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Life on the remote island of Papavray in the 1970s was a world away from Mary J. MacLeod's urban existence in the south of...

At 16, Martha collapses on the streets, suffering from starvation and exposure. She has reached rock bottom, but after Martha is...

Voices from the Back of the Bus provides a rare behind-the-scenes look at international rugby at the height of a golden period....

Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect who marshalled...

Carrington's beguiling letters take us beyond the Bloomsbury group to discuss sexual mores, how to be an artist, and what it is...

For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician,...

In the autumn of 1502 three giants of the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli - set out...

Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a...

In the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season, reliving the best days of...

The astonishing story of the English heiress who devoted her life to the IRA

She grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon...

A love affair born in rural Ireland! Two mismatched lovers, locked in a relationship that will change both of them . . ....

A young woman comes of age in the shadow of her family's tragic past

When Beth Crowe starts university, she is shadowed by the...

Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty.

All three happening together brings...

What's another branch on the family tree?

Things are finally looking up for Anna. Seventeen miserable years of marriage to...

Three couples. One therapist's couch ...

Alice and Niall used to be lovers, best friends and parents, in that order. Now...

When Dubliner Derek Scally goes to Christmas Eve Mass on a visit home from Berlin, he finds more memories than congregants in the...

The Irish do death differently.

Funeral attendance is a solemn duty - but it can also be a big day out, requiring...

A girl covered in blood. A missing man. A cryptic fairy tale.

Detective Laura Shaw seems to have it all: a supportive husband,...

D`Arcy... , Howard...

A rugby-mad boy. A huge game. And a chance for an epic win . . . or an epic fail!

Gordon D'Arcy is an ordinary boy, but he's...

I felt like I was living in a world teetering on the brink ...

Life as a stay-in-bed husband turned out to be a lot more...

In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The thirty-three-year-old...

How well do you know the life of one of Britain's great maritime heroes?

Discover the truth behind a man who remains a...

Ed is having a hard time - at work, in his love life and, well, generally. Then he meets an unlikely Buddhist - who drinks and...

From the saviour of the realm to the subject of multiple attempted assassinations in the space of six years. King Henry IV's...

Stoddart... , Кингсли...

The Art of Angling offers a bountiful catch of poems from around the world and through the ages on every aspect of the popular...

A celebration of fathers and fatherhood, this anthology features the richly varied voices of sons and daughters, and of fathers...

Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of...

Philip Hensher’s selection of stories reflects the ‘desperate modernity’ of Berlin as it make and remakes itself over a period of...

Casanova... , Троллоп...

The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers an array of dazzling...

The stories collected here--including such gems as Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," O. Henry's "The Marry Month...