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		<title>Edged in Blue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<h2 class="product__featured-review__heading">A Powerful Portrait Of Rory Gallagher’s Life</h2>
<p class="product__featured-review__text">Rory Gallagher’s rise, private nature and final decline are explored in this intimate music biography drawn from Dónal Gallagher’s close perspective. Set against Irish showbands, 70s rock and life on the road, it offers an emotionally charged portrait of a towering and complicated musical figure.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>All In</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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<div class="productDescription">'Powerful' Irish Independent‘Superb … authentic and compelling’ Denis Walsh, Irish Times‘One of the greatest warriors this country has ever produced. It’s absolutely terrific.’ Brendan O’Connor, RTÉ Radio One--During a golden era of success for Irish rugby, Peter O'Mahony stood out as the player who most fully embodied the traditional values of the game. Now, in his autobiography, Peter gives us a brilliantly detailed and searching account of the forces that made him who he is: his parents, his beloved Granny Conroy, his club, his school, and the magnificent rugby pedigree of his province.

And he traces his evolution as a player, leader and human being across a decade and a half at the highest levels of the game, under coaches including Declan Kidney, Anthony Foley, Rassie Erasmus, Joe Schmidt and Andy Farrell. As an international, Peter was central to Ireland’s greatest ever era. His account of the management methods of Schmidt and Farrell provides remarkable insight into how and why rugby teams succeed or fail.</div>]]></description>
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		<title>White Lines</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<div class="productDescription">'A phenomenal book. It is going to be the biggest sports book of the year' Tommy Bowe'White Lines ... might just be the sporting autobiography of the year.

It's a gripping read, full of sobering insights into professional rugby and life' The Guardian'Drips with authenticity and takes "warts and all" to a whole new level' Irish Independent'This compelling document will surely be on the shortlist for sports biography of the year' RTÉ GuideFrom the roar of packed stadiums to the silence of a prison cell, White Lines is the blazing true story of Ryan Caldwell - former Ulster, Ireland and Premiership rugby player - whose fall from grace nearly cost him everything. Once hailed as a towering enforcer on the pitch, Caldwell lived for the game - until injury cut his career short. Here, he charts the highs, the collisions and the culture of professional rugby, and the spiral into depression and addiction that brought him to the edge of existence.</div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Castle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<b>THE INSTANT <i>SUNDAY TIMES </i>#1 BESTSELLER</b>

<b>'One of our greatest non-fiction storytellers' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE</b>
<b>'Riveting . . .</b>

an unmissable piece of work' MEGAN NOLAN, <i>OBSERVER</i>
<b>'Addictively readable' DOLLY ALDERTON</b>
<b>'Chilling . . .</b>

supremely entertaining' <i>FINANCIAL TIMES</i>
<b>'Ridiculously compelling and wonderfully weird . . .</b>

wise, timely and extremely funny' LOUIS THEROUX
<b>'If you want a totally compelling live mystery that will make you burn for justice, READ THIS BOOK URGENTLY' MARINA HYDE</b>

<b>The million-copy bestselling author of <i>The Psychopath Test</i> returns with a shocking, darkly comic trip to the furthest reaches of the masculinity crisis</b>

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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ronson, John</p>
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		<title>Poetry to Stardust</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<em><strong>Poetry To StarDust</strong></em>, <em><strong>or PTSD,</strong></em> <em>When twin flames burn to the ground,</em> is my memoir written in poetic verse. Through poetry, I trace the arc of trauma: a love story that turned into something far darker. Across nine parts, the book takes the reader through a journey of love, illusion, survival, pain, and ultimately, healing.

My story begins with falling deeply in love, not with a person as they truly were, but with the version they presented to the world: someone who seemed to embody everything I had ever dreamed of. What felt like a perfect love slowly revealed itself to be something far darker, as the dream fractured into a nightmare of emotional and domestic abuse.

Alone in Ireland, far from my family and without a support system, I found myself navigating a reality I never imagined I would face.

Through each part of this memoir, I explore the aftermath of domestic violence, the invisible wounds, the lingering trauma, and the weight of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Yet within that darkness, there is movement toward healing. Through poetry, I began to reclaim my voice, transforming pain into something that reaches beyond survival.
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<pre class="text"><em>Poetry To StarDust</em> is both my testimony and my offering. I share my truth in the hope that the cycle of domestic violence may be interrupted, that others may find recognition, strength, and a way out, or, at the <em>very least, <strong>feel seen.</strong></em></pre>
<pre class="text">Sometimes, 
                   being seen 
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vieira, Barbara</p>
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		<title>My Greatest Race</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<div class="productDescription">‘A harrowing, heartbreaking and yet heartwarming story.’ MARY McALEESE‘We all know Ciara as a warrior on the athletics track. Now she faces the race of her life with the same grit and determination we have come to expect from her.’ SONIA O’SULLIVAN‘This book is devastatingly brilliant. Ciara’s life on the track has been world class and contrasting that with her cancer fight is compelling reading ...

I genuinely couldn’t stop reading.’ DERVAL O’ROURKE‘A raw account from the peak of athletic success to the devastating life-altering blow of cancer, Ciara’s journey is both powerful and unflinchingly honest - one that forces you to pause and reflect on what truly matters.’ DAVID GILLICK‘An honest, raw, and heartbreaking account of what it takes to fulfil your dreams and endure the pain of having them taken away. Ciara Mageean is a national treasure.’ JACQUI HURLEYFew Irish track athletes are as universally loved as Ciara Mageean, who has remained endearingly down-to-earth, candid and optimistic despite the dramatic twists and turns of her world-class career. In 2024 she finally won a European title, crossing the line to secure that gold medal in a moment of pure euphoria.</div>]]></description>
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		<title>A Sheepdog Named Oscar</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<div class="productDescription">The New York Times and Irish Times bestseller After the sudden death of his father, Dara Waldron became disoriented in a world that had once filled him with wonder. A year later, he meets an abandoned border collie called Oscar hiding on a derelict farm in County Clare. When Dara brings him home, he believes he’s committing an act of rescue. Oscar’s submissive behaviour hints at a difficult upbringing and, determined to earn his trust, Dara cares for him, walks with him and learns all he can about one of Ireland’s most beloved working breeds.</div>]]></description>
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		<title>Strangers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<b>A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 IN <i>VOGUE, BBC, NEW YORK TIMES, W MAGAZINE, TOWN &#38; COUNTRY
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'A beautifully written eulogy for the loss of a relationship' <i>Joyce Carol Oates</i>

'Beautiful... devastating ... <i>Strangers</i> reads with all the momentum and colour of water-tight literary fiction'</b><i><b> British Vogue</b></i>

<b><i>How do we go on when a loved one betrays us?</i></b>

On a chilly day in March of 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, Belle Burden s husband of twenty years announced, with no prior warning, that he was leaving her.

His decision shocked Belle to her core: she believed he was a happy man, a committed partner, and a devoted father to their three children. She thought he was a man who had settled into the life he had always wanted: a successful career, summers spent at their beloved home on Martha s Vineyard, lots of tennis. Overnight, he transformed from her steady companion into a stranger.

As she pieces her life together in the wake of a loss she had never imagined coming, she finds she is much stronger than she ever expected.

Exploring the transformation of a shy, quiet girl, nicknamed Belle the Good to a powerful, brave, determined woman who has learned to use her voice to expose the patriarchal structures that have forced women to be discreet and compliant for far too long, <i>Strangers </i>is a must-read memoir of self-discovery.

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		<title>Mother Mary Comes To Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small ThingsTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFOYLES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025AUDIBLE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025WINNER OF THE GOOGLE PLAY BEST OF 2025 AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2026SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2026Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as ‘my shelter and my storm’. Distraught and even a “little ashamed” at the intensity of her response to the death of the mother she ran from at age eighteen, Arundhati began to write Mother Mary Comes to Me. The result is this astonishing, disconcerting, surprisingly funny chronicle—unique and simultaneously universal, of the author’s life, from childhood to the present, from Kerala to Delhi.

With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace—a memoir like no other. 2025 BOOK OF THE YEAR ACCORDING TO NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, TIME, INDEPENDENT, FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, OBSERVER]]></description>
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		<title>Charlie Vs Garrett</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2025'The best book about Irish politics you can read ... O'Malley has produced one of the finest books ever written about modern Irish politics' - William Stephens, Gript'A rattling good read' - David McCullagh, RTÉ'A fantastic read' - Hugh Linehan, Irish TimesThe two opposing political figures that shaped Irish life in the 1980s and beyond. In the 1980s, Irish politics was dominated by a fierce rivalry between Charles J.

Haughey and Dr Garret FitzGerald, both leaders of their respective parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. Between them they each led all Irish governments in that decade; to say their two opposing personalities shaped Irish life during this era is an understatement. Eoin O'Malley has amassed an extraordinary body of research, including in-depth interviews with dozens of the most consequential public figures of the time, every Taoiseach, cabinet ministers, TDs, civil servants, and advisers.

As political rivals with different approaches to public life and contrasting visions for Ireland, each enshrined in quite different personalities, the choice between Haughey and FitzGerald came to signify a great deal more than party loyalty or policy preference: it felt like a choice between opposing worldviews. And, as O'Malley's work finally makes clear through an accumulation of extraordinary insights, including interviews with Haughey and FitzGerald themselves, it was fed by a deep reservoir of personal insecurity and paranoia. Each was deeply preoccupied - obsessed even - with the strengths, appeal and threats of the other, to the extent that this rivalry itself became one of the decisive factors in Irish life that shaped Ireland well after they had left power.

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