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Diplomat Jack Lennon is posted to Spain in 2008 as the wheels are coming off the Spanish – and Irish – property boom. On the trail of a missing Irish government minister Jack encounters a coterie of property magnates, former celebrities, desperate bankers the remnants of Ireland’s ‘wine-geese’ and Franco’s Spain.
In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the ‘tipping point’, that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour cross a threshold, tip and spread like wildfire. Taking a look behind the surface of many familiar occurrences in our everyday world, Gladwell explains the fascinating social dynamics that cause rapid change.
This collection of Seamus Heaney’s work, especially in the series of 12-line poems entitled “Squarings”, shows he is ready to re-imagine experience and “to credit marvels”. The title poem is typical in that it begins with memories of an actual event, then moves towards the visionary.
Describes the experience of heightened consciousness that radically transformed the author’s life and shows how by living in the moment we reach a higher state of being where we can find joy and peace, This volume contains the techniques we need to start to put the book “The Power Of Now” into practice in our own lives.
Surrender to the present moment, where problems do not exist. It is here we find our joy, are able to embrace our true selves and discover that we are already complete and perfect. This title demonstrates how to live a healthier and happier life by living in the present moment.
In the last decade, there has been an unprecedented rise in demand for organic produce, and now people are beginning to realise how easy it is to grow their own. The polytunnel is an affordable, low-carbon aid to growing fruit and veg all year round, and this book explains everything there is to know about their use.?
On the August bank holiday weekend in 1979, 14-year-old Timothy Knatchbull went out on a boat trip off the shore of Mullaghmore in County Sligo, Ireland. It was a trip that would cost four lives – and change his own forever.
A chance sighting on a bus; a letter which should never have been read; a pianist with a secret that touches the heart of her music . . .
AN EQUAL MUSIC is a book about love, about the love of a woman lost and found and lost again; it is a book about music and how the love of music can run like a passionate fugue through a life. It is the story of Michael, of Julia, and of the love that binds them.
‘Will still be read with pleasure and absorption decades from now‘ Spectator
‘A wonder-work: irresistible, tense, deeply moving‘ Sunday Times
‘A novel that can stand being reread and reread, but the first time round is an emotional cliffhanger … secure a copy for yourself, settle down, and prepare for the unforgettable‘ Sunday Times
There’s a new bunch of baddies in town, and they have something sinister in store for Petey the Cat. Once again, Dog Man is called into action! With a cute kitten and a remarkable robot by his side, the Supa Buddies must join forces with the most unlikely of heroes to save the day.
The Methuen Student Edition of Ibsen’s classic play, in Michael Meyer’s definitive translation.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize The first book in Hilary Mantel’s award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel. ‘Every bit as good as they said it was’ Observer ‘Terrific’ Margaret Atwood ‘As soon as I opened this book I was gripped. I read it almost non-stop’ The Times In Wolf Hall, one of our very best writers brings the opulent, brutal world of the Tudors to bloody, glittering life.
It is the backdrop to the rise and rise of Thomas Cromwell: lowborn boy, charmer, bully, master of deadly intrigue, and , finally, most powerful of Henry VIII’s coutiers. ‘Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good’ Daily Mail ‘Terrifying. It is a world of marvels. But it is also a world of horrors, where screams are commonplace. A feast’ Daily Telegraph
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THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER’An amazing story, and truly inspiring. The kind of book everyone will enjoy. IT’S EVEN BETTER THAN YOU’VE HEARD.’ – Bill GatesSelected as a book of the year by AMAZON, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW YORK TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, VOGUE, IRISH TIMES, IRISH EXAMINER and RED MAGAZINE A Book of the Decade, 2010-2020 (Independent)________________________Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn’t exist.