Product Description: A searing, surreal novel that bleeds fantasy and reality―and Beatles fandom―from one of literature’s most striking contemporary voices, author of the international sensation City of BohaneIt is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west coast of Ireland he bought nine years prior...read more

The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees. Infested by vice and split along triballines, there are still some posh parts of town but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the Northside Rises and the eerie bogs of Big Nothin’ that the city really lives. For years, Bohane has been in the cool grip of Logan Hartnett, the dapper godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang. But now they say his old nemesis is back in town; his trusted henchmen are getting ambitious and there’s trouble in the air.…

Product Description: The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees. Infested by vice and split along triballines, there are still some posh parts of town but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the Northside Rises and the eerie bogs of Big Nothin’ that the city really lives...read more

Product Description: Kevin Barry's deliciously wicked collection Dark Lies the Island delivers on the many reckless promises made by his virtuosic and prizewinning debut novel, City of Bohane. It firmly establishes him as both a world-class word slinger and a masterful storyteller.

Product Description: In a letter to his brother in 1906, James Joyce confessed: 'Sometimes thinking of Ireland it seems to me that I have been unnecessarily harsh. I have not been just to its beauty'. One reason for the composition of The Dead in 1907 was to compensate for this injustice and to add a new and quite different conclusion to his collection of short stories, Dubliners...read more

Product Description: 2017 Moonbean Children's Book Awards Gold Medal for Best Picture Book (Ages 4-8)2017 Maine Literary Awards Children's Book Award FinalistOn some days, there's just not a good word for someone to describe the way they are feeling. If their socks are sagging and their pants are wrinkled, what do you call it?Whether a reader is feeling like a turtle or halfway wild, author Laura Freudig has found a delightful new way to describe those feelings in this poetic and playful picture book that connects children, not just to feelings and emotions, but also to animals and the quirks and patterns of the natural world...read more

Product Description: These are the recollections seen through the eyes of a young Irish boy growing up in Notting Hill and Chelsea in the 1950s and 1960s with its trials and tribulations. However, great joy, poignancy, humour, and sadness that shines through from an era now long gone...read more

Product Description: Originally published in 1987, this book forms a conceptual account of the relationship between music and poetry in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Kevin Barry argues that this relationship is more important than previous scholarship, with its emphasis on the visual analogy (comparing poetry with painting rather than with music), allowed for...read more

Product Description: Jake Cameron didn't die quite the way he wanted to. His dream of being shot by a jelous husband at the grand old age of ninety one didn't quite work out for him. Pity realy, all he had to do was give up drinking, figure out who was killing all the other members of his AA group and make the love of his life fall in love with him...read more

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Product Description: Nurse Nikki Wharton dropped to her knees, pressed her palms together and said a silent prayer for the soul of Gloria Appleby. Nikki had always been devout in her faith. She believed that Mrs Appleby had gone to a better place. Her belief was profound and unshakeable, so for her to do otherwise was simply unthinkable...read more