

Anne Enright, one of Ireland's most remarkable writers, has just had two babies: a girl and a boy. Making Babies, is the intimate, engaging, and very funny record of the journey from early pregnancy to age two. Written in dispatches, typed with a...

Adele Faber / How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk

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Dictionary of First Names

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Suzy Powling / Choosing a Name for Your Baby

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Choose Your Baby's Name: A Dictionary of First Names

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Nancy Kohner / What Shall We Tell the Children?

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David Caren / The Irish Dad's Survival Guide to Pregnancy & Beyond (Large Paperback)

Writing in his trademark light and accessible style, the founder of Dad.ie delivers a practical guide for expectant dads which offers an honest and modern account of pregnancy from a dad's perspective. Combining real-life experiences from a fraternity of...

Steve Biddulph / Raising Girls: Why Girls are Different - And How to Help Them Grow Up Happy and Confident

A warm and inspiring read for parents, this book explores girls' emotional and physical development from ages 1 to 16. Every parent of girls aged between 1 and 16 will enjoy reading this informative and practical book. It focuses on girls' emotional and...

Aidan Herron / Girlfacts

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Desmond Morris / Babywatching (Hardback)

Paperback edition to this guide to the first 12 months of human life. In a revealing portrait of life, from the baby's point of view, Desmond Morris answers the questions parents ask: Do babies dream? What makes them cry, or smile? How well can they...

Charles Fernyhough / The Baby in the Mirror: A Child's World from Birth to Three (Large Paperback)

For Charles Fernyhough, the birth of his daughter Athena was an opportunity to re-evaluate much of what he had learned as a lecturer and researcher in developmental psychology. Drawing on the detailed notes he kept on her development, Fernyhough uses...

Karen Sullivan / How to Say 'No' and Mean It: Survival skills for parents

Karen Sullivan, TV parenting troubleshooter, offers strategies that really work for parents and uses typical scenarios that parents will recognise in this book where she outlines a new approach to discipline which empowers children to make the right...

Penelope Leech / Children First

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Parsons. Rob / The Sixty Minute Mother

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Libby Purves / How Not to Be a Perfect Mother

This is a book which sets out to show that even the most unpromising madonna can survive the years of looking after babies and toddlers. Full of down-to-earth tips and anecdotes, this is a battle-manual for the mother on the front line - going from...

Steve Biddulph / Raising Boys: Why Boys Are Different

A word of mouth bestseller which has become one of the best loved and most successful books in the parenting field. Steve Biddulph's Raising Boys is to be re-released this month with some startling new research on what helps - and what harms - boys...