Remembrance Sunday

Darragh McKeon

Sandycove

<div>The 2 Johnnies' massive success has taken them as far afield as Sydney, Compton and Abu Dhabi. But for them nothing compares to living in Ireland. And in C'Mere and I Tell Ya they dig into the tastes, habits and rites of passage that have made them&nbsp;who they are. Whether it's ... - dressing for the debs ('I'd say my cravat was the talk of Templemore for weeks') - succeeding in a band ('I did backing vocals for six months and it turned out I was singing the wrong lyrics') - doing a Strictly fundraiser for your GAA club ('Remember you're not Julia Roberts and the local butcher isn't Richard Gere, so keep it in the pants') - recognizing the no-go moves at a stag ('Nobody wants to see a sixteen-stone man in a pink thong. Nobody') ... Johnny B and Johnny Smacks capture it perfectly. And they have down-to-earth advice for every conceivable situation - and a few inconceivable ones.</div>

C'mere and I Tell Ya: The 2 Johnnies Guide to Irish Life

Humor & Entertainment

McMahon, Johnny

Humor

'Thrilling and utterly compulsive' LIZ NUGENT\nA girl covered in blood. A missing man. 
A cryptic fairy tale.\nDetective Laura Shaw seems to have it all: a supportive husband, a happy two-year-old and a great career. She is her team's top interviewer, brilliant at coaxing victims to open up.\nThen, she meets Jenny - a 14-year-old assault victim - and the façade crumbles. Jenny's stepfather is missing, the blood on her clothes is not her own and Laura can't interpret the fairy tale she keeps repeating.\nBut Jenny isn't the only one with secrets. With every hour that passes, Laura loses more of her grip, grappling with the biggest question of all:\nIs every life worth saving?\n_____________________\n'Terrific . . . a powerful blend of police procedural, fantasy and domestic noir' 
IRISH TIMES\n'Propulsive' 
RTÉ GUIDE\n'An incredible read, impossible to put down. Gill Perdue is a fresh, assured new voice in Irish crime writing' 
ANDREA MARA\n'Daringly dark and packs a huge emotional punch - an exceptional crime debut that lingers in the memory long after the last page' 
CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD\n'Great, great, great - I am giving it a lot of love...read this one!' 
RYAN TUBRIDY\n'Incredible storytelling' 
ARLENE HUNT\n'Haunting and hypnotic' 
PATRICIA GIBNEY\n'An intense, emotional and utterly compelling narrative' 
JAKE ARNOTT

The Interview

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Gill Perdue

Mystery

'Sexton will go down as Ireland's greatest ever player' Gordon D'Arcy, Irish Times No Irish rugby player has ever achieved more, or been a source of more inspiration to teammates and fans alike, than Johnny Sexton. All of this would have seemed highly unlikely as late as May 2009, when - approaching his 24th birthday - he was nowhere near first choice at Leinster, and still uncapped by Ireland. In his hotly anticipated autobiography, Johnny will tell the story of his life, and explore the sources of his unmatched will to win. The Sexton era - marked by four European Cups, four Six Nations championships (including two Grand Slams), unprecedented victories in the Southern Hemisphere, two stints for Ireland at number 1 in the world, and the World Player of the Year award - was above all the time when Leinster and Ireland went from being underachievers to being overachievers. Always outspoken on and off the field, Sexton will offer an honest look at his childhood, his sometimes unpromising-seeming early experiences in club and professional rugby, his relationships with key teammates and coaches (including Brian O'Driscoll, Paul O'Connell, Joe Schmidt and Andy Farrell), and his ideas about the game.

Obsessed: The Autobiography

Biographies & Memoirs

Sexton, Johnny

Professionals & Academics

Sorry for Your Trouble: The Irish Way of Death

The Irish do death differently. Funeral attendance is a form of sport, often requiring sophisticated crowd control and creative parking solutions. Strangers are not afraid to commiserate with the newly bereaved. Despite having the same basic end-of-life i

Hourihane, Ann Marie

Parenting & Relationships

The Number One Bestseller Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2021 'A great achievement . . . Brilliant, engaging and essential' Colm Tóibín 'At once intimate and epic, this is a landmark book' Fintan O'Toole When Dubliner Derek Scally goes to Christmas Eve Mass on a visit home from Berlin, he finds more memories than congregants in the church where he was once an altar boy. Not for the first time, the collapse of the Catholic Church in Ireland brings to mind the fall of another powerful ideology - East German communism. While Germans are engaging earnestly with their past, Scally sees nothing comparable going on in his native land. So he embarks on a quest to unravel the tight hold the Church had on the Irish. He travels the length and breadth of Ireland and across Europe, going to Masses, novenas, shrines and seminaries, talking to those who have abandoned the Church and those who have held on, to survivors and campaigners, to writers, historians, psychologists and many more. And he has probing and revealing encounters with Vatican officials, priests and religious along the way. The Best Catholics in the World is the remarkable result of his three-year journey. With wit, wisdom and compassion Scally gives voice and definition to the murky and difficult questions that face a society coming to terms with its troubling past. It is both a lively personal odyssey and a resonant and gripping work of reporting that is a major contribution to the story of Ireland. 'Reflective, textured, insightful and original ... rich with history, interrogation and emotional intelligence' Diarmaid Ferriter, Irish Times 'An unblinking look at the collapse of the Church and Catholic deference in Ireland. Excellent and timely' John Banville, The Sunday Times 'Engaging and incisive' Caelainn Hogan, author of Republic of Shame 'Remarkable ... Essential reading for anyone concerned about history and forgetting' Michael Harding 'Fair-minded ... thoughtful' Melanie McDonagh, The Times 'Very pacey and entertaining ... and it changed how I regard Ireland and our history for good. Fantastic' Oliver Callan 'Original, thought-provoking and very engaging' Marie Collins 'A provocative insight into a time that many would rather forget' John Boyne 'Challenging' Mary McAleese 'Explores this subject in a way that I've never seen before' Hugh Linehan, Irish Times

The Best Catholics in the World: The Irish, the Church and the End of a Special Relationship

History

Scally, Derek

Europe

About the Author\nPaul Howard (Author) Paul Howard is a journalist, author and comedy writer best known as the creator of the No 1 bestselling Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series. He has won a record four Irish Book Awards and is a former Irish Sports Journalist of Year and Irish Newspaper Columnist of the Year. Gordon D'Arcy (Author) Gordon D'Arcy is Ireland's longest-serving rugby international, first playing in 1999 while he was still at school. He was part of teams that won three European Cups, two Six Nations Championship, and the historic Grand Slam of 2009. He retired from rugby in 2015.\nDescription to come.

Gordon's Game: Lions Roar (Gordon's Game, 3)

Children's Books

Howard, Paul

Action & Adventure

The Grass Ceiling: On Being a Woman in Sport

Eimear Ryan

Memoirs

Three couples. One therapist's couch ...Alice and Niall used to be lovers, best friends and parents, in that order. Now they're no longer on the same page or even reading from the same book.Ann thought when she and Ken retired, it would be their second spring. Instead, it feels more like an icy winter.Orla is falling in love with boyfriend Paul, but her complicated past makes her unsure if she can ever be intimate with anyone.Three couples find themselves telling a stranger about the most private part of their lives - their hopes, their disappointments, their awkward realisations.Can they learn to be honest with each other? And what life-changing decisions will be made when they do?

About Us

Literature & Fiction

Moriarty, Sinéad

Contemporary

Yours, Mine, Ours

Sinéad Moriarty

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