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Books
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The Bookseller of Florence€13.99
Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance. 'A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book' WALL STREET JOURNAL
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War HotelsSpecial Price €14.99 Regular Price €16.99
War Hotels is an engrossing exploration of hotels in wartime, told through the prism of the now iconic hotels that were frequented by foreign correspondents, politicians, paramilitaries and spies in conflicts in Northern Ireland, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lebanon, Iraq, and Bosnia & Herzegovina.
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About Time : A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks€12.99
'An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps
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A Brief History of Timekeeping€13.99
The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks. Press the snooze button on your alarm once too often and you soon remember the importance of good timekeeping.
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From Suir to Jarama: Mossie Quinlan’s Life and Legacy€10.00
This is history as you have never experienced it before. Hear the high velocity bullets as they whiz past you, the frightening rattle of machine guns, the heavy rumble of approaching tanks and the whine of enemy aircraft overhead. Hear the surprised and anguished cries of your comrades as they fall around you, dead or badly wounded. This is Spain, 1937. The Spanish Civil War.
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Political Purgatory: The Battle to Save Stormont and the Play for a New IrelandSpecial Price €14.99 Regular Price €19.99
Political Purgatory sets the three years from collapse to Covid-19 – and the breaking and making of Stormont – into a wider frame of building peace on top of conflict.
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The Lost Pianos of Siberia€13.99
Siberia's expansive history is traditionally one of exiles, bitter cold and suffering. Yet there is another tale to tell. . .
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The Invention of the Jewish People€14.99
A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered across the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
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The Virus in the Age of Madness€12.25
The author of American Vertigo serves up an incisive look at how COVID-19 reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary society.
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The Frayed Atlantic Edge : A Historian's Journey from Shetland to the Channel€12.99
Over the course of a year, leading historian and nature writer David Gange kayaked the weather-ravaged coasts of Atlantic Britain and Ireland from north to south: every cove, sound, inlet, island.