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  • The Names

    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

  • The New Wife

    The New Wife

    16.95

    When Finn Hensen gets a call from his sister Jess to say their father has died, neither is heartbroken. Their parents divorced many years ago, after which their father, Jimmy, continued to live a bohemian lifestyle in sun-soaked Mallorca.

    Ownership of his beautiful but dilapidated farmhouse in the mountains now passes to Finn and his sister. The only problem is that Jimmy recently remarried and his new wife, Ruensa, is still living there.

    The pair agree that Finn should go to Mallorca and tactfully take possession of their inheritance.

    When he arrives, however, Finn is surprised to find that Finca Siquia has been completely transformed into a chic Mediterranean bolthole by Ruensa and her twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Roze. The Spanish police, meanwhile, are asking awkward questions about Jimmy’s death.

    Are Ruensa and Roze the helpless victims of circumstance? Or will they stop at nothing to get Finca Siquia for themselves?

  • The Only Story

    The Only Story

    10.95

    BARNES, JULIAN

  • The Paris Apartment

    The Paris Apartment

    13.95

    The new murder mystery thriller from the No.1, million-copy bestseller

    Welcome to No.12 rue des Amants. A beautiful old apartment block, far from the glittering lights of the Eiffel Tower and the bustling banks of the Seine. Where nothing goes unseen, and everyone has a story to unlock. The watchful concierge, The scorned lover, The prying journalist, The naive student, The unwanted guest. There was a murder here last night. A mystery lies behind the door of apartment three. Who holds the key?

    Praise for the No.1 bestseller, Lucy Foley: ‘Gloriously escapist thrills from an Agatha Christie for the Instagram age’ Guardian ‘Thrilling’ The Times ‘Lucy Foley is really very clever’ Anthony Horowitz ‘A very modern Agatha Christie for the new roaring twenties’ Sarah Pinborough ‘Both a classic whodunnit and a very contemporary psychological thriller that left me guessing right to the end’ Kate Mosse

  • The Paris Express

    The Paris Express

    15.95

    It is 1895, and turn-of-the-century Paris is as chaotic as it is glamorous. Industry and invention have created ever greater wealth and terrible poverty. One autumn morning, an anarchist boards the Granville to Paris express train, determined to make her mark on history.

    Aboard the train are others from across the globe: the railway crew who have built a life together away from their wives, a little boy travelling alone for the first time, an artist far from home, a wealthy statesman and his invalid wife, and a young woman with a secret hidden under her dress.

    All their fates are bound together as the train speeds towards the City of Light …

    Inspired by a famous rail disaster, The Paris Express is a thrilling ride and a literary masterpiece that evokes an era not so different from our own.

  • THE PARIS WIFE

    THE PARIS WIFE

    9.95

    Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness when she meets Ernest Hemingway and is captivated by his energy, intensity and burning ambition to write. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for France. But glamorous Jazz Age Paris, full of artists and writers, fuelled by alcohol and gossip, is no place for family life and fidelity.

    Ernest and Hadley’s marriage begins to founder, and the birth of a beloved son serves only to drive them further apart. Then, at last, Ernest’s ferocious literary endeavours begin to bring him recognition – not least from a woman intent on making him her own.

  • The Partisan

    The Partisan

    15.50

    It is the summer of 1961 and the brutal Cold War between East and West is becoming ever more perilous.

    Two young prodigies from either side of the Iron Curtain, Yulia and Michael, meet at a chess tournament in London. They don’t know it, but they are about to compete in the deadliest game ever played.

    Shadowing them is Greta, a ruthless resistance fighter who grew up the hard way in the forests of Lithuania, but who is now hunting down some of the most dangerous men in the world.

    Men who are also on the radar of Vassily, perhaps the Soviet Union’s greatest spymaster. A man of cunning and influence, Vassily was Yulia’s minder during her visit to the West, but even he could not foresee the consequences of her meeting Michael.

    When the world is accelerating towards an inevitable and catastrophic conflict, what can just four people do to prevent it?

    Epic in scope, The Partisan is a thrill ride like no other, taking you from the hallowed halls of Cambridge to the grimy depths of the Moscow underworld, from 1960s London to the Eastern Front in the Second World War.

  • The Poems of Seamus Heaney

    The Poems of Seamus Heaney

    43.95
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    A 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.

  • The Poisonwood Bible

    The Poisonwood Bible

    10.50
    Description
    An international bestseller and a modern classic, this suspenseful epic of one family’s tragic undoing and their remarkable reconstruction has been read, adored and shared by millions around the world. This story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it – from garden seeds to Scripture – is calamitously transformed on African soil.
  • The Pull of the Stars

    The Pull of the Stars

    11.50

    Dublin, 1918. In a country doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar flu are quarantined together. Into Julia’s regimented world step two outsiders: Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney.

    In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over the course of three days, these women change each other’s lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work.

  • The Rachel Incident

    The Rachel Incident

    16.95

    The Rachel Incident is an all-consuming love story.

    But it’s not the one you’re expecting. It’s unconventional and messy. It’s young and foolish.

    It’s about losing and finding yourself. But it is always about love.

    When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr Byrne, her best friend James helps her devise a plan to seduce him. But what begins as a harmless crush soon pushes their friendship to its limits.

    Over the course of a year they will find their lives ever more entwined with the Byrnes’ and be faced with impossible choices and a lie that can’t be taken back…

  • The Railway Children

    The Railway Children

    9.95

    When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a simple country cottage, where Mother writes books to make ends meet. However, they soon come to love the railway that runs near their cottage, and they make a habit of waving to the Old Gentleman who rides on it.

    They befriend the porter, Perks, and through him learn railway lore and much else. They have many adventures, and when they save a train from disaster, they are helped by the Old Gentleman to solve the mystery of their father’s disappearance, and the family is happily reunited.

  • The Ratline

    The Ratline

    13.50

    Description
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER’Hypnotic, shocking and unputdownable’ JOHN LE CARRE’Remarkable’ THE SUNDAY TIMES’Breathtaking, gripping, shattering’ ELIF SHAFAK’A taut and finely crafted factual thriller’ OBSERVER’A triumph of research and brilliant storytelling’ ANTONY BEEVOR’Extraordinary’ EVENING STANDARDIn this riveting real-life thriller, Philippe Sands offers a unique account of the daily life of senior Nazi SS Brigadefuhrer Otto Freiherr von Wachter and his wife, Charlotte. Drawing on a remarkable archive of family letters and diaries, he unveils a fascinating insight into life before and during the war, as a fugitive on the run in the Alps and then in Rome, and into the Cold War. Eventually the door is unlocked to a mystery that haunts Wachter’s youngest son, who continues to believe his father was a good man – what happened to Otto Wachter while he was preparing to travel to Argentina on the ‘ratline’, assisted by a Vatican bishop, and what was the explanation for his sudden and unexpected death?

  • The Rest

    The Rest

    21.00

  • The Rest

    The Rest

    10.00

    The Rest’ is the fifth studio album from Pearse McGloughlin and the third with his band, Nocturnes (Enda Roche & Billy Donohue). Emerging in the shadow of a circling chaos, The Rest is, on a personal level, a series of reflections on and explorations of our own small place in the world.

  • The Revelation Of Ireland 1995-2020

    The Revelation Of Ireland 1995-2020

    31.95

    Ireland is a strikingly different country now to the one it was in the mid-1990s. Dramatic economic, social and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger boom and increasingly secular debate about abortion, the status of women and same-sex marriage underlined the scale of the transformation. The new diversity of the population and literary and musical prowess also revealed a country experiencing rapid alteration.

    The road to peace – that saw an end to war in Northern Ireland and culminated in the first visit to southern Ireland of a reigning British monarch in 100 years – illuminated the new Anglo-Irish dynamic. Explosive revelations about deep betrayals from the past destroyed the credibility of the traditionally powerful Catholic Church. And in the wake of the 2008 financial crash, Ireland rebounded and rebuilt to great success, but remained plagued by health and housing failures.

    Economic recovery, the end of civil war politics, ever closer European involvement and Anglo-Irish highs were followed by Brexit lows and increasing talk of Irish unity. There is much to open people’s eyes in this riveting account of contemporary Ireland. As the Republic enters its second century of independence, and the North continues to grapple with the legacy of the Troubles, Diarmaid Ferriter makes historical sense of post-1990s Ireland, and what lies in the darkest corners of its archives.