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The Belfast Urban Motorway: Engineering, Ambition and Soc...

Johnston, Wesley
The Belfast Urban Motorway: Engineering, Ambition and Social Conflict
In the heady days of 1967 the Northern Ireland government announced the construction of an elevated, three-lane motorway encircling Belfast City Centre. Ten years later the plan was dead, only to be resurrected in a different form. This is the story of the road and its many related issues - from inception to the present day.

CHF 34.90

The Pen Friend

Carson, Ciaran
The Pen Friend
More than twenty years after the end of their love affair, Gabriel receives a series of cryptic postcards from his old flame. Inspired to write his own letter, Gabriel dwells in sensuous detail on perfumes, clothes, and conversations as he tries to recapture the spirit of their romance in 1980s Belfast. As Gabriel teases out the significance of the postcards, the layers of meaning in the images and messages, his reveries develop into richly te...

CHF 27.50

For the Sins of My Mother

Rogers-Moloney, Marie Therese
For the Sins of My Mother
In 1950s rural Ireland a widow conceals pregnancy by travelling to Belfast and giving birth to a girl named Marie Therese. The child was left to face a life of misery in the care of nuns at Nazareth House. This is her story, one of resilience and the need to discover who she really is by tracing the mother that the nuns had told her didn't exist.

CHF 21.90

May, Lou and Cass

Hillan, Sophia
May, Lou and Cass
Marianne, Louisa and Cassandra Knight May, Lou and Cass were Jane Austen s nieces. She knew the girls well, reading and sewing with them as they grew up. Often the subjects of her witty letters, they were still young girls when Jane died in 1817. Yet, had she lived, she would have seen them live out the plots of her famous novels.

CHF 29.90

Enright

O'Sullivan, Mark
Enright
Mark O'Sullivan's gripping novel, taking place in 1921 when the Irish War of Independence is drawing to a close, is as forceful as the character of Enright himself. The story hovers between the real and the imagined, between tenderness and violence, between myth and memory. Enright's voice haunts, revolts, sometimes amuses, and ultimately reveals the secret of survival--"defiant tenacity.

CHF 24.90

Full Throttle: Robert Dunlop, Road Racing and Me

Beckett, Liam
Full Throttle: Robert Dunlop, Road Racing and Me
There were always just the two of them, Robert and Liam, and there wasn't one weekend when Robert went racing that Liam wasn't with him. They were a formidable force, and Robert only needed Liam in his corner, he didn't need anyone else.' Louise Dunlop, Robert's wife. Liam Beckett wears many hats - plumber, footballer, manager, pundit, broadcaster and Black Santa. But it is perhaps as Robert Dunlop's mentor and mechanic that he is best known. ...

CHF 21.90

Oz

Hill, Geoff
Oz
Geoff Hill and Colin O'Carroll take on Australia's legendary Highway 1 on their trusty Triumph motorbikes, circumnavigating the country from Adelaide to Adelaide.

CHF 18.50

Exchange Place

Carson, Ciaran
Exchange Place
`Exchange Place is gloriously uncategorisable. Robbe-Grillet would have welcomed it ... Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler too would have tipped the brims of their trilbys in salute. A wonderful intellectual romp.' John Banville

CHF 16.50

Dark Days and Brighter Days for Northern Ireland Railways

McMillan, Edwin
Dark Days and Brighter Days for Northern Ireland Railways
The railway system that makes up Northern Ireland Railways was formed in 1967 and remains open to this day despite threats of closure and the devastating effects of the 'Troubles'. This new book records its history through the eyes of the author, an NIR employee for 40 years.

CHF 30.50