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    Young Enough to Hear

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    COLREAVY, SEAMUS

  • The Boy Who Started Celtic

    The Boy Who Started Celtic

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    THIS BOOK is the story of a boy, a calf and one of
    the biggest football clubs in the world.
    It is also a story of how one person can change
    many people’s lives.
    All great journeys begin with a single step. As a
    boy, Brother Walfrid did not know he was starting
    a great journey when he sold a calf at County
    Sligo’s Ballymote Fair and took the boat to
    Scotland.
    Every day, people are starting great journeys and
    they don’t even know it. They are just trying, like
    Walfrid, to make people’s lives better by helping
    others who are not as fortunate as them. Walfrid
    helped people and started one of the world’s most
    well-known football clubs.
    Perhaps readers of Brother Walfrid’s story may
    start a great journey of their own one day?

  • The Lamplighters of the Phoenix Park

    The Lamplighters of the Phoenix Park

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    The Phoenix Park in Dublin holds a special place in the collective memory of Irish people. From the assassinations of 1882 and the destruction of several imperial monuments, to the arrival of Douglas Hyde as Ireland’s first president and Pope John Paul’s 1979 visit, it has been at the centre of Irish society for centuries. But the park is also part and parcel of daily life for many Dubliners – none more so than the Flanagan family, who have been lighting the gas lamps within its walls since 1890.

    Here, historian Donal Fallon speaks to brothers Frank and James Flanagan, lamplighters of the park, to give us a snapshot of a fading tradition, and a unique history of one of Ireland’s most beloved places. With stunning photographs, historical events and personal stories, The Lamplighters of the Phoenix Park shines a light on the park at the centre of our national identity, through the prism of this singular family, whose histories have been intertwined for more than 150 years.

  • Home Kitchen

    Home Kitchen

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    Become a more confident, creative and instinctive home cook, with inspiration, tips, and delicious recipes from much-loved Irish cook Donal Skehan. In his new book, Donal brings us into the heart of his kitchen, showing us how he cooks for his family and what inspires him – from his granny’s handwritten recipes and his Irish heritage to his time living in LA. Donal shares delicious recipes from his many experiences and travels, as well as his decades as a home cook, that you’ll want to make time and again.

    Donal has all aspects of the week covered with chapters such as make-ahead Sundays, everyday dinners, weekday rush, slow-cooking weekend wins, and scrumptious desserts. Recipes include:Cauliflower Mac ‘n’ Cheese with Chorizo Crumbs; Sheet-Pan Sticky Korean Popcorn; Chicken with Rice and Slaw; Slow Cooker Butter Chicken; Prawn and Dill Rolls with Wild Garlic Mayo; Basque Burnt Cheesecake with Cherries; Irish Coffee, Hazelnut and Chocolate Tiramisu.

    Packed with amazing recipes, tips and tricks, this book will help you get the most out of every week and learn to truly love your own home kitchen.

  • A Mirror Looking Out

    A Mirror Looking Out

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    FERRIS, GORDON

  • The Bee Sting

    The Bee Sting

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    WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023WINNER OF AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS’ PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2024ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, The Sunday Times, The Economist, Observer, Guardian, Washington Post, Lit Hub, TIME magazine, Irish Times, The Oldie, Daily Mail, i Paper, Independent, The Standard, The Times, Kirkus, Daily Express, City A.M. ‘A tragicomic triumph. You won’t read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year’ GuardianThe Barnes family are in trouble.

    Until recently they ran the biggest business in town, now they’re teetering on the brink of bankruptcy – and that’s just the start of their problems. Dickie and Imelda’s marriage is hanging by a thread; straight-A student Cass is careening off the rails; PJ is hopelessly in debt to the school bully. Meanwhile the ghosts of old mistakes are rising out of the past to meet them, but everyone’s too wrapped up in the present to see the danger looming .

  • A Life Among The Dead

    A Life Among The Dead

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    MCGOWAN, DAVID

  • Nesting

    Nesting

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    WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2025THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2025’Tense, forensically realistic and compulsively readable. A real achievement’ SUNDAY TIMES‘Here is a novelist who has powerful news to tell, and an impressive range of narrative gifts with which to tell it’ IRISH TIMES‘Should become essential reading for all. Nesting? is a novel that truly matters’ SUNDAY INDEPENDENT’A moving portrait of life inside the housing system and the courage it takes to try to build a home in society’s cracks’? GUARDIAN_______________________________________________________________An extraordinary and urgent debut by a prize-winning Irish writer, NESTING introduces an unforgettable new voice in fiction. On a bright spring afternoon in Dublin, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything.
  • The Names

    The Names

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    A once-in-a-generation debut from a major new talent, The Names is the story of three names, three versions of a life, and the infinite possibilities that a single decision can spark. ‘I’ve just been blown away by the best debut novel in years . .

    . A genius idea for a book’ Sunday Times ‘Wildly original and emotionally profound’ Observer ‘An unadulterated success: moving, evocative and utterly convincing’ The Times THE PHENOMENAL SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLDIt is 1987, and in the wake of a great storm, Cora sets out with her young daughter to register the birth of her son. Her husband expects her to follow tradition and call the baby after him – but is it right for her child to inherit his name from generations of domineering men? Her choice will shape the course of their lives.

    Seven years later, her son is Bear, a name chosen by his sister, hoping he will grow up to be brave and big-hearted. Or he is Julian, the name his mother set her heart on, keen for him to become his own person. Or he is Gordon, named after his father and raised in his cruel image – but is there still a chance to break the mould? Powerfully moving and full of hope, this is the story of three names, three versions of a life, and the infinite possibilities that a single decision can spark.

    A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY, COSMOPOLITAN AND MANY MORE | A READ WITH JENNA AND HAPPY PLACE BOOKCLUB PICK ‘The viral literary hit’ Grazia ‘A beautiful, heartwrenching, utterly original novel’ Miranda Cowley Heller ‘One of those rare books that makes you glad to be alive’ Stylist ‘Magnificent . . .

    Read it. It’s very special’ Chris Whitaker ‘Beautifully written, and wise and tender . .

    . An utter original’ Jojo Moyes ‘Exceptional . .

    . will stay with me for a very long time’ Anita Rani, Woman’s Hour ‘Heart-shattering . .

    . a sucker punch of a novel’ Pandora Sykes ‘A modern classic’ Jenna Bush Hager ‘Heartbreaking and yet brimful of hope . .

    . Exceptional’ Mail on Sunday ‘Brilliant . .

    . one of those books that will make you irritable with anyone who interrupts you, but which you’ll finish wanting to press into the hands of a friend’ The Times ‘Astonishing, unique and incredibly moving, The Names is a beautiful novel about the courage of a mother in the moment she names her child . .

    . I know it will stay with me for a long time’ Jeanine Cummins

  • The Golf Rangers and the Mole in the hole

    The Golf Rangers and the Mole in the hole

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    Join Chip and Birdy on their fun adventure in the land of Friends and Fairways. Greenskeeper Bill has called the golf rangers, as a mole has been digging and the course is in danger! This well trusted team has arrived at the scene, to find the mole and save the greens!

     

  • The Correspondent

    The Correspondent

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    WINNER OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025AN IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK’A warm, funny gem of a novel’LAURA HACKETT, THE TIMES’Masterful . . .

    I was delighted and moved’NEW YORK TIMES ‘Immensely enjoyable’GUARDIAN’I can’t praise it enough. It’s an absolute triumph’CLARE CHAMBERS’What a novel! Tender, dry, sharp…devastating, but still feel good.’PANDORA SYKES ‘Tremendous’FREDRIK BACKMAN’Shows us what a glorious thing growing older can be’FLORENCE KNAPP’The year’s breakout novel no one saw coming’WALL STREET JOURNAL–Sybil Van Antwerp is seventy-three, slowly losing her sight and always writing letters . .

  • What Just happened

    What Just happened

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    Gallery Press

    Sara Berkeley Tolchin?s new collection begins: ?I?d like my heart /to be without conditions, / to crack each day a little more open?, an ambition these vibrant, airy poems explore in the book?s copious reach. It reflects on themes of loss and losing: ?My mother is missing. The stars too, / the stars are not where I left them, / they are not in their constellations.?

    As Wes Davis observed, in his Harvard Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry, ?her rich poems ? and her sharp eye for details of the natural world ? are given a resonant tension by the stretched ties to her native country?. What Just Happened includes poems set on the west coasts of Ireland and the United States. But ?the rumble beneath her poetic language? (Davis continues) ?is most often the noise made by the tectonic plates of personality as they shift beneath the surface terrain of relationships?.

     

  • UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING

    UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING

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    A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon; a man torn between his love for her and his womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals; while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance and weight – and we feel ‘the unbearable lightness of being’.

    A masterpiece by one of the world’s greatest writers, Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being encompasses passion and philosophy, infidelity and ideas, the Prague Spring and modern America, political acts and private desires, comedy and tragedy – in fact, all of human existence.

  • THE TRAVELS OF SORROW

    THE TRAVELS OF SORROW

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    The last book of poems written by the late Dermot Healy is a fitting tribute to his work.

  • THE SHINING

    THE SHINING

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    Description
    Before Doctor Sleep, there was The Shining, a classic of modern American horror from the undisputed master, Stephen King. Danny is only five years old, but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a ‘shiner’, aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Danny’s visions grow out of control.

  • The Garden of Evening Mists

    The Garden of Evening Mists

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    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE, WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE
    Teoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when she first heard about Aritomo and the garden. But a war would come to Malaya, and a decade pass before she would travel to see him. A man of extraordinary skill and reputation, Aritomo was once the gardener for the Emperor of Japan, and now Yun Ling needs him.

    She needs him to help her build a memorial to her beloved sister, killed at the hands of the Japanese. She wants to learn everything Aritomo can teach her, and do her sister proud, but to do so she must also begin a journey into her own past, a past inextricably linked with the secrets of her troubled country. A story of art, war, love and memory, The Garden of Evening Mists captures a dark moment in history with richness, power and incredible beauty.