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*Keeper Bridge of Clay Nine Perfect Strangers The Next Person You Meet in.. Graham Norton Markus Zusak Liane Moriarty Mitch Albom 9781473664982 €15.99 ____ 9780857525956 €20.99 ____ 9780718180300 €17.99 ____ 9780751571899 €15.99 ____ Hodder Transworld Joseph (Michael) Warner This compelling new novel confirms At once an existential riddle and a search The eagerly-anticipated new novel from Fifteen years ago, in Mitch Albom's Graham Norton's status as a fresh, for redemption, this tale of five brothers the worldwide Number One bestselling beloved novel, The Five People You literary voice, bringing his clear-eyed coming of age in a house with no rules author behind Emmy- and Golden Meet in Heaven, the world fell in love understanding of human nature and its brims with energy, joy and pathos. Globe-winning HBO series Big Little Lies with Eddie, a grizzled war darkest flaws. Written in Markus Zusak's distinctive style, and smash-hit novel The Husband's veteran- turned-amusement park it is a tour de force from a master Secret mechanic who died saving the life of a storyteller of the heart. young girl named Annie. Eddie's journey to heaven taught him that every life matters. Now, in this magical sequel, Mitch Albom reveals Annie's story.

The Reckoning Unsheltered Melmoth Dark Sacred Night John Grisham Barbara Kingsolver Sarah Perry Michael Connelly 9781473684386 €21.99 ____ 9780571347018 €15.99 _____ 9781788160667 €15.99 _____ 9781409182733 €14.99 ____ Hodder Faber & Faber Profile Orion Twenty years ago Helen Franklin did John Grisham returns to Clanton, A testament to both the resilience and something she cannot forgive herself for, Harry Bosch Series Book 21. Mississippi, to tell the story of an persistent myopia of the human and she has spent every day since At the end of a long, dark night unthinkable murder, the bizarre trial condition, Unsheltered explores the barricading herself against its memory. Detectives Renée Ballard and Harry that followed it, and its profound foundations we build in life, spanning But the sheltered life she has crafted for Bosch cross paths for the very first and lasting effect on the people of time and place to give us all a clearer herself is about to change. time. Ford County. look at those around us, and perhaps Exquisitely written, this is a masterpiece ourselves. It is a novel that speaks truly of moral complexity, asking us profound to our times. questions about mercy, redemption, and how to make the best of our conflicted world.

A Thousand Roads Home In a House of Lies Killing Commendatore The Vogue Carmel Harrington Ian Rankin Haruki Murakami Eoin McNamee 9780008276584 €14.50 ____ 9781409176893 €14.99 ____ 9781787300194 €21.99 ____ 9780571331604 €14.50 ____ Harper Collins Orion Random House Faber & Faber Warm, powerful and unforgettable, The iconic Ian Rankin returns with a new A tour de force of love and loneliness, Set against an eerie landscape, awash Irish Times best-selling author Carmel Detective John Rebus novel - this year's war and art - as well as a loving homage with secrets, The Vogue is a grimly Harrington's new novel is about essential must-read bestseller. to The Great Gatsby - Killing Commen poetic dance through the intertwined second chances, friendship datore is a stunning work of imagination stories of a deeply religious and unlikely heroes. from one of our greatest writers. community, an abandoned military base, and a long-shuttered children's Care Home. FICTION

Widows Film Tie In House of Ghosts Tombland Every Breath Lynda La Plante W.C. Ryan C.J Samson Nicholas Sparks 9781785765285 €8.99 ____ 9781785767128 €14.50 ____ 9781447284499 €15.99 ____ 9780751567762 €14.99 ____ Bonnier Bonnier Macmillan Warner The groundbreaking thriller from the A gripping mystery with a classic feel: Tombland is the seventh novel in C. J. From the number one bestselling author Queen of Crime Drama and the basis And Then There Were None meets The Sansom's number one bestselling Shard - of The Notebook and Two by Two for Steve McQueen's upcoming Silent Companions. lake series. comes an unforgettable tale of enduring major motion picture. WIDOWS is a love. fast-paced heist thriller with an all female cast you won't forget

*In the Court’s Hands Elevation Turn of Midnight House of Vesper Sands Fiona Gartland Stephen King Minette Walters Paraic O’Donnell 9781781998021 €14.99 ____ 9781473691520 €17.50 ____ 9781760632175 €15.50 ____ 9781474600408 €16.50 ____ Poolbeg Hodder Atlantic Weidenfeld Beatrice is working at the Criminal The much anticipated second instalment Courts of Justice in Dublin on the trial From master storyteller Stephen King, 'The most vivid and compelling portrait to the bestselling novel The Last Hours. of O'Farrell, who is accused of fraud. our 'most precious renewable of late Victorian London since The At lunch in Phoenix Park, Beatrice resource, like Shakespeare in the Crimson Petal and the White' Sarah spots O'Farrell giving a woman an malleability of his work' (Guardian), Perry, author of The Essex Serpent comes this timely, upbeat tale about envelope. She subsequently sees the woman on a tram talking to the fore - finding common ground despite 'Like the love child of Dickens and Conan woman of the jury. Beatrice believes deep-rooted differences. Compelling Doyle, but funnier than both' Liz Nugent, O'Farrell is perverting the course of and eerie, Elevation is as gloriously author of Lying in Wait joyful (with a twinge of deep sadness) justice. But, before she can alert the as 'It's a Wonderful Life.' authorities, Rachel Deere is killed. ...

A Spot Of Folly One Enchanted Evening *Moment We Meet The Visitor Ruth Rendell Anton Du Beke Sheila O’Flanagan Zoe Miller 9781788160155 €9.99 ____ 9781785764813 €14.50 ____ 9781473699113 €9.99 ____ 9781473664661 €16.50 ____ Profile Bonner Hodder Hodder In these tales, a businessman boasts Perfect for fans of Downton Abbey, Mr A wonderful collection of short Izzie Mallon is looking forward to about cheating on his wife, only to find celebrating Christmas on a relaxing Selfridge, The Halcyon and Belgravia. stories from Sheila O'Flanagan, the tables turned. A beautiful country The master entertainer brings us his bestselling author of The Hideaway yoga retreat. At least, that is what she's rectory reverberates to the echo of a telling her mother and colleagues. In fabulous debut novel. Prepare to be and What Happened That Night historical murder. A compulsive liar acts swept off your feet... reality, she will be shutting herself on impulse, only to be lead inexorably to away from the festive season in her disaster. And a wealthy man finds there apartment on Henrietta Square - the is more to his wife's kidnapping than beautiful home she shared with her meets the eye. Atmospheric, gripping beloved husband Sam until his and never predictable, this is Ruth tragic death a few months ago. Rendell at her inimitable best. FICTION

*Paprika Greeks Beariing Gifts Dead if You Don’t Chestnut Man Frank McGuinness Philip Kerr Peter James Soren Sveistrup 9781788490016 €16.99 ____ 9781784296551 € 9.99 ____ 9781509816378 €8.99 ____ 9780241372111 €12.99 ____ O’Brien Press Quercus Macmillan Hamish Hamilton A son tries to mourn the death of the Kipp Brown, successful businessman Sent to Athens to investigate a claim from THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE CREATOR father who abandoned him. A family and compulsive gambler, is having the a fellow German for a sunken ship, Bernie AND WRITER OF THE KILLING. rages against the murder of their gay worst run of luck of his life.However, takes an instant dislike to the claimant. The police make a terrible discovery in a son in war-torn Raqqa. Brilliance turns taking his teenage son, Mungo, to When he discovers the ship in question suburb of Copenhagen. A young woman to madness in the fickle and unforgiv - their club’s big Saturday afternoon once belonged to a Greek Jew deported has been killed and dumped at a play - ing world of theatre. And in the titular football match should give him a wel - to Auschwitz, he is convinced the sinking ground. One of her hands has been cut story, the world of an operatic tenor come respite. But it’s at the stadium was no accident but an act of vengeance. off, and above her hangs a small doll violently collides with that of a home - where his nightmare begins..... made of chestnuts. less couple on the streets of New York.

*In the Dark River Winter in Paradise Sisters Brothers Tie-In The Deal of a Lifetime Conor Brady Elin Hilderbrand Patrick de Witt Fredrik Backman 9781848407022 €14.95 ____ 9781473677425 €17.50 ____ 9781783784998 €9.99 ____ 9780241359518 € 11.50 ____ New Island Hodder Granta Hamish Hamilton Irene Steele's life is idyllic, until it is The Sisters Brothers pays homage to the On this night before Christmas,a father rocked by a late-night phone call that classic Western, transforming it into an has been given the unexpected chance to brings news of her husband's sudden unforgettable ribald tour de force. Filled do something remarkable that could death. Even in the midst of her crippling with a remarkable cast of losers, change the destiny of a little girl he hardly grief, Irene cannot get one question out cheaters, and ne'er-do-wells from all knows. But before he can make the deal of her head: why was his body found on stripes of life-and told by a complex and of a lifetime, he must find out what his St. John, a tropical Caribbean paradise compelling narrator, it is a violent, lustful own life has actually been worth, and far removed from their suburban life? odyssey through the underworld of the only his son can reveal the answer. 1850s frontier.

Little Bright Young Dead *Murder at Greysbridge Seventeen Edward Carey Jessica Fellowes Andrea Carter Hideo Yokoyama 9781910709566 €12.50 ____ 9780751567205 €16.50 ____ 9781472125996 €16.50 ____ 9781786484628 €9.99 ____ Perseus Warner Corsair Quercus

The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of Meet the Bright Young Things, the A traditional crime novel with a colourful FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST - an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary rabble-rousing hedonists of the 1920s cast of characters. SELLING AUTHOR OF SIX FOUR: A Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals whose treasure hunts were a media Set in Inishowen a series of deaths TENSE INVESTIGATION IN THE alike, who transforms herself into the obsession. One such game takes place at leaves solicitor Ben O’Keefe embroiled in AFTERMATH OF AN AIR DISASTER - legendary Madame Tussaud. the 18th birthday party of Pamela a real country house murder mystery, FOR FANS OF SPOTLIGHT AND AFTER Mitford, but ends in tragedy as cruel, where all the guests are suspects . . . THE CRASH. charismatic Adrian Curtis is pushed to his death from the church neighbouring the Mitford home. FICTION

Muse of Nightmares A Keeper HB Red Birds Trinity Laini Taylor Graham Norton Mohammed Hanif Louisa Hall 9781444789041 €16.50 ____ 9781473664975 €22.99 ____ 9781408897195 €15.65 ___ 9781472154057 €16.99 ____ Hodder Hodder Bloomsbury Corsair Love and hate, revenge and redemp - This compelling new novel confirms Nor - A powerful novel about war, family and From the acclaimed author of Speak tion, destruction and salvation all clash ton's status as a fresh, literary voice, bring - love, from the bestselling, prize-winning comes a kaleidoscopic novel about in this gorgeous sequel to the New York ing his clear-eyed understanding of human author dubbed `Pakistan's brightest Robert Oppenheimer - father of the Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer. nature and its darkest flaws. voice' Written with his trademark wit, atomic bomb - as told by seven Sarai has lived and breathed night - 'I raved about Holding two years ago ... A keen eye for absurdity and telling im - fictional characters. mares since she was six years old. Keeper is even better. A powerful, very sad portant truths about the world today, She believed she knew every horror, story, beautiful writing, two time frames Red Birds reveals master storyteller and was beyond surprise. that are perfectly balanced. Outstanding. ‘ Mohammed Hanif at the height of his She was wrong. JOHN BOYNE powers.

A Spark of Light Shell In the Midst of Winter The Christmas Voyage Jodi Picoult Kristina Olsson Isabel Allende Deirdre Purcell 9781444788136 €15.99 ____ 9781471172632 €14.50 ____ 9781471166907 €9.99 ____ 9781444799507 €9.30______Hodder S&S S&S The Center for women's reproductive Hodder A beautifully crafted, spellbinding story New York Times bestseller Isabel Allende health offers a last chance at hope - but It is almost Christmas on the Santa returns with a beautifully crafted, nobody ends up there by choice. Now of love, loss and identity, set in the shadow of the Vietnam War, for readers Clara cruise liner, and as the ship sets multi-generational novel of struggle, alone protester with a gun has taken the sail from Barcelona for the last time, endurance and friendship against the staff, patients and visitors hostage. who loved All the Light We Cannot See and The Goldfinch. dramas big and small are to unfold. odds.Sweeping from present-day Starting at the tensest moment in the The Christmas Voyage is a seasonal Brooklyn to Guatemala to turbulent negotiations for their release, A Spark of story of high drama, romance and ex - 1970s Chile and Brazil, and woven with Light unravels backwards, revealing hour traordinary outcomes. Isabel Allende's trademark humanity, by urgent hour what brought each of these passion and storytelling verve, In the people - the gunman, the negotiator, the Midst of Winter is a mesmerizing and doctors, nurses and women who have unforgettable tale. come to them for treatment - to this point.

The Hoarder An Unsuitable Match *The Mistletoe Matchmaker Fall from Grace Jess Kidd Joanna Trollope Felicity Hayes-McCoy Danielle Steel 9781782118527 €9.99 ______9781509823505 €8.99 ____ 9781473663619 €9.30 ____ 9781509800421 €8.99 ____ Canongate Macmillan Hodder Macmillan Unintentional psychic Maud Drennan Rose Woodrowe has just got engaged to Christmas is around the corner, and the arrives to look after Cathal Flood, a Humiliated, publicly shamed, destitute – Tyler Masson – a wonderful, sensitive residents of Lissbeg are beginning belligerent man hiding in his filthy, cat- Sydney hits rock bottom. There are two man who is head-over-heels in love with preparations for the festive season. filled home. choices: give up or start over. Sydney her. The only problem? This isn’t the first Cassie Fitzgerald, newly arrived from Her job is simple: clear the rubbish, take realizes she must take life by the horns if time for either of them, and their five Toronto, is enchanted by the small Irish care of the patient. But the once-grand she’s to revive her career and forge a grown-up children have strong opinions town where her dad was born. But the house has more to reveal than simply its new life she can be proud of. on the matter.....Who to listen to? Who to more involved she becomes in daily life rooms. There is a secret here, and Fall From Grace is an inspirational story please? Rose and Tyler are determined to there, the more questions she wants to whether she likes it or not, Maud may be about relying on the support of family in get it right this time, but in trying to make ask. the one to finally uncover what has times of trouble, by the world's everyone happy, can they ever be happy 'The perfect winter heart-warmer' previously been kept hidden . . . favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel. themselves? Cathy Kelly FICTION

Winter Moscow Midnight Listen for the Weather In Search of Us Ali Smith John Simpson Justine Delaney Wilson Maria Duffy 9780241973332 €9.99 ______9781473674523 €16.50 ____ 9781473625914 €9.30 ____ 9781473673137 €9.30 ____ Hamish Hamilton Hodder Hodder Hodder In this second novel in her acclaimed Government minister Patrick Macready Beth and her family have settled well into Twin sisters Ronnie and Elizabeth could - Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her has been found dead in his flat. The their new life in New Zealand, far from the n't be more different. But when their sensational Autumn, Smith's shape- coroner rules it an accident, a sex game stifling containment of the life they knew mother Belinda passes away, she reveals shifting quartet of novels casts a merry gone wrong. Then days after Macready's in Ireland.Until a bombshell lands, in the a secret about the twins' father which eye over a bleak post-truth era with a flat is apparently burgled, Swift form of a letter Steve receives from a changes everything. As Ronnie and story rooted in history, memory and discovers that his friend had been woman from his past. In the envelope is a Elizabeth travel to New York to find out warmth, its taproot deep in the ever - researching a string of Russian photograph of a three-year-old girl -- Beth more about the man they never knew, it greens: art, love, laughter. government figures who had met and Steve's papered-over past has caught turns out that their mother has a few similarly 'accidental' fates. up with them, in the shape of this child ... more surprises in store for them.

The Cactus Seven Days of Us House of Glass The End of Loneliness Sarah Haywood Francesca Hornak Susan Fletcher Benedict Wells 9781473660632 €9.30 ____ 9780349415611 €9.30 ____ 9780349007656 €16.99 ____ 9781473654044 €9.99 ____ Hodder Abacus Abacus Hodder People aren't sure what to make of It's Christmas and for one whole week Reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier, this When their idyllic childhood is Susan Green - family and colleagues find the Birch family is gathering under one is a wonderful, atmospheric Gothic shattered by the sudden death of her prickly and hard to understand, but roof. But, when no one can leave the page-turner. A deeply absorbing, their parents, siblings Marty, Liz and Susan makes perfect sense to herself, house, and no one can enter, seven days unputdownable ghost story that's also a Jules are sent to a bleak state and that's all she needs. Yet suddenly for the Birches feels like an eternity. love story; for readers who love Sarah boarding school. Once there, the faced with the loss of her mother and, Especially when they're all harbouring Waters's The Little Stranger; Frances orphans' lives change tracks: Marty implausibly, with the possibility of secrets. Hodges Burnett's The Secret Garden; throws himself into academic life; Liz becoming a mother herself, Susan's One of whom is about to come knocking Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace; Jane is drawn to dark forms of escapism; greatest fear is being realised: she is at their door... Harris's The Observations. and Jules transforms from a vivacious losing control. child to a withdrawn teenager. Asparkling debut!

*Truth & Dare A Vintage Christmas *Aesop’s Fables Stranger Diaries Martina Devlin Various Carlo Gebler Elly Griffiths 9781781998137 € 14.99____ 9781784875077 €11.50_____ 9781848407060 €17.95_____ 9781786487407 €15.65_____ Poolbeg Vintage New Island Quercus Stories About Women Who Shaped VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG A gripping contemporary Gothic Ireland IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. thriller from the bestselling author of Including stories from Charles Dickens, the Dr Ruth Galloway mysteries: Alice Munro, Louis de Bernieres, Laurie Susan Hill meets Gone Girl and Dis - Lee, John Cheever, Anne Enright, Arthur claimer. Conan Doyle, Helen Simpson, Raymond Carver, Anthony Trollope and Stella Gib - A dark story has been brought to ter - bons. rifying life. Can the ending be rewrit - ten in time? FICTION

Comforts of Home The Dream Daughter Under the Night Every Breath You Take Susan Hill Diane Chamberlain Alan Glynn Mary Higgins Clark 9780701187675 €17.50 ____ 9781509808571 €15.50 ____ 9780571316250 €14.50 ____ 9781471167560 €8.99 ____ Chatto & Windus Macmillan Faber S&S DC Simon Serrailler's last, devastating When Caroline Sears receives the news Both a sequel and prequel to Alan Three years ago, Virginia Wakeling, a case was nearly the death of him and that her unborn baby girl has a heart de - Glynn's classic debut, which became member of the Met’s board of trustees left him confronting a new reality. fect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and it the #1 hit movie Limitless, Under the and one of the museum’s most gener - In this gripping new Serrailler thriller, seems that nothing can be done. But her Night is an irresistible thriller about ous donors, was found dead in the Simon's personal and professional lives brother-in-law, a physicist, tells her that the seductive power and dangers of snow outside the building. Police soon intertwine in more complex and de - perhaps there is. Something that will unlocking the human mind. discovered that she’d been thrown manding ways than ever before. shatter every preconception Caroline has. from the roof during the Met Gala, but Something that will mean a mind-bend - no one has ever been arrested for her ing leap of faith on Caroline’s part. murder.

Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Death is not Enough Ambush Sleep No More Stuart Turton Karen Rose James Patterson P D James 9781408889510 €9.99 ____ 9781472244086 €9.30 ____ 9781780895246 €15.50 ____ 9780571339884 €8.99 ____ Bloomsbury Headline Cornerstone Faber It is meant to be a celebration but it A ruthless gang leader. A deadly An anonymous tip about crime in Upper P. D. James, was a past master of the ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode vendetta. A dark past exhumed... Manhattan proves to be a setup. An offi - short story.The Mistletoe Murder and overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young KAREN ROSE returns with the break- cer is taken down - but despite the at - Other Stories contained four of these and beautiful daughter of the house, is neck follow-up to MONSTER IN THE tackers' efforts, it's not Michael Bennett. perfectly formed stories, and this com- killed. CLOSET, and the sixth book in the panion volume contains a further six, But Evelyn will not die just once. Until heart-pounding Baltimore Series published here together for the first Aiden - one of the guests summoned to time. As the six murderous tales un- Blackheath for the party - can solve her fold, the dark motive of revenge is re- murder, the day will repeat itself, over vealed at the heart of each. and over again. Every time ending with the fateful pistol shot.

17th Suspect Panic Room A Damned Serious Business After the Fire James Patterson Robert Goddard Gerald Seymour Henning Mankell 9781784753696 €9.30____ 9780552172608 €9.30 ____ 9781473663510 €9.30 ____ 9781784703394 €10.80 ____ Vintage Corgi Books Hodder Vintage Detective Lindsay Boxer is on the case High on a Cornish cliff sits a vast uninhab - 'The novel is an absorbing briefing on cy - Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired of a series of shootings of the homeless ited mansion. Uninhabited except for berwarfare as well as a masterclass in doctor. Years ago he retreated to the in San Francisco, where the killer is me - Blake, a young woman of mysterious characterisation' SUNDAY TIMES Thriller Swedish archipelago, where he lives alone thodical yet unpredictable. An en - background. But her remote existence is of the Month on an island. He lives a quiet life. Until he counter with a confidential informant going to be threatened when people wakes up one night to find his house on leads her to disturbing conclusions – come looking for the house’s owner, fire. something has gone very wrong inside rogue pharma entrepreneur, Jack Hark - LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNA- the police department itself. ness. TIONAL DAGGER 2018 The final novel from the bestselling au- thor of the Inspector Wallander mysteries FICTION

The Disappeared The Girl in the Fog Heads You Win Dracul C J Box Carrisi Donato Jeffrey Archer Dacre Stoker 9781784973193 €8.99 ____ 9780349142609 €10.99 ____ 9781509851256 €15.99 ____ 9780593080115 €14.50 ____ Head of Zeus Abacus Macmillan Bantam Something is not right in Saratoga. Detective Vogel will do anything to solve With a final twist that will shock even A riveting, heart-stoppingly scary novel Why has the local game warden also the mystery surrounding Anna Lou's dis - his most ardent fans, this is interna - of Gothic suspense, Dracul reveals not disappeared? Why is local law enforce - appearance. When a media storm hits tional number one bestseller Jeffrey only the true origins of Dracula himself, ment spooked? Why is the new state the quiet town, Vogel is sure that the sus - Archer’s most ambitious and creative but also of his creator, Bram Stoker . . . governor taking such an interest in the pect will be flushed out. Yet the clues are work since Kane and Abel. and of the elusive, enigmatic woman case? Joe will have to find the answers confusing, perhaps false, and following who connects them. before he too joins the disappeared. them may be a far cry from discovering the truth at the heart of a dark town.

One Day in December The Book of Love Josie Silver Fionnuala Kearney 9780241982273 €8.99 ____ 9780008221331 €14.50 ____ Hamish Hamilton Harper Collins

Following Laurie, Sarah and Jack One love. Two people. Twenty Years. through ten years of love, heartbreak Falling in love is easy but staying in love and friendship, One Day in December is is where the story begins… a joyous, heart-warming and im - mensely moving love story that you'll This is the Book of Love want to escape into forever, for fans of Jojo Moyes, Lucy Diamond and From the moment they met, Erin and Nicholas Sparks. Dom loved each other too much, too quickly. Everyone said it wouldn’t last. But they knew differently. NON FICTION

Annie Leibovitz at Work Emergency Questions Brief Answers to the Big Questions Dynasty Annie Leibovitz Richard Herring Stephen Hawking Stephen Moss 9780714878294 €48.10 ____ 9780751574395 €14.99 ____ 9781473695986 €15.99______9781785943010 €27.99 ____ Phaidon Press Warner Hodder BBC Containing 1,000 conversation starters Leibovitz addresses young photographers The final book from Professor Stephen Dynasty offers an immersive insight into from one of our most cherished comedi - and readers interested in what photogra - Hawking, the bestselling author of A the shifting hierarchies of animal fami - ans, along with plenty of answers from phers do, but any reader interested in BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME and arguably the lies. Each chapter follows a different dy - the many household names who've ap - contemporary history will be fascinated most famous scientist of our age, BRIEF nasty, from the Marsh Lions of the peared on his hundreds of podcasts, this by her account of one of the richest bod - ANSWERS TO THE BIG QUESTIONS is a Masai Mara to rival packs of painted book is virtually guaranteed to remove ies of work in the photographic canon. profound, accessible and timely reflection wolves, from a tiger protecting her new - any social anxiety from your life, and will Originally published in 2008, this revised on the biggest questions in science. born cubs to a chimpanzee troop and raise your repartee-game to new and updated edition brings Leibovitz's the penguin colonies of the Antarctic. heights. bestselling book back into print.

Vogue x Music Spectacle *Dublin Salt Vogue Magazine *The Book of Durrow National Geographic Peter Gordon 9781419734311 €56.00 ____ Rachel Moss 9781426219689 €27.99 ____ 9780956910837 €35.00 ____ Abrams 9780500294604 €18.00 ____ National Geographic Explore Light Thames & Hudson In this book you’ll find unforgettable A masterpiece of Celtic art, it is believed This exquisite photo collection showcases portraits of Madonna beside David to be the oldest fully decorated Insular awe-inducing moments from around the Bowie, Kendrick Lamar, and Patti Smith; Gospel that survives, pre-dating the world, including stunning sights such as excerpts from essential interviews with Book of Kells by more than a century. the aurora borealis, cities made of neon rock stars, blues singers, rappers, and This richly decorated introductory guide lights, a great wildebeest migration, a others and also the work of acclaimed explores the manuscript’s distinctive contortionist on display--and more. photographers like Richard Avedon and artwork, providing a fascinating view of Annie Leibovitz. It also includes daring, the eclectic sources drawn upon by the music-inspired fashion portfolios from scribe/illuminator to adorn this sacred Irving Penn and Steven Klein. text.

*The River Shannon Star Wars: Geektionary Star Wars Alien Archive Harry Potter & Fantastic Beasts Carsten Krieger Michael Kogge 9781847179081 €24.99 ____ 9781405284790 €17.99 ____ 9781405288477 €21.99 ____ 9781338322996 €8.99 ____ O’Brien Press Egmont Egmont Scholastic The River Shannon is both a visitor’s Satisfy your inner geek with this Star Wookiees, wampas and Weequays; Biths, A Spellbinding Guide to the Films of and a photographer’s delight. This Wars A-Z. Explore the rich history of banthas and bogwings; porgs, puffer pigs the Wizarding World (Fantastic stunning waterway is a feast for the the Star Wars universe, with entries and Pau’ans; this is the ultimate species Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald) eyes in every season and every time on the Jedi Order, Sith Order, the rise guide for Star Wars fans aged 7 to 70! Paperback – 4 Oct 2018. of the day and night. Discover miles of the Galactic Empire and the strug - Alien Archive is beautifully illustrated This beautiful guide is the perfect and miles of beauty along the back of gle of the Resistance. with full colour artworks, sketches and deep dive into Harry Potter and Fan - this mighty river. From lively towns to With its stunning silver foil cover, diagrams by Tim McDonagh, illustrator of tastic Beasts and how the two worlds tranquil lakes, it is a varied and fulfill - portable size and over 400 pages of il - Galactic Atlas. are connected, complete with family ing journey along the Shannon. lustrated entries, the Geektionary is trees, infographics and more. the perfect gift for old and new Star Wars fans. NON FICTION

*Rory Gallagher Bring it Home Julian Vignoles Imagine John Yoko *Awakening Inner Peace Mark Blake 9781848893504 €24.99 ____ John Lennon Sister Stan 9781472126894 €14.99 ____ Collins Press 9780500021842 €42.15 ____ 9781782183440 €12.99 ____ Corsair Thames & Hudson Columba Rory Gallagher is revered as one of the Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin and Beyond - This book is designed to be dipped in Personally compiled and curated by greatest guitarists ever to pick up the in - The Story of Rock's Greatest and out of to suit the reader's day or Yoko Ono, Imagine John Yoko is the de - strument. The energy of his shows and Manager.Bring It On Home includes al - mood. It’s a journey through the finitive inside story – told in revelatory his commitment to the audience is leg - most 100 new interviews with family hours of the monastic day and an invi - detail – of the making of the legendary endary. Meticulously researched, this in - members, friends, musicians and rival tation to hear the sound of silence, to album and all that surrounded it: the lo - timate portrait is the insightful biography managers, and walk-on parts for step out of clock time into the monas - cations, the creative team, the artworks that Rory Gallagher deserves. An en - Sharon Osbourne, Bob Dylan, Stanley tic flow of time and to come to a new and the films, in the words of John & grossing read, it will be as revelatory for Kubrick, Freddie Mercury, Elizabeth understanding of the deep inner Yoko and the people who were there. curious neophytes as for his legions of Taylor, the FBI, the CIA, the Mafia - and peace that silence and true listening loyal fans. Elvis Presley. can bring.

Career Girls How Not to Wear Black *Waterford Whisperers News 2018 How to Build a Shed Ms T McGill Anna Murphy Colm Williamson Sally Coulthard 9781910931929 €12.50 ____ 9780241366684 €17.99 ____ 9780717181469 €16.99 ____ 9781786272829 €17.50 ____ Vintage Hamish Hamilton Gill Lawrence King Complete with nostalgic illustrations As the high street embraces colour, Anna This book includes clear, easy-to-follow Waterford Whispers News 2018 is the and genuine retro advice, Career Girls Murphy, Fashion Director of The Times, instructions, expert advice and spe - fifth annual from Ireland’s leading on - guides the reader through the eternal shares her tricks for dressing well with - cially commissioned illustrations, that line satirical site, featuring the biggest conundrums faced by women in the out always resorting to black. She helps will allow you to source the materials, stories of the year, including the latest workplace everywhere. From redress - you feel confident and comfortable, look choose the right tools and build your on Repeal the Eighth, Donald Trump, ing the pay gap through a semi-legal modern and fabulous, and define your dream shed on a budget – even if the housing crisis, and Dublin traffic. sponsorship scheme to surviving a personal style. Your clothes stake your you’ve never used a hammer. Ireland’s answer to The Onion is now a leadership course where you're place in the world to a voice, a path, a worldwide phenomenon and a must- forced to express yourself through the future. read in an era when the news has never medium of dance, Career Girls is the A inspiring, realistic, and practical style been more unpredictable. perfect companion for the modern book working woman.

How to Be Successful Without Hurting *Another Fine Mess *Irish Insult Generator Men’s Feelings Are You Smarter Than Your Kid? Annie West Gill Sarah Cooper Richard Osman 9781848407053 €18.95 ____ 9780717183098 € 9.99 ____ 9781910931202 €11.50 ____ 9781787476615 €17.50 ____ New Island Gill Vintage Quercus Acclaimed illustrator Annie West has With The Irish Insult Generator under This wickedly funny tongue-in-cheek Are You Smarter Than Your Kid? is the always been fascinated by horrible your oxter, you’ll be effin’ and blindin’ guide includes chapters on ‘How to Ace Child Genius family test book you've accidents, hilarious incidents, un - with the best of them in no time! This Your Job Interview Without Over-acing been waiting for. Go head to head solvable mysteries and amusing gas flipbook lets you mix and match It’, ‘9 Non-threatening Leadership with your children, nieces and deaths. From Icarus to Strongbow, uniquely Irish insults, so the next time Strategies for Women’, and ‘Choose nephews to find out who has what it Attila the Hun to Sartre, Another some awful gombeen annoys you, you Your Own Adventure: Do You Want to takes to make it through the nerve- Fine Mess assembles a fine cast of can send them on their bike before you Be Likeable or Successful?’. It even in - shredding pressure and tough mental those who met untimely (and enter - lose the rag! cludes several pages to doodle on while combat required to win the quiz of all taining) ends. men finish explaining things. quizzes. NON FICTION

Atlas: A World of Maps from the *A-Z of Being Irish The Big Book of Trump British Library *The GAA and the War of Independence Sarah Cassidy Walter Gate Tom Harper Tim Pat Coogan 9781788490597 €9.99 ____ 9781788700535 €11.50 ____ 9780712352918 €36.15 ____ 9781786697035 €21.99 ____ O’Brien Press Bonnier Brit. Library Head of Zeus Ever wonder if you're missing some - The Big Book of Trump is a wonderful 'cel - Atlas contains some of the rarest and Tim Pat Coogan charts the relationship thing? Do you know everything you ebration' of all things The Donald: the most obscure maps held at The British between Gaelic sports and Ireland's na - need to know about the Irish? Well, hair, the gaffs, the tweets... and the ques - Library. Be introduced to the early tional struggle in the period 1916-23 this book gives you the A-Z of every - tionable politics. maps of the Universe, one of the and explores the central role they have thing Irish and is filled to brim with largest atlases in the world and the played in the social, cultural and politi - fun and humour! This quirky Irish mapping of new countries as they cal life of nationalistic Ireland. book is a must have for the Irish were discovered. Maps don't just in - here, and abroad, as well as the per - form us of physical boundaries, but of fect guide to the Irish for tourists. cultural and social ones too.

*100 Great GAA Moments My Life in Football The Three Kings Roger Daltrey: My Story John Scally Kevin Keegan Owen & Moynihan Roger Daltry 9781785302169 €15.99 ____ 9781509877218 €15.99 ____ 9781787475663 €17.50 ____ 9781788700290 €15.99 ____ Black & White Macmillan Quercus Bonnier In its long and rich history, the GAA has Brilliant, funny, passionate, deeply Four years in the making, this is the Three of the greatest football clubs: provided many great moments. This book moving and incredibly honest, My Life first time Roger Daltrey has told his Celtic, Liverpool and Manchester is a celebration of one hundred of the best in Football is the story of the miner's story. It is not just his own hilarious United. Their three greatest man - of them. Every county is included. Based son from Doncaster who became a and frank account of more than 50 wild agers: Jock Stein, Bill Shankly and on exclusive interviews with the key per - superstar and was known to his ador - years on the road. It is the definitive Matt Busby. sonalities who shaped these moments, ing fans as 'King Kev'. Kevin Keegan is story of The Who and of the sweeping Three men born within a 20-mile ra - this book goes behind the scenes and of - one of the greatest players in English dius of each other in the central low - revolution that was British rock 'n' roll. football history, famed for his style on fers unique eyewitness accounts of the lands of Scotland; forged in mining dramas on and off the pitch that capti - the pitch, his relentless ambition and communities to subsequently shape passion for the game. vated, enthralled and occasionally infuri - the course of modern football. ated the nation.

*Game Changer *No Borders: Playing Rugby for Ireland Driven: the Men who Made Formula One WWE World of the Rock Cora Staunton Tom English Kevin Eason Steven Pantaleo 9781848272590 €21.99 _____ 9781909715707 €18.05 ____ 9781473684546 €18.05 ____ 9780241331248 €17.99 ____ Transworld Ireland Arena Sports Hamish Hamilton Hodder In the first-ever autobiography of a With exclusive new interview material in this account by Kevin Eason, a 30-year A must-have for any WWE fan, The female GAA star, Game Changer will with a host of Ireland rugby greats, No veteran with The Times of London, the lives World of The Rock reveals the whole take its place as one of the most Borders unveils the compelling truth of of the F1 elite are revealed with all of their story behind "The Most Electrifying Man influential and powerful sports books what it means to play for Ireland at quirks and extravagant living. Driven: The in Sports Entertainment", both in and in recent years. Lansdowne Road, Croke Park and Men Who Made Formula One tells how out of the ring. Cora Staunton is an iconic figure in the around the world. This is the ultimate they transformed Formula One from a world of modern GAA. In this ground- history of Irish rugby - told, definitively, niche sport played out on primitive tracks breaking autobiography, she reveals by the men who have been there and surrounded hay bales and grass verges into her extraordinary journey from done it. a £1 billion empire inhabiting vast palaces teenage rookie to the highest-scoring of entertainment all over the world. forward in the history of Ladies Gaelic Football. NON FICTION

Winners: The Horses, the Memories, We Need to Weaken the Mixture *Doctor on a Diet And Thank You for Watching the Deciding Memories Guy Martin Dr Paula Gilvarry Mark Austin Hugh Cahill 9780753545478 €15.50 ____ 9780717183135 €22.99 ____ 9781786494498 €21.99 ____ 9781473690226 €28.99 ____ Virgin Gill Atlantic Hodder For over thirty years, Mark Austin has Since we last heard from him, Guy Mar - Five stone lighter and a whole lot covered the biggest stories in the Beautifully illustrated, this book includes tin has restored a 1983 Williams F1 car healthier and happier, Paula is ready world for ITN and Sky News. Based on contributions from Ruby Walsh, A.P. then raced Jenson Button in it; helped to share her secrets. Her recipes are decades of experience as a foreign cor - McCoy, J.P. McManus, Willie Mullins, Jes - to build a First World War tank; ridden delicious, high in protein, low in carbs, respondent on the frontlines, this can - sica Harrington, Davy Russell, Paul Car - with Putin's favourite biker gang the and they even allow for a daily glass of did and revealing memoir gives a berry and many more. Night Wolves; competed on the classic wine! Doctor on a Diet is for anyone startling insight into one man's extraor - Winners is a volume to be treasured and endurance circuit; stood on top of one who wants to lose weight slowly and dinary career and lifts the lid on the an essential book for horse-racing fans of Chernobyl's nuclear reactors and keep it off, without sacrificing taste or world of television news. everywhere. taken part in his last ever Isle of Man TT. flavour.

Untitled Autobiogrphy Red and White New York Capital of Food Science of Spice Romesh Ranganathan Oz Clarke Lisa Nieschling Dr Stuart Farrimond 9780593078242 €16.50 ____ 9781408710166 €17.50 ____ 9781760634605 €21.99 ____ 9780241302149 €21.99 ____ Bantam Little Brown Atlantic Hamish Hamilton At the age of 9, Romesh Ranganathan With Red & White, Oz Clarke has rein - Part recipe book, part foodie travel ex - delivered his first ever stand-up set at a Explore the world's best spices, dis - vented wine writing. This is a book to perience, New York: Capital of Food Pontin's holiday camp talent competi - cover why certain spice mixes work, read for pleasure, rather than merely brings the flavours of the Big Apple tion, smashing the other competitor, a and how to use spices creatively. Be refer to. Combining fast-paced witty into your kitchen, immersing you in young girl playing the kazoo. inspired to make your own new memoir with passionately opinionated hustle and bustle and the taste experi - Then after a twenty year break, in spice blends, and take your cooking guide, Oz pops the cork on his life-long ence that is New York. 2010, Ranganathan staged his epic to new heights. love affair with wine. comeback gig to an almost silent room, The Science of Spice will help you and has since gone on to earn his place understand the practical science as the most in-demand overweight behind the art of cooking with vegan Sri Lankan comedian in Britain. spices.

*The Currabinny Cookbook Big Book of Gin Write A Letter *Home Thoughts from the Heart James Kavanagh Dan Jones Jodi Bickley Mary Kennedy 9781844884148 €21.99 ____ 9781784881931 €22.99 ____ 9780241984697 €14.99 ____ 9781473666979 €17.99 ____ Penguin Ireland Hardie Grant Hamish Hamiltion Hodder In five years selling at farmers' markets Featuring stylish photography and illus - and hosting dining events and There are more ways than ever to com - Icon of Irish broadcasting Mary trations throughout, the Big Book of Gin pop-ups, James Kavanagh and William municate with people. But none match Kennedy invites us into her world in is a comprehensive guide to the renais - Murray's food business, Currabinny, the intimacy, care and fulfilment found Home Thoughts from the Heart, sance of one of the world s most cele - has grown a huge fan-base. And in sending and receiving letters. sharing stories from her life at brated spirits. reaching the finals of RTE's The Taste This book contains everything you home and abroad. of Success (with their to-die-for Pecan need -- from the prompts to get you From the everyday to the celebra - and White Chocolate Banana Loaf) writing to the paper to write on -- to tory, this book will be cherished by exposed Currabinny to a prime-time begin connecting with people in this Mary's many dedicated readers. audience. slower, more personal way. NON FICTION

Cordially Invited *The Grafton Barber Essential Guide to Zoe Sugg *Beautiful Thoughts for Beautiful Grooming and Etiquette 101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your Day 9781473687776 €22.99 ____ Minds 9781785302176 €14.50 ____ Ailbhe Malone Hodder John Scally Black & White 9781785783944 €11.50 ____ From practical ideas for how to feed 9781782189022 €14.99 ____ Icon your guests and hacks for unexpected Columba The Grafton Barber name is synony - Ailbhe Malone’s simple tips combine get-togethers to simple but impressive mous with their unique philosophy. with witty illustrations from Naoise Filled with hope and happiness; wisdom DIYs and those personal touches people Chapters on topics from skincare to Dolan to create a resource you’ll dip and wit; inspiration and insight, this will remember, Cordially Invited is Zoe's shaving techniques, fragrance choices into whenever you need a helping book gives hints at the answers to life s blueprint for making an event and a to social media, haircuts to beard oils - hand. crucial questions. It will nourish the memory out of each day. complemented by illustrations and pho - 101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your Day most wearied soul and offer opportuni - Zoe Sugg is an award-winning lifestyle, tographs - offer expert guidance to navi - is a friendly book of tips on how to look ties for self-reflection and moments of fashion and beauty blogger and vlogger, gate the challenges and pleasures of after yourself and your mental health, healing as well as giving new perspec - Sunday Times bestselling author, the cre - contemporary male life. in an age where we too often forget to tives. The ideal companion to indulge ator of Zoella Beauty & Zoella Lifestyle, pause and take a breath. yourself in whenever you need a lift! and ambassador for the charity Mind.

Let’s Talk About Death Michael Hebb A Life Less Lonely Star Wars Be More Vadar Dare to Lead 9781841882994 €14.99 ____ Nick Duerden Christian Blauvelt Brene Brown Seven Dials 9781472957788 € 15.65 ____ 9780241351055 €7.99 ____ 9781785042140 €14.50 ____ Bloomsbury Hamish Hamilton Ebury Let's Talk About Death (over Dinner) offers keen practical advice on how to have this The perfect gift for colleagues and How do you cultivate braver, more A Life Less Lonely shares stories of lone - important conversation - not just at the liness and social isolation, and looks for friends alike, Star Wars: Be More daring leaders? And, how do you dinner table, but anywhere. Hebb shares Vader is a tongue-in-cheek guide to embed the value of courage in your ways in which we can help one another time- and dinner-tested prompts to use as to future-proof ourselves against this assertiveness, featuring favourite culture? conversation starters, ranging from the moments from the Star Wars series Dare to Lead answers these ques - most insidious affliction. By talking to spiritual to the practical, from analytical to those who suffer from it, and by high - alongside hilarious advice and iconic tions and gives us actionable strate - downright funny and surprising. By trans - Star Wars quotes. gies and real examples from her new lighting the work of those who fight to forming the most difficult conversations combat it, the book offers guidance on research-based, courage-building into an opportunity, they become celebra - programme. how to spot the symptoms in yourself tory and meaningful - ways that change and in others. not only the way we die but the way we live

Around the World in 80 Words National Geographic Almanac 2019 River of Consciousness Paul Anthony Jones Star Wars Be More Yoda National Geographic Oliver Sacks 9781783964000 €14.50 ____ Christian Baluvelt 9781426220166 €14.50 ____ 9781447263654 € 11.50 ____ Elliott & Thompson 9780241351062 €7.99 ____ National Geographic Macmillan Hamish Hamilton For armchair travellers and language An almanac like you’ve never seen be - In The River of Consciousness, Dr. Sacks nerds: the surprising stories behind The perfect gift for a Star Wars fan, fore, this arresting volume features key takes on evolution, botany, chemistry, places that have become words Star Wars: Be More Yoda is an enter - information on science, nature, history, medicine, neuroscience, and the arts, taining guide to mindfulness, featur - and geography, spiked with cutting- and calls upon his great scientific and ing iconic moments from the Star edge ideas and spectacular visuals.En - creative heroes―above all, Darwin, Wars series alongside light-hearted lightening for young and old, exquisitely Freud, and William James. advice for life. designed, each page of this special al - The River of Consciousness demon - manac reveals something new about strates Sacks’s unparalleled ability to un - today’s world. derstand what makes us human. NON FICTION

The Flame A Year of Reading Aloud Bedtime Stories for Stressed Out Adults Impossible Owls Leonard Cohen Georgina Rodgers Various Brian Phillips 9781786893130 €22.50 ____ 9781473670891 €17.50 ____ 9781473695900 €14.99 ____ 9781474607834 €19.99 ____ Canongate Hodder Hodder Weidenfeld From classic stories by Oscar Wilde, Guy The Flame is a stunning collection of This is a gift book that celebrates the From its opening journey into remote de Maupassant and Katherine Mansfield, Leonard Cohen's last poems, selected power of spoken word. With 52 short Alaska for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog to friendly the tales of our childhoods, to and ordered by the author in the final poems, week by week, you will be taken Race in Alaska, a quest that culminates poetry that reminds us of the simple joys months of his life. on a very special journey. Each poem will on the frozen sea between the United of life, this lovingly curated book will be accompanied by an explanation of its States and Russia, Brian Phillips's Im - soothe a tired mind and gently carry you key messages along with some insight possible Owls leads us on a kaleido - to the peaceful land of sleep. about the poet. scopic exploration of contemporary reality.

*At All Costs Davy Fitzgerald *And Life Lights Up *Time to Talk *Our Axel Davy Fitzgerald Alice Taylor Michael Healy-Rae Orla Foley 9780717179602 €22.99 ____ 9781788490580 €19.99 ____ 9780717183159 €16.99 ____ 9781912514328 €19.99 ____ Gill O’Brien Press Gill Mentor Trade Books At All Costs gets inside the mind of With Alice as a guide, explore the Neither a manifesto nor a memoir one of GAA’s most talked-about per - steps and ways to live a conscious life ‘Time to Talk’ celebrates the power of sonalities. Possessed of an unshake - and focus on the goodness of the talk to forge real human connection able work ethic and determination to world around us. Alice's beautiful and and sustain us.Through tales that are succeed, all-Ireland winning hurler and captivating writing is an act of mind - sometimes humorous, sometimes manager Davy Fitzgerald has estab - fulness in itself, and she shares her poignant, sometimes heart-breaking, lished a reputation as one of the finest favourite moments in life, encourag - but always true, Time to Talk follows hurling talents of his generation.Can - ing us to ponder our own. in the tradition of the great Kerry sto - did and self-aware, it is sure to be one rytellers, capturing the real heartbeat the most talked-about books this year. of rural Ireland.

*Fighter *Mad Bad and Dangerous to Know *Dark Arts Coming Home Andy Lee Colm Toibin Mike Ross Billy Connolly 9780717183449 €22.99 ____ 9780241354414 €15.99 ____ 9781910827055 €20.00 ____ 9781785943737 €15.99 ____ Gill Hamish Hamilton Hero Books BBC The former Cork Constitution player ‘Scotland is a unique and wonderful In 2005, at the age of 20, Andy Lee de - Colm Tóibín turns his incisive gaze to three made the move from Munster and place. Its national motto says cided he was going to try to make it in of Ireland's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, played for three years at the highest a lot about it: Nemo me impune the harsh and unforgiving world of pro - W.B. Yeats and James Joyce, and their ear - level in England.Since his move to Lein - lacessit. A decent translation might fessional boxing. Leaving home for the liest influences: their fathers.Colm Tóibín ster he has featured in a number of Ire - be: ‘By all means punch me dust and faded glamour of Detroit. Over illuminates not only the complex relation - land squads and lined out for the in the nose but prepare yourself the next ten years he won fight after ships between three of the greatest writ - Wolfhounds as well as making his debut for a kick in the arse.I did’nae come fight. Then, in 2012, his star ascendant, ers in the English language and their for the National team on the 2009 Sum - from nothing: I come from Scotland. Lee suffered two devastating blows in fathers, but also illustrates the surprising mer tour to Canada and the USA.Ross And this book is about why I will quick succession: defeat in his first world ways they surface in their work. later went on to make his Six Nations championship bout and the sudden loss always be happy and proud that I debut in 2011 since then he has been of Steward, his guide and confidant. do’- Billy Connolly an ever present the Ireland team sheet. NON FICTION

Born Lippy *The Stars Are Our Only Warmth Always Look on the Bright Side of Life Jo Brand Alice Leahy Eric Idle Blowing the Bloody Doors Off 9781473687721 €17.50 ____ 9781788490252 €24.99 ____ 9781474610285 €17.99 ____ Michael Caine Hodder O’Brien Press Weidenfeld 9781473689312 €17.50 ____ Born Lippy is a gathering of all the things Hodder In the 1970s Alice Leahy left nursing to We know him best for his unforgettable Jo Brand wishes she'd known, all the work and live in a Dublin homeless roles on Monty Python - from the Flying With brilliant new insight into his life things she's learnt, and all the things she shelter. This is the story of her life and Circus to The Meaning of Life. Now, Eric and work and with his wonderful gift for hopes for the future. A century after life choices, from an empowering Idle reflects on the meaning of his own story, this is Caine at his wise and enter - women got the vote (albeit married childhood, with free run of a big life in this entertaining memoir that taining best. women over the age of 28) it's time to house estate in Tipperary to her in - takes us on a remarkable journey from take stock of exactly what it means to be valuable work with some of Ireland’s his childhood in an austere boarding female today. most marginalised people, at The Alice school through his successful career in Leahy Trust, in Dublin. comedy, television, theatre and film.

*Becoming the Supervet: Listening to the Animals *Markievicz: Letters and Rebel Writtings *De Valera Rule (1932-1975) Noel Fitzpatrick *Untitled Sports Autobiogrphy Lindie Naughton David McCullagh 9781409183754 €17.50 ____ 9781785371615 €19.99 ____ 9780717179220 €24.99 ____ Orion 9781911613213 €21.99 ____ Merrion (IAP) Gill Trinity Mirror In this inspiring, uplifting and heart-warm - The Prison Letters of Countess The concluding volume of David Mc - ing memoir, world-renowned veterinary Markievicz were first published in 1932 Cullagh’s new life of Eamon De Valera. surgeon Professor Noel Fitzpatrick ex - as a classic of feminist literature. Now Beautifully written and deeply re - plores his journey to becoming The Super - restored to their original form by lead - searched, McCullagh’s De Valera is a vet.As heart-warming and life-affirming as ing Markievicz expert, Lindie Naughton, provocative and nuanced portrait of the TV show with which he made his this new edition features previously un - Ireland’s most enigmatic leader, as name, Listening to the Animals is a story of published letters that Markievicz sent to well as a balanced assessment of his love, hope and compassion, and about re - family members and friends, offering a role in shaping our national self- joicing in the bond between humans and unique insight into her extraordinary image. animals that make us the very best we can life. be.

*Give Us Back the Bad Roads Life in the Jungle This Will Only Hurt a Little If You’d Just Let Me Finish John Waters Bruce Grobbelaar Busy Philipps Jeremy Clarkson 9781782189015 €19.99 ____ 9781909245570 €24.99 ____ 9780751575231 €17.50 ____ 9780241366745 €17.50 ____ Columba De Coubertin Warner Hamish Hamilton In this book, Waters examines in de - Bruce Grobbelaar is the most decorated A memoir by the beloved comedic ac - Clarkson explores: tail the context that led him to walk goalkeeper in Liverpool FCs 125-year his - tress known for her roles on Freaks and - The disabling effects of being vegan away from national newspapers, and tory. And yet, question marks have fol - Geeks, Dawson's Creek, and Cougar - - How Blackpool might be improved by in particular, as he describes it, the lowed him around; question marks about town who has become 'the breakout drilling a hole through it moral, cultural and intellectual dete - his goalkeeping suitability after arriving star on Instagram stories . . . imagine I - The problem with meditation rioration of The Irish Times, for which on Merseyside; question marks about his Love Lucy mixed with a modern lifestyle - A perfect location for rebuilding Palmyra he had worked for nearly a quarter of integrity after match fixing allegations guru' (The New Yorker). If You'd Just Let Me Finish is Clarkson at a century. Widening his focus, he were laid against him. Here For the first his best. He may be as bemused, exasper - looks at the implications of such time, Grobbelaar takes you inside the ated, amused and surprised as the rest of drifts for the culture and welfare of court room, detailing the draining fight to us, but in a world gone crazy, thank God the country. clear his name. someone has still got his head screwed on ... NON FICTION

Up: My Life Journey to the Top of Everest *Jackie’s Girl pb Ben Fogle Fight Dream. Believe. Achieve. My Autobiog - Kathy McKeon 9780008319199 €15.99 ____ Joshua Anthony raphy 9781982110604 €9.99 ____ Harper Collins 9780008300463 € 15.99 ____ Jonathan Rea 9780008305086 €21.99 ____ S & S In April 2018, Ben Fogle and Victoria Harper Collins Harper Collins A rare and engrossing look at the pri - Pendleton, along with mountaineer Ken - A fascinating, inspiring and genuine ac - vate life of one of the most famous ton Cool, took on their most exhausting Within the staggeringly dangerous and count of Anthony Joshua’s life, meth - women of the twentieth century, challenge yet – climbing Everest for the high-pressure sport of professional mo - ods and strategies that have him the Jackie’s Girl is also a moving personal British Red Cross. Ben was inspired to take torcycling, Jonathan Rea’s achieve - greatest heavyweight of his generation. story of a young woman finding her on this challenge by the memory of his ments are unprecedented. A legendary identity and footing in a new country, son, Willem, who was stillborn in 2014. World Superbike Champion with along with the help of the most ele - This is the story of an incredible journey more race wins than any rider in his - gant woman in America. that has for ever changed the lives of tory, Rea’s trailblazing success shows those involved. no sign of slowing down.

*The Girl in the Tunnel *Truly Frank: A Dublin Memoir *Oscar: A Life *Sean O’Riordain: Life and Work Sullivan & Gardner frank Mcdonald Matthew Sturgis Sean O’Coileain 9781908518385 €14.99 ____ 9781844883806 € 21.99 ____ 9781788545976 €27.99 ____ 9781781176108 €24.99 ____ Maverick Penguin Ireland Head of Zeus Mercier Press In 1964, at the age of 12, Maureen Sulli - In the first major biography of Oscar A biography of Sean O Riordain detailing van was illegally incarcerated in the Mag - McDonald tells the stories behind his pub - Wilde in thirty years, Matthew Sturgis his difficult life and his journey to becom - dalene Laundry in the Good Shepherd lic advocacy for a more beautiful and hu - draws on new material to place the ing a pre-eminent Irish-language poet. O Convent in New Ross. In her four plus mane city, and of his battles (and lunches) man firmly in the context of his times. Riordain was one of the great Irish-lan - years in the system, she was treated as with politicians and developers. And he He brings alive the distinctive mood guage poets of the twentieth century. child slave labour, and was trafficked from also tells a more intimate story of growing and characters of the fin de siècle in the Some of his work remains on the standard one institution to another. For many years up gay in Dublin at a time when homosex - richest and fullest account of Wilde's Irish curriculum. His poem 'Fill Aris' was afterwards, Maureen's life was blighted uality was entirely hidden, and of how he life to date. shortlisted in the Favourite Irish Poems by the consequences of the brutal treat - came to terms with it. An instant classic of journalistic memoir. competition recently run by RTE. The biog - ment and cruelty she received at the raphy was written by noted professor and hands of the nuns in charge of those insti - Irish-language expert, Sean O Coileain. tutions.

Tina Turner: My Love Story A Better Me Skripal Files The King’s War Tina Turner Gary Barlow Mark Urban Mark Logue 9781780898988 €15.99 ____ 9781911600985 €15.99 ____ 9781529006896 €15.99 ____ 9781782065975 €18.05 ____ Cornerstone Bonnier Macmillan Quercus Brimming with her trademark blend Gary Barlow is one of the most successful The explosive story of the poisoning of This book traces the relationship between of strength, energy, heart and soul, British musicians and songwriters of all Sergei Skripal and the new spy war be - George VI, King of England and his speech My Love Story is a gripping, surpris - time, but fifteen years ago, as he himself tween the West and Russia, based on therapist Lionel Logue, through the dark ing memoir, as memorable and enter - admits, he hit rock bottom - he was out hours of exclusive interviews Skripal days of Dunkirk and the drama of D-Day taining as any of her greatest hits. of shape, out of work, depressed. A Bet - gave before his near-death with number to eventual victory in 1945 - and beyond. ter Me is a remarkably frank memoir of one bestselling author Mark Urban, It is written by Peter Conradi, a Sunday Gary's life as he battled with weight, diplomatic and defence editor for BBC Times journalist, and Mark Logue, Lionel's stress, fitness and depression, and staged Newsnight. grandson, whose previous book, The one of the most thrilling professional King's Speech: How One Man Saved the comebacks in years. British Monarchy, was a best-seller in Britain and America and translated into more than 20 languages. NON FICTION

Unknown Kimi Raikkonen *Dublin: The Chaos Years *Ali: A Life Messi The Making of a Genius Kari Hotakainen Neil Cotter Jonathan Eig Jordi Punti 9781471177675 €15.99 ____ 9781844884315 €15.99 ____ 9781471155956 € 14.50 ____ 9781780723730 €11.50____ S&S Penguin Ireland S&S Short Kimi Raikkoenen is the Finnish super - Dublin: The Chaos Years is a book for The most comprehensive and definitive star Formula One driver with a reputa - every Gaelic football fan. Every year from biography of Muhammad Ali that has tion for being fast on the track and 1996 to 2010, the Dubs found new and ever been published, based on more silent off it - until now! In this superb creative ways of losing, then they began than 500 interviews with those who portrait of Raikkoenen, Kari Hotakainen to tun things around as the bad habit of knew him best, with many dramatic new gets to reveal the side of the man that failure began to give way to a healthier discoveries about his life and career. few beyond his close family and friends culture. This book is full of frank, witty have ever seen. and sometimes outrageous stories and analysis from the people who were at the centre of it all.

*Code Breaker *On the Edge *Dublin Then and Now Marc McMenamin Diarmaid Ferriter Lisa Marie Griffith 9780717181612 €16.99 ____ 9781781256435 €28.99 ____ Book of Forgotten Authors 9781910904848 €15.99 ____ Gill Profile Christopher Fowler Pavillion When unassuming librarian Richard 9781786484901 €11.50 ____ this book examines the gulf between the Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptogra - Quercus Dublin Then and Now matches archival rhetoric that elevates island life and the pher, was drafted by Irish intelligence Whether male or female, domestic or in - images with contemporary views to re - reality of the political hostility towards services to track the movements of a pro - ternational, flash-in-the-pan or prolific, veal the past and present of this fascinat - it.It uncovers, through state and private lific Nazi spy, Hermann Görtz, Dublin be - mega-seller or prize-winner - no author, it ing city. Sites include: Trinity College, archives, personal memoirs, newspaper came the unlikely venue for one of the seems, can ever be fully immune from the Dublin Castle, Guinness Brewery, Christ coverage, and the author's personal trav - most thrilling episodes in Irish history. fate of being forgotten. And Fowler, as well Church Cathedral, Brazen Head, Grattan els, the realities behind the "dreadful Code Breaker reveals how Richard Hayes as remembering their careers, lifts the lid Bridge, O'Connell Street, Abbey Theatre, rocks", and the significance of the expe - cracked a code that helped turn the tide on their lives, and why they often stopped Custom House, Liberty Hall, Four Courts, riences of, and reactions to, those who of World War II, and uncovers a secret his - writing or disappeared from the public Smithfield Square, Phoenix Park, Dublin were and remain, literally, on the very tory of the capital that has remained hid - eye. Zoo, Ha'Penny Bridge and more. edge of European civilisation. den in plain view for the past 70 years.

Histories of the Unexpected Written in History *What Have the Irish Ever Done .... *Revolution and Civil War in Dublin Willis & Daybell Simon Sebag Montefiore David Forsythe John Gibney 9781786494139 €15.99 ____ 9781474609180 €17.50 ____ 9781782189046 €14.99 ____ 9781848893559 €27.99 ____ Atlantic Weidenfeld Columba Collins Press WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great For centuries, the Irish have had an im - Dublin was one of the cockpits of the letters of world history, creative culture pact on the world far beyond what you Irish revolution, and was the setting and personal life. Acclaimed historian would expect for a tiny nation on the for some of the most iconic events of Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one edge of Europe. In What have the Irish that era.Lavishly illustrated, this book hundred letters from ancient times to the ever done for us? we learn how the opens a unique window into the reali - twenty-first century. The writers vary from Irish have revolutionised global agri - ties of life in Ireland's capital city from Elizabeth I, Rameses the Great and John culture, brought water to Los Angeles, the end of the First World War to the Lennon to Emmeline Pankhurst, Mandela, split the atom, invented the submarine aftermath of the Irish Civil War. Stalin, Michelangelo, Suleiman the Mag - and the tank, created drinking choco - nificent and unknown people in extraordi - late, and many more fascinating sto - nary circumstances ries! NON FICTION

*Reconstructions *When the Hangman Came to Galway *Michael Collins Bobby Hanvey Dean Ruxton Dr Anne Dolan 9781785372162 €19.99 ____ *Fighting for the Cause 9780717180851 €16.99 ____ 9781848892101 €29.99 ____ Merrion (IAP) Dr Tim Horgan Gill Collins Press 9781781175613 € 19.99____ World-renowned photographer Bobbie James Berry was the notorious hang - Mercier Press Michael Collins knew the power of Hanvey captured some of the Troubles' man who ended the lives of over 100 his persona, and capitalised on what In 'Fighting for the Cause' well- most defining and devastating moments, in criminals in Victorian Britain and Ire - people wanted to believe. Drawing known Kerry historian Dr Tim Horgan all their unflinching poignancy.An astonish - land. This book focuses on a winter on archives in Ireland, Britain and the tells the stories of some of the King - ing and visceral work that strikes clean to week in Irish history where Berry was United States, the authors question dom's extraordinary men and the often-dark but always-shining heart of tasked with bringing to a conclusion the our traditional assumptions about women who fought for an Irish Re - Northern Ireland during its most troubled case of two notorious murders in Gal - Collins. Was he the man of his age, or public. Each of the people profiled in decades, this unique combination of words way, keeping readers transfixed as they was he just luckier, more brazen, this book suffered for `the Cause' but and images is a celebration of life, and a journey with this fascinating character more written about and more pho - none faltered in what they consid - validation of two lives' work. through nineteenth-century Ireland in tographed than the rest? ered to be their duty to Ireland. all its gruesome glory.

*Crisis and Comeback Michael Moynihan History of the World Map by Map *Curious History of Irish Dogs Seashaken Houses 9781848893566 €19.99 ____ DK David Blake Knox Tom Nancollas Collins Press 9780241226148 €27.99 ____ 9781848407015 €14.95 ____ 9781846149375 €17.99 ____ Cork had become a rust-belt region. But a Hamish Hamilton New Island Penguin spiky self-belief, determined natives and With cutting-edge design and breathtak - Lighthouses are striking totems of our re - There are nine breeds of dog that are vital new industries made all the differ - ing scope, History of the World Map by lationship to the sea. Seashaken Houses is native to Ireland: four terriers, three ence as the city began the transition from Map charts ancient, medieval, and mod - a lyrical exploration of these singular tow - gun dogs, and two hounds. In The Curi - traditional manufacturing to what we now ern history in all corners of the world. ers, the people who risked their lives ous History of Irish Dogs, David Blake term 'the knowledge economy'. Drawing Discover how patterns of global trade, ex - building and rebuilding them, those that Knox tells the remarkable stories of on extensive interviews with politicians, ploration, conflict, and technological ad - inhabited their circular rooms, and the each of the nine breeds, and reveals workers, writers and industrialists, vances shaped key moments in human ways in which we value emblems of our how they have become inextricably Michael Moynihan weaves a sweeping civilization, such as the success of ancient history in a changing world. linked to the human beings with whom tapestry of the city at a critical juncture. In Egypt, the conquest of Peru, the decolo - they share the island. a rich narrative, he tells the compelling nization of Africa and Asia, the American story of how Cork's eventual status as a Civil War, and the energy and environ - high-tech hub was won. mental challenges of the 21st century.

*River Liffey Henry V111 and the Men ...... Belonging: The Story of the Jews.... Rebel Women Christopher Moriarty Tracy Borman Simon Schama Rosalind Miles 9781848893542 €24.99 ____ 9781473649897 €18.05 ____ 9780099590064 €12.50 ____ 9780349006079 €17.99 ____ Collins Press Hodder Arrow/Vintage Abacus Henry VIII is well known for his tu - Christopher Moriarty was literally im - Belonging is a magnificent cultural history All you wanted to know about women's multuous relationships with women, mersed in the Liffey when he fell into abundantly alive with energy, character and history from 1800 to the modern day. and he is often defined by his many its waters at the age of three. Since colour. From the Jews’ expulsion from This is history as made by women: fa - marriages. But what do we see if we then, his fascination with the river has Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of mous, infamous and little known, whose take a different look? When we see never abated, and he has spent his rabbis and philosophers but of a poetess in actions changed the course of the world. Henry through the men in his life, a academic and professional career the ghetto of Venice; a boxer in Georgian new perspective on this famous king studying it. In this celebration, he im - England; a general in Ming China; an opera emerges... parts a lifetime of knowledge. composer in nineteenth-century Germany. NON FICTION

*Prayerful Ireland Helena Connolly Syria’s Secret Library *Gratias Little Book of Gratitude 9781788120128 €19.95 ____ Mike Thomson John Quinn Mystery of the Exploding Teeth Messenger 9781474605915 €17.99 ____ 9781847308603 €12.99 ____ Thomas Morris There is beauty and mystery within Weidenfeld Veritas 9780593080320 €17.50 ____ these landscapes which the early monks Bantam Darayya lies on the fringe of Damascus be - celebrated wonderfully in their poetry, sieged by Syrian government forces since and which drew them to God and to These are just a few of the anecdotal 2011, bombarded by bombs and missiles. prayer. Now, once again, people are gems that have until now lain undis - But deep beneath this scene of frightening finding in the silence of a valley or the covered in medical journals for cen - devastation lies a secret library. Many peo - rippling of a stream or the simplicity of a turies. This fascinating collection of ple had risked their lives to save books holy well an opening to mystery and an historical curiosities explores some of from the devastation of war. Because to invitation to prayer. Helena Connolly's the strangest cases that have per - them, the secret library was a symbol of beautiful images will take the reader on plexed doctors across the world. hope - of their determination to lead a a wonderful journey through this Prayer - meaningful existence and to rebuild their ful Ireland. fractured society..

Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump *Renaissance Nation *Climate Justice The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy Luke Harding David McWilliams Mary Robinson Michael Lewis 9781783351503 €9.99 ____ 9780717180752 €24.99 ____ 9781408888469 €17.99 ____ 9780241373545 € 21.99 ____ Guardian Gill Bloomsbury Hamish Hamilton In Collusion, award-winning journalist Characteristically brilliant and timely, An urgent call to arms by one of the In The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis re - Luke Harding reveals the true nature of Renaissance Nation is a thrilling account most important voices in the interna - veals the combustible cocktail of wilful Trump’s decades-long relationship with of Ireland’s vertiginous rise and a timely tional fight against climate change, ignorance and venality that is fuelling Russia and presents the gripping inside exploration of its conflicted present, sharing inspiring stories and offering the destruction of a country's fabric. story of the dossier. It features exclu - where stark decisions await the next gen - vital lessons for the path forward. All of this, Lewis shows, exposes sive new material and draws on eration of would-be revolutionaries. Powerful and deeply humane, Climate America and the world to the biggest sources from the intelligence commu - Justice is a stirring manifesto on one of risk of all. nity. the most pressing humanitarian issues People don't notice when stuff goes of our time, and a lucid, affirmative, and right. That is the stuff government well-argued case for hope. does. And now, government is under attack. By its own leaders.

*Dr Hibernica Finch’s Compelling Com - *Madam Politician Life on Earth pendium of Irish Anmals Martina Fitzgerald The Wren: A Biography David Attenborough Aga Grandowicz 9780717181438 €19.99____ Stephen Moss 9780008294281 €27.99 ____ 9781910411940 €20.50 ____ Gill 9781910931936 €14.50 ____ Vintage Harper Collins Little Island Only 10% of those who have sat at A large-format, full-colour hardback in - The wren is a paradox of a bird. On the Now, to celebrate the 40th anniversary the cabinet table in Ireland in almost formation book on the animals of Ire - one hand wrens are ubiquitous. They of the book’s first publication, David At - 100 years have been women, to - land. Animals from the air, land and sea thrive up and down Britain and Ireland: tenborough has revisited Life on Earth, talling just 19 female politicians. are introduced to the reader by Dr Hi - from the smallest city garden to remote completely updating and adding to the Along with the two former female bernica, an Irish professor who travels offshore islands, blustery moors to chilly original text, taking account of modern Presidents of Ireland, all of the living the country and knows everything there mountains. With beautiful illustrations scientific discoveries from around the members of this exclusive club are in - is to know about Irish wildlife. terviewed here for the first time, col - throughout, this captivating year-in-the- globe. He has chosen beautiful, com - lectively bringing together their life biography reveals the hidden secrets of pletely new photography, helping to il - voices to reveal the challenges and this fascinating bird that lives right on our lustrate the book in a much greater way triumphs of getting to the top table doorstep. than was possible forty years ago. of Irish political life. NON FICTION

The History of Irish Publishing Flora: Inside the Secret World of Plants How the World Thinks Feminists Don’t Wear Pink Tony Farmar DK Julian Baggini Scarlett Curtis 9781845888947 €24.99 ____ 9780241254806 €34.99 ____ 9781783784837 €15.99 ____ 9780241364451 €13.50 ____ History Press Ireland Hamish Hamilton Granta Hamish Hamilton The History of Irish Publishing is the Filled with fascinating stories of how All cultures are different, and have differ - Every woman has a different story to first comprehensive record of and plant roots and leaves communicate ent ways of thinking. In How the World tell. Reading them all in one book might examination into one of the most with their neighbours and how flowers Thinks, Julian Baggini travels the globe to just change your life. important and vibrant cultural sec - use colour and scent to interact with - provide a hugely wide-ranging map of "Brilliant, hysterical, truthful and real. tors of Irish life. and manipulate - the creatures around human thought. He shows us how distinct These essays illuminate the path for our Compiled by author and publisher them, Flora is a fresh and engaging in - branches of philosophy flowered simulta - future female leaders." - Reese Wither - Tony Farmar (of A&A Farmar), this is troduction to the mysterious inner neously in China, India and Ancient spoon. a meticulously researched and beau - workings of the plant world. Greece. *Published in partnership with Girl Up, tifully written book about all the his - the UN women's foundation, royalties tory of all our Irish books. will benefit this amazing charity**

Magical Unicorn Society Selwyn E Phipps 9781782439639 €12.05 ____ O’Mara After centuries of mystery, the mythi - cal Magical Unicorn Society has pub - lished its official handbook. With breathtaking artwork from Helen Dardik and Harry and Zanna Gold - hawk (Papio Press), and stunning de - sign and production, this special book gallops through a history of these mythical creatures and looks at their magical future. CHILDRENS

Animalphabet How Winston Delivered Christmas The Gruffalo Sound Book Elf on the Shelf Bumper Activity Book 9781509801633 €15.99 ____ Alex T Smith Julia Donaldson Elf on the Shelf Julia Donaldson 9781509851522 €15.99 ____ 9781509860692 €15.99 ____ 9781408359075 €8.50 ____ Macmillan Macmillan Macmillan Orchard A splendid alphabet of animals from How Winston Delivered Christmas by The Gruffalo is an undisputed modern Get ready for Christmas with The Elf on number one bestselling author of Alex T. Smith is a festive book written in classic and a bestselling phenomenon the Shelf® in this bumper sticker activ - The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson, and 24½ chapters – one to share every day across the world. This award-winning ity book! visionary illustrator Sharon King- leading up to Christmas. It is a heart- rhyming story of a mouse and a monster Chai. warming tale to share every year and is has found its way into the hearts and bed - Discover games, puzzles, colouring and The perfect gift for animal lovers of full of gorgeous colour illustrations and times of an entire generation of children more with Santa's special Scout Elves all ages. activities to do together that will become and will undoubtedly continue to enchant and over 150 stickers! festive family traditions. children for years and years to come.

Unicorns Where’s Wally? Spectacular Spot Official Pokemon Ultimate Guide Official Force Training Manual Mini Sam Smith Martin Handford Pokemon Arie Kaplan 9781474952699 €13.76 ____ 9781406381191 €15.99 ____ 9781408354858 €12.50 ____ 9781338269864 €8.99 ____ Usborne Walker Orchard Scholastic Let Rey teach you the ways of the Jedi This delightful pack contains a 100- Hey! Who turned out the lights? It's Wally in the handbook section, and then see if piece jigsaw of unicorns in an en - like you've never seen him before... turn you have what it takes to master the chanting woodland setting for the pages and search six spectacular dark - Force in the activities section! It's an children to assemble, as well as a ened scenes! Use the paper spotlight out-of-this-world galactic adventure! 16-page sticker book in which kids searcher inside as a magic torch by sliding Complete with a Rey minifigure. can bring lots more magical scenes it across the page to reveal Wally and his to life with the stickers inside. friends.

Embroidery Kit The Embroidery Kit Unicorn LEGO Minifigures: Mix & Match NERF Mega Activity Handbook Lara Bryan 9781474957540 €9.95 ____ Michael Petranek NERF 9781474957533 €9.95 ____ Usborne 9781338249644 €11.50 ____ 9781408358528 €8.50_____ Usborne Scholastic Orchard Experience the excitement, energy This clever kit contains all you need to This clever kit contains all you need to Build crazy mash-ups of LEGO Minifig - and attitude of Nerf in this bumper embroider a beautiful mermaid. The embroider a magical unicorn. The sturdy ures in this fun mix-and-match book! book of fun! sturdy box includes a square of 100% box includes a square of 100% cotton Mix and match the heads, bodies and Read all the facts and stats about the cotton fabric, an embroidery frame, fabric, an embroidery frame, three shades legs of your favourite LEGO Minifigures latest blasters, discover games to play three shades of embroidery thread, of embroidery thread, two needles, a nee - in more than 200 different combinations. with friends and try your hand at lots two needles, a needle threader and a dle threader and a step-by-step guide It's part sharksuit man, part mad scien - of fun activities! step-by-step guide book. The box can book. The box can be used to store the tist, part pizza boy and all non-stop It's Nerf or Nothin'! be used to store the embroidery and embroidery and materials until you're LEGO fun! materials until you're finished. finished. CHILDRENS

The Most Loved Bear Untitled Picture Book Magic Moment Grandpa Christmas Sam McBratney David Walliams Niall Breslin Michael Morpurgo 9781509854295 €13.50______9780008279752 €14.50______9780717181339 €16.99_____ 9781405284592 €11.50_____ Macmillan Harper Collins Gill Egmont Renowned children's author Michael Growly Bear and Mary Rose do every - The next FABULOUSLY FUNNY pic - The charming story, containing an easy Morpurgo teams up with bestselling illus - thing together. Until, one day, Growly ture book from NUMBER ONE best - mindfulness technique, helps children trator Jim Field in this stunning Christmas Bear is left behind on a train. Will selling David Walliams. Illustrated by return to the present moment. The picture book. Michael Morpurgo frames Growly Bear ever find his way back to the artistic genius Tony Ross. Magic Moment is a must for parents or Mary Rose? Or will this be the start of anyone working with children who his powerful message about protecting the his biggest adventure yet? wants to help them feel the fear and environment in this beautiful personal jump in anyway. story about a grandpa’s wish for his granddaughter to live in a better world.

Zog Christmas Zog Christmas Pooka Party The Wolf, the Duck & the Mouse Julia Donaldson Julia Donaldson Shirley Shona Macdonald Mac Barnett 9781407186955 €7.99______9781407186900 €7.99______9781788490009 €14.99______9781406379761 €7.99______Scholastic Scholastic O’Brien Press Walker

ZOG picture book is now an animated The winner of the Galaxy National Chil - The Pooka is a magical shapeshifter When a woeful mouse is swallowed up adaptation for the BBC. dren's Book of the Year and much loved who lives in the mountains all alone; by a wolf, he quickly learns he is not The story of Zog's determination has classic story is now available in a gorgeous fixing things, painting, dancing and alone: a duck has already set up digs, enthralled hundreds of thousands of foiled paperback edition. singing. Suddenly, none of this seems and, boy, has that duck got it figured out! children since its first publication in fun any more, the Pooka realises that Turns out it’s pretty nice inside the belly 2010. This much loved classic story is its lonely and hasn't seen its friends in of the beast! Life's not so bad, consider - now available in a gorgeous foiled pa - ages! ing the alternatives. That is, until a perback edition. hunter shows up...

Pick a Pine Tree Zog and the Flying Doctors Gift Edition Tabby McTat 10th Anniversary Ed. Dragon Post Patricia Toht Julia Donaldson Julia Donaldson Emma Yarlett 9781406379778 €7.99______9781407188669 €7.99_____ 9781407186894 €7.99_____ 9781406379716 €12.50______Walker Scholastic Scholastic Walker Pick a pine tree from the lot – slim and This bestselling picture book from the A fabulous foiled edition celebrating the A fiery story about friendship and ask - tall, or short and squat! Long straight creators of The Gruffalo and Stick Man tenth anniversary of the publication of ing for help from award-winning au - limbs or branches bent... Mmm! Just is now available as a gorgeous gift edi - TABBY MCTAT by Julia Donaldson thor-illustrator Emma Yarlett. smell that piney scent! tion board book. and Axel Scheffler. From the winner of the V&A Best Il - lustrated Book 2017 CHILDRENS

Good Rosie! Grumpy Duck Giraffe Problems Roblox Top Adventure Games Kate DiCamillo Joyce Dunbar Jory John Egmont Publishing 9781406383577 €13.50_____ 9781406378245 €13.50______9781406383164 €13.50______9781405291590 €11.50_____ Walker Walker Walker Egmont Can anyone cheer up Grumpy Duck? A Beloved storyteller Kate DiCamillo From Jory John and Lane Smith, the From the Bloxy Award-winning Jail - funny farmyard tale illustrated by the and cartoonist Harry Bliss introduce winner of the 2017 Kate Greenaway break and Lumber Tycoon 2 to the mas - award-winning Petr Horacek. some delightfully doggy dogs in a Medal, comes a laugh-out-loud com - sively popular Heroes of Robloxia and warm, funny tale of a timid pup who panion to the acclaimed Penguin Prob - Apocalypse Rising, this action-packed needs a friend. lems. book gives you the official scoop on some of the most popular and critically- acclaimed adventure games on Roblox.

Way Past Winter Villian The Train to Impossible Places Truth Pixie Kirane Hargrave Millwood Michael Grant PG Bell Matt Haig 9781911077930 €12.50_____ 9781405284844 €8.99______9781474948616 €15.65_____ 9781786894328 €11.50_____ Chicken House Egmont Usborne Canongate Mila and her sisters live with their Internationally acclaimed author Welcome to the Impossible Places… Where From number one bestselling author brother Oskar in a small forest cabin in Michael Grant delivers another stun - there's fuzzics not physics, where adventure Matt Haig comes a hilarious and heart- the snow. One night, a fur-clad stranger ning follow-up to his globally best - meets magic and where the journey will warming story, brilliantly illustrated arrives seeking shelter for himself and selling GONE series never, ever take you where you expect it to. throughout by Chris Mould his men. But by the next morning, they've gone - taking Oskar with them. Fearful for his safety, Mila and her sis - ters set out to bring Oskar back - even it means going north, crossing frozen wild- lands to find a way past an eternal winter.

Lotterys More or Less Father Christmas and Me Favourite Enid Blyton Stories Claude Adventures Emma Donoghue Matt Haig Enid Blyton Alex T Smith 9781529000795 €12.50______9781786890726 €8.20_____ 9781444934540 €22.99______9781444946703 €11.50_____ Macmillan Canongate Hodder Hodder Amelia lives in the magical town of An irresistible gift book of fabulous sto - The perfect gift for fans of Alex T. The Lotterys More or Less is best - Elfhelm, newly adopted by Father Christ - ries by everybody's favourite author, Smith's hilarious bestselling series - selling author Emma Donoghue's sec - mas and Mary Christmas. When the very Enid Blyton, chosen and introduced by ideal for new readers and also great ond novel about a thoroughly modern jealous Easter Bunny launches an attack her famous fans from Jacqueline Wilson for sharing! family, illustrated by Caroline Hadi - to ruin Christmas, it's up to Amelia, her to Michael Morpurgo, Gemma Cairney laksono. family and the elves to fight off the forces to Mel from Bake-Off. of evil. But can they keep Christmas alive? CHILDRENS

*Children’s Bk of Irish Folktales Kevin Danagher 9781781176443 €9.99____ *Who Do You Think You Are? What If It’s Us? Magic Misfits 2 Mercier Press Pauline Burgess Adam Silvera Patrick Neil Harris The special magic of the Irish imagination 9781781998113 €8.99_____ 9781471176395 €8.99_____ 9781405290630 €14.50____ shines forth in these fourteen authentic Poolbeg S&S Egmont folktales. These tales are filled with the From NYT bestselling authors Becky The second in the hilarious and magical mystery and adventure of a land of lonely Albertalli (Simon vs. The Homo Sapi - New York Times bestselling series country roads and isolated farms, humble ens Agenda) and Adam Silvera (They from Emmy award-winning actor Neil cottages Both Die At The End) comes a long- Patrick Harris. and lordly castles, rolling fields and tract - awaited collaboration about two very less bogs. They tell of ghosts and giants, of different boys who can't decide if the strange happenings and wondrous deeds, of universe is pushing them together or fairies and witches and of fools and kings. pulling them apart.

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