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The Rory's Stories Guide to Parenting€14.99Rory O’Connor has three kids and, in his own words, is just about surviving a life filled with sleep deprivation, stray Lego underfoot, mashed potato on the walls and the unmatched pride that comes with being a dad!
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Billy Connolly : Rambling Man - My Life on the Road€13.99In Rambling Man, Billy takes us with him on his incredible journeys criss-crossing the world.
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Billy Connolly : Rambling Man - My Life on the Road (Large Paperback)Special Price €16.99 Regular Price €21.99
In Rambling Man, Billy takes us with him on his incredible journeys criss-crossing the world.
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Madhouse : The naked truth about my chaotic childhood, losing my mind and finding a place to call home€14.50I 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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Words from the Heart : An Emotional DictionarySpecial Price €11.99 Regular Price €16.99
Packed with unexpected stories and unforgettable words, on a mission to describe the indescribable, this life-enhancing book will deepen your vocabulary as much as it extends it. Welcome to the first truly human dictionary, as idiosyncratic and unusual as you are.
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The Wheel is Spinning but the Hamster is Dead€12.99A Journey Around the World in Idioms, Proverbs and General Nonsense.
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An Emotional Dictionary : Real Words for How You Feel, from Angst to Zwodder (Hardback)Special Price €12.59 Regular Price €20.99
Packed with unexpected stories and unforgettable words, on a mission to describe the indescribable, this life-enhancing book will deepen your vocabulary as much as it extends it. Welcome to the first truly human dictionary, as idiosyncratic and unusual as you are.
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Et tu, Brute? : The Best Latin Lines Ever€17.99Harry Mount and John Davie unlock the wisdom of the past in this light-hearted and fascinating book, revealing how ancient Latin can help us to live better in the present. There are so many Latin phrases in everyday use that often we use them without understanding the background and context within which they were actually used.
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Ah That's Gas! : The ads, fads and mad happenings that swept the Irish nation€9.99What has Ireland really been talking about for the last forty years?
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A Very Modern Dictionary : Over 600 words, phrases and abbreviations to keep your culture game on point.€12.99Do you know your 'lit AF' from your 'fire'? How about your 'bae' or 'doe'. Or 'FOMO' from 'JOMO'? If not, don't fret: communicating in the modern world is hard. Obvi.
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The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities : A Yearbook of Forgotten Words (Paperback)€12.99The ultimate gift for wordsmiths and lovers of language: a word for every day of the year; Open the Cabinet to leap back in time, learn about linguistic trivia, follow a curious thread or wonder at the web of connections in the English language.
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Lost In Translation: Misadventures in English Abroad€9.99Spoken by over 700 million jabbering individuals, the English language has travelled to all corners of the globe - unfortunately, some of it has got a bit muddled along the way ...
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All That Glisters And Other Quotations You Should Know (Hardback)Special Price €7.99 Regular Price €11.99
This entertaining and informed - but not too serious - take on the wit and wisdom of the last 2000 years is ideal for modern readers who like their knowledge in tweet-sized chunks.
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Never Eat Shredded Wheat : Weird Ways to Remember Things (Hardback)Special Price €7.99 Regular Price €11.99
This book is a cornucopia of mnemonics. Amusing as well as informative, it includes well-known examples that you might remember from school, some of which have been in use for centuries, as well as more recent ones and alternatives to the traditional versions.
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Have You Eaten Grandma?€12.05It can be much harder than it seems; commas, colons, semi-colons and even apostrophes can drive us all mad at times, but it riles no one more than the longest-serving resident of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, grammar guru Gyles Brandreth.
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Overheard in Dublin Rides Again€8.99More Overheard in Dublin: another 500 quotes from the ever popular website…Taxi driver complaining about Tániste Mary Coughlan: ‘I didn't like her when she sung either!’
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Overheard in Dublin Again€8.99Talking in the canteen yesterday about pets and the likes, one girl known for confusing her words came out with this in front of six or seven of us: ‘My cousin has a few birds but isn’t allowed keep them in the house, so he built an actuary out the back for them.
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The Book of Feckin' Irish Sayings For When You Go On The Batter With A Shower of Savages€8.99As a serious study of the nuances of the English language as spoken in Ireland, this book is as useful as tits on a bull.
