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Biography
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Fatherland : A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets€12.99Out of stock
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.
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This is My SeaSpecial Price €10.39 Regular Price €12.99
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
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Madhouse : The naked truth about my chaotic childhood, losing my mind and finding a place to call home€12.99
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.
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Poor : The No. 1 bestseller – ‘Moving, uplifting, brave heroic’ BBC Woman’s Hour€12.99
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.
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Run For Your Life : The remarkable true story€11.99
The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets.
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Eimear Ryan : The Grass Ceiling - On Being a Woman in Sport (A Memoir)Special Price €11.19 Regular Price €13.99
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.
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I Will Be Good : A Memoir of an Irish Women Before Her Time€14.99
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.
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Beth Mead: Lioness - My Journey to GlorySpecial Price €10.39 Regular Price €12.99
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.
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Amy Key : Arrangements in Blue - Notes on Love and Making a Life (A Memoir)Special Price €11.19 Regular Price €13.99
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.
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Around the World in 80 Years : A Life of Exploration€20.99
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. . .