Books

  • Happy Pear

    Happy Pear

    19.95

    Let’s face it: while we want to eat more fruit and veg and things we know are good for us, we sometimes fall short because we’re not sure how to turn all that great produce into great food. Well, welcome to the Happy Pear way of eating – healthy but never worthy, easy but never dull, and packed with mind-blowing flavour, exciting texture and vibrant colour. The Happy Pear opened ten years ago when twins David and Stephen Flynn, passionate about starting a food revolution in their home town, took over their local fruit and veg shop and later opened a cafe.

    Their revolution has not only succeeded, but it is spreading, and The Happy Pear’s fans range from young parents to pensioners, ladies-who-lunch to teens-on-the-run, Electric Picnickers to Hollywood stars. David and Stephen’s first cookbook is full of irresistible recipes for everything from everyday breakfasts, lunches and dinners, to scrumptious – and yes, still wholesome! – cakes and sweet treats, to special occasion splurges. David and Stephen also tell their story (how they transformed from jocks to hippies before finally finding their groove), share their top tips for maximizing taste and goodness in food, and explain how they’ve succeeded in building a food business based on flavour, health and community

  • HEDGEROW

    HEDGEROW

    17.50

    Hedgerows, moors, meadows and woods – these hold a veritable feast for the forager. In this hugely informative and witty handbook, John Wright reveals how to spot the free and delicious pickings to be found in the British countryside, and how to prepare and cook them.

  • Henry Kelly (1894-1920)

    Henry Kelly (1894-1920)

    10.00

    A short biographical study of Volunteer Henry Kelly of Ballygawley, Co. Sligo : An Easter rebel?of 1916, who was executed in Dublin on the 17th of October, 1920, during the war of Independence.

  • Here We Are

    Here We Are

    17.50

    JEFFERS, OLIVER

  • ECHOES OF A SAVAGE LAND

    ECHOES OF A SAVAGE LAND

    12.00

    MCGOWAN, JOE

  • BITTER WIND

    BITTER WIND

    12.00

    A Bitter Wind is a ramble through an Ireland of the heart that no longer exists. It takes us on a journey into the secret heart of Irish country life in the 20th century. It depicts too the universal battle of man against the elements.

    Unfolded here are the beliefs of ordinary people, their superstitions, customs, fears and joys, their struggle to extract a living from the ruthless extremes of nature on land, sea and shore. In these pages we re-live the adventures of ordinary individuals who, in snatching a livelihood from the forces of nature, lived extraordinary lives.

  • HORROR IN THE MUSEUM

    HORROR IN THE MUSEUM

    4.50

    My eyes, perversely shaken open, gazed for an instant upon a sight which no human creature could even imagine without panic, fear and physical exhaustion…’ A wax museum in London boasts a new exhibit, which no man has seen and remained sane…A businessman is trapped in a train carriage with a madman who claims to have created a new and efficient method of capital punishment…A doctor plans a horrible revenge, using as his murder weapon an insect believed capable of consuming the human soul…Within these pages, some of H P Lovecraft’s more obscure works of horror and science fiction can be found, including several fantastic tales from his celebrated Cthulhu Mythos. No true Lovecraft aficionado dare be without this volume.

  • HOW MANY MILES TO BABYLON?

    HOW MANY MILES TO BABYLON?

    10.50

    JOHNSTON, JENNIFER

  • How Music Works

    How Music Works

    21.95

    BYRNE, DAVID

  • How To Argue With A Racist

    How To Argue With A Racist

    15.95

    *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* ‘Nobody deals with challenging subjects more interestingly and compellingly than Adam Rutherford, and this may be his best book yet.
    ‘This is a seriously important work’ BILL BRYSON Race is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it.

    But the appeal to science to strengthen racist ideologies is on the rise – and increasingly part of the public discourse on politics, migration, education, sport and intelligence. Stereotypes and myths about race are expressed not just by overt racists, but also by well-intentioned people whose experience and cultural baggage steer them towards views that are not supported by the modern study of human genetics. Even some scientists are uncomfortable expressing opinions deriving from their research where it relates to race.

    Yet, if understood correctly, science and history can be powerful allies against racism, granting the clearest view of how people actually are, rather than how we judge them to be. HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST is a vital manifesto for a twenty-first century understanding of human evolution and variation, and a timely weapon against the misuse of science to justify bigotry.

  • I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic

    I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic

    12.50

    Tells a memoir of one of the world’s most gifted and controversial footballers. This title reveals a rare and ferocious intelligence, willpower and God-given talent exhibited when Zlatan scored all 4 goals for Sweden in a 4-2 victory against England

  • I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS

    I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS

    12.50

    Maya Angelou’s seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration.

    In this first volume of her six books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the terrible trauma of rape by her mother’s lover. ‘I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it’s like to be a human being.

    This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, amazingly, stand up again’ Maya Angelou

  • I Let You Go

    I Let You Go

    10.95

    A tragic accident. It all happened so quickly. She couldn’t have prevented it. Could she? In a split second, Jenna Gray’s world descends into a nightmare. Her only hope of moving on is to walk away from everything she knows to start afresh. Desperate to escape, Jenna moves to a remote cottage on the Welsh coast, but she is haunted by her fears, her grief and her memories of a cruel November night that changed her life forever. Slowly, Jenna begins to glimpse the potential for happiness in her future. But her past is about to catch up with her, and the consequences will be devastating …

  • ILIAD

    ILIAD

    5.00

    The product of more than a decade’s continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman’s translation of Homer’s great poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of The Iliad. In muscular, onward-rolling verse Chapman retells the story of Achilles, the great warrior, and his terrible wrath before the walls of besieged Troy, and the destruction it wreaks on both Greeks and Trojans. Chapman regarded the translation of this epic, and of Homer’s Odyssey (also available in Wordsworth Editions) as his life’s work, and dedicated himself to capturing the ‘soul’ of the poem.

  • IN COLD BLOOD

    IN COLD BLOOD

    12.50
    The chilling true crime ‘non-fiction novel’ that made Truman Capote’s name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative published in Penguin Modern Classics. Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote’s comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved.

    At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely and frighteningly human.

  • Ireland Through Birds

    Ireland Through Birds

    16.95

    In Search of Ireland’s Most Elusive Birds