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An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray
Category: Fiction
Acclaimed as one of the funniest and most assured Irish novels of recent years, An Evening of Long Goodbyes is the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and the heroic squandering of the family inheritance. Featuring drinking, greyhound racing, vanishing furniture, more drinking, old movies, assorted Dubl ...Show more
Bradt Zimbabwe by Sir (FRW) Ranulph Paul; Fiennes Murray
Category: Travel | Series: Bradt Travel Guide. Zimbabwe
Definitive Guide to Music Types and Styles - New and Expanded Edition by Paul Noyer (Contribution by); Ian Anderson (Contribution by); Geoff Brown (Contribution by); Richard Buskin (Contribution by); Paul Kingsbury (Contribution by); George Martin (Contribution by); Chrissie Murray (Contribution by); Michael Paoletta (Contribution by); Stanley Sadie (Contribution by); Philip Vleck (Contribution by); John Wilson (Contribution by)
Category: Music | Series: Definitive Encyclopedias Ser.
The Guide to Music Types & Styles is an essential reference guide for all music fans. Written by a distinguished team of music journalists, musicologists and musicians, it offers up-to-date, comprehensive and accessible introductions to Rock, Pop, Jazz, Folk, Blues, Country, Classical, Electronic, ...Show more
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange by Lafcadio Hearn; Hiroshi Watanabe (Photographer); Paul Murray (Introduction by)
Category: General Fiction
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was a uniquely international literary star: born in in the Greek isles to a British military surgeon, he grew up in Ireland, France, and Ohio--with stops along the way in Louisiana and the Caribbean--before finally settling in Japan. It is this last destination that brought hi ...Show more
Politics of Obedience - The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Paul Bonnefon; Murray Rothbard (Introduction by); Erienne de la Bonnefon; Étienne De La Boétie
Category: POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENT
In 1550, at the young age of eighteen, tienne de la Bo tie wrote his reply to Machiavelli's The Prince. In it he sought to answer the question of why people submit to the tyranny of governments. This classic work of political reflection, Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, laid the ground work for the con ...Show more
Richard the Third by Paul Murray Kendall
Category: Biography Memoir
Paul Murray Kendall's masterful account of the life of England's King Richard III has remained the standard biography of this controversial figure.
Rigged: How Networks of Powerful Mates Rip Off Everyday Australians by Paul Frijters, Cameron Murray
Category: Business, Economics and Law
The shocking story of how networks of Mates have come to dominate business and government, and managed to rob the majority of ordinary Australians of half our wealth. 'This book will open your eyes to how Australia really works. It's not good news, but you need to know it.' - Ross Gittins 'You'll be sho ...Show more
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
Category: Fiction
Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys, nobody pays either of them much attention. But when Skip ...Show more
Skippy Dies: From the author of The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Category: Fiction
'Skippy and Ruprecht are having a doughnut-eating race one evening when Skippy turns purple and falls off his chair.' And so begins this epic, tragic, comic, brilliant novel set in and around Dublin's Seabrook College for Boys. Principally concerning the lives, loves, mistakes and triumphs of overweigh ...Show more