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Published in 1994: Nicolas Flamel: His Exposition of the Hieroglyphicall Figures is a narrative of the life of Nicolas Flamel. …

” Poignant … A meditation on life, love and the importance of nature” IRISH TIMES When they were in their twenties, Niall Williams and Christine Breen made the impulsive decision to leave New Yor …

This book encompasses the fascinating 40 year journey in life of someone who just wasn’t your average practicing GP, but someone whose passion and drive were to use his skills and medical ability to …

A family”s thrilling voyage around the Caribbean and across the Atlantic Ocean ”A great read for anyone daring to throw caution to the wind” Coast Three years after his return from the Alaskan wi …

In the wilds of the most diverse nation on earth, while she copes with crocodiles under the blackboard and sorcery in the office, Trish Nicholson survives near-fatal malaria and mollifies irascible p …

The compassionate and compelling true story of a young nurse who left behind an idyllic rural life in post-war Britain to work in the world’s most turbulent war zones.   Anne Watts grew up in a …

How do academics survive the bureaucracy, the petty jealousies, the absurdities of operating in the university? More important, how do they, as humans, cope with the darker shadows that enter profess …

A New Statesman Book of the Year for 2017 His father conceived of the Brooklyn Bridge, but it was Washington Roebling who built this iconic feat of human engineering after his father”s tragic death. …

‘Wonderfully entertaining’ Mail on Sunday ‘Profoundly important’ Guardian Graeme Fowler – former England cricketer, happy-go-lucky joker and inspirational coach – was 47 when depressio …

How did a big-game fishing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspire one of the key scenes in Hemingway”s The Old Man and the Sea? How did Robert Louis Stevenson”s cruise to the cannibal-infested S …