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As we approach the bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic trade, Walvin has selected the historical texts that recreate the mindset that made such a savage institution possible -...

Quirky, original and hugely entertaining, this is a debut novel of fantastical proportions from a talented new voice in children's fiction.When intrepid investigators Cass and Max-Ernest set out to discover...

Following Wards of Faerie and Bloodfire Quest, this is the final novel in a powerful new trilogy from bestselling master of fantasy Terry Brooks. Set in Brooks's original Shannara world,...

The body of a teenage girl is found in a Dublin park. She has been brutually stabbed to death. For Dublin's police and politicians, the nightmare is just beginning. The...

Do you know someone who is incensed by compulsory tipping? Who is infuriated if kept on hold for more than a minute? Who is positively apoplectic if someone answers their...

Just round the corner from St Jarlath's Crescent (featured in MINDING FRANKIE) is Chestnut Street. Here, the lives of the residents are revealed in Maeve Binchy's wonderfully compelling tales: Bucket...

You've probably heard of a few inventors and their bright ideas..*Alexander Graham Bell and his telephone *George Stevenson and his Rocket (which was really a train) *John Logie Baird and...

A prophetic warning against the foolishness of crusades, John Gray's Black Mass challenges our belief in human progress. Our conventional view of history is wrong. It is founded on a...

Over the last decade or so, the Nordic nations have quietly and unassumingly come to hold us in their thrall; but what is it, exactly, that we covet about their...

Alabama, 1931. A posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths. Their crime: fighting with white boys. Then two white girls emerge from another freight car, and within...

'Trust me, you'll be sniggering to yourself so it might be best to not read this on public transport' Writer's Little HelperIt's said that everyone has a book inside them....

THE POET Jack McEvoy's brother, a homicide detective, has just killed himself. Or so it would appear. When Jack, a Rocky Mountain beat reporter, begins to investigate the phenomenon of...

'All I had ever wanted was privacy. In order to get it, it seemed that an exceptionally detailed 500,000-word book was in order...' He was born into an ancient powerful...

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure...

This work charts the rise and spectacular fall of the Colombian drug lord, Pablo Escobar, richest and most powerful criminal in history. The book exposes the massive illegal operation by...

Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends....

A collection from the political cartoonist of the Irish Times, dissecting Irish and British relationships north and south of the border and featuring characters such as Blair, Ahern, Adams, Hume,...

Mayada was born into a powerful Iraqi family. One grandfather fought alongside Lawrence of Arabia. The other is acclaimed as the first true Arab nationalist. Her uncle was Prime Minister...

Get ready for an exciting fairy adventure with the no. 1 bestselling series for girls aged 5 and up.Tilly the Teacher Fairy brings happiness to schools everywhere. But it all...

She is determined to live the life she wants...Cassandra Trent does not like being told what to do. So when she is forced to leave behind her beloved Bardsley and...

October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, a naval engineer charged with making depth soundings to find a navigable channel...

The Quaker is watching you... In the chilling new crime novel from award-winning author Liam McIlvanney, a serial killer stalks the streets of Glasgow and DI McCormack follows a trail...

When Laura and her little brother Tommy make a kite they can't wait to watch it fly as high as the stars. But a kite would need to be very...

'The best 'bird's eye view' of the helicopter war in Vietnam in print today ... Mills has captured the realities of a select group of aviators who shot craps with...

Mark Z. Slouka argues that the perception of reality in America has been radically altered by the emergence of new technologies. The notion of reality as an empirical shared state...

A timeless battle rages between the forces of psychic liberation and their dark counterparts, sleazy insectoid agents of control and repression...The Invisibles, a cutting edge group of occultist subversives, defend...

A beautifully and humorously written story about how an adopted boy who is dealing with his parent's divorce discovers that he has a long-lost twin sister. eBook available.Tao didn't think...