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Recommended Reads

Every month our Booksellers pick their favourite recent titles and review them.

Many of their choices have gone on to become bestsellers as well as great selections for Book Clubs.


May

  • The Gamal

    The Gamal
    Ciaran Collins

    Paperback · 11 Apr 2013 · €17.35
    Our Price: €13.99

    Skippy Dies meets The Butcher Boy in a wickedly funny and heartbreaking modern-day Romeo and Juliet

  • The Woman Upstairs

    The Woman Upstairs
    Claire Messud

    Paperback · 30 Apr 2013 · €18.70
    Our Price: €14.99

    * The new novel from Claire Messud, author of The Emperor's Children, a top ten NYT bestseller in hardback and paperback in the US

  • The Aftermath

    The Aftermath
    Rhidian Brook

    Hardback · 02 May 2013 · €20.00

    Charged with overseeing the rebuilding of this devastated city and the de-Nazification of its defeated people, Colonel Lewis Morgan has requisitioned a fine house on the banks of the Elbe, where he will be joined by his grieving wife Rachael and only remaining son Edmund. This novel is set in post-war Germany.

  • The Great Gatsby 3 for 2 item

    The Great Gatsby
    F Scott Fitzgerald

    Paperback · 11 Apr 2013 · €9.99

    The official film edition including an exclusive interview with Baz Luhrmann. Now a major film by Baz Luhrmann, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire.

  • Crocodile Tears

    Crocodile Tears
    Mark O Sullivan

    Paperback · 25 Apr 2013 · €17.35
    Our Price: €13.99

    In the freezing winter of 2010, with the Irish recession in full flow, property tycoon Dermot Brennan is found dead at his Dublin home. Leading the murder investigation is fifty-six-year-old Detective Inspector Leo Woods, an embittered former UN peacekeeper with a drug habit, a penchant for collecting masks and a face disfigured by Bell's Palsy.

 

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