Staff Recommended Reads April 2011

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  In a Strange Room
  Damon Galgut

  Paperback · 01 Apr 2011 · €10.00

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  SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 Damon Galgut's masterful novel of longing and thwarted desire following one man on three very different journeys.

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  Alex's Adventures in Numberland
  Alex Bellos

  Paperback · 04 Apr 2011 · €12.00

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  Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives: from geometry of the 50p piece to how probability can help you win in any casino. In search of weird and wonderful mathematical phenomena, the author travels across the globe and meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany and a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan.

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  Long Time, No See
  Dermot Healy

  Paperback · 01 Apr 2011 · €17.35

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  In the isolated coastal townland of Ballintra in the Northwest of Ireland Recent school-leaver, occasional worker, full-time companion and Malibu-provider to Uncle Joe-Joe and his friend, The Blackbird, Psyche is a boy on the cusp of adulthood, undone by a recent traumatic event.

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  The Wives of Henry Oades
  Johanna Moran

  Paperback · 03 Feb 2011 · €10.00

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  In 1899 Henry Oades discovers he has two wives -- and many dilemmas!

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  Monsieur Linh and His Child
  Philippe Claudel

  Hardback · 31 Mar 2011 · €16.00

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  A subtle portrait of friendship and a dialogue between two cultures, by the winner of the 2010 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

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  The City of Bohane
  Kevin Barry

  Paperback · 31 Mar 2011 · €17.35
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  February
  Lisa Moore

  Paperback · 03 Feb 2011 · €10.00

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  In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's night storm. In the early hours of the next morning, all 84 men aboard died. Helen O'Mara is one of those left behind when her husband, Cal, drowns. Years after the Ranger disaster, she is compelled to travel back to the 'February' that persists in her mind.

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  Anatomy of A Disappearance
  Hisham Matar

  Paperback · 28 Feb 2011 · €17.35

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  Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness that her strange death leaves behind in the Cairo apartment he shares with his father. Until Mona. When Nuri first sees Mona, sitting in her bright yellow swimsuit by the pool of the Magda Marina holiday resort, the rest of the world vanishes.