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As they used to say in Ireland, the devil only comes into good things. Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson,...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER TWICE WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A masterpiece' - Sunday Times 'Stunning' - LIZ NUGENT...

Author: Sebastian Barry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live. Winona is...

Author: Sebastian Barry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Told in Sebastian Barry's characteristically beautiful prose, A Long Long Way evokes the camaraderie and humour of Willie and his regiment,...

Author: Sebastian Barry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never...

The thrilling, furious and stunningly original debut novel about womanhood, art and life, from the blazing new star in contemporary literature, for fans of Eimear McBride, Ali Smith and Deborah...

'As they used to say in Ireland, the devil only comes into good things.' Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson,...

Author: Sebastian Barry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best...

Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017 Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017 Longlisted for...

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An immersive, sweeping and unforgettable novel of one man's life in the aftermath of the American Civil War. I knew as I made my way home that there was no...

Barely eighteen years old, Willie Dunne leaves Dublin in 1914 to fight for the Allied cause, largely unaware of the growing political and religious tensions festering back home. Told in...

Author: Sebastian Barry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'As they used to say in Ireland, the devil only comes into good things.' Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan's Side...

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Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him becoming soldiers of a different kind, however, it proves...

After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. Having...

The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlised Small Things Like These 'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' - Sebastian Barry 'Among...

**Selected for Dua Lipa's Service95 Book Club 2024** LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2021 A Guardian Book of the Year 'The highest talent at work' Sebastian Barry 'Beautiful ... A...

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From the Booker-shortlisted author, an audacious comic lament for a world that no longer knows itself. 'Truly wondrous. Nobody on this troubled, glorious planet writes, thinks, feels, amuses, surprises, dazzles...

'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most...

Author: C Pam Zhang Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021 A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerA richly detailed biographical study, Bach chronicles the life and towering musical legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach, one of the...

Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 James Darke helped his beloved wife, Suzanne, die. And now he is holed up in his house waiting for his daughter,...

The extraordinary story of a family devastated by a sudden disappearance and transformed by a miraculous return from the award-winning author loved by David Nicholls, Kamila Shamsie and Sebastian Barry....

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Author: Hugo Hamilton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'A rich, strange book. Very truthful and moving' Tessa Hadley 'A terrific, engrossing novel' Roddy Doyle 'A masterpiece' Sebastian...

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Sebastiano Timpanaro (1923-2000) was one of the most original leftist thinkers of the 20th century. His thought spans a unique range of subjects, from materialism to classical philology, from the...

Secondhand Australian & Military History Bargain Book Box SP2987 Fifteen military history titles with a strong Australian focus — Vietnam, the Western Front, the Pacific air war, Bomber Command, North...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn a world where speed is the ultimate superpower, The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive ignites the DC...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn the morning of 3 February 1967, Ronald Ryan became the last man to be hanged in Australia...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a crossroads between tradition and transformation, The Schools presents a revealing portrait of Australian education — what...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of modernism and national identity, Contemporary British Art by Herbert Read stands as one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to think freely in an empire built on repression? Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin...

Barry Allen is back-but the Speed Force isn't what it used to be. In this thrilling collection of two modern classics, The Flash: Rebirth and The Dastardly Death of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the queen of romantic fiction comes a lavish and intimate celebration of love in all its forms...

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The second book in a series that explores little-known history about Australia's fascinating past. Barney Bean is keen to make his fortune and he hears a secret; a sailor's secret...

Fifty famous Australians from all walks of life will feature in this book, including names such as Barry Humphries, Kylie Minogue, Cathy Freedman, Don Bradman, May Gibbs, Andy Thomas and...

The interpretation of certain key texts in the Bible by two Dominican Friars: the celebrated author Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe and Biblical scholar Lukasz Popko. Many today may see the relationship...

Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis book examines British identity through the lens of its personalities, politics, and culture. Essays within consider the nuances...