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Staff Recommended Reads April 2011

  • In a Strange Room

    In a Strange Room
    Damon Galgut

    Paperback · 01 Apr 2011 · €10.00

    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.

  • Alex's Adventures in Numberland

    Alex's Adventures in Numberland
    Alex Bellos

    Paperback · 04 Apr 2011 · €12.00

    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.

  • Long Time, No See

    Long Time, No See
    Dermot Healy

    Paperback · 01 Apr 2011 · €17.35

    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.

  • February

    February
    Lisa Moore

    Paperback · 03 Feb 2011 · €10.00

    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.

  • Anatomy of A Disappearance

    Anatomy of A Disappearance
    Hisham Matar

    Paperback · 28 Feb 2011 · €17.35

    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.


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