How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney
$37.00 NZD
Category: Irish
A deeply moving novel about a boy and his dream, from the prize-winning author of As You Were. Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers and Edgar Allan Poe. At age 13 there ar ...Show more
Water by John Boyne
$35.00 NZD
Category: Irish
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she ...Show more
Life Sentences: the unforgettable Irish bestseller by Billy O'Callaghan
$24.00 NZD
Category: Irish
*THE #3 IRISH BESTSELLER*'Momentous and epic' BERNARD MACLAVERTY'Superb and moving' JOHN BANVILLE'A lovely, piercing book' SEBASTIAN BARRYThree generations. More than a century of famine, war, violence and love.At sixteen Nancy, the only member of her family to survive the Great Famine, leaves her small ...Show more
Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry
$27.99 NZD
Category: Irish
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Days Without End and The Secret Scripture, and one of our most soulful living writers, Old God's Time is an extraordinary novel about memory, love, mystery and reckoning.
Kala by Colin Walsh
$39.99 NZD
Category: Modern
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives. In the seaside village of Kinlough, on Ireland's west coast, three old friends meet for the first time in years. They- ...Show more
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
$37.00 NZD
Category: Modern
Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking - a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is in meltdown... The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending hi ...Show more
The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan
$26.00 NZD
Category: Irish
From the award-winning, Booker longlisted author of the number one bestseller, STRANGE FLOWERS, a searing, jubilant novel about four generations of women and the love and stories that bind them.'One of the finest novelists writing today... a haunting, exquisite masterpiece.' RACHEL JOYCE'A generous mosa ...Show more
Falling Animals by Sheila Armstrong
$32.99 NZD
Category: Irish
The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the last day of his life, Sheila Armstrong's debut novel is haunting, lyrical and darkly suspenseful. On an isolated beach set against a lonely, windswept coastline, a pale figure sits serenely against a sand d ...Show more
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
$36.99 NZD
Category: Irish
WINNER OF THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE. On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of ...Show more
These Days by Lucy Caldwell
$24.99 NZD
Category: Modern
AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4s BOOK AT BEDTIMEA Sunday Times, Times, Irish Independent, Spectator and Good Housekeeping Book of the YearSHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION'Sensationally good' Sunday Times 'Remarkably, unusually vivid' The Times'Brilliantly evokes wartime love and hea ...Show more
Ulysses Unbound: A Reader's Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses by Terence Killeen
$26.00 NZD
Category: Irish
Ulysses is one of the foundational texts of modern literature, yet has a reputation for complexity and controversy. In Ulysses Unbound, Joyce expert Terence Killeen untangles this seemingly knotty classic to reveal the wonders beneath, in a clear and comprehensive guide which will provide new and vital ...Show more
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
$29.99 NZD
Category: Modern | Series: Irish Classics Ser.
This is the story of a haunted childhood, a house where love and trust are hard to hold on to. The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with political hatred, family secrets and lethal intrigue. As a young boy tries to make sense of life, poverty and violence shift and ob ...Show more