Politics , Society & Current Affairs

Shane Coleman / Scandal Nation : Key Events that Shook and Shaped Ireland (Large Paperback)

   We are where we are has become one of the great truisms of the current crisis facing the country. But how did we get here and can an inspection of the roots of our modern failings - of...

Will Hutton / The World We're In

     THE STATE WE'RE IN, Will Hutton's explosive analysis of British society, was the biggest selling politico-economic work since the Second World War. Now, as the world realigns itself in the...

Madeleine Bunting / Willing Slaves : How the Overwork Culture is Ruling Our Lives (Large Paperback)

   A hardhitting expose of the overwork culture and modern management techniques which seduce millions of people to hand over the best part of their lives to their employer.The British now work the...

T. Ryle Dwyer / Big Fellow, Long Fellow : A Joint Biography of Collins and De Valera (Large Paperback)

    This is the first joint biography of the two major figures in the making of the modern Irish state. These two contrasting figures, one destined to die, the other a long-lived patriarch,...

Jim Power / Picking Up the Pieces : Economic Crisis and Hope in Ireland (Large Paperback)

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Alastair Cambell / The Blair Years (Large Paperback)

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P. J. O'Rourke / How the Hell Did This Happen? : The US Election of 2016 (Large Paperback)

   No comedian could have written the joke this election cycle has been. The punch line is too ridiculous (whoever the punch line is going to be). Celebrated political satirist, journalist, and...

Joe Bageant / Deer Hunting With Jesus

     Welcome to Winchester, Virginia: a town populated almost entirely by the undereducated, the overweight and the dirt-poor. Patsy Cline may have been born here, but she got out pretty fast - for...

Simeon Potter / Our Language

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Dearbhail McDonald / Bust : How the Courts Have Exposed the Rotten Heart of the Irish Economy (Large Paperback)

    When, after fifteen years of runaway growth based largely on property speculation, the Irish economy finally crashed, Ireland's bankers and developers tried to keep themselves out of sight...

Garret Fitzgerald / Just Garret (Large Paperback)

   Here is Garret FitzGerald the person - from the young newlywed in his first job, to the Taoiseach grappling with economic crises and dealing with world leaders like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald...

Fintan O'Toole / Heroic Failure : Brexit and the Politics of Pain (Large Paperback)

   'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The Times. A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR.'A quite brilliant dissection of the cultural roots of...

Ed Burke / Next Generation Ireland (Large Paperback)

   Ireland in the early 2010s stands at a crossroads. The ongoing change and crisis in institutions that once had our trust force us to ask, ‘What now?’Next Generation Ireland brings together ten...

Lutz Kleveman / The New Great Game

   The Caspian Region, lying south of Russia, west of China and north of Afghanistan, contains the world's largest untapped oil and gas resources. In the years between the death of the Soviet Union...

Paul Krugman / The Return of Depression Economics

   Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics, shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression - and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe.In...

Anna Politkovskaya / A Russian Diary (Large Paperback)

   A devastating account of contemporary Russia by a great and brave writer. A Russian Diary is the book that Anna Politkovskaya had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in...

Charles Handy / The Elephant And The Flea

   Bookseller Charles Handy's best-selling new book looks at how individuals (the fleas in his analogy) relate to multi-national conglomerates (the elephants). In addition to addressing how and why...

Damian Corless / GUBU Nation PB

     Over fifty jaw-dropping tales of the unexpected, and the just plain ludicrous. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our...

Bernard Lewis /The Crisis of Islam : Holy War and Unholy Terror

   The great scholar of Islam directly confronts the events of September 11th and the reasons behind Islamic terrorism in the modern world - a Sunday Times bestseller.President Bush has made it...

Conor O'Clery / May You Live in Interesting Times

As a pioneering foreign correspondent, Conor O’Clery has been witness to some of the major world events of the past thirty years, including the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, the Iran–Iraq war, the...

P. J. O'Rourke / Parliament of Whores

    Examines every aspect of government, attending a political convention, the presidential election and inauguration, Congress, the Supreme Court and a small town meeting in New Hampshire. He...

Paul Mason / Why it's still kicking off everywhere : the new global revolutions

    Originally published in 2012 to wide acclaim, this updated edition, Why It's STILL Kicking Off Everywhere, includes coverage of the most recent events in the wave of revolt and revolution...

Naomi Klein / This Changes Everything

   Naomi Klein's international bestseller This Changes Everything is a must-read on our future, one of the defining and most hopeful books of this era.Forget everything you think you know about...

Larry Flynt / Sex, Lies and Politics

    It takes a hustler to know one. In his explosive new book, Hustler publisher Larry Flynt lays bare the vast right-wing conspiracy that brought George W. Bush to power four years ago. He shows...

Peter Stalker / The No-nonsense Guide to International Migration

    Goods and money can move easily in free markets, but not people. Almost every day there are news reports of would-be migrants locked in cargo holds, foundering in small boats or discovered in...

P. J. O'Rourke / Republican Party Reptile

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Shyam Bhatia / Saddam's Bomb

   The authors reveal how Saddam Hussein ordered his scientists to develop a nuclear bomb that would make him the most powerful Arab ruler of modern times, forcing the West to think twice about...

Matt Cooper / How Ireland Really Went Bust

   The definitive account of the tumultuous events that led to Ireland going broke in 2010From the night the Irish government guaranteed the debts of Irish banks in September 2008 Ireland was on a...

Bernard Levin / In These Times

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Wayne Ellwood / The No-nonsense Guide to Globalisation

 Commercial culture and the Western consumer model have seeped into every corner of the globe while gaps in wealth, food security and social provision continue to grow. This "No Nonsense Guide to...

Naomi Klein / Fences and Windows : Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Globalization Debate

 The story of the rise of the movement that wanted accountable, improved globalization.For two years Naomi Klein wrote a weekly column for Canada's leading newspaper, the Globe & Mail (syndicated...

Nick Cohen / What's Left? : How the Left Lost its Way

   From the much-loved, witty and excoriating voice of journalist Nick Cohen, a powerful and irreverent dissection of the agonies, idiocies and compromises of mainstream liberal thought.Nick Cohen...

Robert Kagan / Paradise and Power : America and Europe in the New World Order

     After years of mutual resentment and tension, there is a sudden recognition that the real interests of America and its allies are diverging sharply and that the transatlantic relationship...

Dan Gardner / Risk : The Science and Politics of Fear

   We are the safest humans who ever lived - the statistics prove it. And yet the media tells a different story with its warnings and scare stories. How is it possible that anxiety has become the...

Mary Minihan / Dail Spats

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John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World

   John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism...

Ariel Levy / Female Chauvinist Pigs : Woman and the Rise of Raunch Culture

 Today's young women seem to be outdoing the male chauvinist pigs of yesteryear, applauding the 'pornification' of other women, and themselves. This is a world where simulating sex for baying crowds...

Barbara Ehrenreich / Going To Extremes : Notes from a Divided Nation

    America is a grotesquely polarized society and becoming more so all the time. In this razor-sharp, funny and terrifying collection of pieces, Barbara Ehrenreich shows how the widening gap...

Ivan Bacik / Kicking and Screaming : Dragging Ireland into the 21st Century

    After a century of wars, civil wars, internal division, political upheaval and the growing separation of Church and State, Irish society has emerged as a twenty-first-century hybrid, where...

Andrew Marr / The Making of Modern Britain

   In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of...

Michael Kranish / Trump Revealed

   **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**`Excellent book... skilful and meticulous' David Aaronovitch, The TimesHailed as `authoritative' and `essential', Trump Revealed is the indispensable and updated...

Paul Roberts / The End of Oil : The Decline of the Petroleum Economy and the Rise of a New Energy Order

    Billions of people around the world enjoy an unprecedented standard of living based on one thing: oil. And each year we demand more. We produce and consume energy not simply to heat, feed,...

Hugh Miles / Al Jazeera : How Arab TV News Challenged the World

      With more than fifty million viewers, Al Jazeera is one of the most widely watched news channels in the world. It's also one of the most controversial. Set up by the eccentric Emir of...

Amy Chua / World on Fire : How Exporting Free-market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (Large Paperback)

 

Noam Chomsky / Hopes and Prospects

 Hopes and Prospects is Noam Chomsky's indispensable analysis of the world at present and a roadmap for the futureIn Hopes and Prospects, Noam Chomsky examines the challenges of our early...

Michael Wolff / Fire and Fury

 SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERWith extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of...

Noreena Hertz / The Silent Takeover : Global Capitalism & the Death of Democracy

 The way we are governed is changing; so is our economy. Government has less and less power to influence how we live our lives, while the private sector has more power than ever to control what we do...

Martin Wolf / Why Globalization Works

 The debate on globalization has reached a level of intensity that inhibits comprehension and obscures the issues. In this book a highly distinguished international economist scrupulously explains...

Michael Moore / The Official Fahrenheit 9-11 Reader

 From director and political activist Michael Moore, The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader is the official companion to the Oscar-winning documentary that broke box-office records around the world...

Joby Warrick / Black Flags : The Rise of ISIS

   *WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE for NON-FICTION 2016**In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose...

Michael Wolff / Fire and Fury : Inside the Trump White House (Large Paperback)

 With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time.The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy,...

Yuval Noah Harari / Homo Deus : A Brief History of Tomorrow

 THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLERSapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going.Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus...