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Stephen King turns 70
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Paperback. Did you know that Stephen King wrote the story of The Shawshank Redemption If you loved the films then dont miss five of Stephen Kings amazing stories on which they were based - with an introductory note to each one by Stephen King. This is a unique opportunity for transforming film fans into book lovers. Num Pages: 592 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA; FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 38. Weight in Grams: 392.
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Hodder are boosting Stephen King's backlist with new covers, new author branding and a marketing campaign that directs readers to the right King title for them.
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'Part biography, part collection of tips for the aspiring writer' Guardian. ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT is a brilliant book on writing from the number one bestselling writer.
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A riveting, high-stakes political story like UNDER THE DOME, a love story like BAG OF BONES, a 1950s community like IT, Stephen King's incredibly ambitious, heartstoppingly dramatic time travel novel, 11.22.63 is a WHAT IF? novel like no one's ever r
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Paperback. Now a major motion picture. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 190.
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Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor reader wear.
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Hardcover. Fine in fine Dust Jacket
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Hearts in Atlantis
GAA Books - football and hurling titles
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Paperback. When the GAA purchased what became known as Croke Park in 1913, they cannot have imagined it would become a sports icon in Irelands national consciousness. This updated edition includes new material on the reconstructed historic Hill 16, the new surface and floodlighting, and the playing of rugby and soccer internationals on the hallowed ground. Num Pages: 232 pages, Colour photos. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJ; 3JM; AMGC; WSBV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 424.
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: WSJL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 252.
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Paperback. Celebrates the most significant players Gaelic games have brought us in their 125-year history. The author selects those footballers, hurlers, managers and camogie players who have lit up Irish sport, becoming national treasures in the process, and highlights their remarkable skills. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 x 8pp colour. BIC Classification: 1DBR; WSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 480. Some minor shelf wear to the cover but overall in a good condition
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Paperback. Irelands ancient sport of hurling is our greatest spectator sport. But are great hurlers born or made What are the key elements of hurling greatness In these pages, hurling is defined by modern heroes, current and former players, managers and coaches. Num Pages: 340 pages, 25 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JHBS; WSBX; WSDP; WSJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Neret, Gilles. Num Pages: 334 pages. BIC Classification: AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 296 x 383 x 37. Weight in Grams: 3586.
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Hardcover. English photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) is a pioneer in visual studies of human and animal locomotion. This resplendent book traces the life and work of Muybridge, from his early thinking about anatomy and movement to his latest photographic experiments. Num Pages: 704 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; AJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 198 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1266.
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Hardcover. One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. This title features top quality reproductions of 663 of Leonardos drawings, from anatomical studies to architectural plans, from complex engineering designs to pudgy infant portraits. Num Pages: 720 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACND; AFF; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 161 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1328.
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Hardcover. Painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the centurys greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. He was one of the first to apply the insights of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis to the art of painting, approaching the subconscious with sensitivity and imagination. This title presents his entire painted oeuvre. Num Pages: 780 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: ACXD7; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 163 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1462.
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Perfect Paperback. Mario Testino is one of the most successful fashion and portrait photographers. From Copacabanas beaches to Ipanemas baixos, from penthouse to favela via the worlds most famous carnival parade - this title presents Testinos love poem to the city that captured his teenage heart, and never let go. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 340 x 259 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1534.
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Hardcover. Features Hiroshiges Edo: Masterful ukiyo-e woodblock prints of Tokyo in the mid-19th century. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACV; AFH; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 312 x 258 x 35. Weight in Grams: 2026.
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Hardcover. Ranging from ancient to contemporary sculpture, this book offers a study of the history of sculpture. Taking the sculptures out of the museum context (and thus off of their proverbial pedestals), this volume presents a completely new view which affords enlightening comparisons between eras and genres. Num Pages: 1152 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AFKB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 280 x 54. Weight in Grams: 3172.
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 324 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 376 x 326 x 76. Weight in Grams: 4110.
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Hardcover. In celebration of Marvels 75th anniversary, this title presents a magnum opus of the most influential comic book publisher, with an inside look not only at its celebrated characters, but also at the "bullpen" of architects whose names are almost as familiar as the protagonists they brought to life - Stan "the Man" Lee, and Jack "King" Kirby. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: AKLC; FXS; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 335 x 495 x 92. Weight in Grams: 7536.
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Hardcover. Samuel Johnson famously said that: "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." In this title, Londons remarkable history, architecture, landmarks, streets, style, cool, swagger, and stalwart residents are pictured in hundreds of compelling photographs sourced from a wide array of archives around the world. Num Pages: 576 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 271 x 348 x 46. Weight in Grams: 3590.
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 226 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1872.
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Schiffmacher, Henk; Riemschneider, Burkhard. Num Pages: 544 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AFY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 146 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1096.
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Hardcover. An ardent admirer of the superb skills of the ancient Egyptian and Oriental artisans, the French Orientalist, author, and artist Emile Prisse dAvennes (1807-1879) made enormous contributions to the field of Egyptology. This volume contains 51 plates based on drawings made during his years in Egypt. Num Pages: 424 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; ACG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 490 x 340 x 60. Weight in Grams: 4960.
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Hardcover. Pairs the authors original text with photographs from the legendary "Last Sitting" - widely considered the most intimate photographs of Marilyn Monroe ever taken - to create a fitting tribute to the woman who, at the time of her death in 1962, was the worlds most famous, a symbol of glamour and criticism for an entire generation. Num Pages: 276 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AJC; APB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 341 x 284 x 37. Weight in Grams: 2504.
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'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her muffled screams.'
On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice.
His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory.
Three years later, he returns home and his murderous action has set the entire family - mother, brother, sister - on a path of intimate violence, as they enter a world of hushed commands and soundless journeys through the palace's dungeons and bedchambers. As his wife seeks his death, his daughter, Electra, is the silent observer to the family's game of innocence while his son, Orestes, is sent into bewildering, frightening exile where survival is far from certain. Out of their desolating loss, Electra and Orestes must find a way to right these wrongs of the past even if it means committing themselves to a terrible, barbarous act.
House of Names is a story of intense longing and shocking betrayal. It is a work of great beauty, and daring, from one of our finest living writers.
<em>Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FQ. Category: Dimension: 216 x 135. Signed by the Author</em>
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<strong>LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017</strong>
<strong>From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <em>The Sportswriter</em> comes a deeply personal account of his parents - an intimate portrait of American mid-twentieth century life, and a celebration of family love </strong>
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Richard Ford's parents volunteered little about their early lives - and he rarely asked. Later, he pieced their stories together from anecdote, history and the occasional photograph, frozen moments linking him to another time.Edna Akin, a dark-eyed Arkansas beauty whose convent education was cut short by her itinerant parents, fell in love aged only seventeen. Parker Ford was a tall country boy with a warm, hesitant smile, who was working at a grocery in Hot Springs. They married and began a life on the road in the American South, as Parker followed his travelling salesman's job. The 1930s were like one long weekend, a swirl of miles traversed, cocktails drunk and hotel rooms vacated: New Orleans, Memphis, Texarkana. Then a single, late child was born, changing everything.
In this book, Richard Ford evokes a vivid panorama of mid-twentieth century America and an intimate portrait of family life. Exploring children's changing perception of their parents, he also reflects on the impact of loss and devotion. Written with the intelligence, precision and humanity for which Ford is renowned, <em>Between Them</em> is both a son's great act of love and a redeeming meditation on family.
<em>Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BM; DN; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Signed by the author</em>
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<strong>'Finn's World' by Finn Ní Fhaoláin. Signed by the Author, while stocks last!</strong>
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<strong>Food Blogger, Author, Chef and Surfer Finn Ní Fhaoláin stops off at Kennys Bookshop to prepare a little lunch on the occasion of the launch of her first cookbook 'Finn's World'.</strong>
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Most of us start our day with coffee and a commute; Finn starts hers with surfing. With her twin passions of food and the sea, Finn's philosophy is that as long as she is never far from either, it's been a good day at the office! When life is busy, it can be hard to find the time and money to feed yourself well. Enter Finn's World, where you'll discover delicious, healthy food that won't break the bank, allowing you to spend more time following your dreams. Follow Finn's tips on how to eat better to live a happier, more balanced life. All recipes are gluten-free and include Danish Breakfast Brod, Mother Hubbard's Bare Cupboard Granola, Moroccan Surfer's Breakfast, Disco Barbie Beetroot Soup, She Sells Seashells by the Seashore - Cockle Salsa Salad, I Can't Believe It's Not Cardboard - Thick Crust Pizza, Lime Cheesecake Cups and Elderflower and Redcurrant Muffins.Do what you love. Love what you eat!
@KennysBookshop @gill_books @Fins_Fit_Food #FinnsFitFoodHardcover. Coeliac surfing chef Finn Ni Fhaolain shares her delicious, gluten-free recipes for fuelling a balanced, active, happy life, including Danish Breakfast Brod, Mother Hubbards Bare Cupboard Granola, Moroccan Surfers Breakfast, I Cant Believe Its Not Cardboard-Thick Crust Pizza and Elderflower and Redcurrant Muffins. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: VSP; WBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 175. Weight in Grams: 500. Signed by the Author
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In a vivid, warm and amusing reading poet Pete Mullineaux tells us 'How to Bake a Planet' at Kennys Bookshop.
PETE MULLINEAUX
From the Garden of Eden to the pavement of romance, outer space to bubble wrap, endangered species to climate change, Pete Mullineaux’s vivid and wide-ranging fourth collection explores personal-societal themes of loneliness, isolation, connection and dislocation; our ambivalent relationship with the natural world; ecological and environmental concerns; our confusions regarding science and religion; the elusive element of time. Philosophical, inventive, playful and fanciful at times, but always accessible and earthed by reality.
‘Mullineaux “bends an ear towards the earth” and creates a beautiful and whimsical music that tracks the connections and disconnects in our relationships with each other and with our planet. A wandering minstrel who captures the atmosphere of bus rides, cafés, city streets and scrapyards in tones that recall the poems of Roger McGough or the songs of Pete Seeger. He takes us into art galleries and walks us around music festivals, responding to all he sees and hears with imagination and kindness.’ - Catherine Ann Cullen
‘Poignant love poems and family poems, poems inspired by art, music & the business of living and, perhaps most significant of all, poems arising out of compassion for those who “wear the uniform of poverty” or cannot speak for themselves – these are the ingredients of Pete Mullineaux’s intriguingly titled How to Bake a Planet, a book that voices many of the anxieties of contemporary life and, in the venerable tradition of the protest song, to considerable effect wears its political heart on its sleeve.’ - Pat Boran
‘One of the warmest poets rocking around this little island of ours.’
Alvy Carragher, Headstuff.orgAuthor Biography
Pete Mullineaux grew up in the UK but since 1991 has lived in Galway Ireland where he teaches development education through creative writing and drama. His work has been featured on RTE’s Arena and published in numerous international journals and anthologies. His three previous collections are: Zen Traffic Lights (Lapwing, 2005) A Father’s Day (Salmon, 2008) & Session (Salmon, 2011). He has also written for the stage and RTE radio and published several educational resources most recently Just a Second! Exploring Global Issues through Drama & Theatre (Afri 2015).
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Bruno doesnt like his new house. He had to leave all his friends behind in Berlin, and there are no children to play with here - until Bruno meets Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the wire fence near Brunos house, and who wears a strange uniform of striped pyjamas. Illustrator(s): Jeffers, Oliver. Num Pages: 352 pages, with illustrations from award-winning artist Oliver Jeffers. BIC Classification: YFC; YX. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 167 x 224 x 30. Weight in Grams: 732.
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First Edition Paperback. Signed by the Author ...while stocks last!
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<strong>It was with great pleasure Kennys Bookshop recently welcomed back Mike McCormack to preview his long anticipated new novel <em>'Solar Bones'.</em> Now receiving rave reviews, we delight in the continued success of this great writer.</strong>
Once a year, on All Souls’ Day, it is said in Ireland that the dead may return. Solar Bones is the story of one such visit. Marcus Conway, a middle-aged engineer, turns up one afternoon at his kitchen table and considers the events that took him away and then brought him home again. Funny and strange, McCormack’s ambitious and other-worldly novel plays with form and defies convention. This profound new work is by one of Ireland’s most important contemporary novelists. A beautiful and haunting elegy, this story of order and chaos, love and loss captures how minor decisions ripple into waves and test our integrity every day.
<em>‘McCormack is one of our bravest and most innovative writers – he shoots for the stars with this one and does not fall short.’</em> Kevin Barry
<em>‘A poised and darkly humorous monologue on the way we live now’</em> – Cara Magazine
<em>‘This is an unusual story, beautifully told’</em> – Irish Country Living Magazine
Praise for Mike McCormack:
<em>‘Unabashedly macabre, McCormack’s obsessions at times converge with those explored by Ian McEwan, Will Self and JG Ballard, but his clever ideas and fluid, gracefully morbid style are all his own’ </em>GQ
<em>‘One of the most original and important voices in contemporary Irish fiction’</em> The Irish Times<strong>
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John Quinn reads from his new and richly evocative collection of interviews based on material from the author's radio documentary, This Place Speaks to Me at Kennys Bookshop.
In this wide-ranging, globetrotting book, a host of well-known interviewees ponder the locations that have - for good or for ill - had a profound influence on their lives. Travel with Seamus Heaney as he visits Anahorish, the townland in South Derry that inspired much of his early work; accompany actor and musician Don Baker as he returns to Daingean Reformatory, where he spent three harrowing years in the 1960s; follow storyteller Eibhlis de Barra on a gloriously colorful stroll through the Cork of her childhood.
This Place Speaks to Me: An Anthology of People and Places
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What do you do as an ex Taoiseach? John Bruton got busy. He worked as EU Ambassador to the USA, vice president of the EPP, and is today Chairman of IFSC Ireland. He also made time to reflect on and observe domestic politics, the Irish economy, and the ongoing necessity for reconciliation between not only our two main traditions on this island but also between the constitutional nationalist tradition and the republican tradition. The future of the EU and its place in the world, personal Faith in the public sphere, and the global environment have also been major concerns.
This book gathers some of the opinions and ideas of John Bruton from 2010 to 2015 first delivered as speeches, articles, and blogs, and presents them as a contribution to our ongoing public debate on Europe, World Affairs, the Centenary of Commemorations, the Economy, Religion, and the Environment. Included are a selection of Book Reviews which give people a further insight into the man who served us as a Minister, leader of Fine Gael, and Taoiseach.
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First UK edition. Signed by the Author - while stocks last. Hardcover. On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Fergusons life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths.. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1258. Signed by the author
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>THE LONELY SEA AND SKY - Signed by the Author while stocks last!</strong> <p style="text-align: justify;">When Des Kenny read Dermot Bolger's new book <em>The Lonely Sea and Sky</em> he was very excited by the writing. He called Dermot and invited him to come and do a reading in Kennys for our YouTube channel. Dermot had other commitments and was unable to travel but he invited us to his Dublin home to do a recording there instead. <p style="text-align: justify;">
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This is Dermot Bolger's first reading from<em> 'The Lonely Sea and Sky'</em>. He is seated in a chair his Dad often sat in as he reads this powerful passage.
We didn't want him to stop!
It was a huge privilege to visit Dermot at home and to be part of his first reading of this his new novel, based on a real life rescue in 1943, when the crew of the Wexford ship <em>Kerlogue</em> risked their lives to save 168 German sailors - members of the navy that had killed fourteen-year-old Jack Roche's father. Forced to choose who to save and who to leave behind, the Kerlogue grows so dangerously overloaded that no one knows if it will survive amid the massive Biscay waves.
We are delighted to be able to share this reading with you.
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Signed Poetry at Kennys
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Kennys Bookshop had the privilege of welcoming Dani Gill to read from her debut poetry collection 'After Love'.
About the Book
Every person is like a piece of gold. If you were a gold ring, a gold watch, a gold chain, you could say "I am a ring, a watch, a chain", but these are temporary shapes. In truth, you are just gold – that is your essence, no matter how the shape changes.
After Love explores identity, change and recovery after the end of a long-term relationship.
Breaking waves, scattered buttons, disillusionment, enlightenment. I just gobbled it up... a really special book.
Sara BaumeDani Gill's poems are like suitcases to be unpacked, word by word, until there is nothing left but the feeling of a feeling. A lasting debut. - Simon Van Booy
Delicate and yet powerful poems, a paused and poignant poetry collection, not daring to gloss over or skim the suffering and pain that the time After Love can bring. Mermaids, floating the the sea bring calm when you least expect it, water a cleansing motif throughout. Essential love poems. - Elaine Feeney
About Dani Gill
Dani Gill is a writer, curator, and creative writing tutor, based in the west of Ireland. She has been included in the Irish women’s poetry anthology Washing Windows (Arlen House, 2016), and publications such as Prelude (New York), and Freckle (Northern Ireland). From 2010-2016 she was the Director of Cúirt International Festival of Literature, Galway. Dani now works as a freelance curator and creative writing tutor for young people and adults. After Love is her first collection.
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Paperback. Moya Cannon's new collection reaches back into the long past, showing how traces left behind - textile fragments, buried thimbles, cave paintings - enable us to make imaginative connections with our distant ancestors, emphasising the commonalities of human lives lived many centuries apart. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 96.
We had the great pleasure of welcoming poet Moya Cannon back to Kennys Bookshop to read from her most recent collection 'Keats Lives'.
Keats Lives is Moya Cannon’s fifth collection of poems. Characteristically rich in the moods and rhythms of the poet’s western Irish homeland, it is also drawn farther afield, towards contemplation of the disasters of previous centuries, their ‘many victories, many collars, little grace’. ‘What shift of bedrock, what metamorphosis,’ asks the poet, ‘might heal such wounded, wounding ground?’ An answer is sought in the conversation – the conversion – between politics and ecology: precise, shell-like meditations on the natural world – snow drops and almond blossom, nights of summer thunder – are described with the same humane, delicate energy as warzones and prison camps. Between these extremes, and balanced by them, Homer and Achilles, Shakespeare and Cromwell, ‘cattle-herders, butter-makers, singers, dancers’ live out their ‘sliver of the earth’s time’ by the same equalizing measure of mountains and forests, ‘the gold-struck, mercury sea’. The collection unifies these pasts in the symbolic curia of the museum and library, from where so many of Cannon’s poems take wing, pursuing objects beyond their material presence into their haunted pasts, objects that, to paraphrase the collection’s closing poem, ‘we have often seen before but have never heard’.
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Kennys were delighted to welcome poet Adam White to Kennys Bookshop on the occasion of the release of his second collection 'What Else Is There?'.
Once a carpenter, today a poet and a teacher, Adam White's poems explore the themes of building and construction, as well as migration and his own overseas experiences.
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In a vivid, warm and amusing reading poet Pete Mullineaux tells us 'How to Bake a Planet' at Kennys Bookshop.
PETE MULLINEAUX
From the Garden of Eden to the pavement of romance, outer space to bubble wrap, endangered species to climate change, Pete Mullineaux’s vivid and wide-ranging fourth collection explores personal-societal themes of loneliness, isolation, connection and dislocation; our ambivalent relationship with the natural world; ecological and environmental concerns; our confusions regarding science and religion; the elusive element of time. Philosophical, inventive, playful and fanciful at times, but always accessible and earthed by reality.
‘Mullineaux “bends an ear towards the earth” and creates a beautiful and whimsical music that tracks the connections and disconnects in our relationships with each other and with our planet. A wandering minstrel who captures the atmosphere of bus rides, cafés, city streets and scrapyards in tones that recall the poems of Roger McGough or the songs of Pete Seeger. He takes us into art galleries and walks us around music festivals, responding to all he sees and hears with imagination and kindness.’ - Catherine Ann Cullen
‘Poignant love poems and family poems, poems inspired by art, music & the business of living and, perhaps most significant of all, poems arising out of compassion for those who “wear the uniform of poverty” or cannot speak for themselves – these are the ingredients of Pete Mullineaux’s intriguingly titled How to Bake a Planet, a book that voices many of the anxieties of contemporary life and, in the venerable tradition of the protest song, to considerable effect wears its political heart on its sleeve.’ - Pat Boran
‘One of the warmest poets rocking around this little island of ours.’
Alvy Carragher, Headstuff.orgAuthor Biography
Pete Mullineaux grew up in the UK but since 1991 has lived in Galway Ireland where he teaches development education through creative writing and drama. His work has been featured on RTE’s Arena and published in numerous international journals and anthologies. His three previous collections are: Zen Traffic Lights (Lapwing, 2005) A Father’s Day (Salmon, 2008) & Session (Salmon, 2011). He has also written for the stage and RTE radio and published several educational resources most recently Just a Second! Exploring Global Issues through Drama & Theatre (Afri 2015).
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In 'The Apocalypse Came on a Friday' Little John Nee, one of the treasures of Irish Theatre, reveals himself as a haiku poet of charm, courage and conviction. Entirely in tune with this venerable tradition of the illuminating moment, he nevertheless remains his own man, his wit and a welcome punky attitude only adding to the sense of a very fine poet coming into his stride - and perhaps at any moment about to break into dance or song. PAT BORAN, poet editor and broadcaster.
Little John Nee is a writer, performer and musician based in the west of Ireland. His theatre and radio shows have received critical acclaim internationally.
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Salmon Poetry's celebratory anthology, highlighting its list of Irish, American, British and European poets, all of whom represent the vibrancy of contemporary literature - distinct in style, voice, and geography.
"Salmon's unique profile grows from the diversity of the work it publishes.. most notably, Salmon is distinguished by the number of women on its list."-Irish Literary Supplement.
Cooking with Chocolate
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Hardcover. The comprehensive guide to chocolate and candy making for professionals and serious home cooksChocolate and candy making is more popular and accessible than it has ever been. This book combines artisan confectionery techniques with straightforward explanations of the theory, science, and formulas at work. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: TTVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 285 x 226 x 41. Weight in Grams: 2030.
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Hardcover. Offers the essential building blocks and recipes for working with chocolate in the home kitchen. This book opens with 100 fundamental step-by-step techniques: chocolate basics, candy fillings, decorations, doughs, creams and mousses, ice cream and sorbet, sauces, and bakers secrets (marbling, faultless cake, crusts, and beating egg whites). Num Pages: 416 pages, 500 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: WBTX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 275 x 246 x 35. Weight in Grams: 2154.
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Hardcover. The Great British Bake Off cookery book series that teaches the nation to bake Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: WBB; WBTX; WBVS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 574.
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Paperback. Explores the influence that, Charlie Bucket, Willy Wonka and the Oompa-Loompas have had on our culture. This title book features 100s of images, including previously unseen material from the Roald Dahl archive and photographs from the Johnny Depp and Gene Wilder films, the Sam Mendes musical and more. Num Pages: 224 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 5AN; FZC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 186 x 17. Weight in Grams: 652.
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Board book. Illustrator(s): McLelland, Kate. Series: Press Out and Colour. Num Pages: 24 pages. BIC Classification: YBGK. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 180 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
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Paperback. The delicious true story of the early chocolate pioneers by the award-winning writer, and direct descendant of the famous chocolate dynasty, Deborah Cadbury Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTK; KNDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 266.
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Paperback. With full access to the Bournville archives, Dr. Chinn has traced the history of this distinguished family and its long established business. Num Pages: 160 pages, 80 b&w and colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBTB; KNDF; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 210 x 6. Weight in Grams: 238.
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First UK edition. Signed by the Author - while stocks last. Hardcover. On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Fergusons life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths.. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1258. Signed by the author
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The follow-up to Spill Simmer Falter Wither is a fascinating portrait of an artist’s breakdown in rural Ireland.
<em>"The book is a reminder of the beauty that can be found when you allow yourself to look slowly and sadly at the world"</em> Laura Feigel, The Guardian.
"The imaginative richness and limberness of Baume’s descriptions, their power to immerse the reader in Frankie’s senses, emotions, and place on earth, is where this novel truly excels..." Katherine A Powers, The Irish Times.
<hr />Sara Baume reads from her acclaimed first novel, Spill, Simmer, Falter, Wither at Kennys Bookshop:
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>THE LONELY SEA AND SKY - Signed by the Author while stocks last!</strong> <p style="text-align: justify;">When Des Kenny read Dermot Bolger's new book <em>The Lonely Sea and Sky</em> he was very excited by the writing. He called Dermot and invited him to come and do a reading in Kennys for our YouTube channel. Dermot had other commitments and was unable to travel but he invited us to his Dublin home to do a recording there instead. <p style="text-align: justify;">
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This is Dermot Bolger's first reading from<em> 'The Lonely Sea and Sky'</em>. He is seated in a chair his Dad often sat in as he reads this powerful passage.
We didn't want him to stop!
It was a huge privilege to visit Dermot at home and to be part of his first reading of this his new novel, based on a real life rescue in 1943, when the crew of the Wexford ship <em>Kerlogue</em> risked their lives to save 168 German sailors - members of the navy that had killed fourteen-year-old Jack Roche's father. Forced to choose who to save and who to leave behind, the Kerlogue grows so dangerously overloaded that no one knows if it will survive amid the massive Biscay waves.
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<div class="mod about"> <h2>About Carnivalesque</h2><em>It looked like any other carnival, but of course it wasn't… </em>
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It had its own little backstreets, its alleyways of hanging bulbs and ghost trains and Punch and Judy stands …</em>
<em>And at the end of one he saw the Hall of Mirrors. There were looping strings of carnival lights leading towards it, and a large sign in mirrored glass reading 'Burleigh's Amazing Hall of Mirrors' and the sign reflected the lights in all sorts of magically distorted ways. </em>
To Andy and his parents, it looks like any other carnival: creaking ghost train, rusty rollercoaster and circus performers. But of course it isn't.
Drawn to the hall of mirrors, Andy enters and is hypnotised by the many selves staring back at him. Sometime later, one of those selves walks out rejoins his parents – leaving Andy trapped inside the glass, snatched from the tensions of his suburban home and transported to a world where the laws of gravity are meaningless and time performs acrobatic tricks.
And now an identical stranger inhabits Andy's life, unsettling his mother with a curious blankness, as mysterious events start unfolding in their Irish coastal town…“His cinematic sensibility yields prose of the most bewitching kind” – <span class="textSourceTitle">Sunday Times
“One of Ireland's most talented artists” – <span class="textSourceTitle">John Banville
“Jordan has a light touch and a clear eye on matters of the heart” – <span class="textAuthor">Eoin McNamee, <span class="textSourceTitle">Irish Times
“His dialogue and characterisation shine” – <span class="textSourceTitle">Independent on Sunday
“His belief in language is absolute, as is his mastery of it” – <span class="textSourceTitle">Irish Times
“You can never know where you are going with Neil Jordan … Extraordinary” – <span class="textAuthor">John Burnside, <span class="textSourceTitle">Guardian
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What do you do as an ex Taoiseach? John Bruton got busy. He worked as EU Ambassador to the USA, vice president of the EPP, and is today Chairman of IFSC Ireland. He also made time to reflect on and observe domestic politics, the Irish economy, and the ongoing necessity for reconciliation between not only our two main traditions on this island but also between the constitutional nationalist tradition and the republican tradition. The future of the EU and its place in the world, personal Faith in the public sphere, and the global environment have also been major concerns.
This book gathers some of the opinions and ideas of John Bruton from 2010 to 2015 first delivered as speeches, articles, and blogs, and presents them as a contribution to our ongoing public debate on Europe, World Affairs, the Centenary of Commemorations, the Economy, Religion, and the Environment. Included are a selection of Book Reviews which give people a further insight into the man who served us as a Minister, leader of Fine Gael, and Taoiseach.
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John Quinn reads from his new and richly evocative collection of interviews based on material from the author's radio documentary, This Place Speaks to Me at Kennys Bookshop.
In this wide-ranging, globetrotting book, a host of well-known interviewees ponder the locations that have - for good or for ill - had a profound influence on their lives. Travel with Seamus Heaney as he visits Anahorish, the townland in South Derry that inspired much of his early work; accompany actor and musician Don Baker as he returns to Daingean Reformatory, where he spent three harrowing years in the 1960s; follow storyteller Eibhlis de Barra on a gloriously colorful stroll through the Cork of her childhood.
This Place Speaks to Me: An Anthology of People and Places
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Twenty short stories by award-winning Cork writer William Wall, whose work has been long-listed for the Man Booker Prize.
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Salmon Poetry's celebratory anthology, highlighting its list of Irish, American, British and European poets, all of whom represent the vibrancy of contemporary literature - distinct in style, voice, and geography.
"Salmon's unique profile grows from the diversity of the work it publishes.. most notably, Salmon is distinguished by the number of women on its list."-Irish Literary Supplement.
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In 'The Apocalypse Came on a Friday' Little John Nee, one of the treasures of Irish Theatre, reveals himself as a haiku poet of charm, courage and conviction. Entirely in tune with this venerable tradition of the illuminating moment, he nevertheless remains his own man, his wit and a welcome punky attitude only adding to the sense of a very fine poet coming into his stride - and perhaps at any moment about to break into dance or song. PAT BORAN, poet editor and broadcaster.
Little John Nee is a writer, performer and musician based in the west of Ireland. His theatre and radio shows have received critical acclaim internationally.
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The Man Booker International Prize 2017
The Man Booker International Prize has revealed the ‘Man Booker Dozen’ of 13 novels in contention for the 2017 prize, which celebrates the finest works of translated fiction from around the world.
The prize is awarded every year for a single book, which is translated into English and published in the UK. Both novels and short-story collections are eligible. The work of translators is equally rewarded, with the £50,000 prize divided between the author and the translator of the winning entry. In addition, each shortlisted author and translator will receive £1,000 each. The judges considered 126 books.
Of the 13 books nominated, the following are those titles available now from Kennys:
The Man Booker International Prize 2017 - The Longlist
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Paperback. A poetic, elemental yet modern Icelandic family saga spanning the whole of Icelands 20th century history, by the countrys most distinguished and distinctive contemporary writer Translator(s): Roughton, Philip. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 259 x 29. Weight in Grams: 412.
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Paperback. BRICKS AND MORTAR is a novel about the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, from just before 1989 to the present day, charting the development of the industry from absolute prohibition to full legality in the twenty years following the reunification of Germany. Translator(s): Derbyshire, Katy. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 198 x 45. Weight in Grams: 616.
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The follow-up to Spill Simmer Falter Wither is a fascinating portrait of an artist’s breakdown in rural Ireland.
<em>"The book is a reminder of the beauty that can be found when you allow yourself to look slowly and sadly at the world"</em> Laura Feigel, The Guardian.
"The imaginative richness and limberness of Baume’s descriptions, their power to immerse the reader in Frankie’s senses, emotions, and place on earth, is where this novel truly excels..." Katherine A Powers, The Irish Times.
<hr />Sara Baume reads from her acclaimed first novel, Spill, Simmer, Falter, Wither at Kennys Bookshop:
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Her first novel, <em>The Glorious Heresies</em> won Galway-based Lisa McInerney the Baileys women's prize for fiction, and more recently the Desmond Elliot prize for best debut novel. A darkly humorous story centered around post-crash Ireland. Paperback.
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<p style="text-align: left;"><em>The Long Gaze Back</em>, edited by Sinéad Gleeson, is an exhilarating anthology of thirty short stories by some of the most gifted women writers this island has ever produced. <p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Niamh Boyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Maeve Brennan, Mary Costello, June Caldwell, Lucy Caldwell, Evelyn Conlon, Anne Devlin, Maria Edgeworth, Anne Enright, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Norah Hoult, Mary Lavin, Eimear McBride, Molly McCloskey, Bernie McGill, Lisa McInerney, Belinda McKeon, Siobhán Mannion, Lia Mills, Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Kate O’Brien, Roisín O’Donnell, E.M. Reapy, Charlotte Riddell, Eimear Ryan, Anakana Schofield, Somerville & Ross, Susan Stairs.</strong> <p style="text-align: left;">Taken together, the collected works of these writers reveal an enrapturing, unnerving, and piercingly beautiful mosaic of a lively literary landscape. Spanning four centuries, <em>The Long Gaze Back</em> features 8 rare stories from deceased luminaries and forerunners, and 22 new unpublished stories by some of the most talented Irish women writers working today. The anthology presents an inclusive and celebratory portrait of the high calibre of contemporary literature in Ireland. <p style="text-align: left;">These stories run the gamut from heartbreaking to humorous, but each leaves a lasting impression. They chart the passions, obligations, trials and tribulations of a variety of vividly-drawn characters with unflinching honesty and relentless compassion. These are stories to savour. <p style="text-align: left;"><strong>About the Editor</strong> -
Paperback. An exciting collection of essays revealing the tremendous diversity of womens experiences in Irelands past. For the first time, this unique book draws together key articles published in the field over the last two decades. Editor(s): Urquhart, Diane; Hayes, Alan. Series: Routledge Readers in History. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 176 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460 General Irish HIstory. 242pp
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Paperback. Editor(s): Handy, Amber; O Conchubhair, Brian. Num Pages: 290 pages, 2 colour artworks. BIC Classification: 2AF; JFSJ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 370.
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<strong>A beautiful, poignant and timely manifesto for the myriad rewards of reading and sharing the enjoyment of stories.</strong>
From Oliver Jeffers and typographical fine artist, Sam Winston, comes an inspiring and lyrical picture book about a little girl who sails her raft 'across a sea of words' to arrive at the house of a small boy. There she invites him to come away with her on an adventure where they can journey through 'forests of fairy tales', 'across mountains of make-believe' and 'sleep in clouds of song'.
Guided by his new friend, the boy unlocks his imagination and a lifetime of magic lies ahead of him... But who will be next?
Oliver's elegant art is combined with Sam's astonishing typographical landscapes - beautifully shaped from excerpts of children's classics and lullabies -to create a celebration of all that books can do and all that books can become, and to encourage readers of all ages to have an immersive and unforgettable reading experience that they will want to pass on to others.
A first for Oliver Jeffers: his first picture book published with Walker, and the very first book in which he has collaborated with another artist. Features typographic art from much-loved classics including Treasure Island, Frankenstein, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Little Women, The Wind in the Willows, Black Beauty and Great Expectations.
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Sam Winston is a fine artist who exhibits internationally and whose books can be found in many special collections worldwide, including New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Getty Research Institute, the Tate Gallery London, and the V&A Museum. His work is also collected by the Library of Congress and commissioned by the New York Times. Sam lives and works in London. -
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Paperback. NEW BOOK AND CD PACK - A hilarious and moving story of old age, adventure, stolen jewels and swimming the Thames, from Sport Relief star and all-round hero David Walliams. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 5AK; YFQ. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 200 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 344.
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Our lives are driven by a fact that most of us can't name and don't understand. It defines who our friends and lovers are, which careers we choose, and whether we blush when we're embarrassed. This title shows how the brain chemistry of introverts an
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Salmon Poetry's celebratory anthology, highlighting its list of Irish, American, British and European poets, all of whom represent the vibrancy of contemporary literature - distinct in style, voice, and geography.
"Salmon's unique profile grows from the diversity of the work it publishes.. most notably, Salmon is distinguished by the number of women on its list."-Irish Literary Supplement.
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In 'The Apocalypse Came on a Friday' Little John Nee, one of the treasures of Irish Theatre, reveals himself as a haiku poet of charm, courage and conviction. Entirely in tune with this venerable tradition of the illuminating moment, he nevertheless remains his own man, his wit and a welcome punky attitude only adding to the sense of a very fine poet coming into his stride - and perhaps at any moment about to break into dance or song. PAT BORAN, poet editor and broadcaster.
Little John Nee is a writer, performer and musician based in the west of Ireland. His theatre and radio shows have received critical acclaim internationally.
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<strong>All Through the Night : Night Poems and Lullabies by Marie Heaney.</strong>
All Through the Night is a collection of moving and evocative night poems for all stages of life. Lullabies and other poems relating to children and parenting form the opening section, while later poems celebrate or give voice to our various night-time pleasures and preoccupations. The elegiac poems towards the end of the book turn to face the prospect of that last long sleep that awaits us all.
Marie Heaney's wide-ranging selection includes poems by WH Auden, William Blake, Eavan Boland, Emily Dickinson, Paul Durcan, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, John Keats, Derek Mahon, Paula Meehan, Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Sylvia Plath, William Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, WB Yeats and many more.
From tiny tots who battle against bedtime, to grown-ups who yearn for the shelter of untroubled sleep, All Through the Night is the perfect bedside book for all stages of life.
With illustrations by Irish illustrator and surface pattern designer Paula McGloin.
Shortlisted for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards The Journal.ie Best Irish-Published Book of the Year Award and the The Ryan Tubridy Show Listener's Choice Award for 2016.
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On Friday November 18th Kenny's Bookshop hosted the launch for <em>He Was Galway</em>, the new biography of Galway man Máirtín Mór McDonogh (1860–1934) by Jackie Uí Chionna.
<strong>Martin ‘Máirtín Mór’ McDonogh</strong> was, in every sense of the word, Galway’s ‘big man’. A natural entrepreneur, and a man of drive, ambition and no small intellect, he took his father’s company, Thomas McDonogh & Sons, and expanded it to the extent that he became the largest employer in Connacht and one of Galway’s richest men. In turn a merchant, farmer, industrialist and politician, McDonogh came to dominate every aspect of Galway life, from the world of business to its sporting and civic life. A colourful character, following his death it was widely recognised, by friend and enemy alike that ‘For half a century he was Galway’.<span lang="EN-IE">In 1929, Liam O’Flaherty’s novel, <em>The House of Gold</em>, became the first book to be banned by the Irish Censorship Board for its references to greed, murder and sex. Although a work of fiction, it was widely known that the book was based on a real family - the McDonogh’s, and in particular, Máirtín Mór McDonogh.
<p class="normal"><span lang="EN-IE">The book adds to the folklore about a man who at one time was the biggest employer in Connacht, a national politician, and an intensely private person. In a fascinating new book called ‘He was Galway’, Jackie Uí Chionna of NUIG investigates who Máirtín Mór really was, and why his family inspired the famous book and she joined Sean O Rourke on the Today programme on RTÉ Radio 1: <a href="http://rte.ie/r.html?rii=b9_21123535_15036_31-01-2017_" target="_blank">Listen Here >>></a> -
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Hardback. Signed by multiple contributors. Thrilling, disturbing, shocking and moving, Trouble Is Our Business: New Stories by Irish Crime Writers is a compulsive anthology of original stories by Ireland’s best-known crime writers.
Patrick McGinley, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Colin Bateman, Eoin McNamee, Ken Bruen, Paul Charles, Julie Parsons, John Connolly, Alan Glynn, Adrian McKinty, Arlene Hunt, Alex Barclay, Gene Kerrigan, Eoin Colfer, Declan Hughes, Cora Harrison, Brian McGilloway, Stuart Neville, Jane Casey, Niamh O’Connor, William Ryan Murphy, Louise Phillips, Sinéad Crowley, Liz Nugent
Irish crime writers have long been established on the international stage as bestsellers and award winners. Now, for the first time ever, the best of contemporary Irish crime novelists are brought together in one volume.
Edited by Declan Burke, the anthology embraces the crime genre’s traditional themes of murder, revenge, intrigue, justice and redemption. These stories engage with the full range of crime fiction incarnations: from police procedurals to psychological thrillers, domestic noir to historical crime – but there’s also room for the supernatural, the futuristic, the macabre.
As Emerald Noir blossoms into an international phenomenon, there has never been a more exciting time to be a fan of Irish crime fiction.
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Declan Burke is a writer, editor, journalist and critic. He has published six crime novels, several of which were shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards, edited Down These Green Streets: Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century, and co-edited, with John Connolly, the award-winning Books to Die For. His novel Absolute Zero Cool won the Goldsboro ‘Last Laugh’ Award.
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For years they were the Cinderella province, the poor relations and the weakest link in Irish rugby, the so-called Development Province, who had never won a senior trophy since their foundation in 1885. There had been the first green shoots of a revolution in 2014-15 when finishing seventh in the Pro12 - a record high - in Pat Lam’s second season as head coach. Even so, they started the 2015-16 season as 50/1 outsiders.
Front Up, Rise Up is the story of Connacht’s remarkable journey to becoming the Pro12 champions. The story goes inside the dressing-room, takes in their unscheduled, week-long, bonding trek to Siberia and back for a European Challenge Cup game in November, and all the key twists and turns along the way.
It brings us the characters in this Band of Brothers, from the locals such as captain John Muldoon from Portumna to their iconic fans’ favourite Bundee Aki, like Lam a Kiwi from Auckland of Samoan descent, to their Nigerian-born and Dublin-raised match-winner Niyi Adeolokun.
It takes in their troubled professional history, which had them on the brink of extinction as a professional entity in 2003 and led to Connacht and their supporters marching to the IRFU offices in a successful bid to keep them afloat.
And it culminates in their dethroning of the champions Glasgow in the Sportsground in Galway and their stunning performance in the final against Leinster in Edinburgh to their open-top homecoming in Galway the next day. In the 21 years of professional rugby, there has been no story quite like it.
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A bomb is born, lives, and dies in a rural secondary school; Ireland becomes a dumping ground for corpses; one family's genealogy begins in tragedy and ends in something far worse in 2111; a strange tribal matriarchy on the banks of the River Boyne is threatened with extermination. Over the course of these stories, the world breaks down in an endless cycle of hunger, desperation, violence, and domination, and we find a humanity left tender, collapsed, and full of a beautiful, primeval innocence. Fagan's raw blend of verve, humour, imagination, and warmth surges through these pages, revealing a world rendered both hopeful and disturbing, human and other, that is at once familiarand extraordinary. Hostages is Oisín Fagan's first collection. Paperback. Signed by the Author while stocks last.
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<strong>A beautiful, poignant and timely manifesto for the myriad rewards of reading and sharing the enjoyment of stories.</strong>
From Oliver Jeffers and typographical fine artist, Sam Winston, comes an inspiring and lyrical picture book about a little girl who sails her raft 'across a sea of words' to arrive at the house of a small boy. There she invites him to come away with her on an adventure where they can journey through 'forests of fairy tales', 'across mountains of make-believe' and 'sleep in clouds of song'.
Guided by his new friend, the boy unlocks his imagination and a lifetime of magic lies ahead of him... But who will be next?
Oliver's elegant art is combined with Sam's astonishing typographical landscapes - beautifully shaped from excerpts of children's classics and lullabies -to create a celebration of all that books can do and all that books can become, and to encourage readers of all ages to have an immersive and unforgettable reading experience that they will want to pass on to others.
A first for Oliver Jeffers: his first picture book published with Walker, and the very first book in which he has collaborated with another artist. Features typographic art from much-loved classics including Treasure Island, Frankenstein, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Little Women, The Wind in the Willows, Black Beauty and Great Expectations.
<strong>About the Illustrator</strong>
Sam Winston is a fine artist who exhibits internationally and whose books can be found in many special collections worldwide, including New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Getty Research Institute, the Tate Gallery London, and the V&A Museum. His work is also collected by the Library of Congress and commissioned by the New York Times. Sam lives and works in London. -
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For years they were the Cinderella province, the poor relations and the weakest link in Irish rugby, the so-called Development Province, who had never won a senior trophy since their foundation in 1885. There had been the first green shoots of a revolution in 2014-15 when finishing seventh in the Pro12 - a record high - in Pat Lam’s second season as head coach. Even so, they started the 2015-16 season as 50/1 outsiders.
Front Up, Rise Up is the story of Connacht’s remarkable journey to becoming the Pro12 champions. The story goes inside the dressing-room, takes in their unscheduled, week-long, bonding trek to Siberia and back for a European Challenge Cup game in November, and all the key twists and turns along the way.
It brings us the characters in this Band of Brothers, from the locals such as captain John Muldoon from Portumna to their iconic fans’ favourite Bundee Aki, like Lam a Kiwi from Auckland of Samoan descent, to their Nigerian-born and Dublin-raised match-winner Niyi Adeolokun.
It takes in their troubled professional history, which had them on the brink of extinction as a professional entity in 2003 and led to Connacht and their supporters marching to the IRFU offices in a successful bid to keep them afloat.
And it culminates in their dethroning of the champions Glasgow in the Sportsground in Galway and their stunning performance in the final against Leinster in Edinburgh to their open-top homecoming in Galway the next day. In the 21 years of professional rugby, there has been no story quite like it.
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Paperback. A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer Num Pages: 464 pages, b/w integrated photos, approx 12. BIC Classification: BM; WSSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 37. Weight in Grams: 488.
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Paperback. An account of an ordinary young man, a GAA star, who found a way to move past the dark thoughts that beset his mind during his worst days, and who discovered that the only way out of the darkness is to ask for help. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJ; 3JM; BM; WSJL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 390.
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