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The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow

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Can a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about the history of the twentieth century by examining the fate of perfumes?

In this remarkable book, Karl Schl

9781509546596
€25.50 excluding shipping

Theroux The Keyhole: Diaries of a grounded documentary maker

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Step inside Louis' life like never before as he turns his critical eye on himself, his home, and family and tries to make sense of our weird and sometimes scary world. His new autobiography is the perfect book for our uncertain times by the hil

9781509880423
€17.50 excluding shipping

A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order

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'Marvellous . . . I read it with astonished delight . . . It is equally scholarly and entertaining.' - Jan Morris

'Quirky and compelling.' - The Times

Once we've learned it as children, f

9781509881567
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Northern Ireland a Generation After Good Friday: Lost Futures and New Horizons i

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The Good Friday Agreement is widely celebrated as a political success story, one that has brought peace to a region that was once synonymous around the globe with political violence. The truth, as ever, is rather more complicated than that.
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9781526139283
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The History of Marriage Equality in Ireland: A Social Revolution Begins

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Ireland is the first country in the world to extend civil marriage to same sex couples through a public vote. The marriage equality referendum saw record numbers turn out to register their votes including Irish emigrants who returned from around t

9781526160782
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The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth

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This is the first comprehensive history of goth music and culture. Across more than 500 pages, John Robb explores the origins and legacy of this enduring scene, which has its roots in the post-punk era.

Drawing on his own experience as

9781526173201
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The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World

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From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads: everything you need to know about the present and future of the world 'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' Evening Standar
9781526608246
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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

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*A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* AN INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Humanity has transformed the Earth: Frankopan transforms our understanding of history' Financial Times 'Vast, learned and ti
9781526622570
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China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

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_______________ A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account that makes clear how important it is to look beneath the surface when it com
9781526634290
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These Precious Days

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The international bestselling writer Ann Patchett has been described as 'one of the foremost chroniclers of the burdens of emotional inventory and its central place in American lives' and 'a master of her art' (Observer). In her new collection
9781526640956
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A Book of Days

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**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train. More than 365 images chart Smith's singular aest
9781526650986
€31.50 excluding shipping

Having It Away

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9781527215337
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A Ireland A Social History: From the Celts to the Foundations of Unionism and Re

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9781527283831
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Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life

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The Sunday Times bestseller, Making It is an inspirational memoir about beating the odds and turning things around even when it all seems hopeless, by Jay Blades, the beloved star of hit BBC One show The Repair Sh

9781529059199
€21.75 excluding shipping

Hope Not Fear: Finding My Way from Refugee to Filmmaker to NHS Hospital Cleaner

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A poignant and powerful memoir from BAFTA award-winning filmmaker, Syrian refugee, hospital cleaner and activist, Hassan Akkad.

I've experienced the best and worst of humanity. I've been detained and beaten, and welcomed an

9781529059816
€23.50 excluding shipping

A Funny Life: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller.

Laugh along with Michael McIntyre as he lifts the curtain on his life in his long-awaited autobiography.

Michael's first book ended with his big break at the 2006 Royal

9781529063660
€18.50 excluding shipping

Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

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One of the Observer's Best Memoirs of the Year and The Times Best Film and Theatre Books of the Year.

'As a Black British man I believe it is vital that I tell this story. It may be just one account from the pers

9781529064148
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A Girlhood: A Letter to My Transgender Daughter

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'Stunning . . . Built like a thriller, moving, wise and illuminated on every page with love' -Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat

When Carolyn Hays's child made clear to the family that they were all wrong, he was not a boy,

9781529064490
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The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts

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'Ferrara's book is an introduction to writing as a process of revelation, but it's also a celebration of these things still undeciphered, and many other tantalising mysteries besides.' Spectator

This book tells the story o

9781529064759
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A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story - The Top Ten Bestseller, Shortliste

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Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize
The Top Ten Bestseller
A The Times Book of the Year
Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month

'If you want to read a book that moves you both at the level of sent

9781529071177
€12.75 excluding shipping

Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live

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The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller

With a foreword by King Charles III.

'A stunningly moving book about the power of hope and love to overcome the very worst of mankind' - Piers Morgan

W

9781529073416
€18.50 excluding shipping

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World

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'Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women' - Anita Anand
'Brilliant' - Daisy Buchanan

"My hope is that this book will inspire as I have been inspired. It's a love letter to the importance of history and ab

9781529092202
€20.50 excluding shipping

More Than a Woman: The instant Sunday Times number one bestseller

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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

'Exceptionally brilliant and powerful' Marina Hyde

'This book is a hilarious memoir, a passionate polemic, and a moving manifesto on how to be a decent per

9781529102772
€11.00 excluding shipping

Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici

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'A stunning portrayal of two of the most powerful women in European history' Tracy Borman

'Exciting and compelling, packed full of tantalising details of diplomacy and court life, Paranque succeeds both in bringing h

9781529109238
€19.95 excluding shipping
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