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  • The Silent Patient

    The record-breaking, multimillion copy Sunday Times bestselling thriller and TikTok sensation

    by Alex Michaelides ...
    - THE RECORD-BREAKING, MULTIMILLION COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION -Discover the #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling thriller with a jaw-dropping twist that everyone is talking about - as seen on TikTok. Soon to be a major film.Alicia Berenson lived a seemingly perfect life until one day six years ago. When she shot her husband in the head five times. Since then ... Read more

    €5.49

  • Dopamine Nation

    Why our Addiction to Pleasure is Causing us Pain

    by Dr Anna Lembke ...
    THE MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWe are a wired generation. In these fast-paced times we are constantly bombarded by high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli. From texting to social media, food to drugs, gambling to shopping, we have become addicted to fleeting and distracting pleasures that are making us sick.In Dopamine Nation*,* psychiatrist and bestselling author Dr Anna Lembke reveals why ... Read more

    €6.99

  • Deadly Silence

    A Sister’s Battle to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of Clodagh and Her Sons by Alan Hawe - Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2025, An Post Irish Book Awards

    by Jacqueline Connolly ...
    NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025, AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS'Vital' Sunday Independent'Compelling' Irish Times'Riveting' Irish Independent'Chilling' Irish Mail on Sunday'Every woman in Ireland needs to read Deadly Silence' The Sunday Times... ... Read more

    €6.99

  • The Fitness Instructor's Handbook

    A Complete Guide to Health and Fitness

    by Mr Morc Coulson ...
    Series series Fitness Professionals
    New and updated, The Fitness Instructor's Handbook, 3rd edition is the essential guide for anyone working in, or wishing to enter, the fitness industry.Including a brand new chapter on Cardiorespiratory machine exercises covering correct technique, safety points and step-by-step photos and updated references throughout, this new edition reflects the latest changes to the National Occupational ... Read more

    €21.39

  • Contraception and Modern Ireland

    A Social History, c. 1922–92

    by Laura Kelly ...
    Contraception was the subject of intense controversy in twentieth-century Ireland. Banned in 1935 and stigmatised by the Catholic Church, it was the focus of some of the most polarised debates before and after its legalisation in 1979. This is the first comprehensive, dedicated history of contraception in Ireland from the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 to the 1990s. Drawing on the ... Read more

    €23.39

  • This is Going to Hurt

    The Bestselling Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

    by Adam Kay ...
    **The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards, now a major BBC comedy-drama starring Ben Whishaw.‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry**Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and ... Read more

    €6.99

  • Overcoming

    The powerful, compelling, award-winning memoir

    by Vicky Phelan ...
    Sunday Times Memoir of the Year 2019An Post Irish Book of the Year 2019When Vicky Phelan delivered an emotionally charged statement from the steps of the Four Courts in April 2018 - having refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement in the settlement of her action against the HSE - she unearthed the medical and political scandal of our times. It would emerge that, like Vicky, 220 other women who ... Read more

    €4.49

  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

    A True Story of Scientific Discovery, Questionable Ethics, and a Family's Fight for Truth

    by Rebecca Skloot ...
    Series series Picador Collection
    **The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a heartbreaking mix of memoir and science, telling the story of how one woman’s cells – taken without her knowledge – have saved countless lives.Now an HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey & Rose Byrne.‘No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book’ – Hilary Mantel, Guardian**Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but ... Read more

    €5.99

  • Bad Science

    by Ben Goldacre ...
    Ben Goldacre’s wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations.Since 2003 Dr Ben Goldacre has been exposing dodgy medical data in his popular Guardian column. In this eye-opening book he takes on the MMR hoax and misleading cosmetics ads, acupuncture and homeopathy ... Read more

    €11.10

  • The Body

    A Guide for Occupants - The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller

    by Bill Bryson ...
    #1 Bestseller in both hardback and paperback: SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE_______'A directory of wonders.' - The Guardian'Jaw-dropping.' - The Times'Classic, wry, gleeful Bryson...an entertaining and absolutely fact-rammed book.' - The Sunday Times'It is a feat of narrat... ... Read more

    €7.99

  • Confessions of a GP

    by Benjamin Daniels ...
    Series series The Confessions Series
    Benjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled and, quite frequently, very funny. He is also a GP. These are his confessions.A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80-year-old man who can't remember why he's come to see the doctor. A woman with a common cold demanding (but not receiving) antibiotics. A man with a sore knee. A young woman who has been trying to ... Read more

    Was €4.43 Now €2.95

  • The Emperor of All Maladies

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
    WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2011WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2011‘Profound, eloquent and searching’ SUNDAY TIMES‘Essential reading’ INDEPENDENT‘Masterly’ GUARDIAN‘Extraordinary’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWAN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY SO FAR</p... ... Read more

    €12.58

  • This is Going to Hurt

    Now a major BBC comedy-drama

    by Adam Kay ...
    Now a major BAFTA nominated BBC comedy-drama starring award-winning actor Ben Whishaw.The multi-million copy bestseller now with an exclusive preface by the author.Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you.Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed ... Read more

    €6.99

  • The Age of Diagnosis

    Are Medical Labels Doing Us More Harm Than Good? - THE MUST-READ SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

    by Suzanne O’Sullivan ...
    THE MUST-READ BESTSELLER AND BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW SCIENTIST AND MORE'Revelatory. Slices through the contradictions.' - CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN'So well-written... critically important.' - RANGAN CHATTERJEE'A doctor's brilliant study of the dangers of overdiagnosis' - GUARDIAN<str... ... Read more

    €6.99

  • Unwell Women

    A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World

    by Elinor Cleghorn ...
    THE NEW BOOK FROM ELINOR CLEGHORN: A WOMAN'S WORK IS OUT NOW 'An essential history' - Leah Hazard'Powerful' NEW YORK TIMES'A passionate and indignant history' THE TIMES'Unputdownable' TELEGRAPHMedicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt asham... ... Read more

    €2.99

  • Bad Pharma

    How Medicine is Broken, And How We Can Fix It

    by Ben Goldacre ...
    ‘Bad Science’ hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess.Doctors and patients need good scientific evidence to make informed decisions. But instead, companies run bad trials on their own ... Read more

    €8.13

  • The Song of the Cell

    How understanding the cell transformed science and our sense of what it means to live.

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
    A profound, human history of biology’s most vital idea.From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies comes a sweeping exploration of the cell – the building block of all living things. In The Song of the Cell, Siddhartha Mukherjee traces how centuries of scientific endeavour and discovery, from early microscopes to stem-cell therapy, have transformed medicine ... Read more

    €6.99

  • How Not to Die

    Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

    by Michael Greger, Gene Stone ...
    'This book may help those who are susceptible to illnesses that can be prevented with proper nutrition' – His Holiness the Dalai LamaThe international bestseller, Dr Michael Greger's How Not To Die gives effective, scientifically-proven nutritional advice to prevent our biggest killers – including heart disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer, high blood pressure and diabetes – and reveals the ... Read more

    €7.99

  • One Eye Open

    A gripping standalone thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller

    by Paul Finch ...
    If the lies don't kill you, the truth willAn electrifying, high-octane thrill ride; the new must-read standalone from a Sunday Times bestseller. Dark, gritty and always at the edge of your seat, this unforgettable new outing from master storyteller, Paul Finch, will appeal to fans of Peter James, Mark Billingham and Angela Marsons.*********************************... ... Read more

    €3.49

  • The Real Anthony Fauci

    Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health

    by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ...
    Series series Children’s Health Defense
    #7 New York Times Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller#1 Amazon Charts Bestseller#1 USA Today Bestseller#1 Publisher's Weekly Bestseller20 Weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List</str... ... Read more

    €15.77

  • Mindfulness for Worriers

    Overcome Everyday Stress and Anxiety

    by Padraig O'Morain ...
    This accessible book provides readers with mindfulness-based techniques to reduce worry, anxiety, stress and panic attacks. It will help readers deal with anxiety-inducing episodes by learning to accept and overcome strong emotions without getting caught up in negative and damaging thoughts.Aimed at anyone who is stressed or anxious, as well as people suffering from more extreme levels of anxiety, ... Read more

    €3.99

  • Admissions

    A Life in Brain Surgery - as seen on 'life-changing' BBC documentary Confessions of a Brain Surgeon

    by Henry Marsh ...
    'Sensational' SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Extraordinary . . . both exhilarating and alarming . . . fascinating' DAILY MAIL'Wonderful . . . a testament to the tenacity of the human spirit' FINANCIAL TIMESHenry Marsh has spent four decades operating on the human brain. In this searing and provocative memoir following his retirement from the NHS, he reflects on the experiences that have shaped hi... ... Read more

    €2.99

  • A State of Emergency

    The Story of Ireland’s Covid Crisis

    by Richard Chambers ...
    The incendiary untold story of Ireland’s response to the most significant public health emergency of the past century, woven from a wealth of original research and dozens of interviews with ministers, politicians, public health experts, essential workers, and ordinary people on whom the crisis exacted a personal toll.Ranging from the halls of Government Buildings, where a new Cabinet riven by ... Read more

    €7.40

  • We Need to Talk: The Number 1 Bestseller

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2023 – Biography of the Year

    by Dr Tony Holohan ...
    Dr Tony Holohan served as Chief Medical Officer in Ireland for 14 years, but only really became known to the public during the Covid 19 pandemic. During this time his remarkable leadership skills came to the fore and he became the public face of the pandemic, helping to steer the nation through the biggest public health crisis in Ireland's modern history.However, while dealing with the most ... Read more

    €16.79