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When Fine Gael and Labour swept into government, in February 2011 they knew they were facing the greatest crisis in the history of the state. What confronted them was beyond their direst imaginings. This title tells the story of how they have led - and misled - Ireland.

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Twenty-one years after his wife and daughter were murdered in the bombing of a plane over Scotland, Alan Tealing, a university lecturer, still doubts the official version of events surrounding that terrible night. Obsessed by the details of what he has come to call The Case, he is sure that the man convicted of the atrocity was not responsible.

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A collection of twelve stories written between 1907 and 1914. It ranges from the tale of a Prussian officer who drives his orderly towards a reckoning, to the elements of 'A Fragment of Stained Glass', and the divisions within society and conflicts of the heart that form the themes of 'Daughters of a Vicar'.

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Includes research on non-verbal communication, social skills and happiness.

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Annabel Christopher is a goddess to her adoring Italian public, her loving husband part of her perfect image. To keep the eager sycophants, ruthless paparazzi and anxious admirers under her spell the image must be carefully cultivated. Only Annabel hasn't calculated on the plans of her husband.

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Marjorie, a young woman, arrives home one summer evening and finds her sister, dead, with her head in the oven. She looks peaceful, as if she is asleep. Their mother suspects, however, that Dot's death was far from natural - and that she knows who the killer is. So, slowly and meticulously, she plots her terrible revenge.

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Offers a summation of the history of happiness, and its evolution from divine gift to natural human entitlement. This title shows how our modern quest for the 'holy grail' of happiness continues to generate various forms of pleasure, but also, paradoxically, different forms of pain.

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Hardy's two versions of a strange story set in the weird landscape of Portland. The central figure is a man obsessed both with the search for his ideal woman and with sculpting the perfect figure of Aphrodite.

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A collection of short fiction that showcases the author's application of Romantic sensibilities to uncompromising studies of human frailty. It includes stories: "The Queen of Spades", "The Negro of Peter the Great", and, "The Captain's Daughter".

How do venture capitalists pick winners like Apple How do the FBI's hostage rescue team find agents for the world's toughest job How do Hollywood casting agents and major sports scouts size up the best talent In this title, the author reveals how we can learn the hidden 'tells' that really matter.

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Colonel Rodney Foster, who retired to Hythe in the south of England after a military career in British India, joined the Home Guard in 1940 and kept a diary every day - a highly illegal act at the time - and in it meticulously chronicled his service in the real "Dad's Army".

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Shows what makes our planet so special, explaining why the 'Fermi Paradox' - the apparent absence of alien life - holds the key to our uniqueness. In this book, the author makes the link between the whole series of cosmic events that gave rise to our civilization - a unique set of circumstances that have not, and could not, occur anywhere else.

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Examining the Jewish Bible, the New Testament and other accounts left to us, as well as contemporary attitudes to the afterlife, the author takes us through each episode with a historian's focus: the crucifixion, the treatment of the body, the statements of the women who found the empty tomb, and the visions of Christ by his disciples.

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Adam Smallbone, recently promoted from a sleepy rural parish to funky, inner-city St Saviour's in Hackney. Out of his depth in his new, urban surroundings, he's doing the best he can, supported by his loving, but agnostic wife, Alex. As Adam struggles with the unfamiliar demands of his new parish, there aren't many he can turn to.

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Discusses the fraudulence and feeble-mindedness of life in the Britain of the 1930s.

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Sets some ideas instrumental in the creation of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the EU's European Convention on Human Rights and the UK's Human Rights Act.

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As well as providing an illuminating picture of the first century AD, the author depicts complex and nuanced heroes who display the essential virtues of Greek civilization - courage, patriotism, justice, intelligence and reason - that contributed to the rise of Rome.

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In 1958, in a small Devon village, two children are drowned. Their parents, Isabel and Robert, are overcome with grief. Thirty years later, Anna comes to the village hoping to start afresh - and, without telling anyone she is pregnant, goes to live with Isabel. But the baby's arrival causes powerful feelings of loss and heartbreak to surface.

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Explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and 'magical' customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it. Some fellow Joshua and his fiery brand of Christianity while others proudly pursue tribal independence.

1812: On a lonely battlefield in Spain, Lord Nicholas Falcott, Marquess of Blackdown, is about to die... But, the next moment, he inexplicably jumps forward in time, nearly two hundred years - very much alive.

Takes us behind the scenes of a passionate life - from childhood poverty in Dublin to the Football League to the forefront of journalism and debate in Ireland.

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