Biography & Literature

A GOAT'S SONG

In a wind-battered Mayo cottage, playwright Jack Ferris tries to salvage something from his broken love affair with Catherine Adams. Drink and despair drove her away can his imagination call her back? But as he summons up her past, Jack finds he has also called up her RUC father and a whole dangerous world of opposed traditions.

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An Education

When the journalist Lynn Barber was 16, she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man who drew up in his sports car - and her life was almost wrecked.

"An Education", the opening piece of this fascinating memoir, was highly praised when first published in "Granta" magazine, and is currently being filmed by the BBC with a Nick Hornby script.

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Beowulf

Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the Great Northern epics and a classic of European literature. It is a tale of its hero's triumph as a young warrior and his fated death as a defender of his people.

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Dana

In March 1970 a nineteen-year-old singer from Derry won the Eurovision Song Contest. The win stunned Ireland. It was the first such victory in the hugely popular contest. An extraordinary career had been born. Dana became a household name but rather than disappear forever from view as did so many before her and since, she continued to develop her career as a popular artist and gained particular recognition in the UK, Europe and in the US. From a childhood in the Bogside of Derry, through the maelstrom of international showbiz, to the White House and the Vatican, to the European Parliament and all its political intrigue, Dana's story is truly astonishing. In "All Kinds of Everything" she tells the story of her rise to fame and of her strongly-held beliefs and commitments in terms that are as endearing as they are revealing and inspiring.

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Dear Me-A Letter To My Sixteen-Year-Old Self

A collection of letters from celebrities written to their sixteen-year-old selves

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Dictionary of Irish Biography 9 Volume Set

9 volumes, over 9,000 entries, covering 9,700 lives, ranging from the earliest times to 2002
Biographical subjects include: artists, scientists, lawyers, actors, musicians, writers, politicians, criminals, and saints Main Editor James Maguire
Compiled by 700 expert advisors and contributors
Articles range from 200 to 15,000 words, from fascinating short summaries to detailed assessments.

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Dreams from my Father

The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of his father's life and reconcile his divided inheritance.

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Here Comes Everybody - CHRIS KILLIP'S IRISH PHOTOGRAPHS

Here Comes Everybody - CHRIS KILLIP'S IRISH PHOTOGRAPHS Thames & Hudson

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IN THE FOREST

IN THE FOREST, set in the west of Ireland and based on a horrendous true crime, is the story of a young man who shoots dead three people in a forest glade. The young man, Mich O'Kane, is 'not all there in the head' as one character puts it he hears voices, he cannot stop mourning the death of his mother. By puberty he is already committing petty crimes, ending up in a Christian Brothers borstal. By the time he is back home he has also served time in a British jail and is an institutionalised criminal. Incapable of telling the truth even to himself, he steals. His sexual fantasies - revolving around women in the village - eventually centre on Eily, an artist and single mother, who lives with her son Maddie in a house that Mich once camped out in after his mother died. One day Mich pounces, dragging her with Maddie out of the house and ordering her to drive them in her car to the woods nearby......

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Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

This is the film tie-in book based on the John Carlin's "Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation".
Now a major film directed by Clint Eastwood, the film stars Morgan Freeman as South African President Mandela, and Matt Damon as François Pienaar, the South African team captain.
Ryan Tubridy Book of the Month: February 2010

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