×
Apparel & Accessories Home & Garden Health & Beauty Hardware Sporting Goods Arts & Entertainment Food & Beverages Electronics Furniture Media Vehicles & Parts Office Supplies Business & Industrial Animals & Pet Supplies Toys & Games Baby & Toddler Cameras & Optics Luggage & Bags Religious & Ceremonial Software

Books near Meath & Discover Local Offers in Ireland

Near me Ireland
Local 50 km


Refine Search


  • Books 53159 Offer(s)

Miss Dior : A Wartime Story of Courage and Couture by Justine Picardie (Paperback) ✓ In Stock

Miss Dior is a story of freedom and fascism, beauty and betrayal, roses and repression, and how the polished surface of fashion conceals hidden depths. It paints a portrait of the enigmatic woman behind the designer Christian Dior: his beloved younger sister Catherine, who inspired his most famous perfume and shaped his vision of femininity. Justine Picardie's journey takes her to Occupied Paris, where Christian honed his couture skills while Catherine dedicated herself to the French Resistance, until she was captured by the Gestapo and deported to the German concentration camp of Ravensbruck. With unparalleled access to the Dior family homes and archives, Picardie's research into Catherine's courageous life shines a new light on Christian Dior's legendary work, and reveals how his enchanting 'New Look' emerged out of the shadows of his sister's suffering. Tracing the wartime paths of the Dior siblings leads Picardie deep into other hidden histories, and different forms of resistance and sisterhood. She explores what it means to believe in beauty and hope, despite our knowledge of darkness and despair, and discovers the timeless solace of the natural world in the aftermath of devastation and destruction. ISBN 9780571356539

Gutter Bookshop

Miss Dior : A Wartime Story of Courage and Couture by Justine Picardie (Paperback)

Dublin 2 dublin
Kindred : Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes ✓ In Stock

Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. In Kindred, Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside cliches of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. They ranged across vast tracts of tundra and steppe, but also stalked in dappled forests and waded in the Mediterranean Sea. Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval. At a time when our species has never faced greater threats, we're obsessed with what makes us special. But, much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals, and their DNA is still inside us. Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination, perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality. Kindred does for Neanderthals what Sapiens did for us, revealing a deeper, more nuanced story where humanity itself is our ancient, shared inheritance. It is only by understanding them, that we can truly understand ourselves. 'A wonderful portrait of these enigmatic, long-lost relatives.' Professor Alice Roberts ISBN 9781472937490

Gutter Bookshop

Kindred : Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes

Dublin 2 dublin
Transient Desires by Donna Leon ✓ In Stock
Gutter Bookshop

Transient Desires by Donna Leon

Dublin 2 dublin
Fey's War by Catherine Bailey ✓ In Stock
Gutter Bookshop

Fey's War by Catherine Bailey

Dublin 2 dublin
Neuromancer by William Gibson ✓ In Stock
Gutter Bookshop

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Dublin 2 dublin
The Three Kings by Leo Moynihan ✓ In Stock
Gutter Bookshop

The Three Kings by Leo Moynihan

Dublin 2 dublin
Rugby Rebel by Gerard Siggins ✓ In Stock
Gutter Bookshop

Rugby Rebel by Gerard Siggins

Dublin 2 dublin
Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce ✓ In Stock
Gutter Bookshop

Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce

Dublin 2 dublin
Snow Country by Sebastian Faulks ✓ In Stock
Gutter Bookshop

Snow Country by Sebastian Faulks

Dublin 2 dublin
The Baby Beast by Chris Judge ✓ In Stock
Gutter Bookshop

The Baby Beast by Chris Judge

Dublin 2 dublin
Lily at Lissadell by Judi Curtin ✓ In Stock
Gutter Bookshop

Lily at Lissadell by Judi Curtin

Dublin 2 dublin
We found 53159 result(s). Displaying results 14341 to 14400


×

To search by distance please choose your location