Books from Hachette Ireland

  • I've Got Cancer, What's Your Excuse?: A Journey Through Black Dog Days, the Big C and Laughter
    By Anne Gildea

    A Journey Through Black Dog Days, the Big C and Laughter Anne Gildea ... The linethat comes tomindin conclusion is from the medieval German mystic Meister Eckhart: If there's onlyone prayer you ever say inyour entirelife,letitbe ...

  • The Other Boy
    By Yvonne Cassidy

    That he made it hard not to see that clapping seal in his jocks every timeI looked at him for ages after. I couldn't tell him that butIthought he knew. He had toknow. “Imean,Idon't know what it hastodo with you, anyway.It's my money.

  • Do You Know Who's Dead?: A hilarious celebration of what makes us Irish
    By Paddy Duffy

    ... (a Single Committee on Marital Breakdown would have been a bit too tragic), and advocated for unmarried mothers and the removal of the status of illegitimacy (at one point, 'bastard' wasn't just a favourite word of Roddy Doyle ...

  • Did That Actually Happen?: A Journey Through Unbelievable Moments in Irish Politics
    By Paddy Duffy

    Agriculture spokesman for Fine Gael Andrew Doyle was quick off the mark with an eyecatching comparison: 'This government is behaving like Marie Antoinette did.Yesterday they announce cutsof €6 billionthat are goingto be imposed ...

  • The Skin Nerd Philosophy: Your Expert Guide to Skin Health
    By Jennifer Rock

    Ingredient Function Ingredient type Antioxidant Resveratrol Boots body's supply of says that bene lo dicas protection from pollution related ageing Works wel with this Names on label Recommended skin type products Hs spderend Fuerol in ...

  • Filter This: The modern, witty debut everyone is talking about
    By Sophie White

    Suddenly the memory of Blake Jordan miming a pregnant belly veered into her head. She'd had a bit to drink but she hadn't been drunk drunk. Surely not drunk enough to tell everyone she was ... 'Oh my god,' she whimpered as the worst ...

  • Unfiltered
    By Sophie White

    An Instagram post appeared to be breadcrumbing a pregnancy reveal and when host Blake Jordan welcomed her to the stage, she made it official.' 'That is not what happened,' Ali hissed as footage of Blake Jordan on the stage at the ...

  • The Skin Nerd: Your straight-talking guide to feeding, protecting & respecting your skin
    By Jennifer Rock

    This is also known as an acid peel. All acids peels cause the skin to exfoliate at a much, much faster rate, which is what causes the redness after the treatment. Peels consist of a high-percentage acid solution applied to the skin ...

  • Banksters
    By David Murphy, Martina Devlin

    The internal choice to replace Goggin was Richie Boucher, who had been chief executive of retail financial services, selected for his 'expertise, determinationand pragmatism'. Stockyand greying, Boucher was no gentleman banker.

  • The Seven-Day Soul: Finding Meaning Beneath the Noise
    By Susannah Healy

    Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian Nobel Prize-winning physicist Teachings around oneness, the ultimate unity of everything and seeing clearly are intimately connected; when we un-train our senses from the materialism of the world as we ...

  • No Reservations
    By Fiona O'Brien

    A vast array of magazines (in fairness, some of them up to date) from Golfer's Monthly to the Sacred Heart Messenger to Vogue, Harper's and other high fashion bibles sat in meticulous order on various tables.

  • The Love Book
    By Fiona O'Brien

    is a regular contributor to all the big American glossies – Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar and even The New Yorker. I was so pleased for her. Poor old Vonnie. She was such a lovely girl, but she never had any real selfesteem, ...

  • The Summer We Were Friends
    By Fiona O'Brien

    Speaking of which,' he waved an envelope at her as he sat down at his desk, 'I got us front-row seats to the Harper's gig.' Joni's face lit up. 'Get outta here!' 'You're welcome!' 'What would I do without you?

  • Growing Up with Ireland: A Century of Memories from Our Oldest and Wisest Citizens
    By Valerie Cox

    Smith, aged ninety-three, was born on a farm in Knockmacooney, Summerbank, in Oldcastle, County Meath, the daughter of Patrick Smith and Catherine (Kate) Mahon. Rose attributes her long life to a healthy diet in her youth.

  • Hell for Leather: A Journey Through Hurling in 100 Games
    By Ronnie Bellew, Dermot Crowe

    The jubilation was understandableafter seven lean andcontroversial years that included a 4–15 to 4–1 beating from Corkin the 1942 Munster finalplayed at the Athletic Grounds by the Lee. In 1945, though,there was a sense ofsomething ...

  • Hanging with the Elephant: A Story of Love, Loss and Meditation
    By Michael Harding

    But when I'm in a room on a one-to-one basis, I get lost. I can never find the right word. Except for that phrase - hold me.' Michael Harding's wife has departed for a six-week trip, and he has been left alone in their home in Leitrim.

  • Staring at Lakes: A Memoir of Love, Melancholy and Magical Thinking
    By Michael Harding

    Throughout his life, Michael Harding has lived with a sense of emptiness - through faith, marriage, fatherhood and his career as a writer, a pervading sense of darkness and unease remained.

  • A Cloud Where the Birds Rise
    By Michael Harding, Jacob Stack

    A Cloud Where the Birds Rise is a beautifully illustrated collection of observations and stories from one of Ireland's best-loved writers - a celebration of finding beauty and hope in the ordinary.

  • Belonging: A Memoir of Place, Beginnings and One Woman's Search for Truth and Justice for the Tuam Babies
    By Catherine Corless

    and was clever about harvesting the rainwater that ran from the drainpipes into barrels she placed beneath them. One day when I was about three years old, I was out on the farm with my mother and my sister Mary collecting water from the ...

  • The Last Week of May: The Number One Bestseller
    By Roisin Meaney

    May smiled at him when he walked through the door. 'Hey, I wasn't expecting you. I'm about ready.' She finished tidying the magazines and pulled the plastic liner out of the bin. 'Take your time.' He stood at the door, fiddling with the ...