Parenting and Childcare

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...

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...

Mikael Engstrom / Thin Ice

Where would you rather live - in a lonely flat with your drunk father, only bearable when your big brother is home? Or in a small, snowy village with a frozen lake, where your aunt burns books to keep the house warm, and a girl called Pi makes your heart...

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

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 price sticker on a...

Going on to Solids: Feeding Baby - From Four Months

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 price sticker on a...

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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Patrick Woulfe / Irish Names for Children

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Dictionary of First Names

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Patrick Hanks / A Dictionary of First Names

We all have a first name, but how many of us really know its origin and history? This comprehensive dictionary provides a collection of linguistic, historical, and associated information about some 7,000 names, making it a useful reference for linguists...

Suzy Powling / Choosing a Name for Your Baby

Over 700 traditional and modern names are listed in this A-Z handbook for prospective parents.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...

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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Patience Thomson / 101 Ways to Get Your Child to Read

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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...

Mary Hooper / Megan 3

It is Jack's, Megan's son, first birthday party and the atmosphere is very tense. But Megan is being distracted by the unusual amount of telephone calls that her mother is getting. Surely Mum hasn't got a boyfriend has she? But it turns out...

Mary Hooper / Megan

Megan, at age 15, discovers that she is 5 months pregnant in her 'Personal Development' class. How she copes, the decisions that she has to make, how her family and friends react are all told in a telling, compulsive tale. A tale that pulls no...

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...