Books

  • Henry Kelly (1894-1920)

    Henry Kelly (1894-1920)

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    A short biographical study of Volunteer Henry Kelly of Ballygawley, Co. Sligo : An Easter rebel?of 1916, who was executed in Dublin on the 17th of October, 1920, during the war of Independence.

  • Jamie's Kitchen

    Jamie’s Kitchen

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    Jamie’s Kitchen guides you through tried and tested methods for classic food that’s full of flavourThis is the ultimate guide for people who love great food and want to cook. It’s packed with clear, no-nonsense advice and inspiration, as well as over 100 brand new recipes from the cookery course and the restaurant. Jamie’s Kitchen walks you through techniques like poaching, braising and pot-roasting and gives you the skill you’ll need to create beautiful, feel-good food.

    From delicate Citrus Seared Tuna with Crispy Noodles, Herbs and Chilli to succulent Barolo poached Fillet Steak with Celeriac Mash, there are dishes for every occasion. Jamie’s approach is honest and easy – this is not a heavy duty ‘cook like a professional’ book, weighed down with facts, figures and techniques. Jamie guides you through different cooking methods – from poaching and boiling, to char-grilling and pot-roasting.

    Jamie Oliver encourages you to have confidence, a sense of independence, a laugh and – importantly – to be the boss in your own kitchen.

    ‘Jamie offers lots of his chunky, hunky dishes for feeding the hungry, and lathers the whole lot with ladlefuls of encouragement’ Daily Telegraph

  • Powered to Fall, Empowered to Rise

    Powered to Fall, Empowered to Rise

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    About the Book

    I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at the age of 30. At the same time I was looking to start a new life in Australia and had just met Des (my fiancé) while working at an Irish bar.

    Des stood by me through this illness and supported me in ways I could have never imagined with his love. After having to cancel our wedding in 2018 and give up work, we finally found our happy place in 2020.

    The love that Des showed me during this time and the illness inspired me to write a book so that I could help others who are also going through a difficult time. The book writes about the lessons I learnt in my own life on health, wealth, love and happiness.

    It is my hope that in sharing lessons from my own life that it will help others and inspire others that love will always shine through no matter how dark our days are. This book has been written from my heart to yours.

  • Pony

    Pony

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    The highly anticipated, unforgettable new story from the internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning author of WONDER.

    When Silas Bird wakes in the dead of night, he watches powerlessly as three strangers take his father away. Silas is left shaken, scared and alone, except for the presence of his companion, Mittenwool . .

    . who happens to be a ghost. But then a mysterious pony shows up at his door, and Silas knows what he has to do.

    So begins a perilous journey to find his father – a journey that will connect him with his past, his future, and the unknowable world around him.

    PONY is destined to become a future classic.

  • 7 1/2

    7 1/2

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    A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in the pyrotechnic beauty of nature, just as the world he has shut out is experiencing a cataclysmic shift. The preoccupations that have galvanised him and his work fall away and he becomes lost in memory and beauty.

    He begins to tell us a story … A retired porn star who is made an offer he can’t refuse for the sake of his family and future. So he returns to the world he fled years before, all too aware of the danger of opening the door to past temptations and long-buried desires.

    Can he resist the oblivion and bliss they promise? A breathtakingly audacious novel by the acclaimed author of The Slap and Damascus about finding joy and beauty in a raging and punitive world, about the refractions of memory and time and, most subversive of all, the mystery of art and its creation.

  • Young Mungo

    Young Mungo

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    Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught between two of Glasgow’s housing estates where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation. They should be sworn enemies if they’re to be seen as men at all, and yet they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the doocot that James has built for his prize racing pigeons.

    As they begin to fall in love, they dream of escaping the grey city, and Mungo must work hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his elder brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold. But the threat of discovery is constant and the punishment unspeakable. When Mungo’s mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in Western Scotland, with two strange men behind whose drunken banter lie murky pasts, he needs to summon all his inner strength and courage to get back to a place of safety, a place where he and James might still have a future. Imbuing the everyday world of its characters with rich lyricism, Douglas Stuart’s Young Mungo is a gripping and revealing story about the meaning of masculinity, the push and pull of family, the violence faced by so many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much.

  • LISTOGHIL A SEASONAL ALIGNMENT? (Revised 2023)

    LISTOGHIL A SEASONAL ALIGNMENT? (Revised 2023)

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    Listoghil, the central monument and focal point of the Carrowmore passage tomb complex close to Sligo in north-west Ireland, has been ruined, excavated and eventually partially restored. However, the chamber is preserved in its original position. The author examines the hypothesis that Listoghil was deliberately aligned to mark seasonal transitions equivalent to astronomical cross-quarter days. The methods include a horizon survey, the isolation of directional features in the monument, and computer modelling of the monument and skyscape. Folklore and legends around seasonal transits, locally, in Ireland, and in many and varied (and independently arising) contexts at temperate latitudes of the world, are seen as information sources complementary to data gathering and observation.

  • The Outsiders

    The Outsiders

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    The Socs and the Greasers are rival gangs from the opposite sides of town. The Socs’ idea of a good time is cruising around town in their flash car and beating up the long-haired greasers line Ponyboy. Ponyboy knows what to expect and he can count on his older brothers and other friends – until one night when someone takes things too far. Ponyboy may seem tough but on the inside he’s running scared. . .

  • HOW MANY MILES TO BABYLON?

    HOW MANY MILES TO BABYLON?

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    JOHNSTON, JENNIFER

  • The Poisonwood Bible

    The Poisonwood Bible

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    An international bestseller and a modern classic, this suspenseful epic of one family’s tragic undoing and their remarkable reconstruction has been read, adored and shared by millions around the world. This story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it – from garden seeds to Scripture – is calamitously transformed on African soil.
  • The Innocents

    The Innocents

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    A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland’s northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children with only the barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but the family’s boat and the little knowledge passed on haphazardly by their mother and father to keep them.

    Muddling through the severe round of the seasons, through years of meagre catches and storms and ravaging illness, it is their fierce loyalty to each other that motivates and sustains them. But soon, even that loyalty will be tested.

  • Ghost Wall

    Ghost Wall

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    It is high summer in rural Northumberland.

    Seventeen-year-old Silvie and her parents have joined an encampment run by an archaeology professor with an interest in the region’s dark history of ritual sacrifice. As Silvie finds a glimpse of new freedoms with the professor’s students, her relationship with her overbearing father begins to deteriorate, until the haunting rites of the past begin to bleed into the present.

    I have never read a novel this slender that holds inside it quite so much. Wild, calm, dark yet hopeful… This book ratcheted the breath out of me so skilfully that as soon as I’d finished, the only thing I wanted was to read it again‘ Jessie Burton

  • ANIMAL FARM

    ANIMAL FARM

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    ‘All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.’ Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, leads to the animals taking over the farm.

    Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm is organised to benefit all who walk on four legs. But as time passes, the ideals of the rebellion are corrupted, then forgotten. And something new and unexpected emerges.

    First published in 1945, Animal Farm – the history of a revolution that went wrong – is George Orwell’s brilliant satire on the corrupting influence of power.

    Remains our great satire of the darker face of modern history‘ Malcolm Bradbury

  • Night Waking

    Night Waking

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    Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write. She also has an insomniac toddler, a precocious, death-obsessed seven-year-old, and a frequently absent ecologist husband who has brought them all to Colsay, a desolate island in the Hebrides, so he can count the puffins. Ferociously sleep-deprived, torn between mothering and her desire for the pleasures of work and solitude, Anna becomes haunted by the discovery of a baby’s skeleton in the garden of their house.

    Her narrative is punctuated by letters home, written 200 years before, by May, a young, middle-class midwife desperately trying to introduce modern medicine to the suspicious, insular islanders. The lives of these two characters intersect unexpectedly in this deeply moving but also at times blackly funny story about maternal ambivalence, the way we try to control children, and about women’s vexed and passionate relationship with work. Moss’s second novel displays an exciting expansion of her range – showing her to be both an excellent comic writer and a novelist of great emotional depth.

  • The Motion of the body Through Space

    The Motion of the body Through Space

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    From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin.

    All her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled – but now that she’s hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. And her previously sedentary husband Remington chooses this precise moment to discover exercise. As he joins the cult of fitness, her once-modest husband burgeons into an unbearable narcissist.

    When he announces his intention to compete in a legendarily gruelling triathlon, Serenata is sure he’s going to end up injured or dead – but the stubbornness of an ageing man in Lycra is not to be underestimated. The story of an obsession, of a marriage, of a betrayal: The Motion Of The Body Through Space is Lionel Shriver at her hilarious, sharp-eyed, audacious best.

  • Because of You

    Because of You

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    Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock … midnight. As the old millennium turns into the new, two very different women give birth to two very similar daughters.

    Hope leaves with a beautiful baby girl. Anna leaves with empty arms. Seventeen years later, the truth of that night starts rolling, terrible and deep, toward them all.

    A reckoning is coming. Lives will collide. And mother-love will be tested … Because Of You is Dawn French’s stunning new novel, told with her signature humour, warmth and so much love.

    I absolutely loved Because of You. Fantastic, passionate, compassionate, so much wisdom, a lot of humour, very real and credible‘ Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other.