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Books
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Thucydides: A Very Short Introduction€10.99
A Very Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring 432 BCE the powerful city-state of Sparta on the peninsula of the Peloponnesus in southwestern Greece declared war on Athens, head of a mighty naval coalition. The war would last until Sparta finally brough Athens to its knees in 404.
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia€12.99
The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates.
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A Little Girl in Auschwitz : A heart-wrenching true story of survival, hope and love€12.99
Lidia was just three years old when she arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau with her mother, a member of the partisan resistance from Belarus. The bewildered little girl was picked out by Dr Josef Mengele for his sadistic experiments and sent to the infamous children's block, where every day was a fight for survival.
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Bad Bridget : Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women (Paperback)€12.99
Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to North America were many, many young women who travelled on their own, hoping for a better life. Some lived lives of quiet industry and piety.
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The Wager (Paperback)€14.99
A mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil.
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The Little Book of Antrim (Paperback)€12.99
A reliable reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped into time and again to reveal something new about the people, the heritage and the secrets of this ancient county.
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The Russo-Ukrainian War€12.99
Do you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our times. A riveting, enlightening account, this is present-minded history at its best.
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Killers of the Flower Moon (Film Tie-In)€11.99
Now a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller and Robert Pattison, and the Number One international bestseller The Wager, comes a true-life murder story which became one of the FBI's first major homicide investigations.
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The East Donegal Border Petition and the Derry-Donegal Milk War, 1934-8 (Maynooth Studies in Local History)€12.99
In November 1934, 7,368 Protestants in east Donegal signed a Unionist petition to the British and Northern Irish governments requesting to transfer their region to Northern Ireland. . .
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Poverty in pre-Famine Westmeath The findings of the Poor Commission of 1833 (Maynooth Studies in Local History)€12.99
This book uses the findings of the Poor Inquiry for Co. Westmeath to give an account of economic and social conditions in the county in the decade before the Famine.