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A Close Shave with the Devil
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"The devil was going around again and everyone knew because it was in the
papers. An usherette in the Metropole saw him at An Apartment for Peggie,
eating oranges in a brown trilby; two women in Clery's Bargain Basement
came upon him fingering cups in a...
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A Night in the Catacombs
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In this gathering of ten stories, beginning and ending over Dublin's River Poddle, David M Kiely merges history with fiction to illuminate mysteries that have baffled literary scholars for generations. Could the interlocutor in Minot's Tower reveal the pr...
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Bad Day In Blackrock
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Winner of the Rooney prize, 2009.
'Kevin Power is an author of magnificent control, stirring the deepest compassion with restless anger in this piercing contemporary novel.' Frank McGuinness
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Beauty in a Broken Place (HB)
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In Colm Toibin's debut play, Beauty in a Broken Place, Sean O'Casey recalls the people and events surrounding the 1926 premiere of his controversial drama The Plough and the Stars. Toibin's unusual and provocative memory play manages to be both seriou...
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Belios
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'Belios is a dark, rough, funny novel about a dying genius and his crazed biographer. It rages with a wild vitality oddly touched by tenderness. Órfhlaith Foyle has fire in her belly.' - Patrick McGrath, author of Dr. Haggard's Disease
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Belmont Castle, or Suffering Sensibility
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Among the possessions seized from Theobald Wolfe Tone upon his arrest in
1798 were two copies of Belmont Castle, the epistolary novel he wrote and
published with his friends Richard Jebb and John Radcliffe in 1790. Much
more than a mere youthful liter...
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Berkeley's Telephone and Other Fictions
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'I am a philosopher. But let me qualify that at once. I qualified in philosophy, a long time ago, in the city of Dublin, among spoiled priests, a diplomat's daughter in jodhpurs, two would-be businessmen and the son ofa drunken commissioner of oaths. And, ...
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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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Bird in the Snow
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Bird in the Snow follows twenty-four hours in the life of Birdie Waters.
On the eve of burying her only son, she stays awake all night, examining old photographs, cherishing memories of Gussie and her beloved late husband, Alex - a vet who married her ...
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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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Dispatching Baudelaire
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'Baudelaire had written that man selects his prey, then becomes anxious and impatient for the kill...'
Throughout his life accountant Mike Shaw has played it safe, kept his head down, and avoided risk. His girlfriend Brenda is a secretary. Their idea o...
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Dubliners
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Dubliners, one of the great short-story collections in the English
language, was first published in London on 15 June 1914 by Grant Richards,
who had rejected the original set of twelve stories in September 1906; in
the interim, according to Joyce, it w...
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Foley's Asia
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'The unlikely world of monumental sculpture opens up an incredibly varied
series of tableaux in Foley's Asia. A meditation on arms, oppression and
empire, it offers a unique insight int...
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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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In the Season of the Daisies
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The story of Seanie Doolin, surviving twin of a brutal civil-war murder in
the Irish midlands, forms the core of this extraordinary début novel. In
1948 the Town, shadowed by its buried...
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James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: A Reading by Patrick Healy
€275.00
'Amazing and important, Healy is something truly rare - this is probably as
close to a letter-perfect rendering of the text as we can hope to get.
After enduring the whole, I heartily recommend that all Wakeans, all
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John Sherman & Dhoya
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John Sherman and Dhoya, novella and story, are among the earliest of W.B. Yeats's published compositions, begun at his father's prompting when the young poet was living in London in 1888.
John Sherman is a poignant and delightful narrative that dra...
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Larks' Eggs: New and Selected Stories
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Des Hogan is, and has always been, the real thing - a writer of great originality, dramatic flair, linguistic invention - who remakes the world every time he puts pen to paper.' Neil Jordan
Desmond Hogan is one of most remarkable literary talents t...
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Leaving Ardglass
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REPRINT NOW AVAILABLE.
‘One of the best novels to have come out of Ireland in a long time … it chronicles not just a personal and spiritual journey but the state of a nation over 40 years … outstanding.' John Boland, Iri...
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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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Nothing to Say
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'He was always a great actor and talker. Words loved him. Now he's a great writer.'
Bono
'Nothing to Say is about childhood - the most difficult of all stories to tell. Few writers attempt it and those who do usually fail. But this novel about a ten-ye...
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Old Swords
€14.99
These eleven stories by Desmond Hogan,
his first publication since Larks' Eggs: New and Selected Stories
(2005), collect newly minted shards of experience focused on
the lives of the dreamers and marginalized who populate his
imagined worlds. They range i...
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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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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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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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Song of Duiske
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In south Kilkenny, where Duiske stream joins the river Barrow at Graiguenamanagh, lies one of Ireland's many Norman-Cistercian abbeys. Song of Duiske is a novella set amongst this monastic community in the year 1304, a century after the abbey's foundation....
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South of the Border HB
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'This is the work of a major historical novelist. But it is something more than that too: the term "historical novel" has a reductive ring to it, as would the description "political novel". What we get here is imaginative fiction of a high order, built on ...
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South of the Border PB
€15.00
'This is the work of a major historical novelist. But it is something more than that too: the term "historical novel" has a reductive ring to it, as would the description "political novel". What we get here is imaginative fiction of a high order, built on ...
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Story of a Girl
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'Tom Mac Intyre's wildly eloquent novel reads at times like Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood re-written by someone who has spent years reading Finnegan's Wake. Here we are offered one voice that is unmistakably Irish and the accent is definitely Mac Intyre's...
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The Beautiful Changes
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'McCloskey's gift for capturing the precarious nature of interpersonal relations and the exquisite pain of isolated consciousnes is matched by her ability to construct startling and unpredictable plots that encompass many retrospectives and refuse orderly...
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The Canal Bridge
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'... a lad could be sent to any place in the world, to any spot in the empire on which the sun never set, an empire with huge mountains and lakes with no bottoms to them; waterfalls a mile high; rivers a hundred miles across where they floated into the sea...
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The Companion
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'Lorcan Roche is a fresh and vivid voice in new Irish fiction. I love the energy of his writing and its passionate engagement with the world. He is a gifted and clever storyteller.' - Joseph O'Connor
' ...brilliantly achieved...Roche handles his mater...
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The Dark Companion: Ghost Stories
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These tales of twilight and borderlands depart from an oral tradition developed through the writings of William Beckford, Mary Shelley, Sheridan Le Fanu, M.R. James and others. They are concerned with the life of the mind and imagination, fear and the supe...
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The Fabulists
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Rights: World (X UK rights sold to Serif)
Listowel Writers' Week Book of the Year 1995
The Fabulists is a love story set in contemporary Dublin. After a brief
encounter on the H...
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The Pilgrimage
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'She felt like a woman imprisoned in a luxurious room; to whom visitors are admitted; whose life goes on very much as it has always done; but who is conscious that if she lifted the thick carpet she would gaze down into a pit of wild beasts.'
Julia Gly...
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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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The Sway of Winter
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'Orla Murphy writes with painterly poise. Her canvas may be small-town life but her territory is the emotional offshore. The Sway of Winter shimmers - a wry and luminous exploration of both the terrible wreckage and the tentative redemption of love.'
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The Waking of Willie Ryan
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Willie Ryan returns to his home town in 'the great central plain of Ireland', having escaped from the insane asylum where he was committed, and unvisited, by his devout Catholic family for twenty-five years. The given pretext for his commitment was an atta...
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Through the Gate of Ivory
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'A vivid recreation of a distant epoch, this book combines fine storytelling with the wisdom of a sage who knows that Irish identity was always a matter of negotiation between different traditions . . . Its pacy narrative is at once vivacious and scholarly...
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Ulysses - The Dublin Edition Special (101 - 1000)
€250.00
Ulysses, the summit of Joyce's achievement and of modern literature,
represents a day - 16 June 1904 - in the life of Dublin and its citizens.
This new, radically reappraised edition is published for the first time in
the city it depicts. The Dublin Edi...
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Waiting for Billy & Other Stories
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Martin Healy was a young man when he died, but he wrote with a breadth of
insight and sympathy that few writers ever achieve. The twelve stories
gathered here represent the best work of...
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Winter Bayou
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'Each time we lay down together, I thought of pounding fetlocks, the flex of tendons, the press of horse shoe against my chest, the ring of purple flesh it would leave on my stomach, his galloping, galloping into me ...
Each night, after, I filled the ...
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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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mushroom.man
'I found it compelling - mystique and mystery are interwoven with great
cunning and guile.'
- John Boorman
mushroom.man is the tale of a loner whose move to the mountains t...
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