Nonfiction

Modern Ireland may be dominated by American culture, but Irishmen also helped to shape America. They fought in every important action in the American Civil War, a war with which...

Getting the most from a veg patch is what all gardeners want. With a little forethought and planning, an approach that places different crops together, and in closer proximity than...

You don't know their names, but they own the house you rent. They own your hospitals, nurseries and care homes, the media you consume and the companies you work for....

Twenty-seven Irish newspapers for the period covering the Great War have been trawled through to deliver the amazing stories of those years which changed the world for ever. These are...

'One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time' ARUNDHATI ROY Discover the essential guide to Chomsky and his brilliant ideas on the global state of affairsAn extraordinary...

Over five hundred men from Meath died in the Great War. One hundred of those men were from Navan. Twenty Meath families lost more than one member in this war....

The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this historic and picturesque region.Marvel at the majestic...

Hard-nosed scholarship and moral passion underpin Diarmaid Ferriter's work. Now he turns to the key years of the 70s, when after half a century of independence, questions were being asked...

'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of...

Telling the heart-wrenching stories of five families with whom Shane worked as a child protection worker, "Hush, Little Baby" will open your eyes to the daily struggle faced by young...

In his runaway bestseller NEVER BE LIED TO AGAIN, Dr David Lieberman broke new ground with his insights on the way people communicate. Now he revolutionises interpersonal relationships with GET...

The author looks into the history of Western Europe between 1300 and 1450, drawing parallels with the 20th century and looks into Chaucer, Boccaccio, The Hundred Years' War, pilgrimages, plagues...

At a time when the United States exacts a greater and greater power over the rest of the world, America's leading voice of dissent needs to be heard more than...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND THE IRISH TIMES'Illuminating and entertaining . . . while the world seems...

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize 2023A Telegraph Book of the YearA Times, Spectator and Prospect Book of the YearOne of the great contemporary historians of France on one of...

'An old world is dying; a new world is being born; now is the time of monsters' Antonio GramschiSolnit maps the extraordinary revolution of ideas and rights that we've experienced...

Martin O'Neill has had one of the most incredible careers in football - winning European Cups, captaining his country at a world cup, and decades as a hugely successful manager....

For three centuries the capitalist system has shaped western society, informed its rulers, and conditioned the lives of its people. Has the time come to move beyond it?Using his unrivalled...

In The Triangle of Power,Finnish President Alexander Stubb argues that we are living through a hingemoment in history, akin to 1918, 1945 or 1989. A new international system istaking shape,...

The 1916 Easter Rising and its aftermath changed Ireland for ever. The British government's execution of 14 republican rebels transformed a group hitherto perceived as cranks and troublemakers into national...

James Charles Roy leads a group of jaded American tourists on a historical tour of the Emerald Isle they only thought they knew. James Charles Roy, a noted authority on...

An extraordinary first-hand account of Russia's descent into totalitarianism, paranoia and madness.Marc Bennetts, foreign correspondent for The Times and The Sunday Times, moved to Russia in the chaotic final years...

When the first edition of this book appeared in 1972 it was acclaimed as a revolutionary breakthrough in the study of late medieval Ireland and of the autonomous lordships into...

In the 1940s, the Folklore Commission conducted interviews with thousands of elderly people around Ireland who remembered what they themselves had heard from ancestors who had survived the Famine. Cathal...

In ancient Ireland mythology and folklore were part of the general knowledge about each tree. This book gathers the myths, legends and folklore associated with the native Irish trees. The...

It is his clear-sightedness, his candour, his steely strength of will, the immediacy of his writing, his insolence and cynicism, his love of liberty, his hatred of hypocrisy, his originality,...

'The first map I ever owned was The Educational School Map of Ireland, which was all we had to buy in fourth class when I was nine. I think it...

Create the garden you want with instant impact - growing doesn't get easier than this! Created for beginner gardeners, The Instant Garden will give you the confidence to easily transform...

THE ROYAL GIFT OF THE YEAR!THE SCANDALOUS TRUTH BEHIND THE CROWN - FROM THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CATHERINE, THE PRINCESS OF WALES: THE BIOGRAPHY'A compelling look inside...

'Lucy Inglis has done a wonderful job bringing together a wide range of sources to tell the history of the most exciting and dangerous plants in the world. Telling the...

'Irish Customs and Beliefs' is a book of stories and beliefs of all kinds of things to do with old Ireland: highwaymen and travelling people, the Irish whiteboys, lost and...