Books

  • Everything that is Beautiful

    Everything that is Beautiful

    16.95

    ‘I absolutely loved it. So realistic about the complexity of loving people who will break our hearts’Marian KeyesFROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF SNOWFLAKE – AN UNFORGETTABLE STORY OF TWO FAMILIES RIVEN BY ONE GREAT SECRET. For Niamh Ryan, the Foleys are family.

    Her childhood flew by on their farm, playing with her best friend Peter and his sister Kate – all the while being doted on by their mother Helen and coached by their father Liam, a legendary former hurling player. Now, following a distressing series of events, the family ties are strained. Niamh receives drunken phone calls and messages from Peter who can’t understand what derailed their burgeoning relationship three years ago.

    Meanwhile, Helen Foley is trying her best to escape her life by checking into guesthouses under the names of women she went to school with. In her life in Belfast, Kate is attempting to hold down a job and a relationship while carrying the weight of the family’s secrets, and feeling like she is the one to blame. As a family wedding looms, and the women find themselves face to face, the knotty love that still binds Niamh, Helen and Kate might just bring them back together again.

    Told through the perspectives of three very different women, Everything That Is Beautiful unfolds the story of one complicated family in startlingly honest prose. By turns funny and deeply moving, and with unmatched emotional intelligence, this is an unforgettable story of love and family, heartbreak and hope – and who we might become after we pick up the pieces. Praise for Everything That Is Beautiful’Vivid and compelling.

    A big-hearted, immersive novel about the complex bonds of family and friendships’ Roisin O’Donnell, award-winning author of NESTING’I truly loved it. Nealon has such a talent for conveying the intimate and devastating multitudes of family life. Bittersweet, wise, full of humour and heart’ Grainne O’Hare, author of THIRST TRAP ‘Intimate and panoramic, tender-hearted and clear-eyed, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny.

    A book you’ll read and love, then immediately buy for those you love’ Colin Walsh, number 1 bestselling author of KALA’A deeply moving exploration of all the joys and pains of living in community. Beautifully written, funny, emotionally complex and always quietly hopeful. I loved it’ Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin, award-winning author of ORDINARY SAINTS’I BLOODY LOVED IT.

    Complicated families, gorgeous fully- realised characters, heartbreak and laughter’ Jennie Godfrey, bestselling author of THE LIST OF SUSPICIOUS THINGS’Fresh and engaging . . .

    Her characters are alive and real, and the familial relationships, with all their petty cruelties and their bumbling acts of love, are so acutely observed’ Claire Gleeson, author of SHOW ME WHERE IT HURTS’Wrought with tension, humour, irreverence and warmth. The Foleys will inhabit your heart long after the last page’ Charleen Hurtubise, author of SAOIRSE——————————————————-From the acclaimed author of SNOWFLAKE *A number one international bestseller*Winner of Newcomer of the Year at the AN Post Irish Book Awards*A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime pick*Chosen as the official read of the One Dublin One Book campaign’Wonderful and mad’ Roddy Doyle’Sparks with tender charm and humour . .

    . Fresh, bleakly funny’ Sunday Times’Tender, laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving’ Louise O’Neill

  • Whatever Happened To Madeline Stone?

    Whatever Happened To Madeline Stone?

    17.50

    From #1 bestselling author of IDOL comes an addictive new book club mystery, perfect for fans of DAISY JONES AND THE SIX and I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED’A glamorous, sexy, fascinating read about damaged people and what really happens to child-stars’ – Marian Keyes, internationally bestselling author of Again, Rachel2002Twin sisters Madeline and Chelsea Stone are joint stars of the AtomicKids sitcom Double Trouble, but everyone knows it’s Maddie who shines most brightly. Until Chelsea beats her sister out for the role of a lifetime and is catapulted into the spotlight. But just as Chelsea’s star reaches impossible new heights, Maddie disappears.

    2025Chelsea Stone retired from acting after her sister’s disappearance – but living life under the radar is easier said than done when you’re the most famous woman of your generation. When a storage locker is found containing heart-breaking truths about the year Maddie went missing, Chelsea feels a flicker of hope for the first time in twenty years. This is her chance to discover what really happened to her twin, but to follow the trail, is she ready to face the past and step back into the spotlight?Praise for Whatever Happened to Madeline Stone?’Utterly addictive.

    Her best book yet’ – Andrea Mara, Sunday Times bestselling author of All Her Fault’Unflinching, devastating and gripping whilst masterfully weaving hope and courage in its aftermath’ – Nikita Gill, bestselling author of Hekate’Razor-sharp and utterly spellbinding’ – Catherine Doyle, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Dagger and the Flame’Confronting, compulsive and profound’ – Sophie White, award-winning author of My Hot Friend’Addictive, propulsive and deliciously enraging’ – Daisy Buchanan, bestselling author of Insatiable’I devoured the book in two sittings – with so many talking points, it’s destined to be a book club hit’ – Hannah Beckerman, bestselling author of The Forgetting‘This is O’Neill at her best, combining compelling characters and plot with incisive commentary on fame, power and men’s bad behaviour’ RED‘Emotional and compelling, the story exposes the cost of celebrity, and how ambition and scrutiny can shape – and destroy – family bonds’ WOMAN & HOME‘Addictive and nostalgic, this one’s perfect for group chats and book clubs’ HEAT’Y2K is back, baby! I love this woman Louise O’Neill and just wish she wrote twice as fast’ ? ? ? ? ?’It’s a gripping mystery that doesn’t shy away from the darker side of Hollywood and I loved it!’ ? ? ? ? ?’If there’s one author who guarantees an instant TBR reshuffle, it’s Louise O’Neill . . .

    A thought-provoking, unputdownable read’ ? ? ? ? ?’Fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid will love this. I can’t recommend it highly enough. Simply superb! All hail Queen Louise!’ ? ? ? ? ?’Wow! A phenomenal read from a superb writer that cannot be missed’ ? ? ? ? ?’Will I ever meet a Louise O’Neill book I won’t give 5 stars to? I don’t think so!’ ? ? ? ? ?

  • The Ending Writes Itself

    The Ending Writes Itself

    16.50

    ‘In the running for the best mystery of 2026’ Stephen King * Special Collector’s Edition available to the first hardback print run only! Featuring a stunning foil on board design beneath the dust jacket and exclusive illustrated endpapers – pre-order your copy now! Available while stocks last * Evelyn Clarke is the pseudonym for Number One Sunday Times bestselling author V.E. Schwab, and screenwriter and YA author Cat Clarke. SELECTED FOR 2026 ONES TO WATCH: Daily Express, Daily Mirror, Radio Times, BBC News Online, Stylist, Scotland on Sunday, The Herald Scotland, My Weekly, The Scotsman, Muddy Stilettos Berkshire ‘A cracking read’ Val McDermid ‘Smart, original and completely addictive’ Karin Slaughter ‘And Then There Were None meets Yellowface’ Kate Mosse ‘The most fun I’ve had with a book in a very, very long time’ A.

    J. Finn, Number One Sunday Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window * * * * It’s the perfect plot. All it needs is a killer ending.

    Six authors. One private island. Seventy-two hours to write the ending.

    * * * * World-famous author Arthur Fletch is dead. His final novel, the most anticipated book in history, remains unfinished. But the ending won’t write itself.

    When six struggling authors are invited to Fletch’s private Scottish island and presented with the opportunity of a lifetime, the plot thickens: whoever writes a worthy ending will receive a game-changing book deal and two million dollars. Why have they been chosen to attend? Who is behind the invitation? And just how far would they go to secure a place on the bestseller list? They have just seventy-two hours, a typewriter and a blank page. All they have to do is write… Starting is often the hardest part.

    But getting to the end could be murder. * * * * ‘Hugely entertaining and thrilling’ B A Paris ‘Full of twists and turns … A must-read for any mystery fan!’ G.T. Karber ‘Fiendishly clever and compulsively readable… An absolute must read’ Ellery Lloyd ‘Funny, razor sharp and scarily relatable’ Sarah Crossan ‘A wonderfully twisty mystery that plays with all the tropes we know so well.

    An absolute delight to read!’ Phoenicia Rogerson

  • The Keeper

    The Keeper

    16.95

    A gripping new mystery from the million-copy-bestselling author Tana FrenchOn a cold night in a remote Irish village, a girl goes missing. Sweet, loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead, she’s dead in the river.

    In a place like this, her death isn’t simple. It comes wrapped in generations-old grudges and power struggles, and it splits the townland in two. Retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper has friends here now and he owes them loyalty, but his fiancée Lena wants nothing to do with Ardnakelty’s tangles.

    As the feud becomes more vicious, their settled peace starts to crack apart. And when they uncover a scheme that casts a new light on Rachel’s death and threatens the whole village, they find themselves in the firing line. PRAISE FOR TANA FRENCH‘Incandescent’ Stephen King‘Mesmerising’ Gillian Flynn‘Masterful’ Chris Whitaker‘If you haven’t read Tana French yet, I really highly recommend that you do’ Harlan Coben‘Among the first rank of great literary novelists’ Observer’Crime fiction’s biggest contemporary star’ Guardian

  • Mother Mary Comes To Me

    Mother Mary Comes To Me

    19.95

    The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small ThingsTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFOYLES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025AUDIBLE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025BLACKWELL’S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025WINNER OF THE GOOGLE PLAY BEST OF 2025 AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2026SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2026Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as ‘my shelter and my storm’. Distraught and even a “little ashamed” at the intensity of her response to the death of the mother she ran from at age eighteen, Arundhati began to write Mother Mary Comes to Me. The result is this astonishing, disconcerting, surprisingly funny chronicle—unique and simultaneously universal, of the author’s life, from childhood to the present, from Kerala to Delhi.

    With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace—a memoir like no other. 2025 BOOK OF THE YEAR ACCORDING TO NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, TIME, INDEPENDENT, FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, OBSERVER

  • Hooked

    Hooked

    16.95

    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Tender and thrilling it’s Yuzuki at her best’ ELLE ‘Deliciously satisfying’ iPAPER ‘Enjoyable and addictive’ INDEPENDENT ‘Fantastically dark’ ERIN KELLY The thrilling new novel of friendship and dangerous obsession from Asako Yuzuki, the award-winning author of the global sensation Butter. Eriko really wouldn’t mind being savaged, if it was her best friend doing the savaging … Eriko’s life appears perfect – devoted parents, pristine apartment and a high-flying job in the seafood division of one of Japan’s largest trading companies. Her latest project, to reintroduce the controversial Nile perch fish into the Japanese market, is characteristically ambitious.

    But beneath her flawless surface she is wracked by loneliness. Eriko becomes fascinated with a popular blog written by a housewife, Shoko. Shoko’s posts about convenience-store food and her messy home are the opposite of the typical manicured housewife.

    When Eriko tracks Shoko down at her favourite restaurant, Shoko is at first charmed by her new companion. But soon Eriko’s obsession with Shoko begins to spiral out of control. How far will she go to hold on to the best friend she’s ever had? Beautifully translated by Polly Barton, Hooked is a delicious exploration of food, loneliness and womanhood in contemporary Japan.

    A most anticipated book in Vogue, Guardian, New York Times, The Times, Sunday Times Style, Elle, Stylist, Grazia and more. ‘Expect to see this distinctive pink cover everywhere’ GRAZIA ‘A psychological thriller with a social commentary bite’ INDEPENDENT ‘Unsettling, compelling, richly written’ JODIE HARSH, author of You Had to Be There ‘Translated with crackling verve’ GUARDIAN ‘I couldn’t stop reading’ COSTANZA CASATI, author of Babylonia ‘Stayed with me for weeks’ IRISH TIMES ‘Tremendous – an elegantly written … dissection of female friendship’ THE GLOSS ‘You can’t fail to be reeled in’ SERVICE95 ‘Will leave you gasping’ TOBI COVENTRY, author of He’s the Devil ‘No one writes about the lurking monstrosities of womanhood quite like Asako Yuzuki’ ALICE SLATER, author of Death of a Bookseller

  • The Wisdom of Farmers

    The Wisdom of Farmers

    14.95

    ‘There is hard-won wisdom here, and good cheer, and a reminder that the world is much wider, older and more interesting than you’d think’ BILL McKIBBEN’Kind, wise and immensely readable’ TIM FLANNERYA thoughtful, illuminating rumination on the life lessons we can take from those who work the land and the millennia of wisdom they draw upon when they go about their day, ‘making a living by turning light and time into money’. As with his previous bestsellers, John Connell skilfully synthesises philosophy, art, literature and spirituality to bolster his thoughts on such topics as stoicism, the food chain and the role of community, leaving the reader convinced of the importance of connecting with their own inner farmer.

  • A Beautiful Loan

    A Beautiful Loan

    17.95

    My name is Anna, and for some time now, I have been trying to account for certain events in my life – my adult life, that is – which, from this vantage point of forty-five years, I often find baffling . . .

    In 1985 Dublin, nineteen-year-old Anna Hughes is in thrall to Peter Gallagher, an older, worldly man. Anna is introverted and naïve, and Peter’s experience, wide circle of friends and thirst for adventure captivate her. Her obsessive longing for him leads to marriage and, eventually, a crushing betrayal.

    As Anna’s life becomes less predictable, she uncovers deeper layers of herself. Her journey gives an intimate portrait of a woman embracing herself as she is, claiming the life she yearns for.

  • The Lock-Keeper's Wife

    The Lock-Keeper’s Wife

    15.95

    Julie McDermot has just been released from ‘The Mental’, the psychiatric institution where her husband committed her after the devastating loss of their two infant children. Returning to her narrow, lonely life along the canal, Julie is haunted by grief and the aching absence of what might have been. As she struggles to piece herself back together, an unexpected encounter with a stranger along the canal offers a glimmer of connection and the fragile possibility of hope.

    Their encounter also brings long-submerged realities to the surface, to a place where they can no longer be ignored; exploring Ireland’s dark history of institutional incarceration and offering a profound glimpse of hopein a stunning portrait of a woman’s life. Moving and deeply evocative, this novel is a powerful meditation on sorrow, isolation, and the surprising ways joy can return to even the most broken heart.

  • All Them Dogs

    All Them Dogs

    17.95
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    ***SELECTED AS A 2026 BOOK TO WATCH IN THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY INDEPENDENT, RTE***

    ‘One of the debuts of the year’ Irish Times

    ‘A stylish, adroit and gritty debut’ Anne Enright

    ‘A book you inhale, devour, grapple with, and reel from more than read’ Marlon James

    ‘Exhilarating and often frightening . . .

    a hugely satisfying read’ Roddy Doyle

    ‘As beautiful and tough as an uncut jewel’ Colin Walsh

    ‘A moving, fast-paced novel . . .

    written in prose at once glittering and tender’ Sarah Moss

    ‘Frenetic and exhilarating . . .

    has the energy and drama of a shoot-out’ Rob Doyle

    Things are different since Tony Ward landed back in town. The West Dublin gangland has changed. His old mentor is dead, and his best pal Kenny Boyle is on the straight and narrow.

  • The News from Dublin

    The News from Dublin

    16.95
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    The instant Sunday Times besteller

    ‘The work of a writer who has once again demonstrated complete command of his craft’ – The Irish Times
    ‘Short stories to astonish and delight’ Financial Times
    ‘Tales of quiet power’ The Guardian

    In The News from Dublin, a beautiful collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island, Colm Toibin delves into the days and nights of those living far from home: lives of great longing, at a great distance from past lives and past selves.

    A woman in Galway hears of the death of her son in the First World War. An Irishman seeks anonymity in Barcelona, haunted by crimes he has committed. A man goes to Dublin from Enniscorthy to implore the Minister for Health for a special favour.

  • The Shortest History of Ireland

    The Shortest History of Ireland

    17.95

    Hawes, James

  • The Visit

    The Visit

    16.95
    Description

    ‘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.

  • Finding Joy

    Finding Joy

    15.95
    Description
    Illustrated 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

    Four Night Seas

    15.95
    Description
    Set 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

    The Truth About Ruby Cooper

    16.95
    Description

    The 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