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

'It's an excellent novel, there's no two ways about that....

Ireland's Royal Canal, 1789-2009
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This is a revised, more lavish edition of the volume published by The Lilliput Press in 1992, containing four new chapters. Ireland's Royal Canal 1789-2009 is the fruit of many years of research by Ruth Delany into the records of the canal company and othe...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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.”

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...

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...

The Only Art of Jack B. Yeats: Letters & Essays
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This volume sheds new light on the life and works of Jack B. Yeats, the talented painter and poet too often overshadowed by his older brother William, through a collection of previously published and unpublished letters from John Butler Yeats to his so...

Watching the Door: A Memoir 1971-1978
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As an Irish Catholic raised in Leicester, fresh from University College Dublin with a first in History, Kevin Myers is sent north to work for the Belfast bureau of RTE News. There he covers the increasingly vicious conflict erupting in the city as the ...

Wicked Little Joe
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In the summer of 1939, as a two-year-old in London, I was given away by my parents to a Chelsea friend and taken on the Irish Mail to Dublin.

Thus begins this extraordinary memoir by travel writer and novelist Joseph Hone, one of eight children far...

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...