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€22.95
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Beneath our feet, in our hedgerows, trees and under our seas lies a complex community of beings that goes unseen and unheard by us humans. Soil is the stuff of life itself, bustling with microbes, fungi, beetles and earthworms that soften seeds, nurture saplings and provide all the potential for spring’s bounty. Ferns, primroses, wild violet and canopy leaves of overhead trees are the framework for the hidden power behind a butterfly wing or the singing of a wren.
Here, Anja Murray fills us with wonder for the wonderful world of Ireland’s wild plants and animals through the seasons. From fungi to the origins of feral pigeons, primroses to sea turtles, each piece contains elements of science, history and folklore. Witness the extraordinary mating rituals of frogs and hares.
Discover the incredible secret language of mice in their epic daily battle to survive and avoid capture with the swoop of the sparrowhawk.
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€16.95
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After years of moving from place to place, a young family finds shelter in an isolated house in the Irish countryside. Their father is missing, Mum is a healer and B a formidable big sister. In his strange new territory, a wild little boy gives voice to his experience.
Jerry Drain, a local famer, is stealing hay from the barn, someone is making nasty phone calls to the house at night and darkness is gathering at the edges of their lives. With his ferocious imagination the boy will do everything in his power to protect his family. But Jerry will not go away and Mum seems to be falling under his spell.
It will be a year of major wins and baffling defeats for the boy, as Jerry’s true nature insists on revealing itself. Dark, funny, tender and raw, Frogs for Watchdogs thrums with the intensity of childhood. Above all, it is an ode to the blended family: the bewildering joy, wary safety and profound new bonds of love.
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€13.50
On the August bank holiday weekend in 1979, 14-year-old Timothy Knatchbull went out on a boat trip off the shore of Mullaghmore in County Sligo, Ireland. It was a trip that would cost four lives – and change his own forever.
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€22.95
The Sea Area Forecast is broadcast daily on RTE radio at 6 a.m. and midnight. Foretelling fair days or fierce storms coming in across our seas, it has become a national institution – its hypnotic, rhythmic language as reassuring as the Angelus.
Acting as a gentle morning wake-up call and a soothing bedtime lullaby, it transports us to faraway places and describes weather patterns we can’t comprehend. From Mizen Head to Malin, Valentia to Loop Head, and Carlingford Lough to Hook Head – rising or falling slowly, backing south-east to north-east or veering south-to-south-west – it has a unique language all of its own, but what does it all mean? Here, meteorologist Joanna Donnelly takes readers on a journey around Ireland’s Sea Area Forecast, visiting the places that are a familiar part of the daily broadcast and explaining its unique history, language and science.
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€35.00
The true story of the murder of three Irish-born Police Officers by the infamous Australian Bushranger, Edward ‘Ned’ Kelly, in Victoria, Australia, on the 26th October 1878.
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€17.99
The essential sing-along companion to the world of Frozen. The Frozen Essential Collection takes you deep into the world of Disney’s award-winning movie, Frozen. A beautiful slipcase houses an Essential Guide with all the lyrics and a sticker book.
Sing along to your favourite Frozen songs with the lyrics right in front of you and create your own Frozen scenes with the bright stickers inside. Find out about your favourite characters, explore Arendelle, and delve into the key scenes of the movie. With stunning images, more than 150 full-colour reusable stickers and a soundchip that plays a clip from “Let It Go”, this is a must for every fan of Frozen.
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€25.00
Shannon: Irish University Press, 1970. Photo-lithographic reprint of the Cuala Press original. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. Opaque dust Jacket.
Near fine
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€19.95
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How do you feel about embracing Ireland’s native tongue? At odds after a tricky relationship at school? Maybeyou’ve given up, or don’t know where to start?Well, is fada an bóthar nach mbÃonn casadh ann – long is the road that has no turn and, in this book, the road is about to turn. Molly Nic Céile – creator of social media sensation for Irish-language learners and lovers Gaeilge i Mo Chroà – invites us to connect with Irish in our hearts, as we set out on a journey of renewed pride sa Ghaeilge. Using seanfhocail agus scéalta, proverbs and stories, and with plenty of craic along the way – including the hilarious ‘if Irish were English’ approach to better understanding sentence structure – the book offers guidance on bringing Irish into our everyday lives, supported by useful word and phrase glossaries throughout.
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€11.95
The first volume in the hugely popular and highly acclaimed epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. There is passion here, and misery and charm, grandeur and squalor, tragedy, nobility and courage. Now a major Sky Atlantic TV series from HBO, starring Sean Bean.
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€11.99
HBO’s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin’s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A STORM OF SWORDS: STEEL AND SNOW is the FIRST part of the third volume in the series.
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€10.95
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The new children’s book from No. 1 bestselling author David Walliams – an extraordinarily brilliant and rollicking mystery adventure illustrated by artistic genius, Tony Ross, and the sequel to the much-loved and bestselling Gangsta Granny.Ben is getting used to life without his beloved granny. She was a cabbage enthusiast, a Scrabble partner…
and an international jewel thief known as The Black Cat. Now, only the memory of their extraordinary adventure to steal the Crown Jewels lives on. Then something inexplicable happens.
World-famous treasures are stolen in the dead of night and the clues point to none other than The Black Cat? But that’s impossible…?Expect the unexpected in this wonderfully entertaining and laugh-out-loud adventure, which will have readers on the edge of their seats as they join Ben on his quest to unravel the mystery of the return of The Black Cat.This first ever sequel from David Walliams will delight new fans, as well as the millions of readers that have loved Gangsta Granny.
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€9.95
New edition 2014 Over 100,000 copies sold!
With just under 200,000 people waiting to do the test and a failure rate of 50%. This is the book they need to know about. Why? It is the only book focused on actually passing the driving test on the day. How often do you get to see the exam paper before the exam. The only book that examines the actual new test score sheet – used by the Department of Transport test examiners. Author is a driving instructor and reveals the tricks of the trade. The books contains the following: Luas signs, port tunnel signs, updated metric speed limits, cycle tracks, bus lanes. PASS IT FIRST TIME!
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€20.00
Ghost Mountain, is a simple fable-like novel about a mountain that appears suddenly, and the way in which its manifestation ripples through the lives of characters in the surrounding community. It looks at the uncertain fragile sense of self we hold inside ourselves, and our human compulsion to project it into the uncertain world around us, whether we’re ready or not. It is also about the presence of absence, and how it shadows us in our lives.
Mountains are at once unmistakably present yet never truly fathomable.
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€10.50
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
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€8.00
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John Gilligan is one of the most notorious and hated criminal figures in Irish history. His name is indelibly etched in the national psyche a quarter of a century after he crossed the line to organise the execution of the fearless, high-profile journalist Veronica Guerin. Gilligan’s motive for the assassination was, in the words of the prosecution at a subsequent murder trial, ‘the necessity of having to protect an evil empire’.
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€12.50
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019, BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR & FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020, THE SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLER
‘The most absorbing book I read all year.’ Roxane Gay
This is Britain as you’ve never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years.
They’re each looking for something – a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope . . .
