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A Woman of No Importance - The Untold Story of Virginia Hall WW2s Most Dangerous Spy by Sonia Purnell
Category: Biography | Series: Dilly's Story Ser.
***A New York Times bestseller*** 'Riveting' Mick Herron, New York Times * 'A rousing tale' The Times, Book of the Week * 'Cracking' Telegraph * 'Gripping' Irish Times * 'Brilliant' Evening Standard * 'Excellent' Spectator In September 1941, a young American woman strides up the steps of a hotel in Lyon ...Show more
Chasing Shadows: A true story of the Mafia, Drugs and Terrorism by Miles Johnson
Category: TRUE CRIME | Series: Dilly's Story Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR BEST NEW AUTHOR AT THE 2024 TRUE CRIME AWARDS'Read this powerful book by Miles Johnson right now. It will make you realise that what we call terrorism is actually drug trafficking, what we call politics is organised crime and what we call peace is just a truce between mafias.' - Roberto ...Show more
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? by Seamas O'Reilly
Category: Biography | Series: Dilly's Story Ser.
THE IRISH TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLERAN POST BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR'Gorgeous' Pandora Sykes'A rare and beautiful book' Marian Keyes'Tender, sad and side-splittingly funny' Annie MacManus'A delight' Dara Ó BriainSéamas O'Reilly's mother died when he was five, leaving him, his ten brothers and sisters and their ...Show more
Dilly's Hope by Goodwin Rosie
Category: Fiction | Series: Dilly's Story Ser.
Hardworking widow Dilly Carey has struggled out of poverty to make a successful life for herself. Surrounded by her children and grandchildren, Dilly should be content, but she is still troubled by the one secret she must never share. Olivia, the daughter Dilly gave away at birth, cannot find out the re ...Show more
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
Category: History | Series: Dilly's Story Ser.
Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition ...Show more
Good for a Girl - My Life Running in a Man's World - Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and a New York Times Bestseller by Lauren Fleshman
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Dilly's Story Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Women's sports have needed a manifesto for a long time. With Good for a Girl we finally have one' Malcolm GladwellLauren Fleshman was of the most decorated collegiate athletes of all time and a national champion as ...Show more
Migrants - The Story of Us All by Sam Miller
Category: History | Series: Dilly's Story Ser.
Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move. 'Fascinating... Miller's perspective may be just what we need' Daily Telegraph 'Enjoyable, provocative and timely' Spectator 'Timely and empathetic: a rare combination on this most controvers ...Show more
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink by Matthew Parker
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY | Series: Dilly's Story Ser.
'Marvellous...escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full complexity' Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of EmpirelandThe story of the British Empire at its maximum territorial extent, including a wider range of voices of the colonised than have ever been recorded before29th Sept ...Show more
The Rooster House - A Ukrainian Family Memoir by Victoria Belim
Category: General Biography | Series: Dilly's Story Ser.
A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Wild Swans for Ukraine ... rich and magnificent' Bookseller 'A paean to hope and home. I loved it and it will haunt me'HELEN MACDONALD'Marvellously vivid and often heartbreaking... I read it in a single enthralled sitting'MIRANDA SEYMOUR'An instant classic: an essential b ...Show more
Womb - The Inside Story of Where We All Began - Winner of the Scottish Book of the Year Award by Leah Hazard
Category: Parenting | Series: Dilly's Story Ser.
*WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD* A landmark book on the womb - its history, its present and the possibilities for its future - by the bestselling author of Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story 'A gripping exploration of the science of the uterus, the politics of medicine and the future of rep ...Show more
Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilisation by Leon McCarron
Category: Travel | Series: Dilly's Story Ser.
'As epic as it is engaging' Tom Holland'Immensely readable true travel writing' Robin Hanbury-TenisonThe river Tigris is in danger. It has been the lifeblood of ancient Mesopotamia and modern Iraq, but geopolitics and climate change have left the birthplace of civilisation at risk of becoming uninhabita ...Show more
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