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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 183 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Shy by Max Porter
    Shy - by Max Porter

    £9.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9780571377312 | ISBN 10: 0571377319

    From the bestselling author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny, Shy is a novel about guilt, rage, imagination and boyhood. It is about being lost in the dark, and realising you are not alone.  ‘Max Porter is one of my favourite w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen
    Factory Girls - by Michelle Gallen

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529386288 | ISBN 10: 1529386284

    ‘The perfect pick for those missing their dose of Derry Girls‘ Irish Examiner  ‘Entertaining, touching and savagely funny’ Sunday Times  ‘Vital, bang-on, and seriously funny’ Roddy Doyle  It’s the summer of 1994, and all Mae ... more

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  • Cover image of book Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
    Prophet Song - by Paul Lynch

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780861546459 | ISBN 10: 0861546458

    WINNER OF THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE  A mother faces a terrible choice in Prophet Song, Paul Lynch’s propulsive and confronting portrait of a society on the brink.   This fiercely imaginative novel is set in a near-future Ireland, a nation caug ... more

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  • Cover image of book Haven by Emma Donoghue
    Haven - by Emma Donoghue

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529091168 | ISBN 10: 1529091160

    A story of survival set in 600 AD Ireland; a parable of patriarchy, destruction and religion at sea, by Emma Donoghue, the bestselling author of Room.  'Everything a novel should be: compassionate, unpredictable, and questioning. Haven is Don ... more

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  • Cover image of book So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
    So Late in the Day - by Claire Keegan

    £8.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571382019 | ISBN 10: 0571382010

    An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster.  ‘A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.’ The Times  After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into t ... more

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  • Cover image of book These Days by Lucy Caldwell
    These Days - by Lucy Caldwell

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571313570 | ISBN 10: 0571313574

    From ‘one of Ireland’s most essential writers’ (Sunday Times) comes the exquisite story of two sisters trying to survive in life and love against the backdrop of the Belfast Blitz.  From the Winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2021 ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Quiet Whispers Never Stop by Olivia Fitzsimons
    The Quiet Whispers Never Stop - by Olivia Fitzsimons

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529373592 | ISBN 10: 152937359x

    AN IRISH EXAMINER BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BUTLER LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE KATE O’BRIEN AWARD  ‘Touching and darkly beautiful’ Irish Sunday Independent ‘Powerful, uncompromising’ Irish Times ‘Utterly abso ... more

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  • Cover image of book Future Fish by Conor Sneyd
    Future Fish - by Conor Sneyd

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781785633515 | ISBN 10: 1785633511

    Sacked from his first job in Dublin, Mark McGuire arrives in the dismal town of Ashcross to take up a new role as customer service assistant for Ireland’s second-biggest pet food brand, WellCat. From his initial impressions, it’s a toss-up whethe ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Raptures by Jan Carson
    The Raptures - by Jan Carson

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781804990841 | ISBN 10: 1804990841

    When several children from the same village start succumbing to a mysterious illness, the quest to discover the cause has devastating and extraordinary consequences.  'Absolutely MAGNIFICENT: dark, witty, charming. I LOVED it.' MARIAN KEYES ... more

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  • Cover image of book If the River is Hidden by Cherry Smyth and Craig Jordan-Baker
    If the River is Hidden - by Cherry Smyth and Craig Jordan-Baker

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781739188108 | ISBN 10: 1739188101

    If the River is Hidden charts the journey of two writers from the source to the mouth of the Bann, Northern Ireland’s longest river. Through a dialogue of prose and poetry the history, landscape and divisions that have come to define the North are ... more

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  • Cover image of book Celtic Weird: Tales of Wicked Folklore and Dark Mythology by Johnny Mains (Editor)
    Celtic Weird: Tales of Wicked Folklore and Dark Mythology - by Johnny Mains (Editor)

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780712354325 | ISBN 10: 0712354328

    Once I thought I glimpsed her high up in a bush, like dirty rags in a gale. Not that so far there has been any gale, or even any wind. The total silent stillness is one of the worst things.   Yes, it is a battle with strong and unknown forces ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of the Gaels by James Yorkston
    The Book of the Gaels - by James Yorkston

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780857305183 | ISBN 10: 0857305182

    Rural West Cork, Ireland. Two Kids, Joseph and Paul, and their struggling, poet father, Fraser, are battling grief and poverty. When a letter arrives with a summons to Dublin and the promise of publication, it offers a chink of light - the hope of re ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Horse of Selene by Juanita Casey
    The Horse of Selene - by Juanita Casey

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781915290007 | ISBN 10: 1915290007

    ‘A remarkable first novel by a remarkable woman.’ The New York Times  ‘Extraordinary... The Horse of Selene is at once irreverently comic, philosophical and lyrical.’ The Irish Times  Holy Mother who knows so much. Help me for I’m d ... more

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  • Cover image of book NORA: A Love Story of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce by Nuala O
    NORA: A Love Story of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce - by Nuala O'Connor

    £11.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781848408500 | ISBN 10: 1848408501

    ‘Jim styles me his sleepy-eyed Nora. His squirrel girl from the pages of Ibsen. I am pirate queen and cattle raider. I’m his blessed little blackguard. I am, he says, his auburn marauder. I’m his honourable barnacle goose.... “Nora,” Jim sa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Polluted Sex by Lauren Foley
    Polluted Sex - by Lauren Foley

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781910312919 | ISBN 10: 1910312916

    "Lauren Foley is a gifted, fearless writer. These vivid, dynamic stories range from the visceral to the experimental with moments of intense, expressive lyricism. They announce a strong new voice on the literary scene, bound to make her presence felt ... 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 Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
    Trespasses - by Louise Kennedy

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526623324 | ISBN 10: 1526623323

    * AN OBSERVER DEBUT NOVELIST FOR 2022 *  'A compulsively readable love story' EMMA DONOGHUE 'Intense, unflinchingly honest, it broke my heart a million times' MARIAN KEYES 'Absolutely loved it' MAX PORTER 'A beautiful, devastating novel' N ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Searcher by Tana French
    The Searcher - by Tana French

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241990100 | ISBN 10: 0241990106

    A DISAPPEARANCE. A SMALL TOWN. A QUESTION THAT NEEDS ANSWERING...  Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force, and a bruising divorce, he just wa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love by Roddy Doyle
    Love - by Roddy Doyle

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529112672 | ISBN 10: 1529112672

    "A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality."(John Boyne) One summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths ... 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 The Complete Two Pints by Roddy Doyle
    The Complete Two Pints - by Roddy Doyle

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529111279 | ISBN 10: 1529111277

    Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub...   In 2012, Roddy Doyle showed us the world anew: through the back-and-forth of two Dublin pub-dwellers. They chewed the fat, set the world to rights, slagged each other unmercifully. And along the wa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Mountain and Other Stories by Gerry Adams
    Black Mountain and Other Stories - by Gerry Adams

    £11.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781847176301 | ISBN 10: 1847176305

    In this collection, one of Ireland's best-known political figures brings us new and selected stories of politics, of family, of love and of friendship.  These are portraits of Ireland, and especially Belfast, old and new, in times of struggle and in ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lost Letters of Flann O
    The Lost Letters of Flann O'Brien - by Gerry McGowan & Andrew Sherlock (editors)

    £10.00   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780992767051 | ISBN 10: 0992767059

    Discovered in a disused cupboard in a Dublin pub during lockdown, The Lost Letters of Flann O'Brien contains 107 never-before-seen letters written to the cult Irish writer by a collection of twentieth-century luminaries, including Joseph Goebbels, Wa ... 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 As You Were by Elaine Feeney
    As You Were - by Elaine Feeney

    £14.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781787301634 | ISBN 10: 178730163x

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2020 AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT 2020  Sinead Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret. No-one knows it: ... more

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  • Cover image of book Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen
    Big Girl, Small Town - by Michelle Gallen

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529304220 | ISBN 10: 1529304229

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NEWCOMER OF YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE  Routine makes Majella's world small but change is about to make it a whole lot bigger.   *St ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Anthology of Irish Folk Tales by The History Press Ltd
    The Anthology of Irish Folk Tales - by The History Press Ltd

    £14.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780750993210 | ISBN 10: 0750993219

    This enchanting collection of stories gathers together legends from across Ireland in one special volume.  Drawn from The History Press’ popular Folk Tales series, herein lies a treasure trove of tales from a wealth of talented storytellers.&n ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why the Moon Travels by Oein DeBhairduin, illustrated by Leanne McDonagh
    Why the Moon Travels - by Oein DeBhairduin, illustrated by Leanne McDonagh

    £11.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781916493506 | ISBN 10: 1916493505

    Why the Moon Travels is a haunting collection of twenty tales rooted in the oral tradition of the Irish Traveller community.   Brave vixens, prophetic owls and stalwart horses live alongside the human characters as guides, protectors, friends and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girl by Edna O
    Girl - by Edna O'Brien

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780571341184 | ISBN 10: 0571341187

    Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2020 Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2020 A Times, Evening Standar ... more

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  • Cover image of book Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
    Night Boat to Tangier - by Kevin Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781782116202 | ISBN 10: 1782116206

    LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 THE NUMBER ONE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER   It's late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter has gone mi ... 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 Normal People by Sally Rooney
    Normal People - by Sally Rooney

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571334650 | ISBN 10: 0571334652

    THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES AND TOP FIVE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC ONE DRAMA ADAPTATION CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTION  WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018 WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR WINNER OF NOVEL OF THE YE ... 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 Trick to Time by Kit de Waal
    The Trick to Time - by Kit de Waal

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241973417 | ISBN 10: 0241973414

    A heart-wrenching love story from the internationally bestselling author of My Name Is Leon  Mona is a young Irish girl in the big city, with the thrill of a new job and a room of her own in a busy boarding house. On her first night out in 1970s ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Hostel Life by Melatu Uche Okorie
    This Hostel Life - by Melatu Uche Okorie

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780349012902 | ISBN 10: 0349012903

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR  This Hostel Life tells the stories of migrant women in a hidden Ireland. From a day in the life of women queuing for basic supplies in an Irish direct prov ... more

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  • Cover image of book A River in the Trees by Jacqueline O’Mahony
    A River in the Trees - by Jacqueline O’Mahony

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787473553 | ISBN 10: 1787473554

    Two women. Two stories. One hundred years of secrets.  A sweeping novel of love, loss, family and history for readers who love Maggie O’Farrell, John Boyne and Donal Ryan.   1919 Ireland is about to be torn apart by the War of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Charlie Savage by Roddy Doyle
    Charlie Savage - by Roddy Doyle

    £9.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787331181 | ISBN 10: 1787331180

    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC WRITING 2019**   Meet Charlie Savage: a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking buddy who’s realized that he’s been a woman all ... more

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  • Cover image of book From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan
    From a Low and Quiet Sea - by Donal Ryan

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784160265 | ISBN 10: 1784160261

    ***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018*** ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018***   Farouk’s country has been torn apart by war.  Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe.  John’s past torments him as ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow by Danny Denton
    The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow - by Danny Denton

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783783663 | ISBN 10: 1783783664

    Ireland is flooded, derelict. It never stops raining. The Kid in Yellow has stolen the babba from the Earlie King. Why? Something to do with the King's daughter, and a talking statue, something godawful. And from every wall the King's Eye watches. An ... more

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  • Cover image of book Milkman by Anna Burns
    Milkman - by Anna Burns

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571338757 | ISBN 10: 0571338755

    WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018. "Milkman is extraordinary. I've been reading passages aloud for the pleasure of hearing it. It's frightening, hilarious, wily and joyous all at the same time."(Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies) ... more

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  • Cover image of book In White Ink by Elske Rahill
    In White Ink - by Elske Rahill

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786691064 | ISBN 10: 178669106x

    Motherhood, nurture and violence – these are the themes of Elske Rahill's remarkable first collection, In White Ink. Rahill brings to life the psychological and physical reality of mothering, pregnancy and childbirth in ways that few others writers ... 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 House of Names by Colm Tóibín
    House of Names - by Colm Tóibín

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241257692 | ISBN 10: 0241257697

    'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her muffled screams.'   On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agam ... more

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  • Cover image of book Smile by Roddy Doyle
    Smile - by Roddy Doyle

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784706357 | ISBN 10: 1784706353

    Smile has all the features for which Roddy Doyle has become famous: the razor-sharp dialogue, the humour, the superb evocation of childhood – but this is a novel unlike any he has written before. When you finish the last page you will have been cha ... 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 This Family of Things by Alison Jameson
    This Family of Things - by Alison Jameson

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784163266 | ISBN 10: 1784163260

    On his way back up from the yard Bird had seen something white and round – a girl who had curled herself into a ball. Lifting her was like retrieving a ball of newspaper from out of the grass or an empty crisp bag that someone had flung over the di ... more

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  • Cover image of book Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty
    Midwinter Break - by Bernard MacLaverty

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784704919 | ISBN 10: 1784704911

    A Guardian / Sunday Times / Irish Times / Herald Scotland / Mail on Sunday Book of the Year Winner of the Bord Gáis Novel of the Year   A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly to Amsterdam for a midwinter break. A holiday to refres ... more

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  • Cover image of book Spare and Found Parts by Sarah Maria Griffin
    Spare and Found Parts - by Sarah Maria Griffin

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785657054 | ISBN 10: 1785657054

    Nell Crane has never held a boy’s hand.   In a city devastated by an epidemic, where survivors are all missing parts — an arm, a leg, an eye — Nell has always been an outsider. Her father is the famed scientist who created the biomechani ... 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 Stolen Child by Lisa Carey
    The Stolen Child - by Lisa Carey

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781474603812 | ISBN 10: 1474603815

    A gothic intrigue, for fans of The Snow Child, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Sarah Waters and M. R. Carey.   St Brigid's is a remote island off the west coast of Ireland. It is a barren place and its small community is dwindling. But accor ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Heart
    The Heart's Invisible Furies - by John Boyne

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784161002 | ISBN 10: 1784161004

    Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that’s what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn’t a real Avery, then who is he?  Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adop ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O
    The Country Girls Trilogy - by Edna O'Brien

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571330539 | ISBN 10: 0571330533

    The Country Girls and its sequels, The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss, changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s and inspired generation after generation of readers and writers.  The passion, artistry and courage of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Good People by Hannah Kent
    The Good People - by Hannah Kent

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781447233367 | ISBN 10: 1447233360

    Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2017   County Kerry, Ireland, 1825.   Nóra, bereft after the sudden death of her beloved husband, finds herself alone and caring for her young grandson Micheál. Micheál cannot speak and cannot w ... more

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  • Cover image of book King Goshawk and the Birds by Eimar O
    King Goshawk and the Birds - by Eimar O'Duffy

    £14.50   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781943150205 | ISBN 10: 1943150206

    Originally published in 1926, King Goshawk and the Birds is the first installment of O’Duffy’s Cuanduine trilogy, which also included The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street (1928) and Asses in Clover (1933).  Set in a future wor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bogmail by Patrick McGinley
    Bogmail - by Patrick McGinley

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786696618 | ISBN 10: 1786696614

    A truly funny and stunningly well-told tale of murder in a small Irish village in Donegal, Bogmail is a classic of modern Irish literature.   Set in a remote village, the action begins with a murder when Roarty, a publican and former priest, k ... more

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  • Cover image of book Notes from a Coma by Mike McCormack
    Notes from a Coma - by Mike McCormack

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786891419 | ISBN 10: 1786891417

    The critically acclaimed novel from the author of Solar Bones, winner of the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize and BGE Irish Book of the Year.   After suffering a catastrophic breakdown, J.J. O’Malley volunteers for a government project exploring the po ... more

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  • Cover image of book Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan Higgins
    Langrishe, Go Down - by Aidan Higgins

    £10.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786695208 | ISBN 10: 1786695200

    The lights in the bus burned dim, orange-hued behind opaque bevelled glass; ranged below the luggage racks they lit up the advertisement panels with repeated circles of bilious light. A white face that never seemed to turn away was watching her in th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Graveyard Clay / Cré na Cille by Máirtín Ó Cadhain
    Graveyard Clay / Cré na Cille - by Máirtín Ó Cadhain

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780300227062 | ISBN 10: 030022706x

    A brilliant new translation of Ó Cadhain’s modern Irish literature masterpiece, meant to spark debate and comparison with Alan Titley's Dirty Dust, now with bonus materials on its history, reception, interpretations, adaptations, and more.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book All We Shall Know by Donal Ryan
    All We Shall Know - by Donal Ryan

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784160258 | ISBN 10: 1784160253

    ‘Martin Toppy is the son of a famous Traveller and the father of my unborn child. He’s seventeen, I'm thirty-three. I was his teacher. I’d have killed myself by now if I was brave enough. I don’t think it would hurt the baby. His little heart ... more

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  • Cover image of book There Are Little Kingdoms by Kevin Barry
    There Are Little Kingdoms - by Kevin Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786890177 | ISBN 10: 1786890178

    This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast girls court trouble as they cool their heels on a slow night in a small town. Lonesome hillwalkers take to the high reache ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan by Ruth Gilligan
    Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan - by Ruth Gilligan

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782398592 | ISBN 10: 1782398597

    1901. Cork can sound very similar to New York to foreign ears and tired brains, so it’s no surprise that Ruth’s family – Jewish refugees fleeing the European pogroms – mistakenly disembark from their boat to America a few stops and a few coun ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
    The Wonder - by Emma Donoghue

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509818402 | ISBN 10: 1509818405

    An eleven-year-old girl stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story.   Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, Emma Donoghue's The Wonder - inspi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
    The Lesser Bohemians - by Eimear McBride

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571327881 | ISBN 10: 0571327885

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016   From the writer of one of the most memorable debuts of recent years.   An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama and falls violently in love with an older actor. This older man ... more

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  • Cover image of book Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
    Solar Bones - by Mike McCormack

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786891297 | ISBN 10: 1786891298

    Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2016 and BGE Irish Book of the Year 2016.  Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life.  Considering with his engineer's mind how thi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Countenance Divine by Michael Hughes
    The Countenance Divine - by Michael Hughes

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781473636514 | ISBN 10: 1473636515

    In 1999 a programmer is trying to fix the millennium bug, but can't shake the sense he's been chosen for something.   In 1888 five women are brutally murdered in the East End by a troubled young man in thrall to a mysterious master.   I ... more

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  • Cover image of book Inch Levels by Neil Hegarty
    Inch Levels - by Neil Hegarty

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784975807 | ISBN 10: 178497580x

    A haunting debut set in the harsh, beautiful landscape of Ireland's north coast.  Patrick Jackson lies on his deathbed in Derry and recalls a family history marked by secrecy and silence, and a striking absence of conventional pieties. He rem ... more

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  • Cover image of book Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
    Days Without End - by Sebastian Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571333899 | ISBN 10: 0571333893

    'I am thinking of the days without end of my life...'   After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Maker of Swans by Paraic O’Donnell
    The Maker of Swans - by Paraic O’Donnell

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781474601030 | ISBN 10: 1474601030

    The Night Circus meets The Tiger's Wife meets Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in this magical and mysterious gothic debut.   'It is no small matter, after all, to create something - to make it so only by setting down the words. We forget the ma ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Abode of Fancy by Sam Coll
    The Abode of Fancy - by Sam Coll

    £16.95   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781843516637 | ISBN 10: 1843516632

    'We Irish are a shallow people, albeit perversely fair perhaps, as cruel to others as to ourselves, treasuring the unconsummated and the failed, making shallow friendships founded on fatuous fun that runs so cold in the bitter end, backbiting and bit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Himself by Jess Kidd
    Himself - by Jess Kidd

    £12.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782118459 | ISBN 10: 1782118454

    When Mahony returns to Mulderrig, a speck of a place on Ireland's west coast, he brings only a photograph of his long-lost mother and a determination to do battle with the lies of his past.   No one - living or dead - will tell Mahony what hap ... 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 Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann
    Thirteen Ways of Looking - by Colum McCann

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408869857 | ISBN 10: 1408869853

    As it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent new ways of seeing.   It is a cold day in January when J. Mendelssohn wakes in his Up ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
    Beatlebone - by Kevin Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782116165 | ISBN 10: 1782116168

    WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2015  He will spend three days alone on his island. That is all that he asks... John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the story of his strangest trip.  John ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Mad and Wonderful Thing by Mark Mulholland
    A Mad and Wonderful Thing - by Mark Mulholland

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781925228564 | ISBN 10: 1925228568

    'You wouldn't get involved, Johnny, would you? What about those terrible bombs? You wouldn't do a bad thing, would you?'   Johnny Donnelly is a passionate young man, deeply in love with literature, with his country and with the beautiful Cora ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Few of the Girls by Maeve Binchy
    A Few of the Girls - by Maeve Binchy

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781409161448 | ISBN 10: 1409161447

    "The Irish do love telling stories, and we are suspicious of people who don't have long, complicated conversations. There used to be a rule in etiquette books that you should invite four talkers and four listeners to a dinner party. That doesn't work ... 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 Fallen by Lia Mills
    Fallen - by Lia Mills

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241964729 | ISBN 10: 0241964725

    Fallen by Lia Mills - a remarkable love story amidst the ruins of the First World War and the Easter Rising.   SELECTED AS THE 2016 'ONE CITY ONE BOOK' TITLE FOR BOTH DUBLIN AND BELFAST   Spring, 1915. Katie Crilly gets the news she dre ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
    The Glorious Heresies - by Lisa McInerney

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781444798883 | ISBN 10: 144479888x

    'He was definitely dead, whoever he was. He wore a once-black jumper and a pair of shiny tracksuit bottoms. The back of his head was cracked and his hair matted, but it had been foxy before that. A tall man, a skinny rake, another string of piss, now ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rebel Sisters by Marita Conlon-McKenna
    Rebel Sisters - by Marita Conlon-McKenna

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781848271999 | ISBN 10: 1848271999

    With the threat of the First World War looming, tension simmers under the surface of Ireland.  Growing up in the privileged confines of Dublins leafy Rathmines, the bright, beautiful Gifford sisters Grace, Muriel and Nellie kick against the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers by Sinad Gleeson (Editor)
    The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers - by Sinad Gleeson (Editor)

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781848404205 | ISBN 10: 1848404204

    The Long Gaze Back, edited by Sinad Gleeson, is an exhilarating anthology of thirty short stories by some of the most gifted women writers this island has ever produced.   Niamh Boyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Maeve Brennan, Mary Costello, June Caldw ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Faerie Thorn and Other Stories by Jane Talbot
    The Faerie Thorn and Other Stories - by Jane Talbot

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780856409554 | ISBN 10: 0856409553

    These arent the fairy tales you remember but theyre ones you wont forget.  Man Donaghy crept silently around the back of the farmhouse and over the field to the faerie thorn. The thorn was shimmering as he knelt before it. Whispering dir ... 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 Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
    Spill Simmer Falter Wither - by Sara Baume

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099592747 | ISBN 10: 0099592746

    LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015   You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: COMPASSIONATE & TOLERANT OWNER. A PERSON WITHOUT OTHER PETS & WITHOUT CHILDREN ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trinity by Leon Uris
    Trinity - by Leon Uris

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780552170758 | ISBN 10: 0552170755

    This is the story of the defeats and triumphs of three Irish families. It is a powerful and stirring look at love and hate, both personal and political.   Told through the simple lives of its people, this is an epic history of Ireland. From t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Miss Emily by Nuala O
    Miss Emily - by Nuala O'Connor

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910124550 | ISBN 10: 1910124559

    The Dickinson household is saved from domestic chaos with the arrival of Ada Concannon, a "neat little Irish person, fresh off the boat". Amherst in the 1800's is a pastoral environment for the homesick young maid who finds in the gifted middle chil ... more

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

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571323951 | ISBN 10: 0571323952

    Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Thrill of it All by Joseph O
    The Thrill of it All - by Joseph O'Connor

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099481539 | ISBN 10: 0099481537

    A captivating novel filled with music, friendship and teenage dreams, from the bestselling author of Ghost Light and Star of the Sea.  At college in 1980s Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orpha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chestnut Street by Maeve Binchy
    Chestnut Street - by Maeve Binchy

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781409151814 | ISBN 10: 1409151816

    A delightful collection of linked stories from No. 1 bestselling author of A Week in Winter.   Just round the corner from St Jarlath's Crescent (featured in Minding Frankie) is Chestnut Street. Here, the lives of the residents are revealed in ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Good Son by Paul McVeigh
    The Good Son - by Paul McVeigh

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784630232 | ISBN 10: 1784630233

    Mickey Donnelly is smart, which isnt a good thing in his part of town.  Despite having a dog called Killer and being in love with the girl next door, everyone calls him gay. It doesnt help that his best friend is his little sister, Wee Maggi ... 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 Academy Street by Mary Costello
    Academy Street - by Mary Costello

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782114208 | ISBN 10: 1782114203

    AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME   WINNER OF THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2014   SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2014   Tess Lohan appears to be a quiet child. But within lies a heart of fire. A fire ... more

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  • Cover image of book History of the Rain by Niall Williams
    History of the Rain - by Niall Williams

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408852057 | ISBN 10: 1408852055

    Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story... Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling ra ... more

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  • Cover image of book No Country by Kalyan Ray
    No Country - by Kalyan Ray

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408843345 | ISBN 10: 140884334x

    In November 1989, an Indian couple are discovered murdered in a small town in upstate New York. They lie together as though just disengaged from a long embrace. Yet their murder has been two centuries in the making.   County Sligo, Ireland, 18 ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry
    The Temporary Gentleman - by Sebastian Barry

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571276998 | ISBN 10: 0571276997

    A stunning return from the prize-winning and bestselling author of The Secret Scripture. Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in hi ... 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 Nora Webster by Colm Tibn
    Nora Webster - by Colm Tibn

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141041759 | ISBN 10: 0141041757

    * * * Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards * * * Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing today. It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fathers Come First by Rosita Sweetman
    Fathers Come First - by Rosita Sweetman

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781843516347 | ISBN 10: 1843516349

    Rosita Sweetman's Fathers Come First is a coming-of-age classic set against a Dublin-city backdrop. Elizabeth is both gauche and perspicacious, walking the edge of her stereotypes while hobbled by the pressures of acceptance - social, physical and se ... more

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  • Cover image of book Belfast Noir by Adrian McKinty and Stuart Neville (Editors)
    Belfast Noir - by Adrian McKinty and Stuart Neville (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781617752919 | ISBN 10: 1617752916

    Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: Glenn Patterson, Eoin Mc ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Thing About December by Donal Ryan
    The Thing About December - by Donal Ryan

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780552773577 | ISBN 10: 0552773573

    He heard Daddy one time saying he was a grand quiet boy to Mother when he thought Johnsey couldnt hear them talking. Mother must have been giving out about him being a gom and Daddy was defending him. He heard the fondness in Daddys voice. But you ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Love Object: Selected Stories of Edna O
    The Love Object: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien - by Edna O'Brien

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571282951 | ISBN 10: 0571282954

    Collected here together for the first time in one beautiful volume are the stories of an expert practitioner of the shorter form. Spanning five decades of writing, The Love Object takes the most memorable and successful stories from collections like ... more

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  • Cover image of book Two More Pints by Roddy Doyle
    Two More Pints - by Roddy Doyle

    £7.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780224101899 | ISBN 10: 0224101897

    Following on Two Pints, another hilarious book on everything that matters from the brilliant Roddy Doyle.   Two men meet for a pint or two in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights, curse the ref, say a last farewell In ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Guts by Roddy Doyle
    The Guts - by Roddy Doyle

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099587132 | ISBN 10: 0099587130

    Jimmy Rabbitte returns in a wonderful new novel by the author of The Commitments now a major West End Musical. Jimmy Rabbitte is back. The man who invented the Commitments back in the eighties is now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four kids ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dubliners 100: Fifteen New Stories Inspired by the Original by Thomas Morris (Editor)
    Dubliners 100: Fifteen New Stories Inspired by the Original - by Thomas Morris (Editor)

    £12.00   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780992817015 | ISBN 10: 0992817013

    Thomas Morriss Dubliners 100 invites new and established Irish writers to create cover versions of their favourite stories from James Joyces Dubliners. Dubliners 100 is a timely conversation with Joyces classic short story collection one hun ... 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 A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
    A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - by Eimear McBride

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571317165 | ISBN 10: 0571317162

    WINNER OF THE 2014 BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION   Eimear McBride's award-winning debut novel tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. Not so much a stream ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gamal by Ciarn Collins
    The Gamal - by Ciarn Collins

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408843529 | ISBN 10: 1408843528

    Charlie has a story to tell, about his best friends Sinad and James and the bad things that happened. But he cant tell it yet, at least not til hes worked out where the beginning is. Because is the beginning long ago when Sinad first spoke up fo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Strumpet City by James Plunkett with an introduction by Fintan O
    Strumpet City - by James Plunkett with an introduction by Fintan O

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780717156108 | ISBN 10: 0717156109

    This new edition of the epic Strumpet City marks the centenary of the 1913 Lockout. It has been chosen as Dublin City Libraries One City, One Book for 2013. First published in 1969, it has repeatedly been described as one of the greatest Irish novel ... more

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  • Cover image of book Vauxhall by Gabriel Gbadamosi
    Vauxhall - by Gabriel Gbadamosi

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846591464 | ISBN 10: 1846591465

    1970s London: Young Michael runs past the railway arches and terraces of Vauxhall. Reaching the street on which he lives, he witnesses a young girl fall from a window, her sari floating down behind her. Her lifeless body lies crumpled on the ground. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where Have You Been? by Joseph O
    Where Have You Been? - by Joseph O'Connor

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099565451 | ISBN 10: 0099565455

    A deeply moving collection of stories from the bestselling author of Star of the Sea.  Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York's Lower East Side in the nineteenth century, from dark comedy to poignancy, from the wryly p ... more

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  • Cover image of book Town and Country: New Irish Short Stories by Kevin Barry (Editor)
    Town and Country: New Irish Short Stories - by Kevin Barry (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571297047 | ISBN 10: 0571297048

    After previous volumes, edited by Joseph O'Connor and the late David Marcus, Faber and Faber are delighted to present a fourth collection of all new Irish short stories.   Edited by novelist and short story writer Kevin Barry, whose story, 'Be ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
    The Spinning Heart - by Donal Ryan

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781620083 | ISBN 10: 1781620083

    Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2013 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 Winner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2012 My father still lives back the road past the weir in the cottage I was reared in. I go there every d ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
    A Week in Winter - by Maeve Binchy

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781409117940 | ISBN 10: 1409117944

    High on the cliffs of the west coast of Ireland, overlooking the windswept Atlantic ocean, is Stone House. Once falling into disrepair, it is now a beautiful hotel specialising in winter holidays. With a big, warm kitchen, log fires and understated, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa
    The Dream of the Celt - by Mario Vargas Llosa

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571275755 | ISBN 10: 0571275753

    As The Dream of the Celt opens, it is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught aft ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mill for Grinding Old People Young by Glenn Patterson
    The Mill for Grinding Old People Young - by Glenn Patterson

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571281855 | ISBN 10: 0571281850

    In the cold dawn of Christmas Day 1897, Gilbert Rice, 85-years-old and in failing health, recounts his journey into manhood in a city on the cusp of great change.   Belfast in the 1830s was a city in flux. Industrialisation had led to an incr ... more

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  • Cover image of book After the Lockout by Darran McCann
    After the Lockout - by Darran McCann

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780007429493 | ISBN 10: 0007429495

    An ambitious and compelling first novel about a key moment in Irish history.   November 1917. With tensions in Ireland, war in Europe and revolution in Russia, Victor Lennon returns to his home village after a long exile. Radicalised by his ex ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ancient Light by John Banville
    Ancient Light - by John Banville

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241955406 | ISBN 10: 0241955408

    'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.'   In a small town in 1950s Ireland a fifteen-year-old boy has illicit meetings with a thirty-five-year-old woman - in the back of her car on sunny mornings, and in a rundown c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lucinda Sly: A Woman Hanged by Maidhc Dainn  S, translated by Gabriel Fitzmaurice
    Lucinda Sly: A Woman Hanged - by Maidhc Dainn S, translated by Gabriel Fitzmaurice

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781907593581 | ISBN 10: 1907593586

    The year is 1835 and local woman Lucinda Singleton is publicly hanged alongside her lover, John Dempsey, in front of Carlow Gaol. This, the first ever translation of Maidhc Dainn Ss historical novel, tells the story of the last woman to be hange ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
    The Testament of Mary - by Colm Toibin

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241962978 | ISBN 10: 0241962978

    In a voice that is both tender and filled with rage, The Testament of Mary tells the story of a cataclysmic event which led to an overpowering grief. For Mary, her son has been lost to the world, and now, living in exile and in fear, she tries to pie ... more

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  • Cover image of book Two Pints by Roddy Doyle
    Two Pints - by Roddy Doyle

    £9.99   hardback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780224097819 | ISBN 10: 0224097814

    A collection of sublimely funny dialogues inspired by a years worth of news. Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights, take the piss They talk about their wives, their kids, their kids pets, their foo ... 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 So It Is by Liam Murray Bell
    So It Is - by Liam Murray Bell

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781908434142 | ISBN 10: 1908434147

    Spanning the decades that saw Northern Ireland move from brutal conflict to uncertain peace in the 1990s, this powerful new take on the literature of the Troubles is both a political coming-of-age novel and a fast-paced literary thriller. Aoife, ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Charming Man by Marian Keyes
    This Charming Man - by Marian Keyes

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780241958483 | ISBN 10: 0241958482

    "Everybody remembers where they were the day they heard that Paddy de Courcy was getting married" But for four women in particular, the big news about the charismatic politician is especially momentous . . . Stylist Lola has every reason to be i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Toploader by Ed O
    Toploader - by Ed O'Loughlin

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857388339 | ISBN 10: 0857388339

    Flora is a plucky teenage girl. Cobra is a double agent. Flint Driscoll is a reporter. Captain Smith is a military man. Moon is a bored drone pilot. Daddy Jesus is an inflictor of pain.   All they have in common is a very stupid war ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shadowstory by Jennifer Johnston
    Shadowstory - by Jennifer Johnston

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780755383498 | ISBN 10: 0755383494

    A compelling novel of complicated love, from one of Ireland's greatest living writers.  It is the Second World War, and tragedy strikes many families in Ireland. But it is also a thrilling time in which to be a child and Polly, spending month ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nine Inches by Bateman
    Nine Inches - by Bateman

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780755378654 | ISBN 10: 0755378652

    Dan Starkey, the ducking and diving hapless investigator, takes centre stage again in this brilliant new novel by the master of comic crime.   Radio shock-jock and self-styled people's champion Jack Caramac is used to courting controversy - bu ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
    The Forgotten Waltz - by Anne Enright

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099539780 | ISBN 10: 0099539780

    A powerful, moving book of secrets, longing and loss, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering.   If it hadn't been for the child then none of this might have happened. She saw me kissing her father. She saw her father kissi ... more

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  • Cover image of book City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
    City of Bohane - by Kevin Barry

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099549154 | ISBN 10: 0099549158

    Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award and the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award - this is a cool, comic, violent and lyrical debut novel from one of Ireland's most talented new writers.   Forty years in the future. The once ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bloodland by Alan Glynn
    Bloodland - by Alan Glynn

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571275441 | ISBN 10: 0571275443

    CONGO: A private security contractor loses it, with deadly consequences. IRELAND: An ex-prime minister struggles to contain a dark secret from his time in office. NEW YORK: A dramatic news story breaks in Paris just as a US senator be ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Meeting Point by Lucy Caldwell
    The Meeting Point - by Lucy Caldwell

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571270538 | ISBN 10: 0571270530

    WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE AND THE ROONEY PRIZE FOR IRISH LITERATURE   When Euan and Ruth set off with their young daughter to live in Bahrain, it is meant to be an experience and adventure they will cherish. But on the night they ar ... more

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  • Cover image of book Turbulent Priests by Bateman
    Turbulent Priests - by Bateman

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780755378753 | ISBN 10: 075537875x

    Is she the new Messiah, or just a very naughty girl?   Dan Starkey arrives on Wrathlin Island - meteorogically wet but alcoholically dry - to investigate the residents' belief that the Messiah is alive, female, and about to start school th ... 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 The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story by Anne Enright (Editor)
    The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story - by Anne Enright (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781847082558 | ISBN 10: 1847082556

    Lyrical, dark, comic or iconoclastic, the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight. Anne Enright has brought together a dazzling collection of Irish stories by authors born in the twentieth century - from Mary Lavin and Frank O'Conn ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories by Benedict Kiely (Editor)
    The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories - by Benedict Kiely (Editor)

    £13.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780241955451 | ISBN 10: 0241955459

    'Do the Irish have, in relation to anybody else, any special capacity for the short story?' In this collection of thirty-eight short stories covering many generations and moods of Irish writing, this question is emphatically answered in the aff ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Empty Family: Stories by Colm Tibn
    The Empty Family: Stories - by Colm Tibn

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141041773 | ISBN 10: 0141041773

    'I imagined lamplight, shadows, soft voices, clothes put away, the low sound of late news on the radio. And I thought as I crossed the bridge at Baggot Street to face the last stretch of my own journey home that no matter what I had done, I had not ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Oh My God Delusion by Ross O
    The Oh My God Delusion - by Ross O'Carroll Kelly

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844881765 | ISBN 10: 1844881768

    That risk assessor ex of Sorcha's turned out to be right - it really was the end of the world as we knew it ...   See, I thought the porty was going to last forever. I certainly didn't believe the current economic blahdy blah was going t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
    Skippy Dies - by Paul Murray

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141009957 | ISBN 10: 0141009950

    'Skippy and Ruprecht are having a doughnut-eating race one evening when Skippy turns purple and falls off his ...' And so begins Skippy Dies - an epic, tragic, comic, brilliant novel set in and around Dublin's Seabrook College for Boys. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle
    The Dead Republic - by Roddy Doyle

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099546894 | ISBN 10: 0099546892

    A magnificent, epic novel that explores the history of modern Ireland - the sequel to the bestselling A Star Called Henry and Oh, Play That Thing. We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Ut ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hand in the Fire by Hugo Hamilton
    Hand in the Fire - by Hugo Hamilton

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780007324835 | ISBN 10: 0007324839

    You have a funny way of doing things here. The voice is that of Vid Cosic, a Serbian immigrant whose immediate friendship with a young Dublin lawyer, Kevin Concannon, is overshadowed by a violent incident in which a man is left for ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ghost Light by Joseph O
    Ghost Light - by Joseph O'Connor

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099481546 | ISBN 10: 0099481545

    A powerful and deeply moving masterpiece about love, partings and reconciliation - and of the courage involved in living on nobody else's terms.  Dublin, 1907. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwri ... 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 The Stray Sod Country by Patrick McCabe
    The Stray Sod Country - by Patrick McCabe

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408809983 | ISBN 10: 1408809982

    Strangely elegiac, gloriously operatic and driven by Patrick McCabes wild and savage imagination, The Stray Sod Country is an eerie folk tale that chronicles the passing of a generation. It is 1958, and as Laika, the Sputnik dog is launched ... more

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  • Cover image of book Touchy Subjects: Stories by Emma Donoghue
    Touchy Subjects: Stories - by Emma Donoghue

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844087396 | ISBN 10: 1844087395

    A man finds God and finally wants to father a child - only his wife is now forty-three years old. A coach's son discovers his sexuality on the football field. A roommate's bizarre secret liberates a repressed young woman.   From the unfors ... more

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  • Cover image of book Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
    Let the Great World Spin - by Colum McCann

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408801185 | ISBN 10: 1408801183

    Winner of the National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller.  New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky. Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air.  Far below, the lives of complete strangers ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love and Summer by William Trevor
    Love and Summer - by William Trevor

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141042190 | ISBN 10: 0141042192

    It is summer and a stranger has come to quiet Rathmoye. He is noticed by Ellie, the young convent girl, who is married to Dillahan, a farmer still mourning his first wife. Over the long and warm days, Ellie and the stranger form an illicit attachment ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories by Edited by William Trevor
    The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories - by Edited by William Trevor

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780199583140 | ISBN 10: 0199583145

    Ireland has long been a nation of story-tellers. What began as a lively form of entertainment has grown into an unrivalled literary genre.  Although Ireland may mourn the loss of the seancha, the old hearthside story-teller, the Irish art of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Not Untrue and Not Unkind by Ed O
    Not Untrue and Not Unkind - by Ed O'Loughlin

    £11.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141038063 | ISBN 10: 0141038063

    In Dublin, a newspaper editor called Cartwright is found dead. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on Cartwright's desk. And in the dossier Owen finds a photograph, which brings him back, once again, to a dusty road in Africa and ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Many Miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston
    How Many Miles to Babylon? - by Jennifer Johnston

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141046969 | ISBN 10: 0141046961

    Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men whose shared love of horses brought them together and whose whole lives lay ahead of them. Wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ghosts and Lightning by Trevor Byrne
    Ghosts and Lightning - by Trevor Byrne

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781847673305 | ISBN 10: 1847673309

    Happy or unhappy, all families are a mystery. None more than the Cullens. Having escaped their clutches and moved across the water, Denny is just beginning to make a life for himself when a call from his sister brings him back to Dublin, city of ... 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 Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
    Heart and Soul - by Maeve Binchy

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780752884646 | ISBN 10: 0752884646

    Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate. Her daughters Adi and Linda were no problem at all during the usually turbulent teens. Now in their twenties, Adi is always fighting for or against something: the environment or the whale or battery farm ... 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 The Truth Commissioner by David Park
    The Truth Commissioner - by David Park

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747596332 | ISBN 10: 0747596336

    Henry Stanfield, the newly arrived Truth Commissioner, is troubled by his estrangement from his daughter, and struggling with the consequences of his infidelities. Francis Gilroy, veteran Republican and recently appointed government minister, risks l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ulysses by James Joyce
    Ulysses - by James Joyce

    £10.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099511199 | ISBN 10: 0099511193

    The edited version of Ulysses that caused so much controversy on its first publication. This edition is the accepted reference text for James Joyce studies.  Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daeda ... 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 The Gathering by Anne Enright
    The Gathering - by Anne Enright

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099501633 | ISBN 10: 0099501635

    The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Deportees and Other Stories by Roddy Doyle
    The Deportees and Other Stories - by Roddy Doyle

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099507055 | ISBN 10: 0099507056

    For the past few years, Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann, a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories took a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance and impo ... 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 Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
    Paula Spencer - by Roddy Doyle

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099501374 | ISBN 10: 0099501376

    When we first met Paula Spencer in The Woman Who Walked into Doors she was thirty-nine, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her family together.   Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paulas forty-eighth birthday. She hasnt h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy
    Whitethorn Woods - by Maeve Binchy

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780752881478 | ISBN 10: 0752881477

    The town of Rossmore is a special place, full of character and charm. Nestled beside the Whitethorn Woods, the town has grown since the days when it was small and friendly and everyone knew everyone else; now it has chain stories and traffic problems ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Free and Easy by Anne Haverty
    The Free and Easy - by Anne Haverty

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099492955 | ISBN 10: 0099492954

    A wealthy American is burdened by a recurrent dream about his native Ireland, a country that had long ceased to interest or troubles him. Convinced that the Irish are asking him for help, he equips his errant grand-nephew, Tom Blessman, with a genero ... more

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  • Cover image of book Billy, Come Home by Mary Rose Callaghan
    Billy, Come Home - by Mary Rose Callaghan

    £10.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780863223662 | ISBN 10: 0863223664

    A compelling, dramatic story of schizophrenia, murder and the rush to judgement; a story of prejudice and consequent tragedy. A teenage girl is brutally murdered, and Billy, a schizophrenic, is accused. With its echoes of cases such as the Jill D ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - by John Boyne

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780552773805 | ISBN 10: 0552773808

    What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil? Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he kno ... more

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  • Cover image of book Star Sullivan by Maeve Binchy
    Star Sullivan - by Maeve Binchy

    £3.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780752879543 | ISBN 10: 0752879545

    Molly Sullivan said that the new baby was a little star. She was no trouble at all and she was always smiling...so she became known as Star.  Star Sullivan just wanted everyone to be happy - her father to stop gambling, her mother not to work ... 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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  • Cover image of book Tatty by Christine Dwyer Hickey
    Tatty - by Christine Dwyer Hickey

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099499350 | ISBN 10: 0099499355

    Hailed by the critics as a masterpiece, Tatty is a devastating, yet hilarious, depiction of a troubled Dublin family told through the lively, charismatic voice of a little girl.  With brutal honesty, Tatty tells the story of her life with her 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   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780571218011 | ISBN 10: 0571218016

    One of the most vivid and realised charcaters 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 The Hill Road by Patrick O
    The Hill Road - by Patrick O'Keeffe

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747579403 | ISBN 10: 0747579407

    The townland of Kilroan in the 1970s is at risk of being trapped for ever in an earlier version of itself, a time when shell-shocked soldiers returned from the trenches, and convent orphans could be billeted as servants on poor farmers; a time when a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian Barry
    The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty - by Sebastian Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780571230143 | ISBN 10: 0571230148

    Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him becoming soldiers of a different kind, however, it proves to be the defining decision of his life when, having witnessed ... more

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  • Cover image of book Belfast Confidential by Colin Bateman
    Belfast Confidential - by Colin Bateman

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780755309276 | ISBN 10: 0755309278

    They say moving house is one of the most stressful things you can do. Well, as far as Dan Starkey's concerned, 'they' can stick it because right now unpacking is the least of his worries... No sooner has Dan moved house, than his best mate, Mous ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gael by Judith Monk
    Gael - by Judith Monk

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781846590061 | ISBN 10: 184659006x

    A young violinist from a Jewish background falls hopelessly in love with an Irish painter called Gael. She leaves her aristocratic husband, marries Gael and they eventually move to Ireland with their son. But she is unprepared for a life of pove ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sea by John Banville
    The Sea - by John Banville

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780330483292 | ISBN 10: 0330483293

    When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Dr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Scealta: Short Stories by Irish Women by Edited by Rebecca O
    Scealta: Short Stories by Irish Women - by Edited by Rebecca O'Connor

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781846590030 | ISBN 10: 1846590035

    The short story is one of Ireland's national treasures, and in these pages are some of its finest practitioners, from such established names as Julia O'Faolain, Claire Keegan and Christine Dwyer Hickey to the exciting new voices of Judy Kravis, Eithn ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Is the Country by William Wall
    This Is the Country - by William Wall

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780340822166 | ISBN 10: 0340822163

    Living on a notorious estate with a mother who has given up, a bright teenager heads for trouble: truanting, taking drugs and hovering on the fringes of the city's criminal underworld. But when he gets Pat The Baker's sister pregnant, his life change ... more

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  • Cover image of book Grace and Truth by Jennifer Johnston
    Grace and Truth - by Jennifer Johnston

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780747267522 | ISBN 10: 0747267529

    'Who is my father? Where in the world is he? Alive or dead?' Sally, a sucessful actress, has just returned to Ireland from a long European tour. Exhausted, she wants only to rest and to see her husband Charlie again. But Charlie announces that h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy
    Nights of Rain and Stars - by Maeve Binchy

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780752865362 | ISBN 10: 0752865366

    Four strangers meet in a Greek taverna high above the small village of Aghia Anna. From Ireland, America, Germany and England, they have each left their homes and their old lives, when a shocking tragedy throws them unexpectedly togther. Fiona i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Troubles by J.G. Farrell
    The Troubles - by J.G. Farrell

    £9.99   paperback   (1998) - ISBN 13: 9781857990188 | ISBN 10: 1857990188

    Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancee he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite her many letters, the lady herself proves elusive, and the Major's engagement is short-lived. But he i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle
    The Woman Who Walked Into Doors - by Roddy Doyle

    £8.99   paperback   (1997) - ISBN 13: 9780749395995 | ISBN 10: 0749395990

    'My name is Paula Spencer. I am thirty-nine years old. It was my birthday last week. I was married for eighteen years. My husband died last year. He was shot by the Guards. He left me a year before that. I threw him out. His name was Charles Spencer; ... more

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  • Cover image of book When Love Comes to Town by Tom Lennon
    When Love Comes to Town - by Tom Lennon

    £8.99   paperback   (1993) - ISBN 13: 9780862783617 | ISBN 10: 0862783615

    Meet Neil Byrne - try-scorer on the rugby field, prizewinning student, one of the in-crowd at the disco, regular guy, gay. Presenting one face to the world and burying his true feelings in fantasy, Neil manages to keep his secret. But when fantasy is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Irish Myths and Legends by Michael Scott
    Irish Myths and Legends - by Michael Scott

    £9.99   paperback   (1992) - ISBN 13: 9780751512427 | ISBN 10: 0751512427

    From the epic Irish legend of Cuchulain to tales of banshees, leprechauns and wizards, these short stories and fables cover a wide range of Ireland's mythology and legends, forming a companion volume to Michael Scott's Irish Folk and Fairy Tales. ... more

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