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  • The Northern Bank Job

    The Heist and How They Got Away with It

    The true story of one of the biggest bank heists in Irish and British history – and the questions that remain.On a Sunday evening in December 2004, two young men were at home with their families. Both worked for the Northern Bank's cash centre in Belfast. They heard knocks on their front doors. Within a few minutes, masked men invaded their homes, overpowered their loved ones and disabled their ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Gull

    It was one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the construction, during the war's most savage phase, of a factory in West Belfast to make a luxury sports car with gull-wing doors. Huge subsidies were provided by the British government. The first car rolled off the line during the appalling hunger strikes of 1981.The prime mover and central character of ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Northern Bank Job

    The Heist and How They Got Away with It

    Narrated by Aidan O’Neill ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 45 min

    Bloomsbury presents The Northern Bank Job by Glenn Patterson, read by Aidan O’Neill.The true story of one of the biggest bank heists in Irish and British history – and the questions that remain.On a Sunday evening in December 2004, two young men were at home with their families. Both worked for the Northern Bank’s cash centre in Belfast. They heard knocks on their front doors. Within a few minutes ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Fat Lad

    When Drew Linden’s new job brings him back to his native Belfast, he is determined to remain distant from everything that once tied him there, including his friends and family.But as three generations of family history unfold, it becomes clear that the past Drew has been running from is the very thing he needs to face. And that his sense of self is rooted forever in the troubled city of his birth. ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The International: ‘The best book about the Troubles ever written’

    Saturday, 28 January 1967. It is a day like any other for eighteen-year-old Danny, pulling pints behind the bar of the International Hotel in Belfast, watching the comings and goings of the eccentric clientele.But ordinary days like this are almost over. The hotel has already been witness to the city’s dark tendencies – Danny’s job was only secured after another barman was shot. And with the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Where Are We Now?

    Narrated by Aiden Kelly ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 17 min

    From the author of Gull and Backstop Land, Where Are We Now? is a novel about lost love, growing older and the realities of life in a society still haunted by decades of violence.When he unexpectedly loses his job, Herbie struggles to find new meaning. His wife, the great love of his life, has long left him for a Southerner, and his daughter has fled Belfast for London in search of work and an ... Read more

    $15.65 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rest Just Follows

    First of September 1974. Craig Robinson is starting secondary school. Instinct tells him he needs to keep his head down. The last thing he needs, therefore, is someone carrying the name St John Nimmo to be sent to sit beside him, but that is what he gets.Across town Maxine Neill is starting her own new school, convinced that she shouldn't be there at all. She should be where Craig and St John are. ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Where Are We Now?

    A moving, funny and topical novel about lost love, growing older and the realities of life in a society that is still coming to terms with thirty years of violence from the author of Gull and Backstop Land'No one is more acutely tuned to the heartbeat of Belfast than Glenn Patterson and no one is more skilled at capturing all its love and madness. He does so with both tenderness and humour' DAVID ... Read more

    $9.79 USD

  • Two Summers

    A pair of novellas, set over two pivotal summers in the lives of two young men from Belfast, recall the constraints of the place where they were born and the times in which they are living.Summer on the RoadIt's 1980 and in the last summer before his A levels Mark lands a job he didn't even know he had applied for, sweeping streets for Belfast City Council. Called 'binman' by his schoolfriends, ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The International

    Acclaimed Belfast novelist Glenn Patterson's classic novel of a day in the life in that city: a funny, brilliantly observed, bittersweet snapshot of a moment in 1967 just before everything changed."If I had known history was to be written that Sunday in the International Hotel I might have made an effort to get out of bed before teatime."So begins The International. Danny Hamilton takes us back ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Mill for Grinding Old People Young

    In the cold dawn of Christmas Day 1897, Gilbert Rice, 85 years old and with failing health, recounts his journey into manhood in a city on the cusp of great change.Belfast in the 1830s was a city in flux. Industrialisation had led to an increase in commerce and the rapid swell of the population as workers flocked to the newly created jobs. Gilbert, a young man with prospects, begins work with the ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Audiobook

    Delorean

    A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

    Unabridged

    43 min

    Northern Ireland was a very dark place in the 1980s. A hunger strike was looming, street violence and tit for tat murders were an everyday occurrence, but in a small corner of West Belfast something extraordinary was happening. In a factory in Dunmurry a unique new sports car was being built, a DMC 12, a style icon for the late 20th century. For 2 years John DeLorean brought hope to communities ... Read more

    $5.37 USD