Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
$27.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruder ...Show more
Constellations - Reflections from Life by Sinéad Gleeson
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles.' How do you tell the story of life that is no one thing? How do you tell the s ...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
Thin Places by Kerri ni Dochartaigh
$27.99 NZD
Category: Irish
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED'A special, beautiful, many-faceted book' Amy Liptrot'A remarkable piece of writing . . . Luminous' Robert MacfarlaneKerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border of the North and South of Ireland, at the very height of th ...Show more
Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland by Peter Taylor
$38.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
'What an extraordinary asset Peter Taylor is for the BBC and for British journalism' - Jonathan Freedland, bestselling author of The Escape Artist_______________On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, MI5's top- ...Show more
Ulysses - Annotated Students' Edition by James Joyce
$32.00 NZD
Category: Irish
Arguably the greatest novel of the twentieth century, James Joyce's Ulysses remains as much of a shocking and redemptive testament to the human condition as it was when it was first conceived in 1914. Following the events of a single day in Dublin and the experiences of Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom an ...Show more
In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden by Niall Williams,Christine Breen
$28.99 NZD
Category: Sports, Hobbies, Environment
Thirty-four years ago, when they were in their twenties, Niall Williams and Christine Breen made the impulsive decision to leave their lives in New York City and move to Christine’s ancestral home in the town of Kiltumper in rural Ireland. In the decades that followed, the pair dedicated themselves to w ...Show more
The Last Irish Question - Will Six into Twenty-Six Ever Go? by Glenn Patterson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Irish
A view of the south of Ireland - political, social, geographical - through the eyes of a liberal northern protestant being asked to rejoin it. 'A pleasure to read... Incisively mixing memoir, reportage and analysis' Daily Mail ... 'Discursive, humane and meticulously attentive to verbal nuances that ca ...Show more
Brouhaha by Ardal O'Hanlon
$35.00 NZD
Category: Irish
The razor-sharp, violent and darkly comic second novel from actor, comedian and writer Ardal O'Hanlon.Dove Connolly is dead. That's not good for anyone in Tullyanna, never mind Dove.Now his best friend Sharkey is home asking awkward questions about Dove's death, about the strange graphic novel he left b ...Show more
The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925 by Charles Townshend
$30.00 NZD
Category: Irish
A compelling history of the turbulent journey to Irish independence brings Townshend's acclaimed Irish trilogy to a close. In the aftermath of the horrors of the Irish Famine, the grim, distrustful relationship between Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom deteriorated into a generations-long argu ...Show more