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    The Glass Castle
    Jeannette Walls

    Paperback · 04 May 2006 · €12.00

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    'Walls has carved a story with precision and grace out of one of the most chaotic, heart-breaking childhoods... This deeply affecting memoir is a triumph in every possible way, and it does what all good books should: it affirms our faith in the human spir

  • Screaming at the Sky

    Screaming at the Sky
    Tony Griffin

    Paperback · 27 May 2010 · €17.35
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    Tony Griffin is a man of remarkable drive and determination, but during the course of four extraordinary, turbulent years, he was tested to the limit. This title presents the story of courage, of love and loss, and of battles won and lost both on and off the field.

  • Lowside of the Road

    Lowside of the Road
    Barney Hoskyns

    Paperback · 01 May 2010 · €13.35

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    Like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Tom Waits is a chameleonic survivor who's achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider mystique. From his perilous 'jazzbo' years in '70s Los Angeles to the multiple-Grammy winner, this biography charts Waits' life step-by-step and album-by-album.

  • Angels in My Hair

    Angels in My Hair
    Lorna Byrne

    Paperback · 30 Jul 2009 · €8.99

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    An autobiography of a modern day mystic, an Irish woman with powers of the saints of old. It provides the testimony of this woman who sees things, beyond the range of our everyday experience.

  • Angels of Divine Light

    Angels of Divine Light
    Aidan Storey

    Paperback · 22 Oct 2009 · €16.00

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    The remarkable autobiography of one of today's leading angelic healers and spiritual therapists.

  • My Bonnie

    My Bonnie
    John Suchet

    Paperback · 27 May 2010 · €17.35
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    Earlier this year John Suchet revealed that his beautiful 67-year-old wife Bonnie, the love of his life, is suffering from Dementia. During the past three years he has gone from lover to carer. And he has found that exceptionally tough. In this moving, and bitterly honest account, the newsreader reveals his loneliness and his despair.

  • Unreliable Sources

    Unreliable Sources
    John Simpson

    Paperback · 19 Mar 2010 · €18.70

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    Gives an account of how the British press reported key moments in our history. This book shows how, while the press likes to pretend it's independent, they have enjoyed the power they have over the events they report and have at times exercised it irresponsibly.

  • The Speckled People

    The Speckled People
    Hugo Hamilton

    Paperback · 06 Oct 2003 · €9.99

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    The memoir of Hugo Hamilton, which details his life as a young boy growing up in Dublin and his family's homesickness for a country they can call their own.

  • Diaries Volume One

    Diaries Volume One
    Alastair Campbell

    Hardback · 01 Jun 2010 · €33.35
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    Covers the early days of New Labour, culminating in their victory at the polls in 1997. This book details the extraordinary tensions between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as they resolved the question as to which one should stand to become Labour leader.

  • Dreams from My Father

    Dreams from My Father
    Barack Obama

    Paperback · 05 Jun 2008 · €12.00

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    The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of his father's life.