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Paperback. We all live online now: the line between the internet and IRL has become porous to the point of being meaningless. Roisin Kiberd knows this better than anyone. She has worked for tech startups and as the online voice of a cheese brand; she's witnessed the bloated excesses of tech conferences and explored the strangest communities on the web. She has traced the ripples these hidden worlds have sent through our culture and politics, and experienced the disorienting effects on her own life. In these interlinked essays, she illuminates the subject with fierce clarity, revealing the ways we are more connected than ever before, and the disconnect this breeds. From the lure of the endless scroll, to the glamour of self optimisation; from the cult of Energy Drinks to the nostalgic world of Vaporwave music; and from silicon town centres to dating tech bros, Kiberd explores the strange worlds, habits and people that have grown with the internet. She asks what we have gained, what we have lost, and what we have given willingly away in exchange for this connected life.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Serpent's Tail
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781788165778
- ISBN
- 9781788165778
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 5.99
€ 16.99
€ 5.99
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781786892737
- ISBN
- 9781786892737
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.41
€ 13.99
€ 10.41
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781785152627
- ISBN
- 9781785152627
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784875534
- ISBN
- 9781784875534
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.71
€ 12.99
€ 9.71
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008283360
- ISBN
- 9780008283360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.25
€ 22.25
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Serpent's Tail
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781788163156
- ISBN
- 9781788163156
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.50
€ 11.99
€ 10.50
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781838852153
- ISBN
- 9781838852153
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.04
€ 18.99
€ 14.04
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349143743
- ISBN
- 9780349143743
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
€ 13.99
€ 10.71
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781398515697
- ISBN
- 9781398515697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.69
€ 11.99
€ 9.69
Paperback. Signed by the author. My mother. At night, my mother creaks. The house creaks along with her. Through our thin shared wall, I can hear the makings of my mother gurgle through her body just like the water in the walls of the house ... Teenage Aoileann has never left the island. Her silent, bed-bound mother is a wreckage, the survivor of a private disaster no one will speak about. Aoileann desperately wants a family, and when Sarah and her three young children move to the island, Aoileann finds a focus for her relentless love. A horror story about being bound by the blood knot of family, Ringu meets 'Enduring Love' in Sophie White's thrilling new novel.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Tramp Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781915290045
- ISBN
- 9781915290045
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99
€ 14.99
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Gill Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780717194643
- ISBN
- 9780717194643
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.60
€ 17.99
€ 13.60
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2022
- Publisher
- New Island Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848408500
- ISBN
- 9781848408500
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.54
€ 15.99
€ 12.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 113 x 180 x 14. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141984957
- ISBN
- 9780141984957
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241992661
- ISBN
- 9780241992661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.74
€ 11.99
€ 9.74
Hardcover. As one of the music world’s most iconic artists, Bono’s career has been written about extensively. But in SURRENDER, it’s Bono who picks up the pen, writing for the first time about his remarkable life and those he has shared it with. In his unique voice, Bono takes us from his early days growing up in Dublin, including the sudden loss of his mother when he was 14, to U2’s unlikely journey to become one of the world’s most influential rock bands, to his more than 20 years of activism dedicated to the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty. Writing with candour, self-reflection, and humour, Bono opens the aperture on his life – and the family, friends, and faith that have sustained, challenged, and shaped him. SURRENDER’s subtitle, “40 Songs, One Story,” is a nod to the book’s forty chapters, each named after a U2 song. Bono has also created 40 original drawings for SURRENDER, and an animated video, narrated by Bono and based on some of his drawings, was released today across U2’s digital platforms. The video illustrates an extract from SURRENDER’s “Out of Control” chapter, in which Bono tells the story of writing U2’s first single on 10th May 1978 – his 18th birthday, exactly 44 years ago today.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Hutchinson Heinemann
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781529151787
- ISBN
- 9781529151787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99
€ 20.99
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Bantam Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781787635333
- ISBN
- 9781787635333
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.48
€ 18.99
€ 14.48
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Picador
- Edition
- Main Market
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781529079913
- ISBN
- 9781529079913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.59
€ 16.99
€ 14.59
Hardback. This is a signed limited edition with an exclusive essay from the author only available in this edition. Bespoke dustjacket unique to this edition. First Edition. September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptman rules with terror. The war's outcome is far from certain. An Irish priest, Hugh O'Flaherty, dedicates himself to helping those escaping from the Nazis. His home is Vatican City, the world's smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome where the occupiers hold no sway. Here Hugh brings together an unlikely band of friends to hide the vulnerable under the noses of the enemy. But Hauptman's net begins closing in on the Escape Line and the need for a terrifyingly audacious mission grows critical. By Christmastime, it's too late to turn back. Based on an extraordinary true story, My Father's House is a powerful literary thriller from a master of historical fiction. Joseph O'Connor has created an unforgettable novel of love, faith and sacrifice, and what it means to be truly human in the most extreme circumstances.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- S9781787303911
- ISBN
- 9781787303911
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.99
€ 26.99
€ 24.99
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2022
- Publisher
- HarperVoyager
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780008479336
- ISBN
- 9780008479336
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.06
€ 11.99
€ 9.06
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2022
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008391362
- ISBN
- 9780008391362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.62
€ 11.99
€ 9.62
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857525215
- ISBN
- 9780857525215
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.48
€ 18.99
€ 14.48
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781982185824
- ISBN
- 9781982185824
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.67
€ 25.99
€ 17.67
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Sceptre
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781529372038
- ISBN
- 9781529372038
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.17
€ 17.99
€ 14.17
Hardback. Exclusive Kennys edition limited to 1000 copies.Signed and numbered by the author. Includes extra content in the form of a short story "The Herring" (16pp). ****THIS IS A PREORDER TO BE SHIPPED ON OR AROUND THE PUBLICATION DATE IN FEBRUARY 2023**** From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring memory, grief, and long-buried secrets. Retired policeman Tom Kettle is enjoying the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a white Victorian Castle in Dalkey overlooking the sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, but his peace is interrupted when two former colleagues turn up at his door to ask questions about a decades-old case. A traumatic case which Tom never quite came to terms with. His peace is further disturbed by a young mother and family who move in next door, a woman on the run from her own troubles. And what of Tom’s family, his wife June, and their two children? Old God’s Time is a beautiful, haunting novel in which everything is not quite what it seems—a novel about what we live through, what we live with, and what may survive us.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber London
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571382088
- ISBN
- 9780571382088
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.99
€ 23.99
€ 21.99