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Getting The Electric
€17.95
‘Louise Hegarty can do anything. She’s fearless. And I loved these playful, clever, perfect stories’ – MARIANA ENRIQUEZ’Phenomenally talented’ – THE SUNDAY TIMES’Borges for the CMAT generation’ – THE IRISH TIMESAre you ready to play?Have you ever found yourself doom-scrolling, worrying about that weird pain in your leg, only to have your plans for the day completely trashed by the appearance of a literal axe-wielding troll?What about that time you came across a perfect double of yourself in the street?Or the gorilla suit you put on one day only for it to fuse with your skin?When those children went missing from your village, did you know for sure it was the electricity that took them?And down in the basement of your ancestral family home, what is it that’s making that THUMP .

. . THUMP .

. . THUMP .

. . Bold, funny, and wild, Louise Hegarty’s debut collection will turn you upside down and inside out, if it doesn’t take you apart completely.

* * * * *PRAISE FOR FAIR PLAY‘A treat . . .

Takes on the biggest questions of life and death’ – Paul Murray‘Dazzling’ – Colin Walsh‘Brilliant’ – The Times‘Ingenious’ – The Telegraph‘Terrific’ – The New York Times‘Heartbreaking’ – The Guardian‘Sally Rooney meets The Secret History’ – The Sunday Times

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Imperfect Beings
€15.95
In a series of unexpected moments when past loves and choices re-surface with startling clarity, the imperfect beings who populate these stories find themselves finally grasping the impact of crucial early relationships, as joy, loss and betrayal echo across decades. A man searches for a possible secret half-sister to understand his father. A woman is haunted by a boy’s death fifty years ago.

A lighthouse keeper recalls his first relationship. A public figure, slipping into dementia, relives a fateful night that haunts him. A man seeks insights into his mother’s past on a remote Portuguese island.

From childhood holidays shadowed by tragedy to chance reunions that rewrite old narratives, Bolger’s complex and deeply humane characters reveal the fragile beauty of human connection.

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Devotions
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‘Exhilarating, devastating, comforting, essential.’ CLAIRE KILROY’These are stories which sing off the page.’ JAN CARSON’Powerful, compelling and richly crafted.’ MARY COSTELLO’Profoundly intimate.’ TAHMIMA ANAMThe highly-anticipated new collection from the BBC National Short Story Award-winning author of Multitudes, Intimacies and Openings’There must be moments when we let go – let go of all that we do, all that we are.’A young Belfast theatre troupe brings its experimental production of Hamlet to New York. On a night-flight, travelling with a violin older than the United States, a professional musician slips through time. A man who loses all he thought he had, and finds himself haunted by all he never will, comes to a painful new understanding of what it might mean to love.

Transporting and profound, these are stories of love, grief, longing, of new beginnings, and the ways we find shelter in each other. ‘One of our best short story writers.’ THE TIMES'[Caldwell] holds the reader right up against the tender humanity of her characters.’ EIMEAR McBRIDE’A next-level author of short stories.’ THE HERALD

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Somewhere
€16.95
‘Back in the flat, Sylvia is no use. She doesn’t have any ideas, all she suggests is get a job, take your time, get some money together, then go somewhere. But Clodagh needs to go now, needs to go today if possible.

Even Seamus has gone. But where, and with what?’Clodagh finds herself adrift after leaving her partner Seamus. Navigating addiction, the harsh realities of a housing crisis, and relationships pushed to the brink, this is a story of her attempts to reconnect with herself, and those closest to her, in a gritty, vividly rendered contemporary Dublin.

Weaving from place to place and person to person – past friends, fellow users and her worried mother Sylvia – Clodagh struggles to fully understand herself, or the city she calls home. Urban isolation, the trials of modern life and the fleeting beauty found in Dublin marble every scene of this novel. Somewhere is a raw and intimate portrait of a woman balancing on the edge of survival, seeking meaning and love amid isolation and addiction.

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Frida Slattery as Herself
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When Frida Slattery and John Reddan meet in a Dublin pub in 2005, neither can imagine how they will come to shape and define each other’s lives.

Frida is struggling to launch her acting career, while John is already gaining a name for himself as a director. From the first they see in each other potential and the chance to create work that matters, though the lines between collaboration and exploitation, friendship and desire will prove dangerously slippery.

With the financial crisis looming, the next 16 years takes them from Dublin to London, via New York and LA, and through success and disappointment, joy and heartbreak.

Their connection is tested and stretched to the point of rupture, but something remains that outlasts both their work and their own shifting perceptions.

FRIDA SLATTERY AS HERSELF is an unforgettable story of love, artistic collaboration, and two people coming of age, together and apart.

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Prestige Drama
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Derry is already abuzz with news that famous American actor, Monica Logue, has flown to the city and will be starring in a new series set during the Troubles.

And then she goes missing . . .

All eyes are on Diarmuid, the flaky scriptwriter who was the last to see Monica alive. From budding young actors hoping for a role to grieving parent whose story forms the backbone of the narrative; newspaper editors covering the mystery to taxi drivers hearing all the news from their clients, Prestige Drama follows the city’s cast as they all try to locate themselves in Monica’s disappearance. Séamas O’Reilly’s debut novel is a comedy about dramatising tragedy, and the responsibilities of a teller to a tale.

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The Things We Never Say
€21.95
Artie Dam is a man with a secret. He spends his days teaching history to high schoolers, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual cruelties, and lending a kind word to those who need it most.

He goes to holiday parties with his wife of three decades, makes small talk with neighbours, and, on weekends, takes his sailboat out on the beautiful Massachusetts Bay. He is, by all appearances, present and alive. But inside, Artie is plagued by feelings of isolation.

He looks out at a world gone mad—at himself and the people around him—and turns a question over and over in his mind: how is it that we know so little about one another, even those closest to us?And then, one day, Artie learns that life has been keeping a secret from him, one that threatens to upend his entire world. Once he learns it, he is forced to chart a new course, to reconsider the relationships he holds most dear—and to make peace with the mysteries at the heart of our existence. With exquisite prose and profound insight, Elizabeth Strout captures the way grief reverberates through decades, the comfort found in deep friendships and the freedom that comes when we break free of our secrets.

The Things We Never Say is a stunning new novel from one of our most acclaimed observers of the human heart. ***PRAISE FOR ELIZABETH STROUT:’A terrific writer’ ZADIE SMITH’A superbly gifted storyteller’ HILARY MANTEL’Elizabeth Strout is one of my very favourite writers’ ANN PATCHETT’Strout’s ability to reveal wonder in unrecorded lives continues to astonish’ TELEGRAPH’She gets better with each book’ MAGGIE O’FARRELL’A beautiful read’ OPRAH WINFREY’Strout is, as ever, wonderfully attentive life’s escapable cruelties and woes’ SUNDAY TIMES

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Other People’s Lives
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‘A brilliantly observed, funny, poignant and utterly real portrait of a mid-life woman and her family. I loved it.’ Claire Fuller‘An elegant and beautifully-observed novel by one of our finest contemporary writers’ Louise Kennedy‘I found myself taking screenshots to send to friends because MacMahon nails it over and over again’ Claire Kilroy—‘Marriage was the biggest decision of their lives and yet they made it so lightly it was barely a decision at all’As schoolgirls, Justine and her best friend Iseult dreamed of a future that revolved around marriage. They saw it as a happy ending, never imagining for a moment that the reality would be more complicated.

Coming up to fifty, they’re still best friends. Justine has been married to Iseult’s brother for twenty-five years and lives in her childhood home. Iseult has spent her adult life abroad, her marriage clearly unhappy for reasons she won’t discuss.

When Justine’s daughter suddenly announces her engagement, Justine is thrown into planning a big family wedding. Afraid that her daughter is making a mistake, she finds herself questioning the choices she and Iseult made decades earlier. This crisis of confidence tests Justine in new and unexpected ways.

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Hungry
€18.95
Hungry is the powerful new memoir from Number One bestselling author Katriona O’Sullivan – a raw, courageous exploration of survival, identity and the lifelong search for self-acceptance. Raised in a home marked by poverty, addiction and abuse, Katriona defied the odds: from teenage motherhood struggling with her own addictions to becoming a university professor and successful author. But beneath the achievements lay a more private struggle – with her body, her worth, and the unrelenting drive to be enough.

In this fiercely honest memoir, she interrogates how trauma, class and gender shape the way women see themselves – and how society teaches them to measure their value. Told with stunning courage and vulnerability, Hungry is both a personal reckoning and a powerful reclaiming of body, voice and self. It is one woman’s story – and a rallying cry for every woman who has ever felt she had to shrink to survive.

‘Soaring with compassion, intelligence and hard-won wisdom. Ireland’s most important contemporary voice.’LOUISE KENNEDY, author of Trespasses’Amazing. I couldn’t put it down.’ELAINE FEENEY, author of As You Were’Every woman needs to read this book. Every man needs to read this book.’EDEL COFFEY, author of In Her Place’

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A Far-flung Life
€17.95
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THE PHENOMENAL SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
By the multi-million-copy bestselling author of The Light Between Oceans

The ‘Australian Gone with the Wind‘ – a breathtaking epic novel set in the vast outback of Australia – about resilience, family secrets and the enduring power of love.

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A Plot To Die For
€16.95
The first in a mystery series from the much-loved Irish actor, writer and comedian, for readers who enjoy the warmth of Graham Norton and the mystery of Death in Paradise, all wrapped up in one small Irish town. When beloved celebrity gardener Finn O’Leary returns to his hometown of Abbeyford in Ireland to care for his aging mother, he is naturally roped into the Tidy Towns committee. The Tidy Towns is a competition fanatically fought over by every town and village in the land. And for his best friend’s sister, Aoife, it’s a competition she’s determined to win.

With everyone’s favourite gardener on board, she is sure that this year Abbeyford will take home the prize. But Finn’s not been back long when an alto-baritone at his mother’s choir practice drops dead during a rendition of ‘What the World Needs Now’. With more at stake than just winning Tidy Towns, Finn soon finds himself trying to solve a murder – or two.

For one of his many qualities is that people tend to confide in him…With his mother, her carer and Aoife in tow, Finn sets out to discover just who has brought murder to Abbeyford. And so it begins.

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Cameo
€17.95
‘A writer living and thinking his way to the frontiers of human society’ Spectator

Cameo is the life story of invented Irish novelist Ren Duka, who has unexpected, runaway international success with a prolific series of autofictional novels.

What begins as a playful satire on literary ambition and the chaos of our times expands into a dazzling, polyphonic odyssey that challenges the border between fiction and reality.

As the Ren Duka novels race outwards in widening circles of influence, we encounter Dina Tatangelo, cult novelist of the New York underworld; a Japanese manga artist whose work eerily affects his family life; a grizzled Dublin taxi driver who just might ferry his passengers between worlds; a film-star facing public disgrace; and Rob Doyle, an author enduring a psychic and ontological crisis.

Cameo is at once a metaphysical architecture of the imagination, a human comedy full of unruly passions, and a self-portrait across multiple dimensions.

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The Names
€12.00
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

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Hamnet
€12.95
The no. 1 bestseller that inspired the major film starring Jessie Buckley and Paul MescalWINNER: BEST PICTURE (DRAMA) AND BEST ACTRESS AT THE GOLDEN GLOBESWINNER: OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM AND BEST ACTRESS AT THE BAFTASNOMINATED FOR EIGHT ACADEMY AWARDS, INCLUDING BEST SCREENPLAY AND BEST PICTURE’A thing of shimmering wonder’ David Mitchell ?A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART.

The untold love story that inspired Shakespeare’s greatest masterpiece. On a summer’s day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help.

Why is nobody at home?Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. Neither parent knows that Hamnet will not survive the week.

Hamnet tells the powerful story of Agnes and Will, and of the son whose life has been all but forgotten, but who inspired one of the greatest plays ever written. 🌟Fall in love with HAMNET this year 🌟’HAMNET is a feast for the senses”One of my favourite books of the year. Simply gorgeous”Words fail me…

this story had me feeling everything”I read and reread passages throughout this exceptional novel’

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Few and Far Between
€17.50
From the award-winning author of The Raptures and The Fire Starters, a magically surreal novel about history, identity and redemption’A stunningly original novel… one of the most imaginative and talented Irish writers at work today’ Roisín O’Donnell, author of Nesting’No writer captures the absurdity and beauty of life quite like [Jan Carson] does’ Sara Baume, author of Seven Steeples‘Warm, sharp and gloriously funny’ Sarah Moss, author of Ripeness‘Her best book yet’ Heather Parry, author of Carrion Crow___It’s summer 2017 and the last few residents of the Lough Neagh Archipelago are facing imminent eviction. The flood planned to combat a devastating algae outbreak will submerge their homes, forcing them back to the Mainland for the first time in fifty years.

Robert-John and Marion Connolly came to the islands as children in the 1970s, following their mercurial father, an anthropologist studying the unique society that had developed there. For many, the Neagh Archipelago represented a utopia, a chance to be free of the prejudices and history of Troubles era Northern Ireland. But perhaps this utopia wasn’t all that it seemed.

Marion and Robert-John have grown accustomed to their haunted existence on the Ark, monitoring the mysterious Far Side, where ghostly figures linger and the land swallows secrets whole. How will they cope with a new life on the Mainland? Is it possible to leave the past behind? And will the Ark ever let them go… _____‘No one writes like Jan Carson.

Surreal times call for surreal stories, and Few and Far Between packages history, horror and redemption in her signature combination of humour and grace.’ Sheila Armstrong, author of Falling Animals’Jan Carson is a born storyteller: her work is so imaginative, whimsical, mischievous and brave, but tender and curious too — you never know where she’s going to take you next, so reading her is always an adventure.’ Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies’Jan Carson is a unique and very special writer, one of the greatest of the modern fabulists’ Donal Ryan, author of Heart be at Peace’One of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation.’ Sunday Times

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Everything that is Beautiful
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‘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

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