its brutal portrayal of the inexorable consequences of such moral depravity
more engaging guide to what we know (or would like to know) about the universe and how it is put together' Bill Bryson
Craic Baby picks up exactly where Motherfocloir left off and explores the very new and very old parts of the Irish language from a personal perspective
Shotgun Sen and The Chopper feel at home
'A brilliant novel of deception
Plutarch: Greek Lives (Oxford World's Classics) [2008] paperback ZIRIS its brutal portrayal of theLycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander `I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest.' In the nine lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures and periods of classical Greece. He portrays virtues to be emulated