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  • Nobody's Girl

    Nobody’s Girl

    27.95
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    The book no-one should have to write but we all have to read. ‘If books can shape history, this is one.’ DAILY MAIL‘Both devastating and uplifting … fearless and frank – angry and empowering. It speaks to the thousands of other victims out there about how to start fighting back.’ EMILY MAITLISThis is the extraordinarily powerful memoir by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the inspirational woman who stood up and spoke out about serial abusers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, and how they trafficked her, and others, to some of the world’s richest, most powerful men.

    ‘Make no mistake: this is a book about power, corruption, industrial-scale sex abuse and the way in which institutions sided with the perpetrator over his victims. . .

    . But it is also a book about how a young woman becomes a hero. .

    . . Important [and] courageous.’ GUARDIANThis is Virginia’s story, in her own words.

  • Ciara's Catch

    Ciara’s Catch

    24.95

    Food, and specifically seafood, has always been a major part of Shine Carlier’s life. She told Donegal Live that cooking had always been a passion for her, ever since the days of Shine’s Takeaway in Killybegs, which was sold in May 2016 after being in operation for 21 years.

    “I wanted the cookbook to be a promotion of Irish seafood and the benefits of our seafood, whether you buy it from your local fishmonger or from us,” commented Shine Carlier. “ We are an island nation, and we are quite low consuming of seafood.”

  • Frog Routes, Polka-Dot Newts

    Frog Routes, Polka-Dot Newts

    22.95

    Description
    Beneath our feet, in our hedgerows, trees and under our seas lies a complex community of beings that goes unseen and unheard by us humans. Soil is the stuff of life itself, bustling with microbes, fungi, beetles and earthworms that soften seeds, nurture saplings and provide all the potential for spring’s bounty. Ferns, primroses, wild violet and canopy leaves of overhead trees are the framework for the hidden power behind a butterfly wing or the singing of a wren.

    Here, Anja Murray fills us with wonder for the wonderful world of Ireland’s wild plants and animals through the seasons. From fungi to the origins of feral pigeons, primroses to sea turtles, each piece contains elements of science, history and folklore. Witness the extraordinary mating rituals of frogs and hares.

    Discover the incredible secret language of mice in their epic daily battle to survive and avoid capture with the swoop of the sparrowhawk.

  • Ninety-Nine Words for Rain

    Ninety-Nine Words for Rain

    21.95
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    Meet the néaladóirí (cloud-watchers) and réadóirí (stargazers) from our past who, without the luxury of Met Éireann at their disposal, observed birds, trees, animals, as well as markers on land and sea for signs of weather change. The sheer richness and variety of terms they amassed reveal the closeness with which they observed the world around them. Swallows flying low foretold rain.

    The heron’s behaviour offered many hints: Aimsir chrua thirim nuair a bhíonn an corr éisc suas in aghaidh srutha chun na sléibhte (when the heron flies upstream to the mountains the weather will be dry but rough). Fearthainn nuair a thagann sí an abhainn anuas (when she goes downstream, it will rain). Evoking countless sodden, shivery experiences on this Atlantic-swept island of ours, this beautifully illustrated gift book uses Irish words to grasp an almost-lost world through the wisdom stored in the Irish language.

  • Great Irish Wives

    Great Irish Wives

    19.95
    Description

    Throughout history, the stories of women’s lives and work have been overshadowed by those of men. Wives, especially, disappear, unacknowledged as patrons and champions of their husband’s work, as collaborators, muses, carers and managers of the family domain. Great Irish Wives shines a spotlight on ten such wives: Matilda Tone, Mary O’Connell, Constance Wilde, Charlotte Shaw, Emily Shackleton, Annette Carson, Sinéad de Valera, Margaret Clarke, George Yeats and Beatrice Behan.

    The men in this book are household names, from Wolfe Tone and Daniel O’Connell to Oscar Wilde and BrendanBehan, and they all have one thing in common: they married women who enabled them to pursue their dreams,even if that meant courting death or outrage. Nicola Pierce tells the stories of these truly remarkable women

  • Eat Yourself Healthy

    Eat Yourself Healthy

    28.95

    Kickstart your good life by pre-ordering Jamie’s first cookbook for better long-term health – Eat Yourself Healthy. But Jamie’s health journey will be all about more not less: more taste, more joy. Looking after yourself begins with food.

    In Eat Yourself Healthy, Jamie’s 120 easy, mouthwatering recipes will energise, satisfy, nourish and revitalise, including:Meatball Traybake, Seared Tuna Kimchi Bowl, Steak & Sticky Aubergine Salad, Mothership Overnight Oats, Strawberry Filo Tarts, Chocolate Orange Pots and plenty more vibrant and tasty recipes for every occasion.

    This is all about what you can have, not what you can’t. Jamie’s healthy eating is joyful, generous and so tasty you’ll keep coming back to it.

    For the first time, the book will open with a 2-week nutrition-packed meal plan to kickstart your health journey and 50 helpful health hacks ensure that healthy choices are always easiest choices. This is good food to change your life.

  • The Gaeilge Guide

    The Gaeilge Guide

    19.95

    *NOTE: Special Pre-Sale Price. This title won’t be shipped until its release date of 11th September 2025*

    In The Gaeilge Guide, Mollie Guidera – Ireland’s leading online Irish teacher and creator of the hit platform ‘Irish with Mollie’ – brings her joyful, down-to-earth approach to the page in a book guaranteed to spark your connection to the Irish language and legacy. This fresh and empowering journey, where language and culture are fite fuaite le chéile – intertwined together – offers practical guidance and useful phrases, along with heartfelt stories that reveal the humanity within the words, and much more. Mollie shows us how to reconnect with our ancient and endangered language replacing frustration with determination and fear with fierce intention.

    Whether you’re dipping in out of curiosity or diving deep, The Gaeilge Guide is your warm, wise and welcome companion to rediscovering the language that captures the soul and memory of the Irish people.

  • Speaking My Mind

    Speaking My Mind

    25.95

    Leo Varadkar shares his fascinating experience as Irish prime minister at a time of much change and turbulence, in this remarkably honest memoir. Leo Varadkar was an unlikely Taoiseach – the youngest on taking office in 2017, the first Taoiseach to be gay, and the first person of colour to be Taoiseach. Equally unlikely was his decision to bow out of politics in his mid-forties.

    Now, liberated from the constraints of office, he tells his fascinating story with characteristic courage and candour, and provides a unique insight into the formation and evolution of a senior politician. In Speaking My Mind Leo Varadkar shares his pride in helping to bring about transformational changes, such as marriage equality. He describes experiences that only a prime minister could have – speaking frankly to Pope Francis on the legacy of church abuses, connecting with Barack Obama about both being the ‘tall, dark guy with the funny name’, navigating challenges such as the pandemic and the fallout from Brexit.

    And he writes honestly about the costs that go with the immense privilege of holding high office. Speaking My Mind is a revealing, intimate and important memoir from a singular public figure.

  • Raising Hare

    Raising Hare

    13.50
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    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITINGWINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION, HATCHARDS AND BIOGRAPHERS’ CLUB FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZEA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE HAY FESTIVAL, SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR, ECONOMIST, iNEWS and TIME’A beautiful book’ – ANGELINA JOLIE’I will be recommending this to everyone’ – MATT HAIG’Quietly profound, beautifully written, Hare is now lodged in my heart’ – TRACY CHEVALIERImagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, over two years later, it still ran in from the fields when you called it and snoozed in your house for hours on end.
  • Sale! Make + Freeze

    Make + Freeze

    Original price was: €26.95.Current price is: €24.25.
    Description
    THE ULTIMATE FAMILY COOKBOOK FROM LITTLE LOU COOKS — TRANSFORM YOUR MEAL TIMES!Discover 100 delicious, nutritious and convenient recipes for the whole family that are only ever a freezer away. Meal prep can seem daunting, but professional chef and busy mum of two, Lou Robbie of @LittleLouCooks makes it easy and manageable for everyone. She understands that life is hectic and has come up with delicious, homemade recipes that can be prepared in advance and frozen, ensuring that wholesome, tasty meals and snacks that the whole family will love are always in steady supply.
  • Sligo Field Club Journal Vol 10

    Sligo Field Club Journal Vol 10

    25.00

    An Ongoing Mission: this Journal will continue the ambition of Sligo Field Club, formerly Sligo Antiquarian Society, and now in its eightieth year, to protect Sligo’s rich archaeological and historical heritage. The Journal provides a platform for authors to record and analyse the rich heritage of Sligo and the greater North Connacht region across a wide range of topics.

     

     

  • Rot

    Rot

    19.95

    In the 1800s, as Britain became the world’s most powerful industrial empire, Ireland starved. The Great Famine fractured long-held assumptions about political economy and ‘civilisation’, threatening disorder in Britain. Ireland was a laboratory for empire, shaping British ideas about colonisation, population, ecology and work.

    In Rot, Padraic Scanlan reinterprets the history of this time and the result is a revelatory account of Ireland’s Great Famine. In the first half of the nineteenth century, nowhere in Europe – or the world – did the working poor depend as completely on potatoes as in Ireland. To many British observers, potatoes were evidence of a lack of modernity among the Irish.

    However, Ireland before the famine more closely resembled capitalism’s future than its past. While poverty before and during the Great Famine was often blamed on Irish backwardness, it did in fact stem from the British Empire’s embrace of modern capitalism.

    Uncovering the disaster’s roots in Britain’s deep imperial faith in markets and capitalism, Rot reshapes our understanding of the Famine and its tragic legacy.

  • Beidh Tu Alright

    Beidh Tu Alright

    19.95

    Beidh Tú Alright is a powerful nod to the resilience of the human spirit, the importance of cultural heritage, and the joy of lifelong learning. McHugh’s personal story will inspire both those who have yet to start their Irish language journey and those who may have once given up.

  • The Let Them Theory

    The Let Them Theory

    26.95
    Description

    New York Times Bestselling Author. Millions of books sold worldwide! A Life-Changing Tool Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About What if the key to happiness, success, and love was as simple as two words? If you’ve ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn’t you. The problem is the power you give to other people.

    Two simple words—Let Them—will set you free. Free from the opinions, drama, and judgments of others. Free from the exhausting cycle of trying to manage everything and everyone around you.

  • Bringing Them Home

    Bringing Them Home

    24.00

    HICKEY, SIMONE

  • Obsessed-The Autobiography

    Obsessed-The Autobiography

    24.95
    Description
    THE NO. 1 BESTSELLERIn his hotly anticipated autobiography, Johnny Sexton tells the story of his life and explores the sources of his unmatched will to win. ‘Sexton will go down as Ireland’s greatest ever player’ Gordon D’Arcy, Irish Times___________________Four European Cups.

    Four Six Nations championships (including two Grand Slams). A series win in New Zealand. Two stints for Ireland at number 1 in the world.

    And the World Player of the Year award. No Irish rugby player has ever achieved more, or been a source of more inspiration to teammates and fans alike, than Johnny Sexton. Outspoken, on and off the field, Sexton offers an honest look at his childhood, his relationships with key teammates and coaches (including Brian O’Driscoll, Paul O’Connell, Ronan O’Gara, Joe Schmidt and Andy Farrell), and his ideas about the game.