Nonfiction

West of Ireland; New Perspectives on the Nineteenth Century examines the lives of ordinary people in the west of Ireland and the political organisations which represented them throughout the nineteenth...

The north east Offaly market town of Edenderry is examined in this study by Edenderry native, Ciaran Reilly. The author reconstructs one hundred years of the towns history, charting Edenderry...

The biggest show in town

Examines the effects the First World War had on County Kerry. Political dissent and growing unrest played alongside the global troubles. Delving into the First World War, this book paints...

Building upon a fabulous collection of documents built up through years of visiting Auctions, and gathering records from poor houses and other sources, this book throws light on the history...

Cashel

Features a glimpse into the rise and demise of the landed gentry families of County Kildare. This book also contains a collection of pictures and line drawings of many of...

The year 1916 is a seminal year in Irish history, with the Easter Rising becoming a foundation stone of modern Irish society. For a whole array of purposes, the events...

Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Continuing the story of the Peloponnesian War at the point where Thucydides finished his...

A dramatic retelling of the final years of the Western Roman Empire and the downfall of Rome itself from the perspective of the Roman general Stilicho and Alaric, king of...

In Enid Blyton's bestselling school series Elizabeth Allen is sent away to boarding school and makes up her mind to be the naughtiest pupil there's ever been.In book ten, Elizabeth...

Designed to bridge the communication gap between western travellers and Slovenes, the guide has 3500 entries. This bilingual dictionary incorporates basic vocabulary terms as well as Slovene slang, while the...

This course in Slovene is aimed at those who have never learnt the language before or who want to build on existing basic skills. It assumes no previous knowledge of...

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Slovenia will lead you straight to the best attractions Slovenia has on offer. Packed with photographs, illustrations and clear maps of Slovenia, the guide explores everything...

India lives in a large, luxurious house with a mum she can't stand and a dad she adores, though he hasn't had much time for her recently. She seeks solace...

Data is everywhere. We create it every time we go online, turn our phone on (or off) or pay with a credit card. This data is stored, studied, bought and...

This is the story of a magical childhood on a farm in the west of Ireland during the 1930s and early 1940s. It tells of a young girl and the...

'Fascinating, funny and tender' ADAM BUXTON'My favourite writer and interviewer' JUDE ROGERS'If Kate Mossman's name is on it, then I want to read it' PETE PAPHIDESFrom Jeff Beck to Ray...

The warm, engrossing new novel from the No. 1 bestseller, Cathy Kelly Tess used to be happy with her lot: she lives in the idyllic Irish coastal village, Avalon, with...

'I really am so very, very sorry about this,' he says, in an oddly formal voice... They strike the side of a grain silo. They are travelling at seventy miles...

A wonderfully entertaining celebration of that most unique of creatures: the sloth.In public estimation, sloths have undergone an astonishing transformation in the course of the past few years. Thanks largely...

It is winter, somewhere in the United Kingdom, and an eight-year-old boy is removed from his home and family in the middle of the night. He learns that he is...

This is a sweeping American novel about race, love, family and money set in the last half of the 20th century. Hilton Wise is the son of one of the...

Horses, hope, and heartbreak.Come with Beauty on the journey of a lifetime. There's hardship and friendship, kindness and cruelty, but above all else, love.Oxford Children's Classics present not only the...

Plain speaking has never held Peter Hargreaves back. In this candid and outspoken book, the multi-millionaire founder of investment company Hargreaves Lansdown tells the story behind its extraordinary success and...

It is August in Edinburgh and the Festival is in full swing...A brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city's ancient subterranean streets and marks on the corpse...

Can true love conquer all?Sisters Bette Tredinnick and Sara Marrack live quiet lives, content with the comings and goings of their small Cornish hometown. But when hundreds of US Marines...

In 1989, the memorable year when the Wall came down, a university student in Berlin on his early morning run finds a corpse lying on a park bench and alerts...

Kit Fielding's patron, Princess Casilia, is in trouble. Her invalid husband is being threatened by a business partner. And to enforce the threat all the Princess's best runners are being...

An explosive expose of the man who devoted his career to shackling democracy - and succeeded.Libertarian billionaires are using their wealth and power to drastically curtail the US democratic process,...

It's the classic law of the invader. Get to the strongest guy and smash him, and then watch the weaker ones fall like ninepins. Which is exactly what a vicious...