Chosen excerpts from All In Your Head: What Happens When Your Doctor Doesn't Believe You? by Marcus Sedgwick. Marcus Sedgwick arrived in children's and young adult fiction with a bang. His debut novel Floodland won the Branford Boase Award in 2001, and what followed was a body of work that…
Don't Wait for Permission — Come and Get It On Wednesday 22nd April, 6:30–7:30pm, the iconic Hodges Figgis bookshop in Dublin plays host to an evening with Professor Maura McAdam — one of the world's leading voices on women's entrepreneurship and, twice, a Stanford-ranked Top 2% most-cited scientist on the…
An extract from Chapter 6 of Permission Granted: A Call-to-Action Playbook for Women Entrepreneurs by Professor Maura McAdam. Published March 2026 Maura McAdam, PhD, is a professor, researcher, coach, and accredited NLP Master Practitioner. For over two decades, she has translated her globally recognised research on entrepreneurship and leadership into…
An extract from 40 Motoring Heroes: Pioneers, Inventors, Mavericks, and Game Changers Percy Shaw: One for The Road Having a pub named after you is an aspiration for some people. Certainly, it’s not a bad epitaph. Nell Gwyn, Charlie Chaplin, John Fielding VC (of the Boer War’s Rorke’s Drift fame),…
An extract from 40 Motoring Heroes: Pioneers, Inventors, Mavericks, and Game Changers Charles F Kettering: The Second Edison At the beginning of the 20th century, motor cars were rudimentary in many ways. In 1900, when Theodore Roosevelt became the first US President to use one, he took extreme measures. He…