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#1 New York Times bestseller"This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it...

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. In...

Lonely Planet's Pocket Vienna is your guide to the city's best experiences and local life - neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Marvel at the imperial palaces, take in the atmosphere of a...

'Sedaris is the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses' Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt'He's like an American Alan Bennett' Guardian'Unquestionably the king of comic...

The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and...

'Baldwin wrote in arias of feeling and thought... [He] proved that if he wrote it down, it could have power beyond the moment.' - Hilton AlsIn this deeply personal book,...

From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for...

- the expedition had been trapped for months in the ice, watched their ship being slowly crushed, walked in appalling conditions to the edge of the ice sheet and in...

A landmark, incendiary collection from one of the leading essayists working today.Inspiring everyone from radical activists to Beyonce Knowles, Rebecca Solnit's essay 'Men Explain Things to Me' has become a...

From the author of You Are A Badass, the New Your Times bestselling book everyone is talking about.YOU ARE A BADASS AT MAKING MONEY is the book you need if...

A provocative and absorbing analysis of the unprecedented eruption of misogyny at the turn of the century in the works of the key artists of the age. Illustrated throughout.

Keeping plants in containers is a quick and easy way to start gardening - without spending a fortune.Nowadays, there is a wide variety to choose from and a huge number...

Ever lose the head when the country grinds to a halt after two centimetres of snow?Do the parish-pump politicians, perennially pathetic health services and practically useless road signs drive you...

The second edition of this popular book introduces the subject of ethics for social care and social work by exploring ethical values and principles, and how they inform and guide...

This work features Gerry Ryan's views on life, the world, the universe - and a few things besides. Here are his experiences, stories and opinions drawn from nearly thirty years...

An enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a spectacularly iconoclastic take on the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star in archaeology Two strangers meet in a trapped elevator....

A BOOK if you don't mind! And him with a degree and a job and all.Everyone should have an Irish Mammy. She's never short of advice, a kind word and...

Think about the most wretched day of your life. Maybe it was when someone you loved died, or when you were badly hurt in an accident, or a day when...

The Irish actor Donal McCann is probably best remembered by U.S. audiences from film performances he gave in John Huston's The Dead or Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty, or perhaps his performance...

In his essay on the Notebooks of Tennessee Williams, Colm Toibin reveals an artist 'alone and deeply fearful and unusually selfish' and one profoundly tormented by his sister's mental illness....

This book takes 100 objects and explores their significance in shaping Ireland. Photographs are accompanied by a concise and insightful story that shows the social, political and artistic vitality of...

The sensational sequel to 'Papillon'. 'Banco' continues the adventures of Henri Charriere - nicknamed Papillon - in Venezuela, where he has finally won his freedom after thirteen years of escape...

'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen JonesThe Sunday Times bestsellerBernie Sanders is one of the most influential voices in a global movement fighting injustice. He has dominated two...

Peter Somerville-Large grew up with his brother Phil in a nursery world at the top of a smart house in Dublin from which they could watch Fitzwilliam Place far below,...

For many of its participants, the Second World War was the most intense period of their lives - with horizons widened by grief, strangeness and excitement. Peter Ross, graduated from...

Her addiction to the drug took her to a place about as low as a person can go. She had grown up in Ballymun and had, like many others, succumbed...

When Jordan Ferguson was diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of thirty-five and told he had only months to live, a psychologist advised him to write a letter to...

From a wartime beach in Wales to the gleaming skyscrapers of twenty-first-century Manhattan, the extraordinary career of Fleet Street legend Harold Evans has spanned five decades of tumultuous social, political...

'I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a tracing...

'We walk in the footprints of great women, women who lived through hard times on farms, in villages, towns and cities. The lives of these women are an untold story....

This practical self-help guide for students facing the often daunting experience of going to university aims to help them meet the challenges of new subjects, reading lists, large classes and...

Robert Lowell's poetry radically altered the American literary landscape, combining as it did family drama and an apocalyptic view of the history of our times. He won three Pulitzer Prizes...