A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000 by John Gibney
$28.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first centuryFive centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. John Gibney proceeds from the beginning of Ireland's modern period and continues through ...Show more
Boys Don't Cry by Fiona Scarlett
$32.99 NZD
Category: Modern
Joe is 17, a gifted artist and a brilliant older brother to 12-year-old Finn. They live with their Ma and Da in a Dublin tower block called Bojaxhiu or 'the Jax'. It's not an easy place to be a kid, especially when your father, Frank, is the muscle for the notorious gang leader Dessie 'The Badger' Murph ...Show more
Amongst Women: Faber Modern Classics by John McGahern
$22.99 NZD
Category: Irish
Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past. ' ...Show more
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by Oscar Wilde
$2.99 NZD
Category: Irish | Series: Little Black Classics 119
"Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. "
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
$22.99 NZD
Category: Modern
The Booker-longlisted novel, drenched in sex, death and narcotics, in sudden violence, old magic and the mysteries of love, from the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Goldsmiths Prize
Girl by Edna O'Brien
$32.99 NZD
Category: Irish
Girl, Edna O'Brien's courageous new novel is an unforgettable depiction of one woman's abduction by Boko Haram. Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a community of men governed by a brutal code of violence. Barely more than a gi ...Show more
Milkman by Anna Burns
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018 In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary known as the milkman begins pursuing her, she suddenly becomes "interesting," the ...Show more
Two for the Road by Roddy Doyle
$24.00 NZD
Category: Modern
FROM THE AUTHOR OF TWO PINTS AND TWO MORE PINTS Another round of two pints from the ever-brilliant, always hilarious imagination of Roddy Doyle Two men meet for a pint - or three - in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights and mourn friends gone- David Bowie, Prince, Princess Leia and ...Show more