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Books
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia€12.99
The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates.
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Why We Fight : The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace€12.99
Why do human beings fight one another? In this exhilarating and bracing book, we learn the common logic driving vainglorious monarchs, dictators, mobs, pilots, football hooligans, ancient peoples and fanatics.
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After the Fall : The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made€11.99
To be born American in the late twentieth century was to take the fact of a particular kind of American exceptionalism as granted - a state of nature arrived at after all else had failed.
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The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan : A Chronicle Foretold€13.99
The NATO occupation of Afghanistan is over, and a balance-sheet can be drawn.
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The Arms Crisis of 1970 : The Plot that Never Was€11.99
The Arms Crisis of 1970 is the first comprehensive investigation into the arms trial prosecution, and how the jury came to their verdict of acquittal.
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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 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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I Never Knew That About Ireland€10.99
Take the ultimate trip around Ireland Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on a fascinating journey around Ireland, to discover the tales buried deep in Irish history.
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The Future is History : How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia€12.99
In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of democracy.