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		<title>Finding Joy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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<div class="productDescription">Illustrated by Steve Doogan. AN INSTANT NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER,A PERFECT GIFT FOR ANY OCCASION. A poetry lover, a curator of joy and a wise woman with a deep sense of compassion, Dearbhla Mescal has inspired thousands online to slow down, savour the small moments and rediscover the beauty in everyday life. Now, in her first book, she invites you to join her on a journey of reflection and renewal through a tender and uplifting collection of poems and heartfelt musings.</div>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3><a href="https://www.gardnerseu.com/Search?Author=Dearbhla%20Mescal&amp;fq=14120">Mescal</a>, Dearbhla</h3>
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		<title>The Wellbeing Advantage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<div class="productDescription">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.</div>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><a href="https://www.gardnerseu.com/Search?Author=Dr.Janine%20van%20Someren&amp;fq=14120">Van Someren, Janine</a></h2>
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		<title>Nesting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<div class="productDescription">WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2025THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2025'Tense, forensically realistic and compulsively readable. A real achievement' SUNDAY TIMES‘Here is a novelist who has powerful news to tell, and an impressive range of narrative gifts with which to tell it’ IRISH TIMES‘Should become essential reading for all. Nesting? is a novel that truly matters’ SUNDAY INDEPENDENT'A moving portrait of life inside the housing system and the courage it takes to try to build a home in society’s cracks'? GUARDIAN_______________________________________________________________An extraordinary and urgent debut by a prize-winning Irish writer, NESTING introduces an unforgettable new voice in fiction. On a bright spring afternoon in Dublin, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything.</div>]]></description>
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		<title>Always Remember</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<div class="productDescription">#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER · #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER‘One day you’ll look back and realise how hard it was, and just how well you did’Charlie Mackesy’s four unlikely friends are wandering through the wilds again. They’re not sure what they are looking for. They do know that life can be difficult, but that they love each other, and cake is often the answer.

When the dark clouds come, can the boy remember what he needs to get through the storm?The hugely anticipated new book from Charlie Mackesy, revisiting the much-loved world of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – the bestselling adult non-fiction book of all time, with over ten million readers around the world.</div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Poems of Seamus Heaney</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<div class="productDescription">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.</div>]]></description>
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		<title>Sligo and the Great Famine, 1845-52 Walking Skeletons and Shadows</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p class="indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit">Sligo offers a unique setting for a study of the Great Famine and the book investigates the period from the first appearance of the blight to the immediate aftermath. The shifting, inept and often heartless government policies reflected different attitudes to famine relief and this impacted on the people in a very direct and often catastrophic way.</p>
<p class="indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit">Sligo experienced considerable death and emigration in the years from 1845 to 1852; the second worst affected county in the country after Mayo, losing a third of its population in just a few short years. The reaction of local landlords and landholders to the suffering was also varied and the study explored the lengths to which the Famine offered an opportunity to some landlords to impose long-term policies on their estates.</p>
Padraig Deignan has previously published ‘The Protestant Community in Sligo, 1914-49’ in 2010, ‘Land and People in Nineteenth Century Sligo: from Union to Local Government’ in 2015 and ‘Sligo in the Eighteenth Century’ in 2021.]]></description>
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		<title>Sugartown</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<strong>**NB: This title will only be shipped after its release date of 18th September**</strong>

For fans of Sally Rooney and Megan Nolan comes a remarkable new Irish debut about growing up and moving backwards.

What do you do when you've ruined your life? You go home to your mother, if you're lucky enough still to have one. Saoirse Maher wouldn't recommend it. Leaving home wasn't supposed to be temporary. When she moved to London, Saoirse was leaving Ireland behind for good, and with it her messy, broken family.

But it turns out that starting again isn't as easy as she imagined, and when her five-year relationship goes south, Saoirse finds herself out of options. And so here she is, trudging back to her mother Máire's house up a side road on the outskirts of Irish civilisation. Except the world she comes back to is nothing like the one she left behind. Her mother has a new family, and everyone else seems to be moving on.

But between the drinking, drugs, and an entirely healthy, not-problematic-at-all-thanks relationship with Charlie, there's plenty to distract her. Don't look too closely, and everything's fine. Saoirse is just fine.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MAXWELL, CARAGH</p>
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		<title>Ireland in Iceland</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 10:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this richly illustrated journey, Manchán Magan traces the forgotten presence of the Irish in Iceland; monks and migrants, storytellers and shapeshifters who helped shape a land we’ve long imagined as purely Norse.

Through language, lore, place names, DNA, and landscape, Magan uncovers the traces of Gaelic life woven through Iceland’s sagas and stones. With curiosity and care, this book reveals how two island nations, once deeply connected, share more than we’ve been taught to remember. Ireland in Iceland offers a new perspective on ancestry, belonging, and the lasting traces of culture carried across oceans.

Ireland in Iceland is the second in a series of illustrated books Manchán is publishing with Mayo Books Press, exploring cultural similarities and resonances between Ireland, India, Iceland, and the Aboriginal cultures of Australia. Ireland in Iceland is illustrated by Aodh Ó Riagáin/ Oreganillo.]]></description>
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		<title>The Wardrobe Department</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<b>A <i>FINANCIAL TIMES </i>BEST DEBUT OF 2025</b>

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, <i>The Wardrobe Departmen</i>t is a story about reckoning with the past, finding the courage to change the present - and asking what comes next.

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		<title>Irish Words for Nature</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Manchán Magan is fascinated by words, particularly Irish words, and their connections to the natural world. Having enjoyed great success with the bestselling <em>Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature,</em> he now brings his infectious wonder and enthusiasm for the Irish language to an even younger audience with this board book featuring simple translations for favourite animals, birds, fish and insects. The accompanying stunning black-line illustrations will transfix even the littlest reader.

Teach your little one a <em>cúpla focail</em> from the get-go.]]></description>
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