The Butchers

A photograph is hung on a gallery wall for the very first time since it was taken two decades before. It shows a slaughter house in rural Ireland, a painting of the Virgin Mary on the wall, a meat hoo …

Britain by Numbers

A beautiful, compelling and eye-opening guide to the way we live in Britain today.How much more do we drink than we should? Why do immigrants come here? How have house prices changed in the past decad …

Fifty Years On

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Fifty years ago, an eruption of armed violence traumatized Northern Ireland and transformed a period of street protest over civil rights into decades of paramilitary warfare by republicans and loyalis …

Unnatural

From the Irish bestselling author of Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan comes a short story about modern love, old-fashioned values and a new-born calf.____________________________While the country gears up …

The Regency Revolution

‘Superb’ The Economist’Elegant, entertaining and frequently surprising’ New York TimesThe fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain – an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the …

Sylvan Cities

‘Clever, pretty, fun and informative – what more can a reader ask for?’ Sara Maitland, author of Gossip From the ForestWe’re surrounded in cities by trees, quiet colossuses that most of us don’t know …

Why We Get the Wrong Politicians

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Winner at the 2018 Parliamentary Book AwardsShortlisted for the 2018 Waterstones Book of the YearLonglisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019____________Daily Telegraph’s Best Books of the Year, 2018Guardian …

Equal Power

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Shortlisted for the 2018 Parliamentary Book Awards (Best Memoir by a Parliamentarian)Why does power remain concentrated in the hands of men?And why do the problems of sexism sometimes feel just too bi …

Hired

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Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019The Times Best Current Affairs and Big Ideas Book of the Year, 2018For many in modern Brita …

The One Who Wrote Destiny

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Evening Standard’s Wander List Guide to 2019 Getaways”A beautiful, brilliant modern classic.” Sabrina Mahfouz, Guardian, Best Summer Books 2018Neha has just been diagnosed with the same terminal cance …

Her Mother's Daughter

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Hello! magazine’s April 2018 ‘book of the week’Set across two decades in London and Ireland, Her Mother’s Daughter sees the lives of a troubled and emotionally abusive mother and her innocent ten-year …

Railways and The Raj

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The epic story of the British construction of the railways in India, as told by Britain’s bestselling transport historian.’Christian Wolmar is Britain’s foremost railway historian.’ The Times ‘Our lea …

Ireland

In this enthralling celebration of the places and people that make the country unique, Richard Killeen takes the reader on a tour of Ireland that reveals its rich and surprising history, including its …

Valiant Gentlemen

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In prose that is darkly humorous and alive with detail, Valiant Gentlemen reimagines the lives and intimate friendships of humanitarian and Irish patriot Roger Casement; his closest friend, Herbert Wa …

Resolution

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A. N. Wilson’s powerful new novel explores the life and times of one of the greatest British explorers, Captain Cook, and the golden age of Britain’s period of expansion and exploration.Wilson’s prota …

England

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Despite a thousand years of glorious history, the people of England know surprisingly little of the facts and fables, people and places and events and emblems that have shaped their country and its he …