Biography

What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war.

Over the course of seven difficult years Miriam Mulcahy lost her mother, father and sister, each grief threatening to drown her. . .

SHORTLISTED IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2023 – Lifestyle Book of the Year

I grew up in a psychiatric experiment crossed with an alcoholic experiment, a place run by two people who were extraordinarily drunk and guarded by a potentially vicious dog with a brain tumour.

Like young girls everywhere Katriona O’Sullivan grew up bright, enthusiastic, curious. But she was also surrounded by abject poverty and chaos, and after she became pregnant and homeless at 15, what followed was five years of barely surviving.

The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets.

What 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. 

Meet Peig McManus, an unforgettable Dublin character whose story will make you laugh and cry. -Her memoir of a 1940s' childhood is recounted with candour and wit, as she describes her early years in the last of the city's tenements, under the shadow of the Second World War. 

Filled with positive lessons and an exclusive account of England's triumphant Euros campaign, Beth offers readers of all ages a heartfelt, behind-the-scenes look into her remarkable journey to glory. Empowering, inspirational and honest, this is Beth's story.

With profound candour and intimacy, Arrangements in Blue explores the painful feelings we are usually too ashamed to discuss: loneliness, envy, grief and failure. The result is a memoir which inspires us to live and love more honestly.

He's climbed Everest not long after a heart bypass operation, he's run seven marathons on seven continents, he's hauled loaded sledges across both polar ice caps and he's circumnavigated the earth. . .