Bloomsbury presents Once Upon a Toon: 18 Years Inside Newcastle United by Paul Ferris read by Ruairi Conaghan, with the foreword read by Alan Shearer‘A must-read for any Newcastle fan.'ALAN SHEARER‘A brilliant read.'SHAY GIVEN‘A triumph... Beautifully written'LES FERDINANDFascinating chronicles of an utterly unique life in football and 18 years at Newcastle Unite...

Bloomsbury presents The Magic in the Tin by Paul Ferris, read by Ruairi Conaghan.Unmissable: please read this extraordinary book.' – Daily Mail'A triumph ... A worthy follow-up to The Boy on the Shed.' – Jeff Stelling'All men should read this book – important and brilliantly written.' – Alan Shearer'Genius... A difficult, deeply personal story beautifully told.' – George Caulkin, The Athletic——From the author of the critically acclaimed memoi...

'A star of historical fiction' WILBUR SMITH'One of our nation's most ambitious and engaging writers' MANDA SCOTT'Grabs you from the start and never lets you go' HARRY SIDEBOTTOM'Exciting, immersive, and great fun' GILES KRISTIANNeither men nor gods will stand in his way...On the east coast of Ireland thirteen-year ol...

Honest, vulnerable and full of heart, this is a sports memoir like no other.Winner of the Sports Book Awards Autobiography of the Year 2018'Enough depth and humanity to make your average football autobiography look like a Ladybird book.' - TELEGRAPHThe Boy on the Shed is a story of love and fate. At 16, Paul Ferris becomes Newcastle United's youngest-ever first-teamer. Like many a tricky winger from Northe...

Rory Best is widely-regarded as one of Ireland's greatest ever captains. Entrusted by Joe Schmidt to lead the side that looked on the wane following the 2015 World Cup, Best's inspirational leadership skills and abrasive qualities proved to be the foundation stones for the most successful period in Ireland's history.His first year in charge saw Ireland complete a hat-trick of victories against the southern hemisphere 'Big Three', including leading his side to a first ever victory o...

When Manny McDonnell was twelve, he awoke to discover British troops surrounding his home in the toughest area of trouble-torn Belfast. Internment had begun and, encouraged by a fiercely Republican mother, he took to the streets with other school kids, throwing bricks, bottles and petrol bombs at soldiers. Jailed at fifteen for having IRA links, he became a unit commander leading deadly missions for the INLA before joining the IPLO, a group so vicious even the IRA ordered it to disband. Bu...

Tony 10 was the online betting username of Tony O'Reilly, the postman who became front-page news in 2011 after he stole €1.75 million from the Irish postal service while he was an An Post branch manager in Gorey, County Wexford, Ireland. O'Reilly used the money to fund a gambling addiction that began with a bet of one euro and whose debt eventually rose to ten million euro, leading to the loss of his job, his family, his home – and winning him a prison sentence. From the heart-stopping mom...

Earphones Award Winner 2025The past has never left Billy. It's just been waiting for him to come and find it...It's been over thirty years since Billy last called Northern Ireland home. Back then, his secret love for schoolfriend Conor was the only shining light that kept him going during troubled times. That is, until their romance was tragically cut short when Conor disappeared without a trace.Now a phone call draws Billy back hom...

In this fascinating and thought-provoking book, Ireland’s favourite scientist Professor Luke O’Neill grapples with life’s biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them: Do we have control over our lives? Can we escape working in bullsh*t jobs? Must we vaccinate? Are men’s and women’s brains different? Will we destroy the planet? As he covers topics such as global pandemics, addiction and euthanasia, Luke’s trademark easy wit and clever pop-culture references deconstruct...

From 1950 to the present day, there have been almost 900 long-term missing people in Ireland. The equivalent of a vibrant village, all gone, vanished without a trace. Where did they go? Are they dead or still alive somewhere? How many have been murdered? How many killers have got away with their crimes? RTÉ journalist Barry Cummins has reported on the unsolved cases of Ireland’s missing for decades. In this new edition of his bestselling book, he examines the latest leads and developments ...

Recently widowed, Rebecca Parcell is too busy struggling to maintain her farm in Morristown to give a fig who wins the War for Independence. But rumors are spreading in the winter of 1780 that she's a Loyalist sympathizer who betrayed her husband to the British-quite a tidy way to end her disastrous marriage, the village gossips whisper.Everyone knows that her husband was a Patriot, a hero who died aboard a British prison ship moored in New York Harbor. But "everyone" is wrong. Par...

It all started with a bang. Or did it? Opposites attract. But do they really? We're only human. But for how much longer? We'll all die one day. Or will we? Taking us on an incredible journey across centuries and galaxies, accompanied by his characteristic wit, Professor Luke O'Neill explains how it all began, how it all will end and everything in between. Readers will benefit from Luke's insatiable curiosity on this road trip through life and death. Among many fascinating facts, you'll dis...