Memoirs

Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is a love letter to all those who spend their festive season on the front line, removing babies and baubles from the various places they get stuck, at the most wonderful time of the year.

Conduct Unbecoming is a landmark political memoir from one of Ireland's most outspoken and respected public figures.

Journalist and reviewer Jonathan Sale digs around in the memories of some of Britain's most prominent personalities - from movers and shakers to television performers - for personal reminiscences of their school and college days.

This charming book casts a warm glow on the daily life and seasonal activities of the market town and fishing port up to and during the First World War.

A gentle Northern Irish countryside memoir! The mood of more innocent times is complemented by the author's attractive line drawings.

Written with humour, the writer looks at the differences between two countries with a ‘special relationship’ who somehow both speak the same language, but in a completely different way.

Hanging over her world is the shadow of a killer. Bob Malm lurks throughout Smith's joyous and chaotic family portrait, until one night in December 1953, when the havoc he causes forever alters her world. Girls of Tender Age is one of those rare books, like Angela's Ashes or The Lovely Bones, which forever changes its readers because of its beauty, its power and remarkable wit.

2007 1st Edition Hardback