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  • On Canaan's Side

    On Canaan's Side
    Sebastian Barry

    Paperback · 04 Aug 2011 · €18.70
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    Narrated by Lilly Bere, the story opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. It then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Dublin, at the end of the First World War, and follows her life through into the new world of America, a world filled with both hope and danger.

  • Solace

    Solace
    Belinda McKeon

    Paperback · 05 Aug 2011 · €17.35
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    As tender as it is heartbreaking, a brilliant debut from an exciting new voice in Irish fiction

  • Exploring English

    Exploring English
    Augustine Martin

    Paperback · 01 Aug 2011 · €14.99

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    The Exploring English short story anthology is now being republished in an exact facsimile of the original. Times have moved on; many authors who were alive forty years ago are no longer with us but their biographical notes have not been changed. This is the book precisely as you will have remembered it. Read once more, and enjoy!

  • The Sealed Letter

    The Sealed Letter
    Emma Donoghue

    Paperback · 13 Oct 2011 · €17.35
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    After a separation of many years, Emily 'Fido' Faithfull bumps into her old friend Helen Codrington on the streets of Victorian London. Much has changed since then. But, for all her independence of mind, Fido is too trusting of her once-dear companion and finds herself drawn into aiding Helen's obsessive affair with a young army officer.

  • Saints and Sinners

    Saints and Sinners
    Edna O Brien

    Paperback · 17 Feb 2011 · €17.35
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    A collection that is characterised by the author's powerful evocations of place and a glorious and an often heart-breaking grasp of people and their desires and contradictions.

  • New Irish Short Stories 3 for 2 item

    New Irish Short Stories
    Joseph O Connor

    Paperback · 17 Mar 2011 · €13.35

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    A collection of Irish short stories. Featuring, among many others, William Trevor and Roddy Doyle, Rebecca Miller and Richard Ford, Christine Dwyer Hickey and Colm Toibin, it shows the short story to be a vibrant, thriving form and one that should continue to be celebrated and encouraged.

  • The Cold Eye of Heaven

    The Cold Eye of Heaven
    Christine Dwyer Hickey

    Paperback · 01 Sep 2011 · €17.35
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    Farley is an elderly Irishman, frail in body but sharp as a tack. Waking in the middle of the night, he finds himself lying paralysed on the cold bathroom floor and so his mind begins to move back into his past. Decade by decade, Farley unravels the warp and weft of his life, recalling loves, losses and betrayals.

  • Skippy Dies 3 for 2 item

    Skippy Dies
    Paul Murray

    Paperback · 07 Apr 2011 · €12.00

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    Concerning the lives, loves, mistakes and triumphs of overweight maths-whiz Ruprecht Van Doren and his roommate Daniel 'Skippy' Juster, this title features a frisbee-throwing siren called Lori, the joys (and horrors) of first love, the use and blatant misuse of prescription drugs, and Carl (the official school psychopath).

  • Nama Mia!

    Nama Mia!
    Ross O Carroll Kelly

    Paperback · 21 Sep 2011 · €18.70
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    It was no country for young men. Or women... Unemployment, emigration and do-it-yourself hair colour kits were once again a fact of life. Taxes were on the up, the IMF were on the way and there was a cash for gold outlet in Foxrock Village. But the signs for recovery were good - for me, at least.

  • City of Hope

    City of Hope
    Kate Kerrigan

    Paperback · 04 Nov 2011 · €17.35
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    It is the 1930s and when her beloved husband, John, suddenly dies, young Ellie Hogan decides to leave Ireland and return to New York. She hopes that the city's vibrancy will distract her from her grief. But the Depression has rendered the city unrecognisable.

 

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