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An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny-and the lessons about life and love she learned from the...

Dave Moore is back with more bad jokes! This family friendly, laugh-a-minute compilation has over 300 fresh jokes from Today FM's No.1 morning show: I played BONOpoly last night. It's...

A rallying, celebratory essay about Sylvia Plath, Taylor Swift and unbridled female ambition by the beloved author of Bluets and The ArgonautsIn The Slicks, Maggie Nelson positions culture-dominating pop superstar...

"This is the distillation of 50 years of gardening experience. It has all the tips and essential pieces of knowledge that enable you to make your garden grow well, and...

The life and times of one of the most important writers of our time, from her peripatetic childhood in the Canadian far north, through the writing of The Handmaid's Tale,...

It's been another memorable year on Diddly Squat Farm - will the chickens finally come home to roost?----Welcome back to Clarkson's Farm.So, that went well . . .The spring barley...

Our obsession with land is the driving force behind human history. It has sparked revolutions and fuelled economic booms as well as financial crises. Land is the world's oldest and...

From the author of the 2023 bestselling Cocaine Cowboys, murder and deception and the underworld of Irish gangland intertwine in a deadly dance of power and survival.A murder in Belfast...

How do you rebuild yourself when your whole world changes overnight?Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban’s brutal attack on her life, Malala quickly became...

Step inside the historic homes of the Guinness family and enter a world of power, privilege and palatial living. The Guinnesses became famous as brewers, philanthropists and socialites, but they...

In this provocative essay, finished just before the author's death, Gellner explores the subject with which he was most associated throughout his life: that of nationalism. He demonstrates how the...

'A fresh, unexpected, and revealing portrait of Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Red Famine 'A century of Russian history told through the women who lived it,...

From award-winning historian Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century retells the story of a century of division, charting the struggles of rival ideologies to create a new world order...

An imaginative investigation into dignity and historical injustice through the story of a family from the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the dawn of Communism in the Balkans'There must...

This is the inspiring story of Michael Flynn, a struggling furniture salesman from Pearse Street, who reinvented himself to become one of Ireland's most beloved national figures.Starting with Mick's formative...

Priscilla Presley's divorce from Elvis left his fans incredulous. How could she leave the man every woman wanted? From the outside, life in Elvis's mansion looked glamorous and enviable, and...

In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents. The girl is supposed...

A hilarious collection of essays from 'the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses,' New York Times bestselling author David Sedaris (Adam Kay, author of This is Going to...

A history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which Hitler's generals were tricked into giving away vital Nazi secrets"A great book."-Michael Goodman, BBC History...

In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock travelled by Greyhound bus across the US from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, now in her 50s, she...

The inside story of Ian Foster's All Blacks 'A stunningly honest and insightful account of what it takes to coach the All Blacks.' - Gregor Paul Appointed as head coach...

This enchanting collection of stories gathers together legends from across Ireland in one special volume. Drawn from The History Press' popular Folk Tales series, herein lies a treasure trove of...

On 3 May 1921 the IRA's South Mayo Brigade Flying Column ambushed an RIC/Black and Tan resupply patrol in the village of Tourmakeady, in order to destroy the patrol and...

A searingly honest memoir from Dexys' iconic frontman, one of the great mavericks and creative geniuses of British music. At home, the prayerful eight-year-old altar boy was planning to attend...

This is not a book about business strategy. Strategy changes like the seasons. This is a book about something much more permanent. At the very heart of all the success...

The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the nineteenth century - and inspiration for `Moby-Dick' - reissued to accompany a major motion picture due...

This book follows the course of the Irish Civil War in Kerry, July & August 1922. With notes on the brief period of confrontation when Free State troops were all...

The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash Sunday Times #1 bestseller, with gorgeous full-colour illustrations and a beautiful package - the perfect...

***BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK***'Funny, lively and convivial... how rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, SUNDAY TIMES'An...