25 Years of Independent Publishing
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‘Deeply researched and often revelatory… variegated and sensitive’ Literary ReviewIt is twenty-five years since the Good Friday Agreement brought an end to the terrible violence that rocked Northern …
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***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they disc …
Ninety years on from its opening in 1932, the Sydney Harbour Bridge remains the most recognisable symbol of Australia. The iconic arch took almost nine years to complete – at a cost of sixteen lives a …
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An Irish TImes Book of the Year’The beauty of this book is in the telling: The Irish Difference lays out its themes and chronologies with impeccable clarity, and is full of fascinating detail… Exemp …
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‘This may be the greatest tale of the ancient world. Hugely enjoyable’ CONN IGGULDEN’Excellent . . . scintillating’ THE TIMESWho will conquer the greatest city in the ancient world?Alexander the Great …
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A fascinating biography of Patton, Montgomery and Rommel which reveals how these three unique personalities rose to the highest ranks.
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In this original and vibrant examination of the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II, biographer and novelist A.N. Wilson paints a vivid portrait of ‘Lilibet’ the woman, and of her reign. He also cons …
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Who became Britain’s first Prime Minister on 3 April 1721?When was Karl Marx born?Where and when was the first battle of the Wars of the Roses?When did Big Ben first bong?When did the first British wo …
She came to the throne in 1952 when Britain had a far-flung empire, sweets were rationed, mums stayed home and kids played on bombsites. Seventy years on, everything has changed utterly – except the Q …
***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***Book of the Year in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and New Statesman’A powerful illumination of a lost world that is nevertheless part of living memory.’ Si …
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A wonderfully witty and illuminating social history of post-war Britain, by the author of Engel’s England and Eleven Minutes Late.
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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 …
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BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and ProspectWas Harold Wilson a bigger figure than Denis Healey? Was John Major more ‘prime ministerial’ than Michael Heseltine? Would David Miliband have become …
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‘Funny, stark, fascinating’ THE INDEPENDENT’An extraordinary celebration of a bygone era’ KATE THOMPSON, author of The Stepney Doorstep Society’A vivid portrait of the post-war years, but also a uniqu …
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‘Frank and incisive – an insightful look at the most tumultuous period of the Troubles.’ Ian Cobain’This is the Belfast I grew up in. Malachi writes from first-hand experience and brings back memories …
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‘When I was born in 1935 I grew up, despite depression and World War II, with a primitive sense of being fortunate . . . The Utopian strain was very strong . . . if we weren’t to be a better society, …
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