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All The Light We Cannot See
€12.50
WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II ‘Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.’ For Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History.

The walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris. And a future which draws her ever closer to Werner, a German orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the Hitler Youth. In this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories ofMarie-Laure and Werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

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Awful Auntie
€8.50
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From number one bestselling author David Walliams comes another heartfelt but hilarious hoot of an adventure Stella Saxby is the sole heir to Saxby Hall. But awful Aunt Alberta and her giant owl will stop at nothing to get it from her. Luckily Stella has a secret – and slightly spooky – weapon up her sleeve…

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Americanah
€12.50
A delicious, important novel’ The Times ‘Alert, alive and gripping’ Independent ‘Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both’ Guardian As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can.

The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.

Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. But after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face? Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning ‘Americanah’ is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today’s globalized world.

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Collins Complete Guide to Irish Wildlife
€22.50
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The essential photographic guide to Ireland’s wildlife. Collins Complete Irish Wildlife describes almost all the mammals, birds, fish and butterflies of Ireland likely to be encountered by the keen amateur naturalist, as well as all the common and widespread flowers, trees and shrubs. With over 1,000 colour photographs, this comprehensive guide illustrates every species described.

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Europe Atlas and Jigsaw
€12.50
This pack contains a 300-piece jigsaw of a beautifully illustrated map of Europe for children to assemble, as well as a 32-page picture atlas of Europe in which they can see and discover the continent in more detail with its highly visual maps.

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Walking in a Winter Wonderland
€3.50
ART CARDS IRL

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You, Me and Destiny
€12.50
Danny Keane was dead, but he was unable to cross over to the next world because of anxieties about the mess he was leaving behind for his young wife and others. In a disembodied state, he becomes stuck in a Limbo-like existence. He is intrigued to learn that, in a small minority of cases, and for entirely selfless reasons, it is possible to return to the earthly realm. However, that dispensation comes at a very high price. Danny is prepared to pay that price. The novel charters Danny’s adventures as returns under a different identity and is nothing more than a stranger to the widow, he loved.This life-affirming tale of love and self-discovery celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and its ability to shape our destiny. Poignant but humorous, the novel features characters, who are regular people, coping with what life throws at them. With a little help from above, the extraordinary soon becomes the ordinary as these people negotiate everyday life as well as complex romantic entanglements.

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How to Cook a Wolf
€12.50
‘Since we must eat to live, we might as well do it with both grace and gusto.’

Written in 1942 to inspire courage in those daunted by wartimes shortages, How to Cook a Wolf has continued to rally readers and cooks during times of both scarcity and plenty.

With her trademark wit and warm wisdom, Fisher shares her timeless tips for keeping up spirits – and appetites – when ingredients are in short supply. Instead of regretting what we don’t have, she teaches us how to savour what we do. Fisher also offers dozens of recipe ideas, from soups and simple omelettes, to baking bread and sprucing up tinned food. Knowing that the last thing hungry people need are hints on cutting back and making do, Fisher gives us licence to dream, experiment and invent adventurous and delicious meals from whatever we can salvage from the back of the cupboard.

How to Cook a Wolf shows us how to feed our hungers and nourish our souls, even when fear is in our hearts and the wolf is at the door.

‘Witty, irreverent and amazingly relevant. Fisher will make you giggle, I promise, but also give you sound advice how to cook with limited ingredients.’ – Yotam Ottolenghi

‘This reissue of an out-of-print classic has come not a moment too soon: it’s the perfect time to revisit Fisher’s advice on how “to live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises”.’ – Telegraph

‘Makes working out what to do with the last egg feel like a higher pursuit, rather than an act of desperation.’ – Guardian

‘A timely reissue of the late, great, never out of date food writer.’ – Red

‘Essential reading . . . Fisher’s advice on attitude, thrift, and how to nourish yourself and others in a crisis is newly relevant.’ – Eater

‘Her fans include Yotam Ottolenghi, Ruth Reichl and Bee Wilson. Her voice finds an echo in the writings of Nigella Lawson, Samin Nosrat and more.’ – Ruby Tandoh, VICE

‘The greatest food writer who has ever lived.’ – Simon Schama

‘Poet of the appetites.’ – John Updike

‘The most re-readable of all prose stylists.’ – Bee Wilson

‘Her writing makes your mouth water.’ – Financial Times

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Pride and Prejudice
€9.95
Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim – that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband.

With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride and Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language.

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Little Women
€9.95
Little Women is one of the best-loved children’s stories of all time, based on the author’s own youthful experiences. It describes the family of the four March sisters living in a small New England community. Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music and Amy is a blonde beauty of twelve.

The story of their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family income, their friendship with the neighbouring Laurence family, and their later love affairs remains as fresh and beguiling as ever.

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Lily at Lissadell
€9.95
When Lily is a young teenager, the time comes for her and her friends to leave school and find work; some are emigrating to America, some going to work in shops. Lily is going into service in the Big House – Lissadell.

Lily’s employers, the Gore-Booth family, are kind, but life as a young housemaid can be hard: Lily works long days, she has to learn to get along with the staff, particularly her roommate, the sullen and uncommunicative Nellie, and she misses her home and family.

But when Maeve, daughter of Constance Markievicz and niece of the Gore-Booths, comes to visit and decides to paint a portrait of Lily an unusual friendship begins between the two girls from such different worlds.

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The Only Story
€10.95
BARNES, JULIAN

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So Much Life Left Over
€10.95
A heartbreaking story of love, loss and survival from the multi-million copy bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. Returning from life as a fighter pilot in the First World War, Daniel is struggling to put the trauma of the Western Front behind him. As the 1920s dawn, he and his wife Rosie move to a tea plantation in Ceylon with their small daughter to make a fresh start.

Yet navigating their new world could test their marriage to its limits. Back in England, Rosie’s sisters are dealing with impossible challenges in their searches for family, purpose and happiness. These are precarious times, and taking unconventional means may be the only way to get what they want.

Around them the world changes, and events in Germany take a dark and forbidding turn. And soon there is no going back…

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Ghost Wall
€10.50
It is high summer in rural Northumberland.

Seventeen-year-old Silvie and her parents have joined an encampment run by an archaeology professor with an interest in the region’s dark history of ritual sacrifice. As Silvie finds a glimpse of new freedoms with the professor’s students, her relationship with her overbearing father begins to deteriorate, until the haunting rites of the past begin to bleed into the present.

‘I have never read a novel this slender that holds inside it quite so much. Wild, calm, dark yet hopeful… This book ratcheted the breath out of me so skilfully that as soon as I’d finished, the only thing I wanted was to read it again‘ Jessie Burton

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The Innocents
€10.50
A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland’s northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children with only the barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but the family’s boat and the little knowledge passed on haphazardly by their mother and father to keep them.

Muddling through the severe round of the seasons, through years of meagre catches and storms and ravaging illness, it is their fierce loyalty to each other that motivates and sustains them. But soon, even that loyalty will be tested.

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The Gospel According to Blindboy
€12.95
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Sunday Business Post Book of the Year Blindboy Boatclub is one half of the Rubberbandits, Ireland’s foremost satirist and now the talented author of a collection of brilliant short stories and visual art. Published to critical acclaim, his first collection is powered by big themes and even bigger ideas. There are stories about a van fuelled by Cork people’s accents, Tipperary’s first ISIS recruit, a sexually aggressive banshee and a fridge dragged heroically through the streets of Limerick.

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