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  • The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad

    A Mostly Irish Farce

    by Roger Boylan ...
    The hapless inhabitants of Killoyle, Ireland, face all manner of chaos in this comic novel from an author "capable of spinning a fabulous yarn" ( Minnesota Daily).After local lush Mick McCreek gets into a car crash with a cross-dressing church sexton, he enlists the help of a lawyer, Tom O'Mallet. As it turns out, the lawyer's real gig is selling missiles to an IRA splinter group, and he plans to ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Killoyle

    by Roger Boylan ...
    Series series Dalkey Essentials
    Roger Boylan is a booze-soaked humorist in the tradition of James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, and Samuel Beckett.Roger Boylan’s first novel is about the inhabitants of the Irish town of Killoyle: Milo Rogers, a headwaiter and would-be poet with a bit of a drinking problem and a bit of a sexual one; Kathy Hickman, a writer for the woman's fashion magazine Glam andformer pin-up girl; Wolfetone Grey, who ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Adorations—A Novel in Double Time

    by Roger Boylan ...
    What moves the Archangel Michael to recruit Gustave Termi, a middle-aged professor in modern-day Geneva, into his legions of divine warriors? It's a total mystery to Gustave, who isn't even sure he believes in God, and is certainly no one's idea of a warrior. He tries psychoanalysis to clear up the visions. That doesn’t work, but a chance encounter with journalist Martine Jeanrenaud in the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Sherlock Holmes: Volume 1

    by Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    Series series Knickerbocker Classics
    Sherlock Holmes: Volume 1 is a great introduction to the world's most famous pipe-smoking detective, Holmes himself. Experience two complete novels and two collections of short stories now!Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1 is a great introduction to the series which features the early works written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Included are the novels A Study in Scarlet (1887) and The Sign of the Four (1890. ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

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    by Paul Durcan ...
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  • The Devil Wears Farah

    by C.J. MacCarthy ...
    The Devil Wears Farah is a hilarious but thoughtful account of the experiences of one boy growing up in the Ireland of the Seventies. Nestled within a noisy, argumentative, absolutely typical family of that era and that place, the young MacCarthy, with his 'child prodigy capacity for deceit' is a whip-smart witness to his society's slow and blinking emergence into the bright shining world of ... Read more

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  • From a Low and Quiet Sea

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    by Donal Ryan ...
    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE"Beautiful and affecting" -- David Nicholls, author of One DayA moving novel of three men, each searching for something they have lost, from the award-winning and Man Booker nominated author Donal Ryan.**For Farouk, family is all. He has protected his wife and daughter as best he can from the war and hatred that has torn Syria ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • At My Mother's Knee...

    and other low joints

    by Paul O'Grady ...
    Paul O'Grady is one of Britain's very best loved entertainers. He is known and adored by millions, whether as the creator of the acid-tongued Blonde Bombsite, Lily Savage, or the presenter of the fantastically successful, award-winning Paul O'Grady Show on Channel 4.Now, in his own unique voice, Paul O'Grady tells story of his early life in Irish Catholic Birkenhead that started him on the long ... Read more

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    by Timur Vermes ...
    Translated by Jamie Bulloch ...
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    $5.99 USD

  • Country Girl

    A Memoir

    by Edna O'Brien ...
    "Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."-National Public RadioWhen Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Spy

    A novel

    by Paulo Coelho ...
    In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, bestselling author of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings to life one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari.HER ONLY CRIME WAS TO BE AN INDEPENDENT WOMANWhen Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city.As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she bewitched the era’s richest ... Read more

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  • Moab Is My Washpot

    by Stephen Fry ...
    A number one bestseller in Britain, Stephen Fry's astonishingly frank, funny, wise memoir is the book that his fans everywhere have been waiting for. Since his PBS television debut in the Blackadder series, the American profile of this multitalented writer, actor and comedian has grown steadily, especially in the wake of his title role in the film Wilde, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination, ... Read more

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