The Shortest History of Ireland
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The Visit
€16.95Description‘The Visit is an engrossing and tender portrait of a small town under pressure … Stark and elemental – at the heart of the novel is a sort of quiet yearning and a longing for love and for completion that makes Neil Tully’s novel so brilliant and intriguing’ – Colm Tóibín”The lad is a bit like a stray dog. I keep an eye on him and throw him a few scraps.
There are plenty of people in this town who’d just as soon drop him off in the wilderness and hope there’s no scent to follow home. The problem is that Patrick could find his way out of any wilderness and they wouldn’t like whatever starved thing came back.”Sergeant Jim Field feels a guilty paternalism for Patrick Hatten, a young man struggling to find a job, a life and a purpose in a small-town Wexford community. Both are used to being on the fringes but while Jim is a romantic with bad health and regret, Patrick is full of anger and action, and his actions could have devastating effects.
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Finding Joy
€15.95DescriptionIllustrated by Steve Doogan. AN INSTANT NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER,A PERFECT GIFT FOR ANY OCCASION. A poetry lover, a curator of joy and a wise woman with a deep sense of compassion, Dearbhla Mescal has inspired thousands online to slow down, savour the small moments and rediscover the beauty in everyday life. Now, in her first book, she invites you to join her on a journey of reflection and renewal through a tender and uplifting collection of poems and heartfelt musings. -
Four Night Seas
€15.95DescriptionSet across liminal landscapes, this collection of fourteen stories from award-winning author Niamh Mac Cabe feature characters navigating emotional or existential thresholds—grieving, seeking meaning, or reconciling with the past. Whether it is a reclusive sculptor haunted by guilt, a lost child drawing maps in the sand, or a greyhound silently shadowing a man to a mountain lake, Mac Cabe’s lyrical prose and inventive narrative structures evoke an eerie, tender intimacy. Rich and atmospheric, exploring themes of memory, solitude, loss, and the mysterious rhythms of nature and human connection, this collection blurs the line between the internal and external world, and invites us into spaces of beauty, melancholy and subtle transformation. Four Night Seas marks the arrival of a vital new voice in Irish writing. -
The Truth About Ruby Cooper
€16.95DescriptionThe deliciously dark new suspense novel from the international bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
I couldn’t stop reading! Absolutely a triumph! Freida McFadden
What a read! A brilliantly dark and tangled web that every reader will be completely ensnared by Graham Norton
An utterly gripping story about how one incident reverberates across time, damaging and destroying lives. I read it as if in a fever Shari Lapena
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The Wellbeing Advantage
€17.95DescriptionAre you ready to transform your energy and resilience to thrive in work and life?The Wellbeing Advantage is a timely and transformative guide for modern professionals who want to feel more energised, focused and in control. Whether you’re seeking better balance, greater mental clarity or a smarter way to handle pressure, this book introduces seven simple science-backed habits to help you build resilience and protect your wellbeing, without overhauling your life. Dr Janine van Someren, a leading wellbeing consultant and expert in wearable technology, combines insights from high-performance coaching, behavioural change and the science of wellbeing to deliver results. -
Esther is now following you
€17.95Esther first sees Ted walking in a park in London. They lock eyes and for a fraction of a second, she feels something she s never felt before.
She starts by reading up about his life in Canada and his work as an actor.
Then she watches every interview with him online. It isn t long before she s joined Ted s fan site online where her and the Tedettes stalk his every move.
When Ted gets a new celebrity girlfriend, Esther decides that things have gone far enough. She leaves her husband, takes all their savings, and buys a one-way ticket to Canada.
After all, Ted might not know it yet, but they are meant to be together he just needs a little bit of persuading.
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Nesting
€12.00DescriptionWINNER 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. -
Sophie’s Swaps
€22.95Sophie Morris takes the guesswork out of shopping, replacing ultra-processed foods with cleaner alternatives that don’t compromise flavour. Along the way, she shares 50 tried-and-true recipes that make cooking from scratch easy, delicious and budget-friendly.
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Charlie Vs Garrett
€26.95DescriptionSHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2025’The best book about Irish politics you can read … O’Malley has produced one of the finest books ever written about modern Irish politics’ – William Stephens, Gript’A rattling good read’ – David McCullagh, RTÉ’A fantastic read’ – Hugh Linehan, Irish TimesThe two opposing political figures that shaped Irish life in the 1980s and beyond. In the 1980s, Irish politics was dominated by a fierce rivalry between Charles J.Haughey and Dr Garret FitzGerald, both leaders of their respective parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. Between them they each led all Irish governments in that decade; to say their two opposing personalities shaped Irish life during this era is an understatement. Eoin O’Malley has amassed an extraordinary body of research, including in-depth interviews with dozens of the most consequential public figures of the time, every Taoiseach, cabinet ministers, TDs, civil servants, and advisers.
As political rivals with different approaches to public life and contrasting visions for Ireland, each enshrined in quite different personalities, the choice between Haughey and FitzGerald came to signify a great deal more than party loyalty or policy preference: it felt like a choice between opposing worldviews. And, as O’Malley’s work finally makes clear through an accumulation of extraordinary insights, including interviews with Haughey and FitzGerald themselves, it was fed by a deep reservoir of personal insecurity and paranoia. Each was deeply preoccupied – obsessed even – with the strengths, appeal and threats of the other, to the extent that this rivalry itself became one of the decisive factors in Irish life that shaped Ireland well after they had left power.
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For and Against A United Ireland
€19.95DescriptionThe prospect of Irish unification is now stronger than at any point since partition in 1921. Voters on both sides of the Irish border may soon have to confront for themselves what the answer to a referendum question would mean – for themselves, for their neighbours, and for their society. Journalists Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride examine the strongest arguments for and against a united Ireland.What do the words ‘united Ireland’ even mean? Would it be better for Northern Ireland? Would it improve lives in the Republic of Ireland? And could it be brought about without bloodshed?O’Toole and McBride each argue the case for and against unity, questioning received wisdom and bringing fresh thinking to one of Ireland’s most intractable questions.
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Attention
€19.95DescriptionThe first collection of Booker Prize-winning writer Anne Enright’s non-fiction writing about culture, literature and her own life
‘Anne Enright might just be Ireland s greatest living writer’ THE TIMES
‘A joy to read’ MAGGIE O’FARRELL
For thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature and her own life, and gifting us with her precise insights.
These essays, collated from across Enright’s career, take us from Dublin to Galway, Canada to Honduras. They delve into Enright s own family history, and explore the free voices and controlled bodies of women in society and fiction. She offers new perspectives on writers including Alice Munro, Toni Morrison, James Joyce, Helen Garner and Angela Carter.
In Enright s fiction, speech can transform, rupture, enliven and liberate.
In these essays, she speaks to us directly. Electrifying, probing and exuberant, this is a defining collection from one of our most distinguished literary voices.
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The Dodger
€19.95There was a time when DJ Carey didn’t need a surname. The star player of a Kilkenny hurling team that dominated the sport for a decade, he had a rare, natural talent that led his county to five All Ireland titles and won him nine All Stars. DJ wasn’t just a hero on the pitch – his easy charm, generosity, and readiness to meet young fans made him a national treasure. Throughout his meteoric rise, strange rumours followed him. In 2003, shocking claims that DJ was dying of cancer swept the country. Who would spread such a story about one of Ireland’s most beloved sporting legends? And what could possibly be gained from it? Two decades later, the truth emerged. DJ Carey was arrested and charged with deception and forgery – accused of faking cancer to con money from those who trusted him most. For years, he had been telling the same lie to generous supporters who believed they were funding life-saving treatment in the U.S. In this riveting exposé, Eimear Ní Bhraonáin uncovers the extraordinary fall from grace of a national icon, and how he betrayed the fans that once loved him.
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Nobody’s Girl
€27.95DescriptionThe book no-one should have to write but we all have to read. ‘If books can shape history, this is one.’ DAILY MAIL‘Both devastating and uplifting … fearless and frank – angry and empowering. It speaks to the thousands of other victims out there about how to start fighting back.’ EMILY MAITLISThis is the extraordinarily powerful memoir by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the inspirational woman who stood up and spoke out about serial abusers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, and how they trafficked her, and others, to some of the world’s richest, most powerful men.‘Make no mistake: this is a book about power, corruption, industrial-scale sex abuse and the way in which institutions sided with the perpetrator over his victims. . .
. But it is also a book about how a young woman becomes a hero. .
. . Important [and] courageous.’ GUARDIANThis is Virginia’s story, in her own words.
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Always Remember
€21.95Description#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER · #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER‘One day you’ll look back and realise how hard it was, and just how well you did’Charlie Mackesy’s four unlikely friends are wandering through the wilds again. They’re not sure what they are looking for. They do know that life can be difficult, but that they love each other, and cake is often the answer.When the dark clouds come, can the boy remember what he needs to get through the storm?The hugely anticipated new book from Charlie Mackesy, revisiting the much-loved world of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – the bestselling adult non-fiction book of all time, with over ten million readers around the world.
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The Poems of Seamus Heaney
€43.95DescriptionA Times Literary Supplement , Telegraph and Financial Times Best Book of 2025’The glorious gathering-in of his achievement that is The Poems of Seamus Heaney, edited with meticulous care and luminous clarity. . .allows us for the first time to see his dozen formal collections as only the most visible peaks in a constantly rolling range of creativity.’ Fintan O’Toole, Observer’This book is a landmark. [and] lets us see Heaney’s work, whose ripples we are still learning to navigate, for the colossal achievement it is, and it reminds us that Heaney is not only a keeper but an enricher of the word-hoard.’ Philip Terry, GuardianThis is the long-awaited, definitive edition of Seamus Heaney’s poetry. It encompasses all the poems Heaney published in his lifetime as well as the small number that appeared after his death: twelve single volumes, from Death of a Naturalist (1966) to Human Chain (2010), and those poems published in pamphlets, journals and magazines or with limited circulation.
In addition, the book includes a selection of unpublished material chosen by the poet’s family. It is a body of work that, in its entirety, resounds with the ‘lyrical beauty and ethical depth’ cited by the Nobel committee: poems ‘which exalt everyday miracles and the living past.’Critical introductions to each collection and notes that illuminate the history and development of the poems make this the essential volume for admirers of Heaney’s work. ‘Heaney’s voice, by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive, is one of a suppleness almost equal to consciousness itself.’ Helen Vendler’More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of.’ John Carey’His is “closeup” poetry – close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions.