The below list represents a decade of books. Note projects are arranged according to the year I worked on them, not necessarily their publication year.
2015
Morley College: A 125th Anniversary Portrait, Janet Sacks (ed.) (Third Millennium Publishing)
Rutgers: A 250th Anniversary Portrait (Third Millennium Publishing)
The Perse School: the first 400 years, Catharine Walston (ed.) (Third Millennium Publishing)
A Lincoln’s Inn Commonplace Book, Graham S. Brown (Profile Editions)
Andrew Festing, Jenny Pery (Profile Editions)
Memoirs,Jean Monnet (Profile Editions)
Cranleigh: The First 150 Years, Martin Williamson (Third Millennium Publishing)
Pangbourne College: Spirit in Changing Times, Robin Knight (Third Millennium Publishing)
Hogan Lovells (Profile Editions)
2016
Cambridge Engineering: The First 150 Years, Haroon Ahmed (Third Millennium Publishing)
Rogues’ Gallery: A History of Art and Its Dealers, Philip Hook (Profile Books)
Night Trains: The Rise and Fall of the Sleeper, Andrew Martin (Profile Books)
Coming Home: One Man’s Return to the Irish Language, Michael McCaughan (Gill Books)
Finding Hope in the Age of Anxiety, Claire Hayes (Gill Books)
2017
Pirelli: Technology and Passion, 1872–2017, Carlo Bellavite Pellegrini (Profile Editions)
The Grange School, Chile: 90th Anniversary Portrait (Profile Editions)
That’s the Way It Crumbles, Matthew Engel (Profile Books)
The Making of a Modern University: Liverpool John Moores University (Profile Editions)
Sandhurst: A Tradition of Leadership (Profile Editions)
Write to the Point: How to be Clear, Correct and Persuasive on the Page, Sam Leith (Profile Books)
Into the Grey Zone: Exploring the Border between Life and Death, Adrian Owen (Faber)
Brighton College: A History, David Turner (Profile Editions)
On the Move, Charles Hindlip (Scala)
Rave On: Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music, Matthew Collin (Serpent’s Tail)
Dubai College: A 40th Anniversary Portrait, Debra Turpie (Scala)
A Very British Coup: The Novel that Foretold the Rise of Corbyn, Chris Mullin (Serpent’s Tail)
The Word for Woman is Wilderness, Abi Andrews (Serpent’s Tail)
Mrs Moreau’s Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names, Stephen Moss (Faber)
Sleepyhead: Narcolepsy, Neuroscience and the Search for a Good Night, Henry Nicholls (Profile Books)
The Royal Grammar School Guildford (Profile Editions)
Letti Park, Judith Hermann (Clerkenwell Press)
The Last Battle: Endgame on the Western Front, 1918, Peter Hart (Profile Books)
Owl Sense, Miriam Darlington (Faber)
Break.up, Joanna Walsh (Tuskar Rock)
As Time Goes By, Derek Taylor (Faber)
The Price You Pay, Adrian Truhen (Serpent’s Tail)
Francis Brennan’s Book of Household Management, Francis Brennan (Gill Books)
De Valera: Rise 1882–1932, David McCullagh (Gill Books)
2018
Tony 10: The Astonishing Story of the Postman who Gambled €10,000,000 … and Lost It All (Gill Books)
The Summer House, Philip Teir (Serpent’s Tail)
Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World, Dan Davies (Profile Books)
The Great East Window of York Minster: An English Masterpiece, Sarah Brown (Profile Editions)
Denman: The Educational Heart of the WI, Val Horsler (Profile Editions)
Humanology: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Amazing Existence, Luke O’Neill (Gill Books)
Ireland 1963: A Year of Marvels, Mysteries, Merriment and Misfortune, Kevin C. Kearns (Gill Books)
Populism and Economics, Charles Dumas (Profile Editions)
Working Class Heroines: The Extraordinary Women of Dublin’s Tenements, Kevin C. Kearns (Gill Books)
The British School Al Khubairat: A 50th Anniversary Portrait (Profile Editions)
On the Edge: Ireland’s Off-Shore Islands, A Modern History, Diarmaid Ferriter (Profile Books)
Our Lady of Everything, Susan Finlay (Serpent’s Tail)
Melmoth the Wanderer 1820, Charles Robert Maturin (Profile Books)
Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language, Darach Ó Séaghdha (Apollo)
The New Face of HMRC: Behind the Tangled Web, Daniel Dover, Helen Adams (Profile Editions)
When the Hangman Came to Galway, Dean Ruxton (Gill Books)
De Valera: Rule, 1932–1975, David McCullagh (Gill Books)
A Farmer’s Diary: A Year at High House Farm, Sally Urwin (Profile Books)
At All Costs, Davy Fitzgerald (Gill Books)
Banat of Timişoara: A European Melting Pot, Victor Neumann (Scala)
The Pine Islands, Marion Poschmann (Serpent’s Tail)
Open Up: Why Talking About Money Will Change Your Life, Alex Holder (Serpent’s Tail)
Atturaif Museums Guide (Scala)
Only Americans Burn in Hell, Jarett Kobek (Serpent’s Tail)
The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics, Diarmaid Ferriter (Profile Books)
Tracing Your Irish Ancestors, John Grenham (Gill Books)
Warlow Experiment, Alix Nathan (Serpent’s Tail)
2019
How to Lead Smart People: Leadership for Professionals, Arun Singh, Mike Mister (Profile Books)
Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket, Fraser MacDonald (Profile Books)
15 Minutes of Power: The Uncertain Life of British Ministers, Peter Riddell (Profile Books)
Inspired INC.: Become a Company the World Will Get Behind, Lisa MacCallum, Emily Brew (Crowd Press)
Did He Save Lives?: A Surgeon’s Story, David Sellu (Sweetcroft Publishing)
New College, Christopher Tyerman (ed.) (Third Millennium Publishing)
British Forces in Germany: The Lived Experience, Peter Johnston (Profile Editions)
Medal Factory: British Cycling and the Cost of Gold, Kenny Pryde (Pursuit Books)
The Jewel, Neil Hegarty (Head of Zeus)
Create Your Own Midlife Crisis, Marie Phillips (Profile Books)
The World We Create: From God to Market, Tomas Bjǒrkman (Perspectiva Press)
Decline and Fall, John Crace (Faber)
Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill’s Cook, Annie Gray (Profile Books)
Bleak Alley: Stories from the Margins, Shane Dunphy (Audible Originals)
The Game’s Gone, Simon Barnes (Audible Originals)
Gods of Management: The Four Cultures of Leadership, Charles B. Handy (Profile Books)
Where Are We Now, Glenn Patterson (Apollo)
SAS Great Escapes: Seven Incredible Escapes Made by Second World War Heroes, Damien Lewis (Quercus)
The Failure of the Free Market: And What to Do About It, Daniel Ritter (Profile Books)
Hugh Lane Gallery: Director’s Choice, Barbara Dawson (Scala)
Peak Performance: Junior Certificate Physical Education, Fergal Lyons et al. (Folens)
2020
Three Years in Hell: The Brexit Chronicles, Fintan O’Toole (Apollo)
20/20, Carl Goodman (Audible Originals)
Red Desert, Paddy Magrane (Audible Studios)
Making Ryan’s Daughter: The Myths, Madness and Mastery, Paul Benedict Rowan (New Island)
An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean, Antarctic Survivor, Michael Smith (Gill Books)
Mixed Up: Confessions of an Interracial Couple, Tineka Smith, Alex Court (Headline)
Centaur: The Metaphysics of Leadership, Sandy Cotter (Whitefox Publishing)
War on Wheels: Inside Keirin and Japan’s Cycling Subculture, Justin McCurry (Profile Books)
How Are We Going to Explain This: Our Future on a Hot Earth, Jelmer Mommers (Profile Books)
I Saw the Dog: How Language Works, Alexandra Aikhenvald (Profile Books)
Mind Over Muscle: The Four Pillar Plan, Ant Middleton (Audible Originals)
Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Language, Manchán Magan (Gill Books)
Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science, Luke O’Neill (Gill Books)
Fettes: Our Place (Profile Editions)
That Place We Call Home: A Journey Through the Place Names of Ireland, John Creedon (Gill Books)
Wildwoods: The Magic of Ireland’s Native Woodlands, Richard Nairn (Gill Books)
The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories, Sinéad Gleeson (ed.) (Apollo)
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops, Shaun Bythell (Profile Books)
Saving the State: Fine Gael from Collins to Varadkar, Stephen Collins, Ciara Meehan (Gill Books)
True Colours, Barry Geraghty (Gill Books)
High Risk: A True Story of the SAS, Drugs and Other Bad Behaviour, Ben Timberlake (Hurst)
Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat, Peter Nichols (Profile Books)
Populista: The Rise of Latin America’s 21st Century Strongman, Will Grant (Apollo)
Winter Dawn, Alex Callister (Dark Water Press)
Hogarth: Life in Progress, Jacqueline Riding (Profile Books)
Pure Gold: Stories, John Patrick McHugh (New Island)
The Woman in the Wood, M.K. Hill (Head of Zeus)
Realms of the Human Unconscious: Observations from LSD Research, Stanislav Grof (Profile Books)
The Evidence, K.L. Slater (Bookouture)
The Wolf Den, Elodie Harper (Apollo)
A Very Strange Man: A Memoir of Aidan Higgins, Alannah Hopkin (New Island)
This Is It, Conor Creighton (Gill Books)
2021
By the Way: A Memoir, Elgin Charles (13th & Joan)
Four Killings: Land Hunger, Murder and a Family in the Irish Revolution, Myles Dungan (Apollo)
The Arab Conquests: The Spread of Islam and the First Caliphates, Justin Marozzi (Apollo)
Isaac Steele and the Forever Man, Daniel Rigby (Audible Originals)
Such Miserable Weather, Dom Joly (Audible Studios)
Sunshine and Laughter: The Story of Morecambe and Wise, Louis Barfe (Bloomsbury)
Athens: City of Wisdom, Bruce Clark (Apollo)
A Short History of Islamic Thought, Fitzroy Morrissey (Apollo)
What’s in a Name: Family, Career and the Heart of Malaysia, Nazir Razak (Whitefox Publishing)
A Thing of Beauty: Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece, Peter Fiennes (Oneworld)
We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958, Fintan O’Toole (Apollo)
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World, Victoria Finlay (Profile Books)
The Garden, Paul Perry (New Island)
In Hinde Sight, Paul Kelly (Gill Books)
Waterford Whispers News 2021 (Gill Books)
My Name is Jhon: An Atypical Story of Success, John Brennan (Gill Books)
Emerald Exiles: How the Irish Made Their Mark on World Football, Barry Landy (New Island)
Ulysses: A Reader’s Odyssey, Daniel Mulhall (New Island)
The Keane Edge: Mastering the Mindset for Real, Lasting Fat-Loss, Brian Keane (Gill Books)
The War of Independence in Galway, 1920–21 (Galway City Museum)
Wild Shores: The Magic of Ireland’s Coastline, Richard Nairn (Gill Books)
2022
Irish Art 1920–2020: Perspectives on Change, Yvonne Scott, Catherine Marshall (Royal Irish Academy)
Burning Steel: A Tank Regiment at War, 1939–45, Peter Hart (Profile Books)
Instant Fires, Andrew Meehan (New Island)
Power Down to Power Up, Josephine Perry, Lexie Williamson (Audible Originals)
A Short History of Queer Women, Kirsty Loehr (Oneworld)
Jackdaw, Tade Thompson (Cheerio)
Haruko/Love Poems, June Jordan (Serpent’s Tail)
Going Back, Eugene O’Brien (Gill Books)
Mosquito Men: The Elite Pathfinders of 627 Squadron, David Price (Apollo)
The Rory’s Stories Lockdown Lookback, Rory O’Connor (Gill Books)
Typhoid: The Past, Present and Future of an Ancient Disease, Claas Kirchhelle (Scala)
Believing in Me,Deborah Somorin (Gill Books)
Waterford Whispers News 2022 (Gill Books)
Murder in the Falling Snow: Ten Classic Crime Stories, Cecily Gayford (ed.) (Profile Books)
Cold-Water Eden: One Man’s Pursuit of Ireland’s Legendary Waves, Richie Fitzgerald (HarperCollins)
The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture, Clare Bucknell (Bloomsbury)
Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces, Norman Lebrecht (Oneworld)
The Toxic Travel Guide: Ireland as You’ve Never Seen It Before, Frankie McNamara (HarperCollins)
Wander Women: Tales of Transgression in a Bordered World, Alexandra Blanchard, Alex Howlett (Hurst)
Perpetual Comedown, Declan Toohey (New Island)
Russia in Africa: Resurgent Great Power or Bellicose Pretender?, Samuel Ramani (Hurst)
Island of Woods: How Ireland Lost Its Forests and How to Get Them Back, Paul McMahon (New Island)
Whisked Away at Christmas, Mahi Cheshire (Audible Originals)
The Rebound, Leeanne Slade (Audible Originals)
India in the Second World War: An Emotional History, Diya Gupta (Hurst)
Total Reset: Quit Living to Work and Start Working to Live, Sinéad Brady (HarperCollins)
How Not to Kill Yourself: Portrait of a Suicidal Mind, Clancy Martin (Oneworld)
Belarus in Crisis: From Domestic Unrest to the Russia–Ukraine War, Paul Hansbury (Hurst)
2023
The Credit Union Schools Quiz Book: Hundreds of Questions from Ireland’s Favourite Quiz (Gill Books)
Pilgrim Soul: W.B. Yeats and the Ireland of His Time, Daniel Mulhall (New Island)
Murder in a Heatwave: Classic Crime Mysteries for the Holidays, Cecily Gayford (ed.) (Profile Books)
Flatlands, Sue Hubbard (Pushkin Press)
Literature, Art and Slavery: Ekphrastic Visions, Carl Plasa (Edinburgh University Press)
Isaiah Berlin: A Life, Michael Ignatieff (Pushkin Press)
Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African, Sara Byala (Hurst)
A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women, Emma Southon (Oneworld)
Closer, Dennis Cooper (Serpent’s Tail)
The Dead of Winter: Ten Classic Tales for Chilling Nights, Cecily Gayford (ed.) (Profile Books)
What Do I Know? Essential Essays, Michel de Montaigne (Pushkin Press)
Mary: or, the Birth of Frankenstein, Anne Eekhout (Pushkin Press)
Born to be a Footballer: My Autobiography, Liam Brady (Bonnier)
Covenant, Danny Kruger (Swift Press)
The World’s Game, Frederic Raphael (Apollo)
Benny the Blue Whale: One Author’s Descent into the Madness of AI, Andy Stanton (Oneworld)
Thomas Reid and the Defence of Duty, James Foster (Edinburgh University Press)
The Reader in Modernist Fiction, Brian Richardson (Edinburgh University Press)
Liberal Bullies: Inside the Mind of the Authoritarian Left, Luke Conway (Forum)
Thirty-Two Words for Field, Manchán Magan (Bonnier)
In Love, Alfred Hayes (Pushkin Press)
Negotiating with the Devil: Inside the World of Armed Conflict Mediation, Pierre Hazan (Hurst)
Ka-boom!: The Science of Extremes, David Darling (Oneworld)
Ubu Royale, Alfred Jarry, Neil Bartlett (Cheerio)
One Man in his Time: A Memoir, N.M. Borodin (Pushkin Press)
Cycles, Edward R. Dewey (Harriman House)
2024
Land Is All That Matters: The Struggle That Shaped Irish History, Myles Dungan (Apollo)
Danny’s People: A Memoir and Manifesto About Autism, Virginia Bovell (Oneworld)
Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus, John Haywood (Apollo)
Private Equity Deals, Ted Seides (Harriman House)
Rogues and Scholars: Boom and Bust in the London Art Market, 1945–2000, James Stourton (Apollo)
Tippu Tip: Ivory, Slavery and Discovery in the Scramble for Africa, Stuart Laing (Medina Publishing)
Life Writing and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Market, Sean Grass (Edinburgh University Press)
Gothic Tales, Marquis de Sade (Pushkin Press)
The Housing Film, Johnny Rodger (Edinburgh University Press)
The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering, Daniel Light (Oneworld)
David Foster Wallace and the Question of Scepticism, Matt Prout (Edinburgh University Press)
War Comes to Aachen: The Nazis, Churchill and the ‘Stalingrad of the West’, Philip W. Blood (Hurst)
Running from Office: Confessions of Ambition and Failure in Politics, Eoghan Murphy (Bonnier)
Lorimer: His Gazetteer and Britain’s Pursuit of Knowledge, Alan Dillon (Medina Publishing)
The Golden Land Ablaze: Coups, Insurgents and the State in Myanmar, Bertil Lintner (Hurst)
A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict, Ilan Pappé (Oneworld)
Nesting, Roisín O’Donnell (Scribner)
Off-White: The Truth About Antisemitism, Rachel Shabi (Oneworld)
Burn Them Out!: A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland, Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc (Apollo)
Davy Russell: My Autobiography, Davy Russell (Bonnier)
Early Modern Women’s Life-Writing and English Law, Lotte Fikkers (Edinburgh University Press)
Irish Shame: A Literary Reckoning, Seán Kennedy, Joseph Valente (eds) (Edinburgh University Press)
Last Days of Budapest: Spies, Nazis, Rescuers and Resistance, 1940–1945, Adam LeBor (Apollo)
The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Pushkin Press Classics)
Operation Bowler: The Audacious Allied Bombing of Venice, Jonathan Glancey (Oneworld)
Bedouin Weaving of Saudi Arabia and Its Neighbours, Joy Totah Hilden (Medina Publishing)
The Northern Bank Job: The Heist and How They Got Away with It, Glenn Patterson (Apollo)
Tangled Roots, Maria Turtschaninoff (Pushkin Press)
White River Crossing, Ian McGuire (Scribner)
Twelve Post-War Tales, Graham Swift (Scribner)
Ireland: A Short History, Joseph Coohill (Oneworld)
Way Out West, Anthony Glavin (New Island)
A People’s History of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Deirdre Nuttall (Wordwell)
2025
To Avenge a Dead Glacier, Shane Tivenan (Lilliput)
Sweathouse: The New and the Ancient Irish Sauna Tradition, Rosanna Cooney (Irelandia)
My Name is Stramer, Mikolaj Lozinski (Pushkin Press)
The Dublin Pub: A Social and Cultural History, Donal Fallon (New Island)
The Correction of Taste: On the Late Novels of Henry James, Denis Donoghue (Lilliput)
Fall, Bomb, Fall, Gerrit Kouwenaar (Pushkin Press)
Crossing, Sabrin Hasbun (Bonnier)
David Trimble: Peacemaker, Stephen Walker (Gill Books)
Not Making Hay: The Life and Deadlines of a ‘Diary’ Farmer, Frank McNally (Gill Books)
Mint & Other Stories, Adrian Kenny (Lilliput)
In Praise of the Artisan, Idries Trevathan (Arabian Publishing)
How the US Would Fight China: The Risks of Pursuing a Rapid Victory, Franz-Stefan Gady (Hurst)
Divine Light: The Stained Glass of England’s Cathedrals, Janet Gough (Kulturalis)
Buffett’s Early Investments, Brett Gardner (Harriman House)
White Moss, Anna Nerkagi (Pushkin Press)
Groomed: Coercion, Control and a Cold-Blooded Murder, Nicola Tallant (Bonnier)
Spin-Off: Choose Your Puzzle-Filled Path to TV Stardom, Frank Paul (Oneworld)
Seurat: Bathers at Asnières, Alastair Sooke (National Gallery Global)
The Age of Johnson: The Library of Loren and Frances Rothschild, Loren Rothschild (Kulturalis)
How to Find Flow: 3 Steps for High Performance and Deep Resilience, Cameron Norsworthy (Bonnier)
The Shadow of the Northern Lights, Satu Rämö (Bonnier)
To Walk the Way: One Pilgrim’s Camino, Mike Timms (New Island)
Borneo: The History of an Enigma, Olivier Hein (Hurst)
Letter from Japan, Marie Kondo (Bonnier)
Smart: A History of Intelligence, David Brydan (Bonnier)
Antidespairant, Natalka Marynchak (Kulturalis)
The Renewal of Islam: Thinkers and Believers of the Modern Era, Fitzroy Morrissey (Head of Zeus)
The Little Book of Boards, Erik Hanberg (Harriman House)
Heart On My Sleeve: My Story of Struggle and Strength, Andrew Porter (Bonnier)
Spurius: A Novel, David László Conhaim (Kulturalis)
Druid Theatre: Fifty Years, Patrick Lonergan (Lilliput)
On Tangled Paths, Theodor Fontane (Pushkin Press)
Four Night Seas, Niamh Mac Cabe (Lilliput)
The Search for Water: A Human History of Thirst, Virginia Mendoza (Pushkin Press)
Forms of Materiality in James Joyce’s Fiction, Alberto Tondello (Edinburgh University Press)
The Trader’s Journey: Navigating the Path to Trading Success, Peter Robbins (Harriman House)
Ireland: why it matters to be an island, Michael Cronin (Royal Irish Academy)
Aiming for the Stars: The Life and Times of Odilon Redon, Ted Gott (Reaktion Books)
Exposed: The Rise of Extreme of Porn and How We Fight Back, Clare McGlynn (Oneworld)
CTRL: Essays on Video Games, Dean Fee (ed.) (Lilliput)
Annibale Carracci: Art, Wit and Authority, F.M. Gage (Reaktion Books)
Soul Magic: A Century of Psychotherapy, Steve Ayan, Marshall Yarbrough (trans.) (Pushkin Press)
A Forever War: Israel, Palestine and the Struggles for Statehood, Colin Shindler (Swift Press)
Runaway Joe: A Murder, A Hidden Identity, a Six-Decade Manhunt, Pavel Barter (Bonnier)
The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power, Katie Barclay (Reaktion Books)
How to Achieve Financial Freedom, Eoin McGee (Eriu)
The Dublin Coffee Guide, Patrick Kirk (Lilliput)
The Spirit Guide, Bridget Walsh (Pushkin Press)
Labour, Nature, Value: André Gorz Between Marxism and Degrowth, Emanuele Leonardi (Verso)
The Roman Conquest of Britain, Ferdinand Addis (Head of Zeus)
Art in the Age of Populism, Julian Stallabrass (Reaktion Books)
Leaving Russia: How Putin Forced a Nation’s Future to Flee, Jason Corcoran (Quartet Books)
Revolutionary Subjects: A Radical History of the Bildungsroman, Benjamin Kohlmann (Verso)
Waterford and the Wider World, 1575–1825, David Dickson et al. (Wordwell)
2026
Egypt Ignited: How Fossil Capital Arrived on the Nile, Amr Khairy (Verso Books)
The Eye of Goliath, Diego Muzzio (Pushkin Press)
Alexander Pushkin, Alyssa Dinega Gillespie (Reaktion Books)
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