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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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9780807057834
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Blind Spot

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Set in the entertainment world in France, this searing memoir explores the realities of being a mixed or biracial French citizen.

In Blind Spot, Myriam Tadesse exposes the difficulty, even the impossibility, for France to tr
9780857428783
€14.75 excluding shipping

Spare

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It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow-and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William

9780857504791
€32.50 excluding shipping

We Could Be: Bowie and his Heroes

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***

With consultant editor Tony Visconti.

David Bowie's story has never been told quite like this.

Tracing the star's encounters with fellow icons throughout his life, We Could Be
9781788402729
€25.50 excluding shipping

Uncoiling The Ropes

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9781788461597
€18.99 excluding shipping

Irish Aran: History, Tradition, Fashion

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Irish Aran knitting is a living tradition with a worldwide reach. Arans communicate warmth, comfort and a sense of home, which people the world over continue to respond to, even though the connection to our rocky outcroppings in the Atlantic Ocean

9781788490207
€13.00 excluding shipping

The Stars Are Our Only Warmth

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In the 1970s Alice Leahy left nursing to work and live in a Dublin homeless shelter. This is the story of her life and life choices, from an empowering childhood, with free run of a big house estate in Tipperary to her invaluable work with some of

9781788490252
€21.00 excluding shipping

As Time Goes By

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Alice Taylor brings the reader with her on her 80th birthday year.

Alice had a big birthday on the horizon, the village was about to celebrate many milestones, and she had just received the gift of a boo

9781788491372
€21.00 excluding shipping

Dark Blue: The Despair Behind the Glory - My Journey Back from the Edge

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Shane Carthy writes frankly and eloquently about his journey over the last five years. He details, without overdramatising, the downward spiral which, days after producing a man-of-the-match display in Dublin's 2014 Leinster under-21 final win ove

9781788491501
€15.50 excluding shipping

Wild Irish Love: Great Romances from History

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Tales of passion and romance, love on the battlefield, affairs kept secret on pain of death ...

From the bride who married in a prison cell, to the leader caught in a love triangle, to the revolutionaries who did their

9781788491822
€21.00 excluding shipping

Irish Country Life

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In a fast-paced, modern Ireland it can be difficult to imagine how different our lives are to those that went before. In this book Olive Sharkey lovingly describes the lives, activities and material possessions of irish people living between 1800

9781788491846
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Four Killings: Land Hunger, Murder and A Family in the Irish Revolution

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The story of a single family during the Irish Revolution, Four Killings is a book about political murder, and the powerful hunger for land and the savagery it can unleash. 'A vivid and chilling narrative... Confronts uncomfortable q
9781800244849
€19.95 excluding shipping

Wish I Was Here: 'The best writer you've never heard of' - Sunday Times

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'Is M John Harrison the best writer at work today? He's certainly among the deftest and most original, producing immaculately odd sentences in any genre he chooses' Olivia Laing, Summer Pick of 2023, Guardian 'Wish I Was Here by M John Harrison is
9781800812970
€22.00 excluding shipping

On Bloody Sunday: A New History Of The Day And Its Aftermath - By The People Who

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*****

'There have been many books written about the events of Bloody Sunday, however, none has wrenched the reader as violently back to those CS gas-choked streets, dumping them right in the heart of the screaming, running, shoot

9781800960480
€21.50 excluding shipping

Love in a Time of War: My Years with Robert Fisk

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The Irish Times bestseller 'A gripping tale of savagery and courage' Noam Chomsky 'Fascinating and captivating' Irish Times 'A beautiful book... Full of pain and longing but also joy, adventure, and excitement' <
9781801102513
€24.50 excluding shipping

Ireland 1922: Independence, Partition, C

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9781802050080
€25.50 excluding shipping

The Monk: The Life and Crimes of Ireland's Most Enigmatic Gang Boss

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**THE EXPLOSIVE BESTSELLER, NOW UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE GANGLAND TRIAL OF THE CENTURY**

On the streets of the tough Dublin inner-city neighbourhood where he grew up, Gerry Hutch was perceived as an ordinary decent criminal, a quin

9781805460312
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The Nine: How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany - The

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'A compelling, beautifully written story of resilience, friendship and survival.' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz

The thrilling story of how nine young women, captured by the Nazis for being part of

9781838772079
€17.00 excluding shipping

The Instant: Sunday Times Bestseller

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING

'I loved this book' Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path
'Utterly absorbing' Lucy Jones, author of Losing Eden

Wishing to leave

9781838854263
€19.95 excluding shipping

The Instant

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING

Wishing to leave behind the isolation of her Orkney island life, Amy Liptrot books a one-way flight to Berlin. She rents a l

9781838854300
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Cacophony of Bone

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING

Two days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage in the heart of Ireland. They were looking for a home, somewhere t

9781838856298
€16.50 excluding shipping

Faith, Hope and Carnage: Sunday Times Bestseller

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THE SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR
A TELEGRAPH BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR
A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave's inner

9781838857660
€24.50 excluding shipping

A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance

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The forgotten history of women slaves and their struggle for liberation.

Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. In this riveting work of historical reclamation, Stella Dadzie recovers the li
9781839763885
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The Gulag Archipelago

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The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union wh

9781843430858
€21.25 excluding shipping
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