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We heard it’s a day for celebrating Irish authors... So here's one for non-fiction lovers! This stack of books is by the celebrated Diarmaid Ferriter, one of Ireland's best-known historians and Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD.

Ferriter's most recent book, Between Two Hells, has had rave reviews - like this one in the Irish Times: 'Between Two Hells is a fascinating exploration of the Civil War and its impact on Ireland and Irish politics in the following half-century, rich in insights into how women and men experienced and responded to the calamity of the split and the tawdry violence that followed. This absorbing study begs the question of why Irish politics did not develop along left/right, urban/rural lines, akin to those seen in other newly independent states.'

Keen to delve deep into Ireland's rich history? Grab your copy of Between Two Hells - find out more via the link in our bio.

#irishhistory #historybook #nonfiction #ireland #diarmaidferriter #bookstagram

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There's way more to Dante than the Divine Comedy...

This week we publish the international bestselling #Dante, a new biography, in time for the 700th anniversary of his death.

Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy has defined how people imagine and depict heaven and hell for over 700 years. However, outside of Italy, his other works are not well-known, and less still is generally known about the context he wrote them in.

In Dante, Barbero brings the legendary author's Italy to life, describing the political intrigue, battles, city and society that shaped his life and work.

Have you read any of Dante's work?

#dante #divinecomedy #biography #nonfiction #alessandrobarbero #bookstagram

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A New Statesman Essential Non-Fiction Book of 2021

If you've read Being a Beast, you'll remember the wonder and thrill of joining Charles Foster as he lived (and we mean really lived...) as a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, a swift, to discover what it was really like to be an animal. This time, he travels back in time to live as early humans in the upper Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Enlightenment ages.

Foster begins his quest in a wood in Derbyshire with his son, shivering, starving and hunting, trying to find a way of experiencing the world that recognises the deep expanse of time when we understood ourselves as hunter-gatherers, indivisible from the non-human world, and when modern consciousness was first ignited. From there he travels to the Neolithic, when we tamed animals, plants and ourselves, to a way of being defined by walls, fences, farms, sky gods and slaughterhouses, and finally to the rarefied world of the Enlightenment, when we decided that the universe was a machine and we were soulless cogs within it.

Ready for the ride? This incredible hardback is out this Thursday!

#charlesfoster #beingahuman #homosapiens #neolithic #palaeolithic #enlightenment #hardback #nonfiction

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‘Given women’s louring omnipresence, what might be the origin of all this disgust that’s so continually directed towards us?’

Eimear McBride’s blistering non-fiction debut #SomethingOutofPlace is out today @wellcomecollection

In this subversive essay, McBride asks - are women still damned if we do, damned if we don’t? How can we give our daughters (and sons) the unbounded futures we want for them? And, in this moment of global crisis, might our gift for juggling contradiction help us to find a way forward?

‘A fearless, interrogative work that speaks so much to structural inequality and misogyny. A fierce and fascinating manifesto in McBride’s persuasive prose’ Sinéad Gleeson

#bookstagram #igreads #feminism #wellcomecollection #nonfiction #inequality #shame #contradictions #dichotomy #essays #agirlisahalfformedthing #women #booksbywomen #socialscience #feministtheory #manifesto #misogyny

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If the news this week has been making you feel anxious, you’re not alone. But even at this point there are ways we as individuals can educate ourselves and take action in the fight to alleviate climate change. 🌿🌴🌷🌼🌱🌳🌵🌎

We’re proud to be home to a library of engaging, inspiring books about nature and the climate - from classic bestsellers to new rays of light.

#WhatWeNeedToDoNow by Chris Goodall draws on actions, policies and technologies already emerging around the world to offer a guide for a zero carbon future.

#HowtoSpendaTrillionDollars by Rowan Hooper sets out the incredible things we could do with a trillion dollars (around 1% of the world's GDP) - from saving all endangered species to refreezing the melting Arctic.

#HowBadAreBananas by Mike Berners-Lee is the bestselling guide that shows just what effect everything has on carbon emissions, from a Google search to a plastic bag, from a flight to a volcano.

#HowAreWeGoingtoExplainThis by Jelmer Mommers is the international bestseller that describes how we got here, what possible futures await us, and how you can help to truly make a difference.

#WorkingWithNature by Jeremy Purseglove shows how taking a practical approach to sustaining the landscape can mean the difference between prosperity and ruin.

#TheNationofPlants by Stefano Mancuso is the international bestseller that presents a new constitution on which to build our future as beings respectful of the Earth and its inhabitants - starting with the 8 pillars on which plant life is based.

Which will you pick up first?

#climatechange #climatebooks #naturebooks #booksonclimate #booksonnature #plantbooks #bookstagram

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