New Irish Non-Fiction

Mickey Whelan is one of Ireland’s greatest coaching masters. He is a father figure for all of those who sought sporting excellence in this country over the last 50 years.

Was Mozart really buried in a pauper’s grave? What role did yellow fever play in the construction of the Panama Canal? How did the painter, Renoir cope with rheumatoid arthritis in his old age? While history has vilified King Herod, could it be that the verdict has been overly harsh? Just some questions (from among a very broad range of subject matter) that are looked at from historical and medical perspectives in Michael Whelton’s engaging collection of essays. Written in a lively style and a manner that will intrigue but also satisfy inquisitive minds, this is book that will appeal to the general reader as much as those with specialist knowledge. It is also a book that the reader will not find easy to put down, once started on a journey that trawls through medical annals, to probe popular misconceptions or shed new light on the personalities and events that have shaped history.

The definitive and leading work on defamation law in Ireland.

Irish Parliamentarians is a directory of the 1,870 men and women who have been deputies (TDs) or senators in the parliament of the Irish state since the first meeting of Dáil Éireann in January 1919. It profiles the founders of modern Irish democracy and their successors, with details of their families, education, and careers inside and outside politics. In these pages we find, for example, Constance Markievicz, Michael Collins, Éamon de Valera, W.T. Cosgrave, Seán Lemass, Jack Lynch, Liam Cosgrave, Charles J. Haughey, Garret FitzGerald and Mary Robinson, along with a host of major and minor figures who contributed to Irish life and the evolution of the modern Irish state.

Holly White takes you on a mouth-watering journey through a plant-based diet. Vegan-ish includes over 100 of the delicious, everyday recipes she has created, as well as practical advice on when and how to change your diet, food swaps, eating out and shopping economically for plant-based foods.

Everything anyone ever wished to know about the greatest football team in world football is told in this remarkable miscellany from renowned Manchester United ‘author’ John D.T. White... a must for anyone who has loved the heroes in Old Trafford down through the history of time.

AN IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER Nora Ephron meets Bram Stoker in Sophie White's vivid and ambitious literary non-fiction collection. White asks uncomfortable questions about the lived reality of womanhood in the 21st century, and the fear that must be internalised in order to find your path through it.

In The Virtuous Tart, Susan Jane takes you by the hand to guide you through wholesome alternatives to refined white sugar such as coconut sugar, date syrup, maple and raw honey; and shows you where to use superfood flours like quinoa and teff.

Sunday Independent favourite, Susan Jane White, shares her favourite recipes for high energy, glowing health and exceptional taste.

In The Virtuous Tart, Susan Jane takes you by the hand to guide you through wholesome alternatives to refined white sugar such as coconut sugar, date syrup, maple and raw honey; and shows you where to use superfood flours like quinoa and teff.

As a financially squeezed, time-pressured mum, cooking from scratch every day was good for Susan Jane White's health, but a serious challenge to her sanity - until she discovered batch cooking. In her third cookbook she shares the secret to cutting your cooking time in half with her genius guide to batch cooking.