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Biographies
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Bee Gees: Children of the World€26.99
Everyone has their favourite era of the Bee Gees' career, but so much is still unclear about this celebrated but often misunderstood band.
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Plato of Athens : A Life in Philosophy€26.99
The first ever biography of the founder of Western philosophy Considered by many to be the most important philosopher ever, Plato was born into a well-to-do family in wartime Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE.
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Writers and Their Teachers (Hardback)€29.99
By turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers.
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LeBron€23.99
The first definitive biography of basketball legend LeBron James, by the acclaimed author of Tiger Woods.
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George III : The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch€22.99
Andrew Roberts's magnificent new biography takes entirely the opposite view. It portrays George as intelligent, benevolent, scrupulously devoted to the constitution of his country and (as head of government as well as head of state) navigating the turbulence of eighteenth-century politics with a strong sense of honour and duty.
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Lead Sister : The Story of Karen Carpenter€26.99
When the Carpenters first toured Japan, a journalist mistakenly referred to Karen as the 'lead sister' of the band. This designation stuck and Karen liked it so much that she had a T-shirt custom-made with the slogan, which she wore while drumming on the band's 1976 world tour.
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Quartet : How Four Women Changed the Musical World (Hardback)€23.99
Ethel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger-than-life socialite, intrepid traveller and committed Suffragette.
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A Small Town in Ukraine : The place we came from, the place we went back to€21.99
Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets).
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Duncan Edwards: Eternal : An intimate portrait of Manchester United's lost genius€22.99
NEVER in the history of the game has one life brought both joy and tragedy in such huge measures. Duncan Edwards was the jewel in the crown of the Busby Babes, an all-time legend at just 21, who was denied the chance to achieve even greater footballing success by the Munich Air Disaster in 1958.
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In Ordinary Time : Fragments of a Family History€21.99
In 1993, aged twenty, Carmel Mc Mahon left Ireland for New York, carrying $500, two suitcases and a ton of unseen baggage. It took years, and a bitter struggle with alcohol addiction, to unpick the intricate traumas of her past and present.