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Christmas books

Christmas books

Good books make great Christmas gifts. Explore our pick of Irish humour, thought-provoking reads, drawing books and sticker books, with something for curious minds and creative souls. Find some inspiration for their stocking or maybe even a a book you'll want to keep for yourself.

  • A spiral-bound pop-up book titled 'Art Collector Fred' shown open on a white background, displaying a detailed illustrated interior scene on the cover and descriptive text on a bright yellow page.
    Illustrated children's book cover titled "Collectors Street" showing a whimsical row of colorful houses on a street, with a small child character at the bottom right, set against a solid yellow background.

    Collectors Street

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    Collectors Street is a vibrant and oversized playbook filled that celebrates the joy of collecting things. The book follows a young narrator on the...

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  • Book cover for 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI' by Cory Doctorow, featuring a white cover with black and red text and a cracked-glass graphic, centered on a mustard yellow background.

    The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI

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    In The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI, prolific author Cory Doctorow argues that the positive, real-world applications that AI models pos...

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  • The book 'Great and Unfortunate Things' by Jason Arday, shown standing upright at a slight angle on a white background. The cover features a cream-colored background with black text and a central photograph of a young boy.
    Book cover for 'Great and Unfortunate Things' by Jason Arday, featuring a cream background with large black title text, a central photo of a young boy, and an orange circular quote sticker.

    Great and Unfortunate Things

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    When Jason Arday was diagnosed with autism and global developmental delay at the age of three, doctors and teachers told his mother that there was ...

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  • The book 'Seeing What's Hidden' by Manchán Magan stands upright on a blue table in a blurred bookstore setting. The cover features a black top section with gold Celtic-style stars and waves, a central cream-white wave pattern with a sun, and a brown bottom section with gold Celtic designs.
    Book cover of 'Seeing What's Hidden' by Manchán Magan, featuring a black and beige Celtic-inspired design with a central white sunburst and gold-toned abstract foliage, shown against a solid mustard-yellow background.

    Seeing What's Hidden - Manchán Magan

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    In Seeing What’s Hidden, author Manchán Magan explores how ancient Irish culture retains deep resonances with global indigenous traditions of recip...

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  • The Castle - Jon Ronson

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    The story of The Castle begins when author Jon Ronson receives a series of unsettling text messages from his son Joel, who had been lured to a myst...

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  • The book '10 Mistakes That Changed History' by Paul Coulter stands upright on a blue table. The cover features a vintage illustration of a rider on a horse with a large pink '10' and bold pink title text on a beige background.
    Book cover for '10 Mistakes That Changed History' by Paul Coulter, featuring a vintage-style illustration of a rider on a horse with bold pink title text on an off-white background, centered on a mustard-yellow backdrop.
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    10 mistakes that changed history

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    10 Mistakes That Changed History is a history book with a twist. It focuses on fascinating stories of human error in history, featuring many of the...

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  • This is a clean studio shot of the book 'This Way Up' by Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman, published by Map Tien. The book cover features a bold orange background with three stylized blue world maps arranged in a circle, intersected by a black arrow pointing to the center.
    Book cover of 'This Way Up' by Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman, featuring a bold orange and light blue design with world map graphics and large black title text.

    This Way Up

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    Authors and YouTube sensations Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman are known as The Map Men, and they love maps. More specifically, they love maps th...

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  • A book titled 'Stop Your Shenangans' by Micheál É Conghaile, featuring a dark olive green cover with colorful pink, orange, and yellow polka dots and bold stylized lettering, standing on a blue surface with a blurred bookstore background.
    Green book cover with title "Stop Your Shennigans" in pink and orange text against a pink background.

    Stop your Shenanigans

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    It's no secret that we're going through a bit of an Irish language revival at the minute, with more and more folks looking for a cúpla focal to thr...

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  • The book 'Empire of AI' by Karen Hao stands upright on a blue countertop in a retail store. The cover is predominantly black with white and orange text, and the Penguin logo is visible at the bottom.
    Book cover for 'Empire of AI' by Karen Hao, featuring a dark navy-to-orange gradient background with white and orange text, centered on a light blue background.

    Empire of AI

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    It seems like AI has suddenly been folded into every website, app, and search engine overnight, despite the fact that we never really consented to ...

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  • The Beauty of Everyday Things: A book by Soetsu Yanagi, published by Penguin. The book cover is white, featuring a photograph of a light beige ceramic teapot with a metal handle.

    The Beauty of Everyday things

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    In this collection of thoughtful and engaging essays, author Soetsu Yanagi presents an earnest defense of modest, honest, handcrafted objects — fro...

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  • Music As Medicine

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    We are only beginning to understand the profound healing power of music. Recent scientific discoveries have transformed our understanding of how so...

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  • Gobshite Guidebook

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    Every family has one. Every WhatsApp group. Every office. You know the type – the lane-hogger, the queue-jumper, the clueless loudmouth who somehow...

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  • Cute n Cozy Sticker Therapy

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    Take a deep breath, slow things down and slip into the irresistibly cute world of tiny craft bliss. This book lets you build 8 cosy little room sce...

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  • What Art Does

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    Legendary artist Brian Eno and writer/visual artist Bette Adriaanse present this major new work exploring the meaning and purpose of art.  What Art...

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  • Moral ambition

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    In a world flooded with advice promising wellness and success, time and talent often go underused. With the average full-time worker spending 80,00...

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  • BLIND BOY BOATCLUD TOPOGRAPHIA HIBERNICA BOOK COVER WHITE WITH LIGHT BLUE PATTERN OF TREES AND BIRDS

    Topographia Hibernica - Paperback

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    There are few writers like Blindboy, and this book is one that is hard to describe. Absorbing and hard to put down, it is packed full of stories an...

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  • open spread of book titled 'A Compendium of Irish Pints' in front of a burnt orange background
    two copies of the book titled 'A Compendium of Irish Pints' on top of eachother in front of a burnt orange background

    A Compendium of Irish Pints

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    This book is a loving exploration of the culture, customs and craic in going for a pint. Its the slightly bolder version of sharing a cup of tea, t...

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  • cover of book. green background with four white rectangular text boxes- going vertically down the page, highlighted with orange surrounding. each of the four boxes has one of the following words in a different black font- the/ irish/ insult/ generator

    Irish Insult Generator

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    Is he a shitehawk or a messer? A gombeen or a dope? Take the decision-making out of your trash talk and fire out hilarious one-line insults left, r...

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  • Motherfocloir: Dispatches from a not so Dead Language

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    Based on the hilarious Twitter feed @theirishfor, Motherfocloir, by Darach o Seaghdha, is an incredibly funny book about the Irish language. Featur...

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