Sligo

  • The Wardrobe Department

    The Wardrobe Department

    16.95
    Description

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    Mairead works all hours in a run-down West End theatre’s wardrobe department, her whole existence made up of threads and needles, running errands to mend shoes, fixing broken zips and handwashing underwear. She must also do her best to avoid groping hands backstage and the terrible bullying of the show’s producer.

    But, despite her skill and growing experience, half of Mairead remains in her windy, hedge-filled home in Ireland, and the life she abandoned there. In noughties London, she has the potential to be somebody completely new – why, then, does she feel so stuck? Between the bustling side streets of Soho, and the wet grass of Leitrim and Donegal, Mairead is caught, running from the girl she was but unable to reveal the woman she’d hoped to become.

    Told with rare honesty and equal measures of warmth and bite, The Wardrobe Department is a story about reckoning with the past, finding the courage to change the present – and asking what comes next.

  • The Wellbeing Advantage

    The Wellbeing Advantage

    17.95
    Description
    Are you ready to transform your energy and resilience to thrive in work and life?The Wellbeing Advantage is a timely and transformative guide for modern professionals who want to feel more energised, focused and in control. Whether you’re seeking better balance, greater mental clarity or a smarter way to handle pressure, this book introduces seven simple science-backed habits to help you build resilience and protect your wellbeing, without overhauling your life. Dr Janine van Someren, a leading wellbeing consultant and expert in wearable technology, combines insights from high-performance coaching, behavioural change and the science of wellbeing to deliver results.
  • 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

  • Too Big For His Roots

    Too Big For His Roots

    12.50

    Robert O Connor was not expecting cheering crowds to greet him on his return to
    Dromahair. Few there were likely to view him as a war hero. Nobody believed he had
    acted out of principle when he enlisted, as the man had never served any cause other
    than his own. That did not bother Robert. If anything, he revelled in the notoriety.
    After all, he was destined for bigger and better things than his home village could
    offer.

  • Water In The Desert, Fire In The Night

    Water In The Desert, Fire In The Night

    16.00
    Description
    Because the thing about the end of the world is that it happens all the time. Someone leaves and it’s the end of the world. Someone comes back and it’s the end of the world.

    Somebody puts their cock in you and it’s the end of the world. Somebody stops putting their cock in you and it’s the end of the world. Here is a novel about mothering, wolves, bicycles, midwifery, post-apocalyptic feminism, gold, hunger and hope.

    It’s about an underachieving millennial, a retired midwife and an Irishman who set out from London after the end of the world to cycle to a sanctuary in the southern Alps. It’s about the porousness of the female bodily experience, the challenges of being an empiricist with a sample size of one, what’s worth knowing, what’s worth living, and the necessity of irrationality. It’s about the fact that the world ends all the time, and it’s about what to try to do next.

  • Yeats 150

    Yeats 150

    40.00

    Yeats 150 is a collection of essays commemorating the life and work of Irish poet and Nobel Laureate, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939).

    The book, dedicated to Seamus Heaney, is divided into a number of sections: Academic Essays; Plays; the Yeats family; Scholarly Essays; Yeats Poetry Prizes and, appropriately, the topographical ‘Sligo’, by Sligo natives and visitors to the International Yeats Summer School.