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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 27 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Uncanny Ireland: Otherworldly Tales of the Strange and Sublime by Maria Giakaniki (Editor)
    Uncanny Ireland: Otherworldly Tales of the Strange and Sublime - by Maria Giakaniki (Editor)

    £16.99   hardback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9780712355209 | ISBN 10: 0712355200

    At moonrise I lit the fire and cried out the wild little invocation that Neoineen and I had made – gave way to all the crazy anguish withinme – chanted it loud enough for the hills to hear.   Entwined in Ireland’s rich literary history is a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ruth & Pen by Emilie Pine
    Ruth & Pen - by Emilie Pine

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241393666 | ISBN 10: 0241393663

    The brilliant debut novel from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller Notes to Self   Dublin, 7 October 2019  One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither knows the other, but both are asking the same questions: how to be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Actress by Anne Enright
    Actress - by Anne Enright

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529112139 | ISBN 10: 1529112133

    *LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020*  From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths.   This is the story of Irish theatre legen ... more

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  • Cover image of book As You Were by Elaine Feeney
    As You Were - by Elaine Feeney

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529111514 | ISBN 10: 152911151x

    Discover this unforgettable, darkly funny novel about the power of friendship and the heartbreak of family life - shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2021.  Sinead Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride
    Strange Hotel - by Eimear McBride

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571355150 | ISBN 10: 0571355153

    From the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction.  A woman enters an Avignon hotel room. She's been here once before - but while the room hasn't changed, she is a different person now.  Forever caught between check-in and check-out, she ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Crossing by Brian McGilloway
    The Last Crossing - by Brian McGilloway

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912534340 | ISBN 10: 1912534347

    Tony, Hugh and Karen thought they'd seen the last of each other thirty years ago. Half a lifetime has passed and memories have been buried. But when they are asked to reunite - to lay ghosts to rest for the good of the future - they all have their ow ... more

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  • Cover image of book Two for the Road by Roddy Doyle
    Two for the Road - by Roddy Doyle

    £8.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781529112269 | ISBN 10: 1529112265

    The next round in the beloved Two Pints series from the ever-brilliant, always hilarious imagination of bestselling author of The Commitments and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.  Two men meet for a pint - or three - in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Last Stories by William Trevor
    Last Stories - by William Trevor

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241337783 | ISBN 10: 024133778x

    "What a writer he was; he could flip over a sentence so gently, and showthe underbelly in a heartbeat. His work is always quietly compassionate"(Elizabeth Strout) In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Watch House by Bernie McGill
    The Watch House - by Bernie McGill

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781472239587 | ISBN 10: 147223958x

    A story of infidelity, secrets and murder in a small Irish island community, inspired by Marconi's experiments in wireless telegraphy in the late nineteenth century.   In the vein of Hannah Kent's Burial Rites, The Watch House by Bernie McGill ... more

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  • Cover image of book Carnivalesque by Neil Jordan
    Carnivalesque - by Neil Jordan

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408881354 | ISBN 10: 1408881357

    It looked like any other carnival, but of course it wasn't... It had its own little backstreets, its alleyways of hanging bulbs and ghost trains and Punch and Judy stands... And at the end of one he saw the Hall of Mirrors. There were looping str ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume
    A Line Made By Walking - by Sara Baume

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780099592754 | ISBN 10: 0099592754

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2017 "When I finished Sara Baume’s new novel I immediately felt sad that I could not send it in the post to the late John Berger. He, too, would have loved it and found great joy in its honesty, its agility, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Blood Miracles by Lisa McInerney
    The Blood Miracles - by Lisa McInerney

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781444798920 | ISBN 10: 1444798928

    The second novel from the author of the Baileys Prize-winning The Glorious Heresies.  Like all twenty-year-olds, Ryan Cusack is trying to get his head around who he is.   This is not a good time for his boss to exploit his dual heritag ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lonely Life of Biddy Weir by Lesley Allen
    The Lonely Life of Biddy Weir - by Lesley Allen

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785770388 | ISBN 10: 1785770381

    A charming and uplifting story, perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove or Jonas Jonasson. 'If you're a bit of a weirdo you will love Biddy Weir' - Ian Sansom, bestselling author of The Norfolk Mystery.  Biddy Weir is a quirky girl.  Abandoned b ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
    A Long Long Way - by Sebastian Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571320233 | ISBN 10: 0571320236

    One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry's highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he finds himself c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eggshells by Caitriona Lally
    Eggshells - by Caitriona Lally

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781909718999 | ISBN 10: 1909718998

    Vivian doesn't feel like she fits in – never has. She lives alone in a house in north Dublin that her great-aunt left to her. She believes that she is a changeling, left by fairies on Earth, replacing her parents’ healthy human child. Now, as an adul ... more

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  • Cover image of book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air by Darragh McKeon
    All That Is Solid Melts Into Air - by Darragh McKeon

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241964675 | ISBN 10: 0241964679

    Moscow, 1986. In a run-down apartment block, a piano prodigy practices silently to avoid disturbing the neighbours. In a factory, his aunt makes car parts, hiding her dissident past. In the hospital, a talented surgeon buries himself in his work. And ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rest Just Follows by Glenn Patterson
    The Rest Just Follows - by Glenn Patterson

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571305230 | ISBN 10: 0571305237

    First of September 1974. Craig Robinson is starting secondary school. Instinct tells him he needs to keep his head down. The last thing he needs, therefore, is someone carrying the name St John Nimmo to be sent to sit beside him, but that is what he ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fields by Kevin Maher
    The Fields - by Kevin Maher

    £12.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780349138671 | ISBN 10: 0349138672

    The launch of a major new literary voice in Irish/British fiction: set in 1980s Dublin and London, The Fields tells the vividly evocative story of Jim Finnegan's unfairly interrupted adolescence.  We'd never seen anything like that around our p ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty
    The Cold Cold Ground - by Adrian McKinty

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846688232 | ISBN 10: 184668823x

    Sean Duffy will do anything to solve this case. Including risking his life.   Two dead. One left in a car by the side of a road. He was meant to be found quickly. His killer is making a statement. The other is discovered hanging in a tree, deep in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Full House by Maeve Binchy
    Full House - by Maeve Binchy

    £2.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781409136613 | ISBN 10: 1409136612

    A brand new Maeve Binchy - written specially for the World Book Day Quick Reads promotion.  Dee loves her children very much, but now they are all grown up, shouldn't they leave home?  Rosie moved out when she got married, but i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Follow Me by Sheila O
    Follow Me - by Sheila O'Flanagan

    £1.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780755359318 | ISBN 10: 0755359313

    A fabulously warm, witty and romantic novella from the much-loved bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan, published as part of the Quick Reads series.   Pippa Jones seems to have it all. The only thing that the high-flying career girl is missin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
    Brooklyn - by Colm Toibin

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141041742 | ISBN 10: 0141041749

    In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when a job is offered in America, it is clear that she must go. Leaving her family and home, Eilis sets off to ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
    The Secret Scripture - by Sebastian Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780571215294 | ISBN 10: 0571215297

    Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Costa Book of the Year 2008.   Roseanne McNulty, perhaps nearing her one-hundredth birthday - no one is quite sure - faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital where she's sp ... more

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  • Cover image of book Redemption Falls by Joseph O
    Redemption Falls - by Joseph O'Connor

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099481522 | ISBN 10: 0099481529

    1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane Mooney is ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Predict a Riot: Murder, Extortion and Carrot Cake by Colin Bateman
    I Predict a Riot: Murder, Extortion and Carrot Cake - by Colin Bateman

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780755334674 | ISBN 10: 0755334671

    Bateman's back with a fast-paced, unforgettable story of murder, intrigue and reincarnation on the streets of Belfast.  Walter has a rubbish job but so has Margaret, a security guard at Primark, and when they meet through a dating agency, neithe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jude: Level 1 by Julian Gough
    Jude: Level 1 - by Julian Gough

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781905847242 | ISBN 10: 1905847246

    “If I had urinated immediately after breakfast, the Mob would never have burnt down the Orphanage.”   So begins the hilarious, genre-busting tale of Jude, a Tipperary-reared orphan who on his 18th birthday sets off to discover the wide world an ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Family on Paradise Pier by Dermot Bolger
    The Family on Paradise Pier - by Dermot Bolger

    £15.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780007154104 | ISBN 10: 0007154100

    This is a stunning historical saga, set in the early decades of the twentieth century, which follows the lives and loves of one extraordinary family.   We first meet the Goold Verschoyle children in 1915. Though there is a war going on in the ... more

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