The Irish Story : Telling Tales and Making it Up in Ireland

R. F. Foster

In this provocative and extremely funny book Roy Foster demolishes the cliches that surround Ireland's past, examining how key moments from its history have been turned into myths - and, more recently, airbrushed and repackaged for Hollywood and popular culture. Whether discussing the 'misery tourism' o...

Darien: Empire of Salt Book I

C.F. Iggulden

Discover your new favourite fantasy series . . . _______________ The city of Darien lies at the heart of a dying empire. Twelve families spoil for a throne soon to be made vacant - by murder or civil war. Into this fevered, hungry city come six strangers: An orphan and an old swordsman. A hunter and a p...

The Ring of the Nibelung

Richard Wagner; John Deathridge (Translator)

The scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for much of his adult life and revolutionized the nature of opera, the orchestra, the demands on singers and on the audience itself. The four operas-The Rhinegold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried...

The Grace Year

Kim Liggett

_____________________________________________A New York Times bestselling dark speculative feminist thriller in the vein of THE POWER and THE HANDMAID'S TALE.'An incredibly important and empowering read' Natasha NganNo one speaks of the grace year.It's forbidden.We're told we have the power to lure grow...

A Total Waste of Space-Time!

Jeffrey Brown

Travel to planets unknown in book two of the Space-Time graphic novel series from the author of the New York Times bestselling Jedi Academy books Jide, Petra, and their intergalactic friends are back on the Potato (their orbiting classroom) for another out-of-this-world adventure. Their latest space mis...