Michael Collins by Tim Pat Coogan

Michael Collins by Tim Pat CooganWhen President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo Irish Treaty in December 1921, he remarked to Lord Birkenhead, 'I may have signed my actual death warrant.' And in August 1922 during the Irish Civil War, that prophecy came true Collins was shot and killed by a fellow Irishman in a shocking political assassination. So ended the life of the greatest of all Irish nationalists, but his visions and legacy lived on. This authorative and

his best friend

While quite literally dodging one subject or the other

‘Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots

Following the novels Outline and Transit

Nan Shepherd and others

Celebrate life's ups and downs in this gorgeous paperback edition of the bestselling Dr

They are driving home from the search party when they see her

With the help of an old friend

and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan

Christ Church Cathedra

playing on his Xbox

the flash of a cigarette lighter in a darkened cinema illuminates a stunning romantic betrayal - and sets in motion one of the most moving and desperate flights of the heart in modern literature