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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 36 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Uncanny Ireland: Otherworldly Tales of the Strange and Sublime by Maria Giakaniki (Editor)
    Uncanny Ireland: Otherworldly Tales of the Strange and Sublime - by Maria Giakaniki (Editor)

    £16.99   hardback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9780712355209 | ISBN 10: 0712355200

    At moonrise I lit the fire and cried out the wild little invocation that Neoineen and I had made – gave way to all the crazy anguish withinme – chanted it loud enough for the hills to hear.   Entwined in Ireland’s rich literary history is a ... more

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  • Cover image of book So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
    So Late in the Day - by Claire Keegan

    £8.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571382019 | ISBN 10: 0571382010

    An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster.  ‘A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.’ The Times  After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Polluted Sex by Lauren Foley
    Polluted Sex - by Lauren Foley

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781910312919 | ISBN 10: 1910312916

    "Lauren Foley is a gifted, fearless writer. These vivid, dynamic stories range from the visceral to the experimental with moments of intense, expressive lyricism. They announce a strong new voice on the literary scene, bound to make her presence felt ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Searcher by Tana French
    The Searcher - by Tana French

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241990100 | ISBN 10: 0241990106

    A DISAPPEARANCE. A SMALL TOWN. A QUESTION THAT NEEDS ANSWERING...  Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force, and a bruising divorce, he just wa ... more

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  • Cover image of book As You Were by Elaine Feeney
    As You Were - by Elaine Feeney

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529111514 | ISBN 10: 152911151x

    Discover this unforgettable, darkly funny novel about the power of friendship and the heartbreak of family life - shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2021.  Sinead Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
    The Pull of the Stars - by Emma Donoghue

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529046199 | ISBN 10: 152904619x

    The Sunday Times Bestseller from the acclaimed author of The Wonder and Room.   The old world dying on its feet, a new one struggling to be born...   Dublin, 1918. In a country doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
    Night Boat to Tangier - by Kevin Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781782116202 | ISBN 10: 1782116206

    LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 THE NUMBER ONE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER   It's late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter has gone mi ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume
    A Line Made By Walking - by Sara Baume

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780099592754 | ISBN 10: 0099592754

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2017 "When I finished Sara Baume’s new novel I immediately felt sad that I could not send it in the post to the late John Berger. He, too, would have loved it and found great joy in its honesty, its agility, ... more

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  • Cover image of book There Are Little Kingdoms by Kevin Barry
    There Are Little Kingdoms - by Kevin Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786890177 | ISBN 10: 1786890178

    This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast girls court trouble as they cool their heels on a slow night in a small town. Lonesome hillwalkers take to the high reache ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lonely Life of Biddy Weir by Lesley Allen
    The Lonely Life of Biddy Weir - by Lesley Allen

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785770388 | ISBN 10: 1785770381

    A charming and uplifting story, perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove or Jonas Jonasson. 'If you're a bit of a weirdo you will love Biddy Weir' - Ian Sansom, bestselling author of The Norfolk Mystery.  Biddy Weir is a quirky girl.  Abandoned b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
    Beatlebone - by Kevin Barry

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782116165 | ISBN 10: 1782116168

    WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2015  He will spend three days alone on his island. That is all that he asks... John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the story of his strangest trip.  John ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Few of the Girls by Maeve Binchy
    A Few of the Girls - by Maeve Binchy

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781409161448 | ISBN 10: 1409161447

    "The Irish do love telling stories, and we are suspicious of people who don't have long, complicated conversations. There used to be a rule in etiquette books that you should invite four talkers and four listeners to a dinner party. That doesn't work ... more

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  • Cover image of book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air by Darragh McKeon
    All That Is Solid Melts Into Air - by Darragh McKeon

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241964675 | ISBN 10: 0241964679

    Moscow, 1986. In a run-down apartment block, a piano prodigy practices silently to avoid disturbing the neighbours. In a factory, his aunt makes car parts, hiding her dissident past. In the hospital, a talented surgeon buries himself in his work. And ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry
    The Temporary Gentleman - by Sebastian Barry

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571276998 | ISBN 10: 0571276997

    A stunning return from the prize-winning and bestselling author of The Secret Scripture.  Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rest Just Follows by Glenn Patterson
    The Rest Just Follows - by Glenn Patterson

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571305230 | ISBN 10: 0571305237

    First of September 1974. Craig Robinson is starting secondary school. Instinct tells him he needs to keep his head down. The last thing he needs, therefore, is someone carrying the name St John Nimmo to be sent to sit beside him, but that is what he ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fathers Come First by Rosita Sweetman
    Fathers Come First - by Rosita Sweetman

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781843516347 | ISBN 10: 1843516349

    Rosita Sweetman's Fathers Come First is a coming-of-age classic set against a Dublin-city backdrop. Elizabeth is both gauche and perspicacious, walking the edge of her stereotypes while hobbled by the pressures of acceptance - social, physical and se ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fields by Kevin Maher
    The Fields - by Kevin Maher

    £12.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780349138671 | ISBN 10: 0349138672

    The launch of a major new literary voice in Irish/British fiction: set in 1980s Dublin and London, The Fields tells the vividly evocative story of Jim Finnegan's unfairly interrupted adolescence.  We'd never seen anything like that around our p ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
    The Spinning Heart - by Donal Ryan

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781620083 | ISBN 10: 1781620083

    Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2013 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 Winner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2012   “My father still lives back the road past the weir in the cottage I was reared in. I go there every d ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa
    The Dream of the Celt - by Mario Vargas Llosa

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571275755 | ISBN 10: 0571275753

    As The Dream of the Celt opens, it is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught aft ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mill for Grinding Old People Young by Glenn Patterson
    The Mill for Grinding Old People Young - by Glenn Patterson

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571281855 | ISBN 10: 0571281850

    In the cold dawn of Christmas Day 1897, Gilbert Rice, 85-years-old and in failing health, recounts his journey into manhood in a city on the cusp of great change.   Belfast in the 1830s was a city in flux. Industrialisation had led to an incr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ancient Light by John Banville
    Ancient Light - by John Banville

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241955406 | ISBN 10: 0241955408

    'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.'   In a small town in 1950s Ireland a fifteen-year-old boy has illicit meetings with a thirty-five-year-old woman - in the back of her car on sunny mornings, and in a rundown c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Toploader by Ed O
    Toploader - by Ed O'Loughlin

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857388339 | ISBN 10: 0857388339

    Flora is a plucky teenage girl. Cobra is a double agent. Flint Driscoll is a reporter. Captain Smith is a military man. Moon is a bored drone pilot. Daddy Jesus is an inflictor of pain.   All they have in common is a very stupid war ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
    The Forgotten Waltz - by Anne Enright

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099539780 | ISBN 10: 0099539780

    A powerful, moving book of secrets, longing and loss, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering.   If it hadn't been for the child then none of this might have happened. She saw me kissing her father. She saw her father kissi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Turbulent Priests by Bateman
    Turbulent Priests - by Bateman

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780755378753 | ISBN 10: 075537875x

    Is she the new Messiah, or just a very naughty girl?   Dan Starkey arrives on Wrathlin Island - meteorogically wet but alcoholically dry - to investigate the residents' belief that the Messiah is alive, female, and about to start school th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Full House by Maeve Binchy
    Full House - by Maeve Binchy

    £2.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781409136613 | ISBN 10: 1409136612

    A brand new Maeve Binchy - written specially for the World Book Day Quick Reads promotion.  Dee loves her children very much, but now they are all grown up, shouldn't they leave home?  Rosie moved out when she got married, but i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
    Skippy Dies - by Paul Murray

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141009957 | ISBN 10: 0141009950

    'Skippy and Ruprecht are having a doughnut-eating race one evening when Skippy turns purple and falls off his ...'   And so begins Skippy Dies - an epic, tragic, comic, brilliant novel set in and around Dublin's Seabrook College for Boys. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Stray Sod Country by Patrick McCabe
    The Stray Sod Country - by Patrick McCabe

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408809983 | ISBN 10: 1408809982

    Strangely elegiac, gloriously operatic and driven by Patrick McCabe’s wild and savage imagination, The Stray Sod Country is an eerie folk tale that chronicles the passing of a generation.  It is 1958, and as Laika, the Sputnik dog is launched ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Many Miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston
    How Many Miles to Babylon? - by Jennifer Johnston

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141046969 | ISBN 10: 0141046961

    Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men whose shared love of horses brought them together and whose whole lives lay ahead of them.  Wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
    Brooklyn - by Colm Toibin

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141041742 | ISBN 10: 0141041749

    In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when a job is offered in America, it is clear that she must go. Leaving her family and home, Eilis sets off to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Redemption Falls by Joseph O
    Redemption Falls - by Joseph O'Connor

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099481522 | ISBN 10: 0099481529

    1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane Mooney is ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Deportees and Other Stories by Roddy Doyle
    The Deportees and Other Stories - by Roddy Doyle

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099507055 | ISBN 10: 0099507056

    For the past few years, Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann, a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland.  Each of the stories took a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance and impo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
    Paula Spencer - by Roddy Doyle

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099501374 | ISBN 10: 0099501376

    When we first met Paula Spencer – in The Woman Who Walked into Doors – she was thirty-nine, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her family together.   Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula’s forty-eighth birthday. She hasn’t h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hill Road by Patrick O
    The Hill Road - by Patrick O'Keeffe

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747579403 | ISBN 10: 0747579407

    The townland of Kilroan in the 1970s is at risk of being trapped for ever in an earlier version of itself, a time when shell-shocked soldiers returned from the trenches, and convent orphans could be billeted as servants on poor farmers; a time when a ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Is the Country by William Wall
    This Is the Country - by William Wall

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780340822166 | ISBN 10: 0340822163

    Living on a notorious estate with a mother who has given up, a bright teenager heads for trouble: truanting, taking drugs and hovering on the fringes of the city's criminal underworld. But when he gets Pat The Baker's sister pregnant, his life change ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy
    Nights of Rain and Stars - by Maeve Binchy

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780752865362 | ISBN 10: 0752865366

    Four strangers meet in a Greek taverna high above the small village of Aghia Anna. From Ireland, America, Germany and England, they have each left their homes and their old lives, when a shocking tragedy throws them unexpectedly togther. Fiona i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Irish Myths and Legends by Michael Scott
    Irish Myths and Legends - by Michael Scott

    £9.99   paperback   (1992) - ISBN 13: 9780751512427 | ISBN 10: 0751512427

    From the epic Irish legend of Cuchulain to tales of banshees, leprechauns and wizards, these short stories and fables cover a wide range of Ireland's mythology and legends, forming a companion volume to Michael Scott's Irish Folk and Fairy Tales. ... more

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