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Memoirs
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The Tidal Year : a memoir on grief, swimming and sisterhood€20.99For four years, she's been looking for a way to fill the empty space her brother's death left behind.
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The Grass Ceiling : On Being a Woman in Sport€17.99What is it like to be female in a male-dominated sporting world? If you play with the boys, more people pay attention - but you get treated like an alien. Playing with other girls or women means you have to accept smaller audiences, diminished status and - for professionals - lower pay.
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A Flat Place€20.99Noreen Masud has always loved flatlands. Her earliest memory is of a wide, flat field glimpsed from the back seat of her father's car in Lahore.
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Leitrim Observed : A Biography of John McGahern (Hardback)€24.99This is the first full length biography of one of Ireland’s most loved writers. A man who was able to go from a plain to a heightened prose style with deceptive ease, John McGahern was as scrupulous as he was pure in the manner in which he crafted his books.
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Surviving to Drive (Hardback)€23.99People talk about football managers being under pressure. Trust me, that's nothing. Pressure is watching one of your drivers hit a barrier at 190mph and exploding before your eyes.
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Without Warning and Only Sometimes€12.99Without Warning and Only Sometimes is a story of an extraordinary childhood and how a girl who grew up in house where the Bible was the only book on offer went on to discover a love of reading that inspires her to this day.
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I Want My Daddy€11.99A 5-year-old boy, Ethan, is brought to Casey in the middle of the night after the sudden death of his young mother after a drug overdose.
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In Kiltumper : A Year in an Irish Garden€15.99When they were in their twenties, Niall Williams and Christine Breen made the impulsive decision to leave New York City and move to Christine's ancestral home in the town of Kiltumper in rural Ireland.
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A Line Above the Sky : On Mountains and Motherhood€12.99'Climbing gives you the illusion of being in control, just for a while, the tantalising sense of being able to stay one move ahead of death'.
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Wavewalker€17.99Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling.