Books

Dive into thousands of new and classic records, with topics as diverse as rollercoasters, robots, movie props and gaming. 

Why darkness is so important - to plants, to animals, and to ourselves - and why we must protect it all costs. 

Bravely reported and beautifully written, Mogelson's book follows the tradition of some of the essential chronicles of war and unrest of our time.

The Abuse of Power is a searing exposé of injustice and an impassioned call to exercise power for the greater good. . .

Walter Isaacson charts Elon Musk's journey from humble beginnings to one of the wealthiest people on the planet - but is Musk a genius or a jerk? 

Filled with fascinating and challenging perceptions, The New Leviathans is a powerful meditation on historical and current folly. As a species we always seem to be struggling to face the reality of base and delusive human instincts. Might a more self-aware, realistic and disabused ethics help us all?

Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking power in Ireland, Sinn Fein is the most popular political party in both Northern Ireland and the Republic. 

SHORTLISTED IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2023 – Non-Fiction Book of the Year

What is Hagitude? It means being at ease with the unique power women embody in the second half of their life.

Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced.

At the turn of the century, in the shade of Cambridge's cloisters, a young E. M. Forster conceals his passion for other men, even as he daydreams about the sun-warmed bodies of ancient Greece.