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A Bloomsday Postcard Hardback
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In 1904, the sending, receiving and collecting of postcards had become an essential part of life in Edwardian Dublin. In an age of few private telephones, the postcard was a popular and reliable form of communication - in Dublin there were six mail deliver...
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Big in Japan
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'An uproariously funny account of what it's like to become a star in the music world!'
Louis Walsh
When pop Svengali Max of Big In Japan Records discovers Cara in a shop in Temple Bar, he immediately signs her up to his stable of young wannabees. Her f...
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Cats & Their Poets : An Anthology
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'Whether it is their caressibility, their demonstrably close kinship with the most magnificent predators in the world, their flexibility both moral and physical, their aesthetic sense of disposing themselves in attitudes fit to drive a sculptor to despair,...
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Changing the Times: Irish Women Journalists 1969-1981
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This 'new journalism' by Irish Times women writers originally appeared on the Women First pages during the 1970s. Together, the pieces reflect the enormous social and political upheaval of the years when, as the first woman's page editor Mary Maher put it,...
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Creativity and its Contexts
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Two poets, a playwright and a novelist - Michael Longley, Eavan Boland, Frank McGuiness and Anita Desai - explore in these essays aspects of the imaginative process as each has experienced it: four major writers, four sensibilities, four ways of seeing...
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Death of a King & Other Stories
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'A writer of genius.' - Samuel Beckett
A gypsy king dies, and a group of villagers seek to save him from the dishonour of a pauper's grave. The dispute over the inheritance of a well-field becomes a struggle between the 'old stock' and the 'new people'...
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Denis Johnston: A Life
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'This excellent biography will undoubtedly stimulate further interest in the work while providing fitting tribute to a remarkable Irishman.' - P.J. Mathews, Irish Times
'Bernard Adams has produced a terrific biography of a truculent maverick.' - Neil D...
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Diary of a Teddy Boy
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'Captures that hinge moment when everything changed form grey to colour.' - Marianne Faithfull
London, 1950s. Mr Tobias, the Fulham tailor, makes young Emilio Scala a
fingertip drape and he fills it, a Teddy boy extraordinaire. By day he
still serve...
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G.A.A.Y
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'The G.A.A is the Gaelic Athletic Association. G.A.Y. is a club night at the London Astoria. Both are full of sweaty men.'
'You've got to fight to be fabulous.'
Anto Broderick is young, cute and wants to be a pop star. But he's cursed with parents ...
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Helen Rock's Irish Gardening
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Helen Rock, whose column in The Sunday Tribune features the finest garden
writing to be found in Ireland, has gathered and adapted the best of those
essays into a volume that will im...
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Making It New: Essays on the Revised Leaving Certificate English Syllabus
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Making It New appears on the occasion of the first major revision of the
Leaving Certificate English syllabus in thirty years. This pioneering
collection of essays examines the core authors and texts from the new
syllabus. Written by leading scholars f...
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Malinski (HB)
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'A well-crafted, intelligent story. There is much to admire in O'Donovan's novel: her treatment of memory and the tricks it can play give the story its shape; her writing is confident and her descriptions powerful, often beautiful. S Malinski is a...
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Malinski (PB)
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'A well-crafted, intelligent story. There is much to admire in O'Donovan's novel: her treatment of memory and the tricks it can play give the story its shape; her writing is confident and her descriptions powerful, often beautiful. Malinski is a strong...
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Mirror, Mirror: Confessions of a Plastic Surgery Addict
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Terry Prone once thought plastic surgery was for the vain, the self-regarding and the rich. She thought herself the person least likely to submit to the plastic surgeon's scalpel.
But this was before a traumatic car crash in which the steering wheel ca...
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More Myers: An Irishman's Diary 1997-2006
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Ribald, savage, coruscating, curmudgeonly: epithets come to mind at the mere mention of the name of Kevin Myers as he lays about him with an eighteenth-century verve and wit, veering between vilification and compassion, anatomizing the condition of contemp...
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November Wedding and Other Poems
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Winner of The Brendan Behan Memorial Award 1999
'These quiet, definite poems seem to be about familiar things: country
weather and household furniture and a kitchen garden facing south. But the
dailyness is an illusion and the poems end up surprisi...
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Overnight to Innsbruck
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On an overnight train to Innsbruck, ex-lovers Richard and Frances meet each other by chance many years after their mysterious separation on a train journey through the blistering heat and vast empty expanses of the Sudanese desert. As they each tell their ...
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Reading the Future
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A fascinating series of interviews offering insight into the lives and work of twelve great
Irish writers, as selected by an eclectic panel of avid readers for the
RTE Radio One series Reading the Future.
"Writing, though it often deals with...
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Revolutions
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Evening Herald/Today FM Paperback Writer Competition Winner
Marysol Castillo is a Cuban-American girl living in Miami. Haunted by the loss of their homeland, her parents and friends 'imagine their little two-bedroom homes to be Santa Clara cattle ran...
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Running the Rapids: A Writer's Life
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Poet, travel writer, teacher, film-extra in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, quiz-show panellist -Kildare Dobbs has played many parts, been many places, met many people. His life's journey, marked by frequent detours and diversions, from Asia to old Europe, Afri...
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She Moves Through the Boom
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What's happening in Ireland? Behind the triumphalist headlines of the boom, there are changes going on - in the way people work, speak, eat, even the way they think - that cannot be quantified by statistics nor squared with the hollow cliché of the ...
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Snapshots
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'Nothing is fair in love and war. When has it ever been? But make sure you win. That is, after all, what everybody wants. I thought that when I fell in love I'd leave a lot of death behind. But love isn't pure and shiny. It doesn't make you happy. Love is ...
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Sudden Thaw
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My alarm clock is gasping for air.
One by one the minutes bop up
To the surface.
From "Insomnia"
"Puts words on exactly the kind of emotions that censors fear most: subtle, elusive and tinged with erotic intensity.” 
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The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement
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"He could tell you things! Things I've tried to forget; thing I never did know." Joseph Conrad
"...his was a heroic nature. I should like to write upon him subtly, so that his enemies would think I was with them till they finished my book ...
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The Beat: Life on the Streets
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Who are the women who walk the beat in Dublin's red-light districts?
How did they get there?
Why do they stay?
What happens when they try to leave?
What are their lives really like?
The Beat: Life on the Streets in a fascinating, di...
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The Edge of the City: A Scrapbook 1976-91
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Desmond Hogan is one of Ireland's leading writers. In addition to his
novels and stories, he has travelled widely (for various newspapers) to
some of the strangest and most fascinating parts of the world.
In the past fifteen years, he has visited Sovie...
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The Fun Palace: An Autobiography
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Agnes Bernelle, one of Ireland's best-loved stage performers, was born
Agnes Bernauer in Berlin in 1923, the daughter of a renowned
Jewish-Hungarian theatre impresario. In this sparkling, intimate memoir she
recounts her early years in Germany, her fami...
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The State of Grace
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'Funny, moving and wise - I loved this wonderful book.'
- Pauline McLynn
'Beneath its frothy cappuccino exterior, there beats a heart of gold, and a story told with increasing joie-de-vivre.'
- Nuala O'Faolain
During the course of just a few weeks ...
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Vintage Nell: The McCafferty Reader
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'Contraception, abortion, divorce, gay rights, the war with Britain. The fire has burned out, the smoke is drifting away, and we begin to see clearly now. When the next millennium comes the landscape for the young will have vastly changed … Forward ...
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With My Lazy Eye
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Julia Kelly's is surely the freshest voice in Irish fiction since the wonderful early novels of Edna O'Brien. This is a future to watch.' - John Banville
This remarkable first novel releases the voice of Lucy Bastonme (or Bunty) as she makes her j...
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