RTE

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The story of corruption, waste and ineptitude at Ireland’s national broadcaster has gripped the country since news of secret payments to star presenter Ryan Tubridy became public in June 2023. Shane R …

The Bed Trick

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She said she wore a blindfold at all times. She said she didn’t know who she was really having sex with.Two former best friends face each other in court at a sex offence trial. Miss X, making the accu …

V-Force

‘Impressive… Glancey has written an engaging and affectionate account of the V-bombers, not least the figures who made it all possible.’ TelegraphTHE THREE VERY DIFFERENT models of V class bomber co …

Landsmart

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‘A terrific book’ Michael Morpurgo’Excellent’ Helen Czerski’A clear, concise and accessible guide to the pivotal question of our age’ Guy ShrubsoleHow can we get more from our land and meet humanity’s …

The Impossible Man

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A Guardian Best Science Book of the YearThe first biography – ‘a stunning achievement’ (Kai Bird, American Prometheus) – of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose …

The Only Way Is Up

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‘The kind of brilliantly written polemic that Toynbee’s many fans have come to know and love…a terrific book’ Stephen Bush, Financial TimesLabour have won their most decisive victory in decades. But …

Land Smart

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‘A terrific book’ Michael Morpurgo’Excellent’ Helen Czerski’A clear, concise and accessible guide to the pivotal question of our age’ Guy ShrubsoleWe need land for so many of humanity’s growing needs, …

A City Runs Through Them

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An original and fascinating history of Dublin that tells the story of the city through its bridges.Dublin started life on the south bank of the River Liffey and for six or seven centuries that is more …

The Other Renaissance

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‘Enlightening and fascinating’ John Banville, Wall Street JournalThrough the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, including Copernicus, Gutenberg, Luther, Catherine …

Bibliomaniac

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***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***’A unique, funny picture of Britain… A love letter to bookshops and the vagaries of public transport.’ Richard Osman’Ince’s love of books is infectious.’ ‘ …

Mary Lou McDonald

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Mary Lou McDonald is the bookies’ favourite to be Ireland’s next Taoiseach. She would be the first woman to reach the office, and the first Sinn Féin leader ever to enter government in the Republic of …

Never Better

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The warm, rich and fascinating memoir of beloved broadcaster Tommie Gorman.When Tommie Gorman was growing up in Sligo in the 1960s, struggle was never far away but his household had a surplus of love …

Home/Land

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When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her so …

Gilligan

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John Gilligan is one of the most notorious and hated criminal figures in Irish history. His name is indelibly etched in the national psyche a quarter of a century after he crossed the line to organise …

The Irish Assassins

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ONE OF THE TIMES’ BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2021’The tale of the Phoenix Park murders is not unfamiliar, but Kavanagh recounts it with a great sense of drama… Kavanagh’s account reminds me of the very b …

In Bed with the Blueshirts

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The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government.Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came clo …