Melisende's Library

From Irish Times : Sisters Against the Empire: Countess Constance Markievicz and Eva Gore-Booth, 1916-17 by Patrick Quigley. Rather t...

From  The Herald : In his book, “ Slaves and Slavery ”, published in 1998, the British writer Duncan Clarke defines slavery as “ the reduc...

From the  Irish Times : A gorgeous new book, Dublin and the Viking World , introduces readers to the period when Dublin became Ireland’s f...

From  York Press : A new book tells the story of York in 50 Buildings , Stephen Lewis reports. For Andrew, a former City of York Co...

Harper Collins : Catherine de Medici’s father-in-law, King Francis of France, was the perfect Renaissance knight, the movement’s exempla...

" ... I guess everyone's the morally conflicted hero of their own narrative am I right? .." Jack Price is a cocaine dealer,...

For me, this is a homage to Hitchcock's " Rear Window " and " The Lady Vanishes " - a disturbed woman witnesses so...

Fergus Sheppard’s world changes forever the day his car crashes near the remote village of Allingley. Traumatised by his near-death experi...

Rebels at the Bar: The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America's First Women Lawyers  Jill Norgren recounts the life stories of a...