New Irish Non-Fiction

A Little History of Dublin is a high-speed journey through a thousand years of life in the Irish capital. The key events are explained in short chapters, and the reader will discover the complete history of Dublin in the time it takes to walk from Dollymount to Dalkey.

What can a postcard tell you about a city? Everything.

Decorative lettering is one of the splendours of Celtic art. With all their love of elaboration and inventive detail, the Celtic calligraphers and carvers never lost contact with the essential form which lends their work its enduring vitality and appeal.

The story of the rise and spectacular fall of Steorn, the Irish Celtic Tiger company that believed they had defied the laws of physics and solved the world's energy crisis. They had belief, they had investment, they just had to outsmart the laws of physics!

This book is an attempt by the author to give us a brief human insight into life behind bars in one of our penal institutions. It is written from the perspective of someone who has walked the walk with the prisoner for twenty years and now questions the effectiveness of our criminal justice system. She is an advocate for a Restorative Justice System and sees this model as the way forward. She argues that true justice lies in healing for all involved in criminal behaviour, including victim, perpetrator and society.

A giant crane appears at the back windows of a residential street, its red 'eye' overlooking lives on the other side of the glass where Susan Wicks writes searchingly about our ordinary existence, its serendipities and unreliable sense-impressions. By the time the crane leaves, the landscape we knew will have changed and we too will have moved on.

Discussions of Goethe's 'Iphigenie auf Tauris' (Under the Curse) as relevant to women's issues in modern South Africa in both English and German

From the Irish author of wildly popular blog Slimming Eats comes a collection of 100+ recipes, most under 500 calories - all are tasty, all are satisfying, all are slimming.