The Library at Trinity College Dublin dates back to the establishment of the college by Queen Elizabeth I in 1592. The library is the largest in Irel&, containing more than 6.2 million volumes & an extensive collection of early manuscripts, including the internationally famous Book of Kells, which attracts around 1 million visitors annually from around the world. A visit to the Book of Kells

Includes:: a visit to the Long Room, the main chamber of the Old Library, & one of the most beautiful & impressive libraries & architectural spaces in the world. In this, the first of a new series called Pocket Photo Books, photographer Harry Cory Wright explores the richness of the architecture & collections of the Long Room, resulting in a book that brings the reader close to the sense of being there. With a brief introduction by Trinity`s Librarian & College Archivist, Helen Shenton, about her own experience of the Long Room, this beautifully designed book of exquisite photographs will appeal to all visitors to Trinity College Dublin, & to anyone keen to explore in detail one of the most awe-inspiring libraries & architectural spaces in the world.

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This spectacular book is the first single volume to tell the story of the library as a distinct building type, all around the world. Throughout the ages, book collections have served to symbolize their owners culture & learning, & the wealthy & powerful have spent lavishly on buildings to house them. In its highest form the library became a total work of art, combining painting, sculpture, furniture & architecture into seamless, dramatic spaces. The finest libraries are repositories not just of books, but of learning, creativity & contemplation; they embody some of the highest achievements of humankind. This book recounts that history in text & images of truly outstanding quality. ...

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`THE LIDO is a joyous & uplifting debut
- a testament to kindness & friendship & all those values society must hold dear` SARAH
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Nadia & Susanne have just met. They look uncannily alike, practically doppelgangers, but one is filthy rich, with a husband & a lover, & the other dirt poor & single. When Nadia eventually asks Susanne to spend the weekend with her husband how can she refuse the outrageous fee on offer? Nadia wants to spend a few days with her lover & convinces Susanne that the subterfuge will work. Nadia & her husband barely speak to each other, sleep in separate bedrooms, & he will be working in the office most of the weekend. So Susanne changes her hairstyle & clothes &, one Friday afternoon, drives Nadia`s wine-red Alfa to her beautiful suburban villa with its indoor pool, glass doors opening on to the sloping lawn. What appears to be a harmless game becomes a deadly web of lies. ...

Nominated for the Folio Prize & shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historial Fiction Set during & just after the First World War, The Lie is an enthralling, heart-wrenching novel of love, memory & devastating loss by one of the UK`s most acclaimed storytellers. Cornwall, 1920, early spring. A young man stands on a headl&, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless & without family. Behind him lie the mud, barbed-wire entanglements & terror of the trenches. Behind him is also the most intense relationship of his life. Daniel has survived, but the horror & passion of the past seem more real than the quiet fields around him. He is about to step into the unknown. But will he ever be able to escape the terrible, unforeseen consequences of a lie? ...

` Terrific, page-turning, slyly funny` India Knight` As satisfying a novel as I have read in years` Sarah Perry` Absolutely magnificent` Marian Keyes Quentin & Lottie Bredin, like many modern couples, can`t afford to divorce. Having lost their jobs in the recession, they can`t afford to go on living in London; instead, they must downsize & move their three children to a house in a remote part of Devon. Arrogant & adulterous, Quentin can`t understand why Lottie is so angry; devastated & humiliated, Lottie feels herself to have been intolerably wounded. Mud, mice & quarrels are one thing
- but why is their rent so low? What is the mystery surrounding their unappealing new home? The beauty of the landscape is ravishing, yet it conceals a dark side involving poverty, revenge, abuse & violence which will rise up to threaten them. Sally Verity, happily married but unhappily childless knows a different side to country life, as both a Health Visitor & a sheep farmer`s wife; & when Lottie`s innocent teenage son Xan gets a zero-hours contract at a local pie factory, he sees yet another. At the end of their year, the lives of all will be changed for ever. A suspenseful black comedy, this is a rich, compassionate & enthralling novel in its depiction of the English countryside, & the potentially lethal interplay between money & marriage.
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Like most of us, Ian Vince used to think of the British countryside as average, unexciting
- as dramatic as a nice cup of tea.
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Takes the reader on an explosive journey across millenia. Continents glide thousands of miles like contestants in Strictly Come Dancing, Scotland swelters on the Equator & Snowdonia boasts a volcanic ring of fire with mountains taller than Everest. (Daily Express). Like most of us, Ian Vince used to think of the British countryside as average, unexciting
- as dramatic as a nice cup of tea. Then, over the course of a single car journey, the features of our green & pleasant land reawakened a fascination with geology that he had long forgotten, & he began to delve beneath the surface (metaphorically, that is). From the ancient rocks of north-west Scotland to St Michael's Mount off the coast of Cornwall, The Lie of the Land takes us on a journey through a fantastically exotic Britain of red desert sands, shattering continental collisions & tides of volcanic lava. Ian Vince shows us how Britain came to look the way it does; & with warmth & wit transports us back through billions of years to a land that time forgot. Anyone who has ever picked up a pebble at the seaside or a rock on a moorland path will find invaluable Ian Vince's geological guide...you will understand the area round your British holiday cottage far more deeply than before. (Giles Foden (author of The Last King of Scotl&, &, Conde Nast Traveller).
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Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015. The Lie Tree is a wonderfully evocative & atmospheric novel by Frances Hardinge, award-winning author of Cuckoo Song & Fly By Night. Faith`s father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, & as she is searching through his belongings for clues she discovers a strange tree. The tree only grows healthy & bears fruit if you whisper a lie to it. The fruit of the tree, when eaten, will deliver a hidden truth to the person who consumes it. The bigger the lie, the more people who believe it, the bigger the truth that is uncovered. The girl realizes that she is good at lying & that the tree might hold the key to her father`s murder, so she begins to spread untruths far & wide across her small island community. But as her tales spiral out of control, she discovers that where lies seduce, truths shatter.. . ...