The Offing by Benjamin Myers
$24.99 NZD
Category: Modern
'What a radical thing, these days, to have written a book so full of warmth and kindness ... Gorgeous' Max Porter, author of Lanny A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick A BBC Radio 4 'Book at Bedtime' An Observer Pick for 2019 One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard sets out on foot from ...Show more
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
$24.99 NZD
Category: Irish
It's New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky. Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air. Far below, the lives of complete strangers spin towards each other: Corrigan, a radical Irish monk working in the Bronx; Claire, a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from ...Show more
The Last Crossing by Brian McGilloway
$29.99 NZD
Category: Crime, Thrillers
'Poetic, human and gripping... reminded me of Bernard MacLaverty's early work. Yes, it's that good' Ian Rankin'Moving and powerful, this is an important book, which everyone should read' Ann Cleeves'The Last Crossing is not only a riveting story about loss and guilt in a fractured society, it is also an ...Show more
Dubliners by James Joyce
$26.00 NZD
Category: Irish | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves'. From a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest, to a young woman' ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
$26.00 NZD
Category: Irish | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's "Ulysses" is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition includes an introduction by Declan Kiberd. For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written betwe ...Show more
Snowflake by Louise Nealon
$32.87 NZD
Category: Irish
'A beautiful novel; tender, laugh-out-loud funny, and deeply moving' - Louise O'Neil Eighteen-year-old Debbie White lives on a dairy farm with her mother, Maeve, and her uncle, Billy. Billy sleeps out in a caravan in the garden with a bottle of whiskey and the stars overhead for company. Maeve spends he ...Show more
The Art Of The Glimpse - 100 Irish Short Stories by Sinead Gleeson (ed.)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Irish
An anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations. There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a collection like this. The Art of the Glimpseis a radical revision of the canon of the Irish story, uniting ...Show more
The Fire Starters by Jan Carson
$23.00 NZD
Category: Irish
'One of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation' SUNDAY TIMES'Gripping, affecting, surprising. I inhaled it' LISA MCINERNEY'Captivating, intelligent and courageous' IRISH TIMES'Spectacular. At once grittily real, wildly magical and insanely alluring - a siren-song of a no ...Show more
Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit. In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss. "Displaced" returns us to a y ...Show more
Charlie Savage by Roddy Doyle
$30.00 NZD
Category: Modern
Meet Charlie Savage: a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking buddy who's realized that he's been a woman all along... Compiled here for the first time is a whole year's worth of Roddy Doyle's hilariousseries for the Irish Independent. Giving a unique voice ...Show more
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern
Forced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin finds herself pregnant and alone, in search of a new life at just sixteen. She knows she has no choice but to believe that the nun she entrusts her child to will find him a better life. Cyril Avery is not a real Avery, or so his parent ...Show more
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
$37.00 NZD
Category: Irish
Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. A generational saga and contemporary meditation on daughterhood and motherhood, f ...Show more