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Brian Clough: Nobody Ever Says Thank You: The Biography Jonathan Wilson 9781399625623
RRP: €17.84€11.66'COMPREHENSIVE' The Sunday Times'BEAUTIFULLY DETAILED' The Guardian'UTTERLY COMPELLING' Nottingham Forest News'WONDERFUL' Forbes'INTIMATE' FourFourTwo20th Anniversary Edition - Fully revised and updated.In this authoritative, critical biography, Jonathan... -
Follow the Thunder: Jason Dozzell, My Story Jason Dozzell 9781801509190
RRP: €29.75€20.97Follow the Thunder is the searingly honest autobiography of former Premier League star and record-breaking wonder kid Jason Dozzell, who later faced the consequences of a chaotic life off the field.In February 1984, Jason netted on his debut for hometown... -
Bearing Witness: Prison Stories from a Woman's Fight Against Fascism Mercedes Núñez Targa 9780745349084
RRP: €21.41€17.03Mercedes Núñez Targa was born in Barcelona in 1911. She served as secretary of the poet Pablo Neruda, and fought in the Civil War with the Catalan socialists. Following the collapse of the Spanish Republic, she was imprisoned under the Franco... -
Escape to Berlin: A Travel Memoir Adrian Piper 9788836657179
RRP: €38.08€25.72This volume offers the autobiography of artist Adrian Piper (1948, New York). Established as a conceptual and minimalist artist as well as a performer on the New York art scene of the late 1960s, Piper traces in these pages - enriched with personal... -
The Gilded Life of Richard Morris Hunt: Architecture and Art for an American Civilization Sam Watters 9781913875817
RRP: €53.55€39.73Celebrated internationally in the nineteenth century as America's premier architect, Richard Morris Hunt (1827-1895) is best known for his opulent Gilded Age Vanderbilt mansions, including Biltmore, the Breakers, Marble House, and other landmark works... -
Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland Jen Hadfield 9781529038026
RRP: €22.60€16.20'Storm Pegs perfectly captures the knotting of language and landscape. I was transported.' - Katherine May, Sunday Times bestselling author of WinteringFrom the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Highland Book PrizeWhat if the answer to ‘Where am I?’... -
Great Scientists: Charles Darwin Alexandra Badiu 9781526326461
RRP: €15.46€10.23Charles Darwin tells the story of this key scientific figure, covering his origins as the son of a wealthy doctor, his famous voyage on HMS Beagle, the development of his evolutionary theories, the publication of On the Origin of Species and his death... -
Golden Clan: The Murrays, the McDonnells, and the Irish American Aristocracy John Corry 9781493086917
RRP: €20.22€15.40John Corry’s chronicle of the Murrays and the McDonnells is the quintessential story of a successful Irish American clan—perhaps the most successful in sheer numbers and influence. Thomas E. Murray, the patriarch, was born in 1860 in Albany, New York. At... -
My Garden (Book) Jamaica Kincaid 9781529077063
RRP: €13.08€8.47‘[Kincaid] is able to do something that is almost never done in garden writing, and do it very well . . .’ - The New York TimesJamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more... -
Frankie McIntosh and the Art of the Soca Arranger Frankie McIntosh 9781496854018
RRP: €29.69€26.62Soca music, an offspring of older Trinidadian calypso, emerged in the late 1970s and is now recognized as one of the English-speaking Caribbean’s most distinctive styles of popular vocal music. Frankie McIntosh and the Art of the Soca Arranger tells a... -
Our Connected Lives: Caring for Cancer Patients in Rural Texas Fazlur Rahman 9781682832233
RRP: €34.45€20.47Fazlur Rahman's mother died tragically when he was only seven years old, but her words reverberated throughout his life: "Someday you will be a doctor, Fazlur, and save lives." Eventually, he fled his war-torn homeland and, after years of training in New... -
Unbreakable: The definitive and unflinching memoir of the world's greatest snooker player Ronnie O'Sullivan 9781399610032
RRP: €11.89€8.09In a career spanning over three decades, Ronnie O'Sullivan's journey to becoming the greatest snooker player of all time has been filled with extremes.A teenage snooker prodigy, Ronnie turned professional with the highest of expectations. This pressure,... -
The Dictators: 64 Dictators, 64 Authors, 64 Warnings from History Iain Dale 9781399721608
RRP: €35.70€23.09**THE LATEST COLLECTION OF ESSAYS EDITED BY IAIN DALE: AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** Praise for Iain Dale:'Riveting and enlightening. A history lesson via a novel route. ' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Really enjoying reading this book. It is easy to dip in and out and each... -
Psychoanalysis and Narrative: Literature, Film and Autobiography Jorgelina Corbatta 9781032726892
RRP: €160.65€139.56Psychoanalysis and Narrative analyzes narrative in literary fiction, film, and autobiography through different psychoanalytic lenses including gender and socio-cultural perspectives. This book aims to demonstrate how fictionists and film makers have... -
The Closest Thing to Crazy: My Life of Musical Adventures Mike Batt 9781785120848
RRP: €26.18€19.06Described variously as a 'polymath', a 'renaissance man' and 'one of the most colourful characters in the music business', Mike Batt has led an extraordinarily vibrant and challenging life that has been full of both glorious victories and bitter failures... -
From Empire to Revolution: Sir James Wright and the Price of Loyalty in Georgia Greg Brooking 9780820365930
RRP: €30.88€24.92From Empire to Revolution is the first biography devoted to an in-depth examination of the life and conflicted career of Sir James Wright (1716–1785). Greg Brooking uses Wright’s life as a means to better understand the complex struggle for power in both... -
The Wound is the Place the Light Enters Howard Norman 9781682832387
RRP: €24.93€13.88The warmth of this book is sustained by friendship. More specifically, the novelist Howard Norman documents what he didn't know would be the final evening and morning he spent with his dear friend Jake Berthot. In that single evening is the entire world... -
Trailblazer: The Story of the First Black Female Secret Service Agent to Protect the President and Her Fight for Justice Cheryl Tyler 9781538197103
€41.19Trailblazer is the remakable and inspiring story of Cheryl Tyler, a Black woman who defied all odds and shattered barriers in her quest to protect the highest office in the land. This captivating memoir transports readers into Tyler’s world as she... -
Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak and Dogs Jordan Stephens 9781838858087
RRP: €20.22€13.78Love is a gift, isn't it? From our early childhood years to growing up and pairing off, it's a feeling we chase knowing we're better off with it. But what if love is claustrophobic and conflicting? And what if at the same time we're chasing addictions to... -
Last Man Standing: How Tom Matte's Memorable 1965 Season Highlighted a Remarkable NFL Career Joel Poiley 9781538179482
RRP: €35.70€33.34This bookoffers a nostalgic deep-dive into the legendary period in Matte’s life when the running back was asked to play quarterback as well as the lasting impact of his playing time on the NFL and the Colts organization as a whole. Book InformationISBN... -
Great Scientists: Marie Curie Alexandra Badiu 9781526326546
RRP: €15.46€10.23Marie Curie tells the story of this key scientific figure - covering her origins as the daughter of a Polish teacher through her work on radioactivity, winning the Nobel Prize, her professorship at the Sorbonne and her amazing legacy to science today... -
Jane Austen at Home: 250th Birthday Edition Lucy Worsley 9781399740906
RRP: €30.94€20.21To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, Lucy Worsley has written a new Introduction to her Sunday Times Bestselling biography - the book that leads us into the rooms from which our best-loved novelist quietly changed the world.This... -
Unconventional Routes: Around the World from Boardrooms to Backpacks Gillian Fawcett 9781835740354
RRP: €11.89€8.46Being a businesswoman on a whirlwind tour of forty-three countries is no ordinary adventure. Unconventional Routes takes you on a wild ride, offering a glimpse into the highs and lows of global exploration. Fasten your seatbelt and prepare to embark on a... -
Connie: A Memoir Connie Chung 9781538766989
RRP: €33.32€22.21Connie Chung is a pioneer. In 1969 at the age of 23, this once-shy daughter of Chinese parents took her first job at a local TV station in her hometown of Washington, D.C. and soon thereafter began working at CBS news as a correspondent. Profoundly... -
Wings But No Angel: Ken Smith, His Life And Stories C. K. Smith 9781805144656
RRP: €20.22€14.61Wings But No Angel details Ken Smith's remarkable journey from choirboy on HMS Victory to the Royal Marines and then the Special Air Service/ Special Boat Service. Ken saw action on the North Atlantic, Arctic and Mediterranean convoys before... -
Jokes, Jokes, Jokes: My Very Funny Memoir Jenny Eclair 9781408732052
RRP: €29.75€20.61How did little Jenny Hargreaves become Jenny Eclair and elbow her way into the male dominated world of 1980s stand-up?Daughter of Major Derek Hargreaves (spy?) and June Hargreaves (spy's wife?) sister of Sara (born to be Head Girl) and Ben (the usurper),... -
A Portrait of the Piss Artist as a Young Man Tadhg Hickey 9781804183434
RRP: €11.89€8.15It was love at first taste for fifteen-year-old Tadhg Hickey when he drank a can of Scrumpy Jack on the night of his exam results. Straight away it provided a cure for that constant feeling of 'something wrong, something not quite right', a way of... -
One Love, One Life: Stories from the Stars Billy Sloan 9781785306303
RRP: €11.89€8.46WHEN legendary music journalist Billy Sloan was fifteen years old he saw The Who play an incendiary live show at Green's Playhouse in Glasgow. It was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with music. Just a few years later he was backstage interviewing... -
The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing Thomas Harding 9781474621106
RRP: €15.46€10.23After arriving in London just before the Second World War as a penniless and friendless Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but the culture of ideas. The books that he published include... -
My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir Sarah Moss 9781035035816
RRP: €22.60€15.66'Moss writes so compassionately about human frailty while her own work is as close to perfect as a novelist’s can be. - The Times'Compulsive and compelling' - Emilie Pine‘Devastating, funny and full of brilliant insights . . . a brave and important book... -
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It Greg Marshall 9781398716360
RRP: €13.08€8.81Greg Marshall's early years were pretty bizarre. Rewind the VHS tapes (this is the nineties) and you'll see a lopsided teenager limping across a high school stage, or in a wheelchair after leg surgeries, pondering why he's crushing on half of the Utah... -
Clive, Proconsul of India: A Biography James P. Lawford 9781032416458
€40.45Clive, Proconsul of India (1976) examines the life of the man held by many to be one of the main originators of European imperialism in Asia in the eighteenth century. Dupleix of France and Clive of England set the drive to imperialism in motion – and... -
Chasing Chance: Stories of the Peirce--Prince Families in America Eileen Warburton 9781913875749
RRP: €29.69€22.00From Pilgrims to Robber Barons, martyred witches to Confederate officers, artists to statesmen, founders of towns, states, and industries, from journalists to pirates, or pioneers to war heroes, each person in the narrative has an individual destiny and... -
Monument Man: The Life & Art of Daniel Chester French Harold Holzer 9781538190623
RRP: €29.75€21.71The definitive biography of Daniel Chester French, the artist who created the statue for the Lincoln Memorial, John Harvard in Harvard Yard, and The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts. Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) is America's best-known sculptor... -
Scotland Yard: A Bloody History Simon Read 9781802796803
RRP: €26.18€17.33'A true crime history that reads like a thriller ... a foggy, lamp-lit descent into the chilling cases that established the Yard's reputation. A macabre and fascinating page-turner.' John Douglas, co-author of MindhunterFrom the victims of a teenage... -
We Need to Talk: The Number 1 Bestseller: SHORTLISTED IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2023 – Biography of the Year Dr Tony Holohan 9781804185049
RRP: €13.08€8.89Dr Tony Holohan served as Chief Medical Officer in Ireland for 14 years, but only really became known to the public during the Covid 19 pandemic. During this time his remarkable leadership skills came to the fore and he became the public face of the... -
Behind Closed Doors: In the Room with Reagan & Nixon Ken Khachigian 9798888452721
RRP: €29.75€21.44A compelling insider’s account by the trusted adviser and confidante to America’s presidential giants and political legends as he draws the curtains back on his most private moments with Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon during revolutionary changes in our... -
The Times Lives Behind the Music Nigel Farndale 9780008699642
RRP: €17.84€11.54Step into the tumultuous world of music stardom with this collection of obituaries from The Times. From the rock’n’roll pioneers of the 1950s, to the pop superstars of the 21st century, and lesser-known innovators with undeniable influence, this book... -
A Rough Ride to Redemption: The Ben Daniels Story Robert K. DeArment 9780806194790
€27.89He may be little known today, but Ben Daniels was a feared gunman who typified the journeyman gunfighter every bit as much as those whose names have become legend. Yet his story has eluded researchers and yarn-spinners alike—until now.Two prominent... -
Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy Ben Macintyre 9781526682642
RRP: €15.46€10.45SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 'Engrossing as any thriller' Daily Telegraph 'Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining' John le Carré 'This is the most amazing book, full of fascinating and hair-raising true...