Books

  • In Nearly Every House

    In Nearly Every House

    20.00

    This book contains biographies along with
    black and white photographs featuring
    over one hundred traditional musicians
    from counties Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon
    and Mayo. Through the author’s unique
    personal and musical connection to the
    musicians of the North Connacht region,
    he uses a conversational interview style to
    draw out their stories, revealing both the
    individual and collective experience within
    that tradition.

  • To Walk in My Native Place

    To Walk in My Native Place

    20.00

    To Walk in My Native Place

    By Bernadette McCarrick

    A book of poems with an accompanying set of photographs on the theme of Native Place.

    A coffee table book merging poetry and photography.

    “The poems in this collection are a lovingly observed portrait of the poet’s home place. Each poem captures a moment, a place or an event in a language that is evocative yet never sentimental.”

    Gerry Boland – September, 2020

  • Sligo Field Club Journal Vol 6

    Sligo Field Club Journal Vol 6

    20.00

    Martin Wilson Presidential

    Martin A. Timoney Editorial

    Don C.F. Cotton
    Peat and wood deposits along the seashore of Co. Sligo

    Martin A. Timoney
    Early Bronze Age Cist Grave, Moylough, 1928

    Martin A. Timoney
    Imitative Fert Burials, Knocknashammer

    Brian Lacey
    Cúl Dreimne, Drumcliff and Colum Cille

    Jim Higgins
    Some County Sligo Rood Lofts

    Jim Higgins
    Medieval Men in Feathered Suits at Sligo Abbey

    Conor MacHale
    Ó Dubhda Family of Sligo

    Eamonn P. Kelly
    Antiquarian Research in Co. Sligo

    Eamonn P. Kelly
    Battle of Moytura and the Enchanted Forge

    John McKeon
    Lord Palmerston’s Sligo Town Properties

    Peter Henry
    Some Sligo-related Armorial Bookplates

    John Mullaney
    V.E. Day 2020

    Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich
    Monasterredan: How Looks Can Deceive

    Harry Keaney
    Field-names ‘Sketch the Land in Language’

    Ben Healy
    God-out-of-the-Bottle

    Rory Callagy
    Remembering Des Smith

  • 10-Kieran Quinn + The Theme Night Ensemble

    10-Kieran Quinn + The Theme Night Ensemble

    20.00

    A hardcover coffee table book, a comprehensive pictorial account of the Theme Night story (adult and teenage) over the last 10 years. A few good stories in there too.

  • The Boy, the mole, the fox and the horse

    The Boy, the mole, the fox and the horse

    20.00

    Charlie Mackesy’s beloved The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse has been adapted into an animated short film, coming to BBC One and iPlayer this Christmas. This beautifully made hardback celebrates the work of over 100 animators across two years of production – with Charlie’s distinctive illustrations brought to life in full colour with hand-drawn traditional animation and accompanying hand-written script.

    “I made a film with some friends about a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse – their journey together and the boy’s search for home. I hope this book gives you courage and makes you feel loved.” Love Charlie x

  • Finding Hope

    Finding Hope

    20.00

    Hope is needed in our daily lives now more than ever. Wars and the pandemic, along with the ongoing climate crisis, are affecting the lives of many people all over the world. In this difficult time, hope is the unifying force to carry us through the despair. To inspire others to find hope in their lives, Sr Stan reached out to a number of individuals to discover where they find hope.

    As with her previous best seller Finding Peace (2021), Sr Stan posed the question “Where and how do you find hope in your daily life?”. Despite being a very personal question, public figures and private citizens responded in droves and the result is an authentic and beautiful book sure to inspire readers.

    With contributions from:

    Charlie Bird, Mary Kenny, Cathy Kelly, Colum McCann, Tanaiste Micheál Martin, Orla Guerin, Mike Ryan, Éanna Ní Lamhna, Myles Dungan, Archbishop Eamon Martin, Collette O’Regan, Bryan Dobson, Mary Lou McDonald, Adi Roche, Dee Forbes….. and many more

  • Learned By Heart

    Learned By Heart

    20.00

    SIGNED LIMITED EDITION HARDBACK

    Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last forever. Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains drawn wide, is bright with starlight. They talk in whispers, not to disturb the maids who lie sleeping on the other side of the box room.

    The question Eliza’s been needing to ask swells like a great berry in her mouth, and all at once she’s not scared to let it out, not scared at all, not scared of anything . . .

    In 1805 fourteen-year-old Eliza Raine is a school girl at the Manor School for Young Ladies in York. The daughter of an Indian mother and a British father, Eliza was banished to this unfamiliar country as a little girl. When she first stepped off the King George in Kent, Eliza was accompanied by her older sister, Jane, but now she boards alone at the Manor, with no one left to claim her.

    She spends her days avoiding the attention of her fellow pupils until, one day, a fearless and charismatic new student arrives at the school. The two girls are immediately thrown together and soon Eliza’s life is turned inside out by this strange and curious young woman. Learned by Heart, Emma Donoghue’s mesmerising new novel, tells the heartbreaking story of the tangled lives of two women whose intense, and unlikely, relationship will change them for ever.

  • When the Light

    When the Light

    20.00

    When the Light contains 124 poems from Irish writer Geraldine Mills, selected from her six collections of poetry, alongside new unpublished poems, all demonstrating that she is one of the most distinctive voices to have emerged over the past forty years.

  • Grow

    Grow

    20.00

    “This guide to plants and how to grow them is a thing of beauty” i News

    “An exceptionally good-looking volume” The Bookseller

    Grow BEAUTY. Grow COMPANIONSHIP. Grow FLAVOUR. Grow PLANTS!

    Discover 15 plants and fungi with heroic powers, then learn how to grow them. Meet their surprising relatives (the tasty tomato is a cousin of deadly nightshade!) and unearth their interesting histories (lettuce was the first vegetable to be grown in space!). Then follow step-by-step instructions to grow and care for each one, whether you have a big backyard garden or a sunny windowsill.

    Written by horticulturalist Riz Reyes and fully illustrated by Sara Boccaccini Meadows, this is the perfect introduction to growing plants for families everywhere.

  • Finding Fairy Mysteries In Donegal

    Finding Fairy Mysteries In Donegal

    20.00

    CORCORAN, KEITH

  • Ghost Mountain

    Ghost Mountain

    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.

  • Drawn to Nature

    Drawn to Nature

    20.00

    CONROY, DON

  • LeafLight Moon

    LeafLight Moon

    20.00

    PRE -ORDER

    This book will be shipped once available on release (Approx 25th August)

     

    LeafLight Moon – a novel of prehistoric Ireland

    Sligo, 4000 BC: Closely researched and set in the rich prehistoric landscapes of Sligo and the north-west, LeafLight Moon tells the story of the fateful encounter between Ireland’s first farmers and the hunter-gatherers of the Hearth of MotherMountain – the mountain we call Knocknarea.

    For thousands of years, the hunter-gatherers of MotherMountain lived close to the earth, moving through the landscape with the seasons, following her rhythms and keeping her ways. They heard stories of a people who chopped down the greenwood and trapped animals behind fences, but these were only rumours, shiver-tales to share around the fire on long summer nights – until the day when two strangers arrived in a small boat, their skin as pale as downy-birch,

    their eyes as dark as the eyes of seals…

  • Winging It

    Winging It

    20.95
    Description
    In nearly three decades as a performer, Tommy Tiernan has never wanted to play it safe. So, when it came to doing a chat show, he threw out the rule book: going in blind, not knowing who would turn up. It could be a global star, like Adam Clayton, or a statesman like Michael D Higgins, or someone unknown to Tommy (and most of his audience), like autism awareness activist, Ciara-Beth Ni Ghriofa or geneticist Aoife McLysaght.

    It’s high-wire stuff and makes for electrifying viewing. Winging It brings together twenty-one extraordinary interviews from The Tommy Tiernan Show on RTE One – a mix of the profound, the profane, the funny and the moving. Tommy’s belief in honest conversation is at the heart of Winging It.

  • Strangers

    Strangers

    20.95
    Description

    A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 IN VOGUE, BBC, NEW YORK TIMES, W MAGAZINE, TOWN & COUNTRY

    ‘A beautifully written eulogy for the loss of a relationship’ Joyce Carol Oates

    ‘Beautiful… devastating … Strangers reads with all the momentum and colour of water-tight literary fiction’ British Vogue

    How do we go on when a loved one betrays us?

    On a chilly day in March of 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, Belle Burden s husband of twenty years announced, with no prior warning, that he was leaving her.

    His decision shocked Belle to her core: she believed he was a happy man, a committed partner, and a devoted father to their three children. She thought he was a man who had settled into the life he had always wanted: a successful career, summers spent at their beloved home on Martha s Vineyard, lots of tennis. Overnight, he transformed from her steady companion into a stranger.

    As she pieces her life together in the wake of a loss she had never imagined coming, she finds she is much stronger than she ever expected.

    Exploring the transformation of a shy, quiet girl, nicknamed Belle the Good to a powerful, brave, determined woman who has learned to use her voice to expose the patriarchal structures that have forced women to be discreet and compliant for far too long, Strangers is a must-read memoir of self-discovery.

  • Crazy Dreams

    Crazy Dreams

    21.00

    Crazy Dreams is the compelling and highly anticipated autobiography from Paul Brady, a musician whose remarkable career has spanned six decades and who is indisputably one of Ireland’s greatest living songwriters.