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Diplomat Jack Lennon is posted to Spain in 2008 as the wheels are coming off the Spanish – and Irish – property boom. On the trail of a missing Irish government minister Jack encounters a coterie of property magnates, former celebrities, desperate bankers the remnants of Ireland’s ‘wine-geese’ and Franco’s Spain.
Deena Garvey disappeared in 2004. She left behind a daughter and a sister. Deena’s daughter grows up in the country.
She learns how to hunt, when to seed the garden, how to avoid making her father angry. Never to ask about her absent mother. Deena’s sister stays stuck in the city, getting desperate.
She knows the man responsible for her sister’s disappearance, but she can’t prove it. Not yet. Over fourteen years, four hundred miles apart, these two women slowly begin to unearth the secrets and lies at the heart of their family, and the history of power and control that has shaped them both in such different ways.
But can they reach each other in time? And will the truth finally answer the question of their lives: What really happened to Deena Garvey?
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LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE’One of the best collections you’ll read this year’ Sunday Times’Wild, witty stories . . .
Exhilarating’ ObserverIn this rapturous story collection we encounter a ragbag of west of Ireland characters, many on the cusp between love and catastrophe, heartbreak and epiphany, resignation and hope. These stories affirm Kevin Barry as one of the world’s most accomplished and gifted writers, and show an Ireland in a condition of great flux but also as a place where older rhythms, and an older magic, somehow persist.
The story is about a little flower bud who is so afraid of all the things she hears on the wind that she hides behind her leaves and petals imagining all sorts of scary things that might happen to her. Because of her fears, she doesn?t want to bloom – thereby preventing herself from reaching her full potential as a beautiful flower. However, eventually she blooms and realises that all of her fears were unfounded.
| 1 | The Dublin Reel/The Three Merry Sisters (2.34) | |
| 2 | Murray’s One and Two (2.07) | |
| 3 | The Powelsborough Lasies/Frank Walshe’s (2.45) | |
| 4 | Lord Gordan’s Reel (3.40) | |
| 5 | A St?r Mo Chro? (3.29) | |
| 6 | The Duke of Leinster/Ah Surely (3.28) | |
| 7 | The Blackthorn Stick/Reidy Johnston’s (2.43) | |
| 8 | Sarah Ann O Connor’s/The Mother’s Lament (3.28) | |
| 9 | Lament for Peter Walsh (3.37) | |
| 10 | Roaring Mary/The Graf Spree (3.16) | |
| 11 | The Clare Reel/The First Month of Spring (2.17) | |
| 12 | The Chaffpool Post/Memories of Sligo (4.26) | |
| 13 | The Hunter’s Purse/The Sligo Maid (3.28) | |
| 14 | ?na Bh?n (5.15) | |
| 15 | The Galway Rambler/Five Mile Chase/Dennis Devaney’s (2.42) | |
| 16 | The Concert Reel/Custom Gap (3.08) | |
| 17 | Pat Sweeney’s Favourite/Paddy Carty’s (3.02) | |
| 18 | The Old Wheels of the World/Mc Gowan’s Favourite/The Moving Bog of Powelsborough (2.58) | |
| 19 | The Croppy Boy (5.42) | |
| 20 | Drowsey Maggie/Toss the Feathers (1.49) | |
| 21 | The Stonepark Reel/The Templehouse Reel (2.02) | |
| 22 | The Geese in the Bog (2.34) | |
| 23 | The Bush in Bloom/Touch Me If You Dare (2.21) |
The Rest’ is the fifth studio album from Pearse McGloughlin and the third with his band, Nocturnes (Enda Roche & Billy Donohue). Emerging in the shadow of a circling chaos, The Rest is, on a personal level, a series of reflections on and explorations of our own small place in the world.
The last book of poems written by the late Dermot Healy is a fitting tribute to his work.
AÂ FINANCIAL TIMESÂ BEST DEBUT OF 2025
Mairead works all hours in a run-down West End theatre’s wardrobe department, her whole existence made up of threads and needles, running errands to mend shoes, fixing broken zips and handwashing underwear. She must also do her best to avoid groping hands backstage and the terrible bullying of the show’s producer.
But, despite her skill and growing experience, half of Mairead remains in her windy, hedge-filled home in Ireland, and the life she abandoned there. In noughties London, she has the potential to be somebody completely new – why, then, does she feel so stuck? Between the bustling side streets of Soho, and the wet grass of Leitrim and Donegal, Mairead is caught, running from the girl she was but unable to reveal the woman she’d hoped to become.
Told with rare honesty and equal measures of warmth and bite, The Wardrobe Department is a story about reckoning with the past, finding the courage to change the present – and asking what comes next.
Robert O Connor was not expecting cheering crowds to greet him on his return to
Dromahair. Few there were likely to view him as a war hero. Nobody believed he had
acted out of principle when he enlisted, as the man had never served any cause other
than his own. That did not bother Robert. If anything, he revelled in the notoriety.
After all, he was destined for bigger and better things than his home village could
offer.
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This second album comes six years after their first studio album (Aliquot Strings 2009) and it is their first since the band expanded to include brass and strings. Produced by Torsten Kinsella (God Is An Astronaut), these new compositions are subtle and melodic though cinematic in their scope and arrangement, and represent a musical evolution for the band.
* LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 *
* WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022 *
* SHORTLISTED FOR BRITISH BOOK OF THE YEAR: DEBUT FICTION *
* SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2022 *
* AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2022 *
* A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME *
One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice. If Davy had remembered to put on a coat. If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark street.
If Michael Agnew had not walked through the door of the pub on a quiet night in February in his white shirt. There is nothing special about the day Cushla meets Michael, a married man from Belfast, in the pub owned by her family. But here, love is never far from violence, and this encounter will change both of their lives forever.
As people get up each morning and go to work, school, church or the pub, the daily news rolls in of another car bomb exploded, another man beaten, killed or left for dead. In the class Cushla teaches, the vocabulary of seven-year-old children now includes phrases like ‘petrol bomb’ and ‘rubber bullets’. And as she is forced to tread lines she never thought she would cross, tensions in the town are escalating, threatening to destroy all she is working to hold together.
Tender and shocking, Trespasses is an unforgettable debut of people trying to live ordinary lives in extraordinary times.
Somebody puts their cock in you and it’s the end of the world. Somebody stops putting their cock in you and it’s the end of the world. Here is a novel about mothering, wolves, bicycles, midwifery, post-apocalyptic feminism, gold, hunger and hope.
It’s about an underachieving millennial, a retired midwife and an Irishman who set out from London after the end of the world to cycle to a sanctuary in the southern Alps. It’s about the porousness of the female bodily experience, the challenges of being an empiricist with a sample size of one, what’s worth knowing, what’s worth living, and the necessity of irrationality. It’s about the fact that the world ends all the time, and it’s about what to try to do next.
