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A Different Kind of Dream
Raven-haired Kate Flowers lives on the banks of the canal in Ballygrace, looking after widowed mother, Mary, and undependable brother, Brendan, who works on the barges. Life starts to change when Kate meets handsome boatman, Michael O’Br...
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A Fine Statement
An Irish Poet's Anthology
Poetry anthologies come six to the dozen at Christmas time, like familiar but tired relatives. This one is different. For A Fine Statement, John McDonagh asked twenty of Ireland’s best-loved poets to choose their five favourite poems from their ow...
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Aileen McCallan
A Journey of Love through Autism
Young mother Aileen McCallan is filled with love and joy at the birth of her second son, Cian. Now she feels she can settle into motherhood and a comfortable life. But it is not to be. From the age of about eighteen months, Cian’s behaviour grows ...
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Aishling Gayle
Aisling Gayle is one of life’s pleasers.
A young, country schoolteacher in 60s Ireland, she spends her life pleasing philandering, Jack-the-lad husband Oliver, and pious mother Maggie. Aisling’s wedding anniversary reveals Oliver’s latest infidelity, and she decides to escape for the ...
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Carol Coffey
Author of The Butterfly State. AVAILABLE NOW!
Broken Hill Nursing Home is a house laden down with secrets, its residents now settled in Australia but living out their troubled lives trapped in the past. Thirteen-year-old Christopher, whose parents run the home, is its self-appointed gu...
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Des MacHale
The perfect stocking filler!
A fellow was talking at the bar in a pub in Virginia, County Cavan: “I don’t know where all this fuss about smoking is coming from. I’ve been smoking for forty years and there’s nothing wrong with my lung.”
Sign seen on a Connemara pub...
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Discovering Gardening
Dermot O’Neill brings the message of gardening to a broad audience, encompassing all generations. His lively and enthusiastic approach is a major factor in encouraging many to take up the hobby. Dermot’s name is synonymous with Irish gardening and...
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Dropping The Habit
In this brave memoir, she opens a door to her life
She made her choice at 14. Must it be a life sentence?
Marion Dante always knew she would be a nun. She was born in answer to prayer and she was her mother's "sin offering". Conceived out of wedlock, her mother promised God that she w...
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Duck & Swan
John Quinn
When Martin ‘Duck’ Oduki, abandoned in Dublin by a Nigerian father and Irish mother, runs away from St Mark’s Care Centre, Emer Healy discovers him hiding on a school bus bound for Galway. Watching her sick mother’s struggle to regain her healt...
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Elizabeth Bowen's Irish Stories
One of the most highly regarded writers of this century, she made the short story peculiarly her own and some of her Irish stories are reckoned by Victoria Glendinning – who was her official biographer and who has written and introduction to this ...
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