Nonfiction

Seamus Heaney has coupled Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) with W.B. Yeats as the two most influential figures in twentieth century Irish poetry. Kavanagh was born in Co. Monaghan, the son of...

This record of the early life of James Joyce is based on years of research into his education, religious and sexual experiences, family life and his roamings around Dublin -...

'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING...AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKY In this final work from renowned journalist Robert Fisk, he picks up...

To many people, France is the ideal holiday destination, with a perfect balance between thriving cities and gorgeous countryside, state of the art museums and old-fashioned good food, and high...

The dress in Ireland from the Bronze Age to the 20th century is viewed in its widest context. Much adverse comment has been made over the centuries about the Irish...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Essential and authoritative. Sheds serious light on the dark money, dark ideas & dark souls propelling Trump's cruelty and betrayal of the USA' - James O'BrienIn...

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction'My book of the year . . . Rarely has illness made for such a compelling read' - John Boyne, author of The Boy...

Hey, I'm Jamie, a 29-year-old trans guy from the UK. I've been transitioning for 12 years now after realising I was trans (by accident!) at sixteen years old. I knew...

The world's favourite pocket travel guidesMake the most of your trip to Florence and Tuscany with this Top 10 guide. Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten,...

When the world's two largest steel producers went head to head in a bitter struggle for market domination, an epic corporate battle ensued that sent shockwaves through the political corridors...

From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger's almost-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army. They were known as "The Rock." For...

The TIMES, OBSERVER and EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE WEEK'The world's most powerful people are lying like never before, and no one understands the art of their lies like Peter...

This is the autobiography of actor, storyteller and seanchai, Eamon Kelly. It takes its title from the fact that the young Kelly was apprenticed to his father, a wheelwright and...

Philip Green, owner of, amongst much else, British Home Stores, reached billionaire status faster than anyone else in British history. Today he is worth GBP 3.6 billion and is reckoned...

It was 8.46 a.m. on 9/11 when Elia Zedeno, who had worked in the World Trade Center for twenty-one years, heard a booming explosion and felt the building lurch violently...

This is the first account of Russia's second revolution - the country's dramatic, wrenching transition from communist central planning to a market economy. Written by one of the finest writers...

This volume explores in detail the theme of change within the major political traditions of Ireland. It adopts a dual approach, in which a set of leading politicians examines the...

'If fate is against me and I'm killed, so be it, but make it quick and painless. If I'm wounded, don't let me be crippled. But above all don't let...

Riveting and candid memoir of life behind the scenes as US Ambassador and Prime Minister's Press Secretary - a Sunday Times bestsellerChristopher Meyer was Ambassador to the United States from...