Books

  • My Greatest Race

    My Greatest Race

    21.95
    Description
    ‘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.

  • My Name Is Emilia Del Valle

    My Name Is Emilia Del Valle

    17.95

    Emilia del Valle was always destined for great things.

    Abandoned at birth by her Chilean aristocrat father, Emilia comes of age in nineteenth-century San Francisco as an independent and fiercely ambitious young woman, decades ahead of her time. She will do whatever it takes to pursue her life’s passion for writing, even if it means publishing under a man’s name.

    When Emilia lands a position as a journalist for the Daily Examiner, her unwavering sense of adventure – and new-found determination to survive in her own name – leads her to seize the chance to cover a brewing civil war in Chile alongside another talented reporter.

    But the assignment offers Emilia more than just an opportunity to prove herself as a writer. Before long she embarks on a treacherous, life-changing journey in a homeland she never knew, to uncover the truth about her father – and herself.

    A masterclass in historical storytelling from Isabel Allende, My Name is Emilia del Valle is a powerful tale of love and war, discovery and redemption, told by a valiant young woman who confronts monumental challenges, survives and reinvents herself along the way.

  • My Tale Untold

    My Tale Untold

    10.00

    MY TALE UNTOLD
    Inspired by true life characters and events, ‘My Tale Untold’, follows the story of a young Sligo girl in the 1800s who came to be imprisoned in Sligo Gaol and her perilous journey to freedom.

  • Mythical Irish Wonders

    Mythical Irish Wonders

    22.95

    JOYCE, MARK

  • Nadiya Bakes

    Nadiya Bakes

    25.00

    Description
    The book we’ve all been waiting for: Nadiya’s return to her true love, baking!Give the gift of truly delicious bakes, perfect for every sweet tooth and Bake Off fanDiscover all the delicious and mouth-watering recipes from the BBC2 TV series in Nadiya’s Sunday Times bestselling cookbook, Nadiya Bakes’Delicious’ TIMES’Showstoppers and classic baking for every occasion’ SUNDAY TIMES___________Our beloved Bake-Off winner has created your ultimate baking cookbook to help you conquer cakes, biscuits, traybakes, tarts and pies, showstopping desserts, breads, savoury bakes, and even ‘no-bake’ bakes – all with her signature mouth-watering twists. Some of Nadiya’s deliciously easy recipes you can achieve at home include:* Sharing Chocolate Fondant* Layered Honey Cake* ‘Money Can’t Buy You Happiness’ Brownies* Blueberry & Lavender Scone Pizza* Praline King Cake* Caramel Crunch Rocky Road* Pepperoni Pull Apart Bread. .

    . and much, much moreFrom classic baking staples to dazzling show-stoppers, you’ll discover new favourite recipes for every day and every celebration – it’s time to shake up your bakes!’Let Nadiya fill your kitchen with pure joy’ Woman & Home

  • Natural Born Feeder

    Natural Born Feeder

    24.95

    For Roz a healthy lifestyle isn’t about extremes, it’s about balance. Written in a wonderfully accessible way, Natural Born Feeder features over 170 easy-to-follow, delicious recipes. So get inspired, get into the kitchen and get cooking!

  • Naturama Irish Nature

    Naturama Irish Nature

    24.95

    Wonder at the world on your doorstep season by season…with Naturama!

  • NEMESIS

    NEMESIS

    10.95

    It’s the sweltering summer of 1944, and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic. Decent, athletic twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and ashamed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. As polio begins to ravage Bucky’s playground – child by helpless child – Roth leads us through every emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the panic, the anger, the bewilderment, the suffering and the pain.

    The genius of Philip Roth…back at his imperious best in this heartbreaking tale… The eloquence of Roth’s storytelling makes Nemesis one of his most haunting works‘ Daily Mail

    Cantor is one of Roth’s best creations and the atmosphere of terror is masterfully fashioned‘ Sunday Telegraph

    Very fine, very unsettling‘ Douglas Kennedy, The Times

  • Nesting

    Nesting

    15.95
    Description
    ‘Brand-new, urgent and hugely satisfying’ RODDY DOYLE ‘As emotionally charged as it is brutally real. The writing is flawless. I was profoundly moved’ ELAINE FEENEY ‘Will make your blood boil and your heart soar.

    This is an important novel’ CLAIRE KILROY ‘Gorgeous, maddening, thrilling and compassionate’ SHEILA ARMSTRONG ‘Authentic, vivid and important… I read with my heart in my mouth’ UNA MANNION__________________________________________________________________________________An extraordinary and urgent debut by a prize-winning Irish writer, NESTING introduces an unforgettable new voice in fiction. On a bright spring afternoon in Dublin, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything. Grabbing an armful of clothes from the washing line, Ciara straps her two young daughters into her car and drives away.

    Head spinning, all she knows for certain is that home is no longer safe. This was meant to be an escape. But with dwindling savings, no job, and her family across the sea, Ciara finds herself adrift, facing a broken housing system and the voice of her own demons.

  • Nesting

    Nesting

    12.00
    Description
    WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2025THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2025’Tense, forensically realistic and compulsively readable. A real achievement’ SUNDAY TIMES‘Here is a novelist who has powerful news to tell, and an impressive range of narrative gifts with which to tell it’ IRISH TIMES‘Should become essential reading for all. Nesting? is a novel that truly matters’ SUNDAY INDEPENDENT’A moving portrait of life inside the housing system and the courage it takes to try to build a home in society’s cracks’? GUARDIAN_______________________________________________________________An extraordinary and urgent debut by a prize-winning Irish writer, NESTING introduces an unforgettable new voice in fiction. On a bright spring afternoon in Dublin, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything.
  • Never Let Me Go

    Never Let Me Go

    10.95

    This book deals with a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.

  • NEVER LET ME GO

    NEVER LET ME GO

    12.50

    Imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. This novel dramatises the author’s attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world.

  • Never Mind The B*ll*cks, Here's The Science

    Never Mind The B*ll*cks, Here’s The Science

    24.95

    Description
    In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O’Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life’s biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have control over our lives?Can we escape working in bullshit jobs?Must we vaccinate our children?Are men and women’s brains different?Will we destroy the planet?Covering topics from global pandemics to gender, addiction to euthanasia, Luke’s trademark easy wit and clever pop-culture references deconstruct the science to make complex questions accessible. Arriving at science’s definitive answers to some of the most controversial topics human beings have to grapple with, Never Mind the B#ll*ocks is a celebration of science and hard facts in a time of fake news and sometimes unhelpful groupthink.

  • News from Under a Coat Stand

    News from Under a Coat Stand

    15.00

    The first six months of 2020 were the strangest of times. An unknown virus was spreading globally that brought social distancing, incredible uncertainty and sadly death. It also brought cocooning, the 2 km travel limit and delicious banana bread. Working from home in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, RTÉ Journalist Carole Coleman kept a detailed diary of Covid’s first 100 days. Her lively personal story may remind you of your own town, family and friends – or amaze you about what you missed. While home schooling teenagers, remotely broadcasting Sunday’s This Week radio programme, and chatting with nearly everyone, “News from Under a Coat Stand” provides a poignant, serious, yet often hilarious account of a time Ireland and the world will never forget.

  • Next In Line

    Next In Line

    9.95

    London, 1988. Royal fever sweeps the nation as Britain falls in love with the ‘people’s princess’.

    Which means for Scotland Yard, the focus is on the elite Royalty Protection Command, and its commanding officer. Entrusted with protecting the most famous family on earth, they quite simply have to be the best. A weak link could spell disaster.

    Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick and his Scotland Yard squad are sent in to investigate the team. Maverick ex-undercover operative Ross Hogan is charged with a very sensitive – and unique – responsibility. But it soon becomes clear the problems in Royalty Protection are just the beginning.

    A renegade organization has the security of the country – and the Crown – in its sights. The only question is which target is next in line…

  • NHS Gardener's Almanac 2024

    NHS Gardener’s Almanac 2024

    12.50

    Information, inspiration, tips and trivia to help you make the most of your gardening year.

    This guide to how to look after and enjoy your garden month by month is the ideal thoughtful gift for any gardener. It’s packed with inspiring writing and National Trust know-how that will help beginners and old hands alike.

    For each month, you’ll find: Something to prune; Something to savour; A task to start; a task to finish; A thrifty project; Head gardener’s job of the month – advice from an NT expert; Plant focus – spotlight on plants in season; Wildlife – what to look for, how to help; Weather charts – sunrise and sunset, average temperatures;  Trivia – Facts too good to keep to yourself; Quotations – Wit and wisdom from famous gardeners, past and present.

    There’s information on enjoying other gardens too – with dates for garden events around the country, including from the National Trust and RHS.