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Coffee-table book with the usual touristic shots.
Covers the history of the game from its earliest form to the highly sophisticated play we see today.
This is the definitive book on Pamplona's fiesta and running of the bulls, praised by James Michener and other Pulitzer Prize winners. This chronicle and...
Between January 1682 and the spring of 1684 William Culliford, Surveyor of the Customs, completed an extraordinary investigation into the integrity and efficiency of the...
A resident of Roundstone for a number of years, in his latest book Robinson concentrates on the coastal area around the town built by Alexander...
India, the world's largest democracy, will soon be the most populous country on the planet. If the image of the poorest among poor countries has...
Uncover the inspiring stories of bravery and activism in the face of war with this powerful collection of essays and poems.
War, as the general said, is hell. But in a few it also brings out the best. Heroism and horror are the keynotes of this...
Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the...
Renowned historian Haag investigates the Knights Templar--their origins and history, the enduring myths, and the soaring architecture of this enigmatic order long shrouded in mystery...
The story of two Irish families affected by the Irish Famine of the 1840's and subjected to the harsh penal laws of the time.
Here, playwright, author, and critic Declan Hassett celebrates some of the great moments of theatre in Cork from the 1940s onwards. In conversation with him...
Denmark is officially the happiest nation on Earth, so when journalist Helen Russell finds herself spending a year in rural Jutland, she decides she'll do...
A study of one of Ireland's most respected writers of the twentieth century, complete with bibliography.
An unusual coincidence occurred early one morning at the most visited war memorial in the United States as a shaft of sunlight hit one of...
A fascinating insight into 18th century aristocratic life through the lives of the four Lennox sisters, the great grandchildren of Charles II, whose extraordinary lives...
Powell writes of his difficulties as well as the triumphs that marked his rise from a boyhood in the Bronx to the rank of four-star...
Everybody Matters Moving memoir from the first female President of Ireland, and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson. Full description
Colin Bateman grew up in the pleasant seaside town of Bangor in Northern Ireland. Ten miles away, the IRA, the UDA and the UVF were...
'ENORMOUS FUN' GUARDIAN 'SO ENTERTAINING' THE TIMES 'GOSSIPY, LIGHT AND FUN' TLS Queen Beeslooks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out...
A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched documentary traces and biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate cultural portrait of a world that is...
The inside stories of Ireland's most famous abduction cases. In the late 1970s and early 1980s Ireland was hit by a spate of high-profile kidnappings:...
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION “Brilliant, beautiful, heartbreaking.”—J.Courtney Sullivan, New York Times...
Mo Mowlam, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, has become one of Britain's most popular politicians; a woman who evokes immense personal empathy among politicians...
Daniel James Brown’s robust book tells the story of the University of Washington’s 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal,...
One of the most intelligent and influential women in America reflects on her eight years as First Lady of the United States in a revealing...
One of the bestselling books of the 21st century, now a major TV drama starring Harvey Keitel, Melanie Lynskey, Jonah Hauer-King, Anna Próchniak and Jonas...
In the follow-up to his bestselling JFK in Ireland, the Emerald Isle's favourite son delves into his country's past to celebrate the Irish people who...
2004 is the hundred-year anniversary of the great Welsh Revival - celebrate with us this significant moment in history and learn what it can teach...
THE BESTSELLING BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR AND BAFTA AWARD-WINNING FILM One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th...
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In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s...
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2022 'Well-researched and readable' - Financial Times 'An absorbing, pacy read' - New Statesman 'The story of lycra-clad feminism'...
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