Staff Recommended Reads May 2011

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  If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
  Robin Black

  Paperback · 06 May 2011 · €10.00

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  Shortlisted for the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, a beautiful debut collection from a writer with the warmth, reach and complexity of Alice Munro

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  The Best of Everything
  Rona Jaffe

  Paperback · 20 Nov 2010 · €12.00

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  A story of five young employees of a New York publishing company. There's Ivy League Caroline, who dreams of graduating from the typing pool to an editor's office; naive country girl April, who reinvents herself as the woman every man wants on his arm; and, Gregg, the free-spirited actress with a secret yearning for domesticity.

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  The Better Half
  Sarah Harte

  Paperback · 28 Apr 2011 · €17.35

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  Anita is a wife on the edge. Thanks to her husband Frank's success in business she has lived a lavish lifestyle at the heart of the city's elite. However, now that the economy is in freefall, it seems the days of boozy lunches with 'the girls', glittering charity balls and competitive designer shopping are over.

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  The Dead Summer
  Helen Moorhouse

  Paperback · 26 Apr 2011 · €15.99

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  Matterhorn
  Karl Marlantes

  Paperback · 01 May 2011 · €12.00

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  Thirty years in the making, this towering, critically acclaimed and huge international bestseller is now available in paperback.

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  The Forgotten Waltz
  Anne Enright

  Hardback · 28 Apr 2011 · €22.70
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  In Terenure, a pleasant suburb of Dublin, in the winter of 2009, it has snowed. Gina Moynihan, girl about town, recalls the trail of lust and happenstance that brought her to fall for 'the love of her life', Sean Vallely. As the city outside comes to a halt, Gina remembers the days of their affair in one hotel room or another.

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  The Moment
  Douglas Kennedy

  Paperback · 28 Apr 2011 · €13.35
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  Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Living a very private life in Maine - in touch only with his daughter and still trying to reconcile himself to the end of a long marriage that he knew was flawed from the outset.