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THE LADY BEST BOOKS OF 2024A haunted record of a life devoted to the visual art of the cinema and the written word, by Ireland's greatest director and one of...

'Harding's prose style is fluid and fluent ... unflinching, merciless honesty' Sunday IndependentTo mark his 70th birthday Michael Harding travelled to Spain to walk part of the Camino de Santiago....

This is the story of a magical childhood on a farm in the west of Ireland during the 1930s and early 1940s. It tells of a young girl and the...

These reflective essays about Deon's life and experiences in the west of Ireland describe the colourful and varied personalities that the French novelist has come across since he and his...

Sean O'Connor was born in Francis Street, in the Liberties of Dublin, a neighbourhood famous over the centuries for the sturdy independence of its people.Now, in this evocative and affectionate...

Ballybunion to the River Kwai is the remarkable story of Don Kennedy's harrowing experience as an Irish prisoner of war under the Japanese from 1942-45. Vividly narrated by Don's son...

'An unforgettable, freewheeling masterclass'MICHAEL MAGEE, Nero Book Award-winning author of Close to Home'Funny, nerve-wracking and utterly compelling'COLIN BARRETT, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Wild Houses'Extraordinary... A writer with a rare gift....

'An unforgettable, freewheeling masterclass'Michael Magee, Nero Book Award-winning author of Close to Home 'Funny, nerve-wracking and utterly compelling'Colin Barrett, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Wild Houses'Extraordinary... A writer with a rare...

As a young man, James Joyce rejected his country and its religion, but went on to recreate the Dublin of his youth in his fiction. "Ulysses" was initially banned in...

This superb account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry, written as the nineteenth century draws to its close and the dawn of a...

Bizarre tales of murder and investigation in the drumlins, valleys and towns of Monaghan in the nineteenth century, based upon a casebook just recently discovered that has never been lodged...

From the author of the million-selling Angela's Ashes - the most keenly anticipated sequel of the decade Angela's Ashes was a publishing phenomenon. Frank McCourt's critically acclaimed, lyrical memoir of...

Turtle Was Gone a Long Time: Horsehead Nebula Neighing, the second volume of a remarkable trilogy, continues John Moriarty's spiritual journey embarked upon in Crossing the Kedron. In a Prelude...

In a letter to his friend Charles Ford, Jonathan Swift wrote: 'I have finished my travells and I am now transcribing them: they are admirable things and will wonderfully mend...

A hilarious and heartwarming dive into the hyperactive life of Vogue Williams - TV Presenter and Podcaster. Big Mouth is the perfect name for my book. Everyone is known for...

Music and Mayhem charts the immersive and explosive life of one of Ireland's most important musicians, and the golden decade of Irish music he was at the very centre of....