HOW MANY MILES TO BABYLON?
€10.50JOHNSTON, JENNIFER
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I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic
€12.50Tells 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
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I Let You Go
€10.95A 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 …
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ILIAD
€5.00The 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.
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IN COLD BLOOD
€12.50The 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.
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Ireland’s Garden Birds
€16.95An essential companion for bird lovers and gardeners alike since it was first published, this highly successful guide to identifying garden birds has now been fully updated with the latest information and statistics.
Highlighting a range of plants and planting schemes that support wildlife, it provides expert advice on making your garden a haven for birds.
Learn everything you need to know about all the birds you’re most likely to see from your window, how to attract them into your garden and how to care for them.
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Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way
€16.95In 2013 F?ilte Ireland/Tourism Ireland launched the Wild Atlantic Way. This long-distance touring route follows Ireland’s west coast from Donegal in the North to Cork in the South and encompasses some of Ireland’s most spectacular scenery. This book is the perfect accompaniment to the route.
Ireland?s Wild Atlantic Way takes the reader on a photographic journey down Ireland?s west coast from Donegal to Cork. This beautiful book showcases the attractions of the west coast: dramatic views, abundant nature and wildlife, lighthouses, harbours and quaint seaside villages, as well as heritage, history and people.
Contains maps for each section of the Wild Atlantic Way, and follows Bord Failte?s divisions of the route: Donegal-Mayo, Mayo-Clare, Clare-Kerry, Kerry to Cork.
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Jumbo Discovers Giraffeland
€8.00Jumbo, a baby elephant, is bored and he strays away from his home. He spots some zebras and then meets a friendly group of giraffes, who tempt him to stay with them. what follows is a series of adventures that leave the young elephant relieved to return to his parents.
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KEY PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS
€6.50Rene Descartes has been described as the “father” of modern philosophy. This selection of Descartes’ writings attempt to answer central questions surrounding self, God, free-will and knowledge, using the science of thought as opposed to received wisdom based on the tenets of faith.
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KING LEAR
€5.00The Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare’s works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. King Lear has been widely acclaimed as Shakespeare’s most powerful tragedy.
Elemental and passionate, it encompasses the horrific and the heart-rending. Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the world’s literature. In the theatre and on screen King Lear continues to challenge and enthral.
This Wordsworth edition of King Lear provides a comprehensive, integrated text of the play.
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LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET
€5.00The flaxen-haired beauty of the childlike Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But M.E. Braddon’s classic novel of sensation uncovers the truth about its heroine in a plot involving bigamy, arson and murder.
It challenges assumptions about the nature of femininity and investigates the narrow divide between sanity and insanity, using as its focus one of the most fascinating of all Victorian heroines. Combining elements of the detective novel, the psychological thriller and the romance of upper class life, Lady Audley’s Secret was one of the most popular and successful novels of the nineteenth century and still exerts a powerful hold on readers.
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Lean in 15
€18.95EAT MORE. EXERCISE LESS. LOSE FAT.
In his first book, Joe Wicks, aka The Body Coach, reveals how to shift your body fat by eating more and exercising less. Lean in 15 features 100 recipes for nutritious, quick-to-prepare meals and guides you through Joe’s signature HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) home workouts, revealing how to combine food and exercise to ignite intense fat-burning.
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LES MISERABLES Volume One
€5.00One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette, have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae.
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Lethal White
€14.50The most epic Robert Galbraith novel yet, LETHAL WHITE is both a gripping mystery and a page-turning next instalment in the ongoing story of Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott.