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Hornchurch History Tour by Michael Foley
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.53Hornchurch History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this suburban town in the London Borough of Havering. This new book guides us through its streets and alleyways, showing... -
Ilford Through Time by Michael Foley
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.44The municipal borough of Ilford, in north-east London, grew from a sleepy Essex backwater in the seventeenth century to become a major coaching town, thanks to its strategic position on the... -
Front-Line Kent by Michael Foley
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.09Kent has been on England's first line of defence. In all major conflicts many people in the county have lived closer to the enemy in Europe than they did to London. Much of the county's coastline has... -
Barking & Dagenham History Tour by Michael Foley
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.53Barking & Dagenham History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this famous old port. This new book guides us through the streets and alleyways, showing how its famous landmarks... -
London's Docklands Through Time by Michael Foley
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07London's Docklands have a rich and varied history. Dating from the Middle Ages, they developed into one of the biggest docks in the world. The riches of Britain's Empire found its way into the... -
Romford History Tour Michael Foley 9781445677286
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.89Romford History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this east London town, its well-known streets and famous places, and explains what they meant to local people throughout the... -
London's East End History Tour by Michael Foley
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.53London's East End History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this famous part of the city. This new book guides us through the streets and alleyways, showing how its famous... -
Life Lessons from Bergson by Michael Foley 9781447245612
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.60The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday Henri Bergson was a French professor and philosopher. Born in Paris in 1859 to a... -
London's East End Through Time by Michael Foley 9781445605135
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07The East End of London has always been looked down on by those who live in the rest of the capital. Jack London's People Of the Abyss is just one of the many books written about the poverty, crime... -
Britain's Railways in the Second World War Michael Foley 9781399003247
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98The outbreak of the Second World War had an enormous effect on the railway system in Britain. Keeping the trains running through times of conflict was not such a distant memory for the railway... -
The Children of Croke Park: Bloody Sunday 1920 by Michael Foley 9781788493840
Booksplease Price: $12.49Dublin 1920 'Above the noise of the crowd, I could hear men shouting. I looked back and saw them - a line of trucks, and men with guns starting to run towards the field. That's when it happened.' ... -
Isn't This Fun?: Investigating the Serious Business of Enjoying Ourselves by Michael Foley 9781471154829
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Michael Foley, the author of bestselling The Age of Absurdity, wants to understand why he doesn't appear to be experiencing as much 'fun' as everyone else . . . And so, with characteristic wit and... -
Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life by Michael Foley 9781849839136
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55It has always been difficult to appreciate everyday life, often devalued as dreary, banal and burdensome, and never more so than in a culture besotted with fantasy, celebrity and glamour. Yet many... -
The Bloodied Field: Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920 by Michael Foley
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.15On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiance to watch Tipperary and Dublin... -
Farming for the Long Haul: Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness Michael Foley 9781603588003
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98It's all but certain that the next fifty years will bring enormous, not to say cataclysmic, disruptions to our present way of life. World oil reserves will be exhausted within that time frame, as... -
The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy by Michael Foley 9781847396273
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.73Like Alain de Botton crossed with Charlie Brooker, Foley succeeds in educating and enlightening us in this wry take on the existential dilemmas of modern life. 'Fascinating . . . the quest for... -
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Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life by Michael Foley 9781849839129 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.23'In recession-chastened, soddenly staycationing Britain, Foley may well have devised a new bestseller format: a how-to book offering a way of escape ... [a] lovely book' Guardian It has always been... -
Russian Civil War: Red Terror, White Terror, 1917-1922 by Michael Foley 9781526728616
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62The Russian Revolution is remembered as the catalyst for the bloody conflict between the Reds and the Whites as each side tried to gain control of the country. But it was far from being so simple... -
Historic England: City of London: Unique Images from the Archives of Historic England by Michael Foley
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.44This illustrated history of the City of London provides a nostalgic look at the Square Mile's past and highlights the special character of some of its most important historic sites. The... -
Historic England: London's East End: Unique Images from the Archives of Historic England by Michael Foley
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07This illustrated history portrays one of London's most fascinating areas. It provides a nostalgic look at the East End's past and highlights the special character of some of its most important... -
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The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy by Michael Foley 9781847396273 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.97Like Alain de Botton crossed with Charlie Brooker, Foley succeeds in educating and enlightening us in this wry take on the existential dilemmas of modern life. 'Fascinating . . . the quest for... -
Dining with the Saints: The Sinner's Guide to a Righteous Feast by Father Leo Patalinghug
Booksplease Price: $42.43Michael Foley's fans have been devoutly drinking with the saints for years. Now it's time for dinner! The inimitable theologian and mixologist teams up with the priest and TV chef Leo Patalinghug in... -
Here Comes the Fun: A Year of Making Merry by Ben Aitken
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $14.72ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH?Ben Aitken wasn't. Increasingly flat and decreasingly zen, he knew that something had to change. So he joined a lawn bowls club. About a week later, he continued his assault on... -
Here Comes the Fun: A Journey Into the Serious Business of Having a Laugh Ben Aitken 9781837730063
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'What Aitken writes about fun is worth reading' Mail on Sunday'Irresistible' Christopher Somerville, author of The January Man and Walking the Bones of Britain'A great book' Simon Rimmer, Sunday... -
Drinking with Saint Nick: Christmas Cocktails for Sinners and Saints by Michael P. Foley 9781621577324
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.06Raise your spirits and toast Saint Nick! Hot gin toddies. Smoking rosemary old fashioneds. A "wet" Advent calendar. Now you can experience Christmas the way it was meant to be celebrated: with... -
The Club by Christy O'Connor 9780141399669
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09This chronicle of a year in the life of St Joseph's Doora-Barefield GAA club in Co. Clare - which won the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year award for 2010 - breaks new ground in Irish... -
The Nature Delusion: Why We Can’t Fix the World Without Fixing Ourselves Tom Oliver 9781529244472
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.59"A pathbreaking synthesis" Gus Speth "Rigorous and compelling" Michael Foley Why our current fixes for the environmental crisis are making things worse, and what we need to do about it. Does the... -
The World Beyond Your Head: How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction by Matthew Crawford
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91From 'one of the most influential thinkers of our time' (Sunday Times): how to respond to today's demands on our attentionIn this brilliant follow-up to The Case for Working with Your Hands, Matthew... -
Cliffs Of Insanity: A Winter On Ireland’s Big Waves by Keith Duggan 9781848271302
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09Surfing in Ireland was once considered little more than a fringe and slightly lunatic pursuit. The treacherous coastline and ice waters of the Atlantic did not sit comfortably with the stereotype of... -
Confessions by Edmund Augustine 9780872208162
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.71Like the first Hackett edition of the Augustine's Confessions, the second edition features F. J. Sheed's remarkable translation of this classic spiritual autobiography with an Introduction by noted... -
Tony 10: The astonishing story of the postman who gambled EURO10,000,000 ... and lost it all by Declan Lynch
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.35Tony 10 was the online betting username of Tony O'Reilly, the postman who became front-page news in 2011 after he stole EURO1.75 million from An Post while he was a branch manager in Gorey, Co... -
The Racket: On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the other 99% Conor Niland 9780241998076
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER'Well worth a read if you want the inside track on life on the lower rungs of the tennis circuit. Warts and all.' Judy Murray'As elegant and powerful as a Federer backhand ..... -
The NGO Game: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in the Balkans and Beyond by Patrice C. McMahon 9781501709241
Booksplease Price: $30.95In most post-conflict countries nongovernmental organizations are everywhere, but their presence is misunderstood. In The NGO Game Patrice McMahon investigates the unintended outcomes of what she... -
Kings for a Day: The Story of Armagh and their 2002 Journey to Sam Maguire by Niall McCoy
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $14.6522 September, 2002 is a date engrained in the mind of every Armagh fan. At Croke Park for the first time ever, the Sam Maguire was lifted in front of a sea of orange and white and the celebrations... -
The Universal Way of Salvation in the Thought of Augustine Thomas P. Harmon 9780567712172
Booksplease Price: $39.40This work examines Augustine's critique of his Roman predecessors to reveal key aspects of Christ's mediation of the universal way of salvation. Porphyry of Tyre had noticed that Christianity can... -
There It Is: New and Selected Poems by Michael Casey
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58In 1972, Michael Casey won the Yale Younger Poets Prize for Obscenities, a collection of poems drawn from his military experience during the Vietnam War. In his foreword to the book, judge Stanley... -
Showbusiness with Blood: A Golden Age of Irish Boxing by Eamon Carr 9781843518730
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $17.74In Showbusiness with Blood, Eamon Carr beguiles the reader with an insightful account of the world's greatest boxers, from Steve Collins to Mike Tyson to Tyson Fury and Katie Taylor. Boxing,...