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  • Wild

    Wild
    Cheryl Strayed

    Paperback · 01 Jan 2013 · €17.35
    Our Price: €13.99

    Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long time.' Nick Hornby

  • The Crocodile by the Door

    The Crocodile by the Door
    Selina Guinness

    Hardback · 27 Sep 2012 · €22.70

    When the author and her partner Colin, both young academics, moved in with her uncle Charles, an elderly bachelor, they had no idea what the coming years held for them: a crash course in farming, tense discussions with helicopter-borne property developers, and challenge of dragging a quasi-feudal estate at edge of Dublin into twenty-first century.

  • The Lightkeeper

    The Lightkeeper
    Gerald Butler

    Paperback · 01 Oct 2012 · €16.95

    The author was one of Ireland's last lightkeepers. Until they were fully automated in the 1990s, he spent over 21 years tending to many lighthouses around the coast of Ireland. In this book, he recalls the thrills, trials, tragedies, triumphs and dangers of serving on lighthouses such as Bull Rock, Mizen Head, and the infamous Fastnet Rock.

  • Just Mary

    Just Mary
    Mary O Rourke

    Hardback · 12 Oct 2012 · €22.99

    Mary O'Rourke has been one of the most successful and influential women in Irish public life in a generation. She has stories to tell that will surprise and amuse, as well as recalling moments of personal and political sadness. The book is like the woman herself: open, warm and shrewd.

  • The Time Has Come

    The Time Has Come
    Damien O Brien

    Paperback · 21 Mar 2012 · €17.99
    Our Price: €9.99

    Foreword by Simone Moro. On 1 August 2008 Ger McDonnell became the first Irish person to reach the summit of K2 as part of the Norit K2 team. This epic account of 37-year-old Irishman Ger McDonnell reveals a man who was passionate about life and lived it to its entirety, a life that was short but filled with adventure.

  • The Secret Race

    The Secret Race
    Tyler Hamilton

    Paperback · 11 Sep 2012 · €18.70

    On a fateful night in 2009, Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle met for dinner in Boulder, Colorado. The two had met five years before while Coyle was writing his bestselling book, Lance Armstrong: Tour de Force. But this time, Tyler had something else on his mind. This title tells their story.

  • Hemingway's Boat

    Hemingway's Boat
    Paul Hendrickson

    Paperback · 03 Jan 2013 · €13.35
    Our Price: €11.99

    She'd been intimately his, and he hers, for twenty-seven years - which were his final twenty-seven years. She'd lasted through three wives, the Nobel Prize, and all his ruin. He'd owned her, fished her, worked her and rode her, from the waters of Key West to the Bahamas to the Dry Tortugas to the north coast and archipelagos of Cuba.

  • I'm Your Man

    I'm Your Man
    Sylvie Simmons

    Paperback · 01 Nov 2012 · €20.00
    Our Price: €15.99

    Explores various facets of Cohen's life - from his early childhood in Montreal, to his entree into the worlds of literature and music, his immersion in Jewish culture, obsession with Christian imagery, and deep commitment to Buddhist detachment - including five years he spent at a monastery outside of Los Angeles.

  • Bruce

    Bruce
    Peter Ames Carlin

    Paperback · 30 Sep 2012 · €20.00

    After 3 decades of groundbreaking music Bruce Springsteen still manages to amaze audiences around the world with his live shows and bring new fans to his music with every album release. This book tracks the Boss' dazzling ascent to fame, whilst painting a vivid portrait of the real Springsteen.