Gill Books: 392 books
The Fertility Handbook
Everything you need to know to maximise your chance of pregnancy
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Maximise your chance of getting pregnant with this up-to-date and authoritative book that provides a clear and holistic approach to fertility.
Areas including:
Understanding your body and maximising your chances of conceiving naturally as well as through complex treatments such as IVF,...
The Courage to Be Happy
A New Approach to Well-Being in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
We live in an age in which unhappiness, depression, stress and anxiety are everywhere. We struggle with things like bad relationships, work pressure, low self-esteem, worry and helplessness. The list is endless, because everyone is unhappy for different reasons.
Whatever the causes of your...
Rule-breakers – Why ‘Being There’ Trumps ‘Being Fair’ in Ireland
Uncovering Ireland’s National Psyche
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
**Ireland is a nation on a value system that equates ‘being good’ with ‘being there for each other’. As a society we favour ‘minding our own’ over ‘doing what we’re told’.
So far, so Irish.**
It’s become a commonplace to refer to the excesses of the Celtic Tiger years...
Education in Ireland
Challenge and Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
A contemporary snapshot of Irish education, this book positions 21st-century Irish education at the centre of the creation of the knowledge economy and outlines the challenges and changes presented as a result of a changing education system and society.
Part 1: The Changing System charts selected...
by Damien Enright
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2004
West Cork is a magical place. The countryside has remained unspoiled and the people unaffected.
A Place Near Heaven is the story of a calendar year in West Cork.
Tranquil and beautifully written, it is a book in the finest tradition of writing on rural life and the natural world. In...
Go Get Him! – Your Plan to Get a Man
Everything You Need to Know to Create the Love You Want
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
CALLING ALL THE SINGLE LADIES … GET READY TO GO DATING!
Do you keep thinking that Prince Charming will knock on your door, only to be met by the pizza delivery man? Is your idea of an action-packed evening a night on the couch watching rom-coms with a tub of ice cream? Have you given up on...
The Western Front
The Irishmen Who Fought in World War One
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
‘One of our fellows, while a German flare lit up his trench as it shot over it, saw half a dozen of our raw Irishmen on their knees, praying to the Virgin as if their last hour had come.’
Captain Gerald Burgoyne, C Company, 4th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles
The Western Front tells the human...
Words We Use
The Meaning of Words And Where They Come From
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Diarmaid Ó Muirithe’s column Words We Use was a feature of The Irish Times for many years. This collection of his most memorable contributions, by turns witty and sympathetic, wears its prodigious learning lightly and is sure to delight those captivated by the power of language to shape the world...
by Mary O'Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
As she nears 80, Mary O’Rourke reflects on her life and its universal themes through letters.
To the Athlone Fianna Fáil Women’s Group … to a future female politician … to a young couple embracing on a bridge … to a past professor … to a niece in America …
On the eve of...
The Meaning of Life 2 – More Lives, More Meaning with Gay Byrne
20 Famous People Reflect on Life’s Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
More big questions – and more interesting answers – from Gay Byrne’s hugely popular RTÉ TV show
We all look for meaning in our lives and here twenty well-known public figures share what gives their lives meaning, prompting us to ponder the question ourselves and perhaps even find some...
Cold Case Files Missing and Unsolved: Ireland's Disappeared
The Cold Case Files
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
The Cold Case Files will leave you shocked that so many of Ireland’s evil killers have not been caught. But by outlining the on-going work of Ireland’s cold-case detectives, this book will also give you hope that these killers will never be allowed to rest easy, and that one day justice will come...
Whose Life Are You Living? Realising Your Worth
A Clinical Psychologist’s Guide to Overcoming Labels and Limits
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2005
In Whose Life Are You Living?, bestselling author and clinical psychologist Dr Tony Humphreys challenges us move beyond the constraints imposed by external opinions and to look at our lives in new and liberating ways.
We are not born bad, ugly, stupid, average, superior or inferior, yet these...
Headaches – The CommonSense Approach
Become Your Own ‘Headache Detective’
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1999
Headaches – The CommonSense Approach is a clear, concise and accessible guide that will empower headache sufferers to become their own ‘headache detective’.
Ninety per cent of adults have had a headache at some time in their lives. Almost twenty per cent suffer from chronic headaches,...
Forgotten Soldiers
The Story of the Irishmen Executed by the British Army during the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Drawing upon war diaries, court martial papers and interviews with veterans and family members, award-winning BBC journalist Stephen Walker explains how, often exhausted by battle, or suffering shell-shock, men who refused to fight were branded as cowards, and shot at dawn by a firing squad.
From...