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39 produkter
Butcher Boy
Häftad, 2025
134 kr
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A modern classic of Irish fiction, shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize.When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent.Francie Brady is a small-town rascal who spends his days turning a blind …
Mondo Desperado
A Serial Novel
E-bok, 2010
90 kr
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Patrick McCabe has long been recognized as a writer of rare talent and unique voice, whose vision of the world is so distinctive that "McCabesque" has become an adjective with multiple meanings, including "exquisitely, beautifully, mad in the head!" He was a Booker Prize finalist for The Butcher …
Call Me the Breeze
A Novel
E-bok, 2010
91 kr
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With T. S. Eliot''s words as his guide, Joey Tallon embarks on a journey toward enlightenment in the troubling psychedelic-gone-wrong atmosphere of the late 1970s. A man deranged by desire, and longing for belonging, Tallon searches for his"place of peace" -- a spiritual landscape located somewhere …
Far From The Land: Contemporary Irish Plays
Black Pig's Dyke; Language Roulette; Disco Pigs; Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son; Frank Pig; Hard to
Av Vincent Woods, Daragh Carville m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
415 kr
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A startling collection of plays by playwrights working in the north and south of Ireland, all of which have been groundbreaking events in contemporary Irish theatre At The Black Pig's Dyke by Vincent Woods depicts a group of mummers in the borderland between North and South, blending their rituals …
Butcher Boy
Ljudbok, 1994
214 kr
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When I was a lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs. Nugent. Welcome to the mind of Francie Brady. Just what Francie did to Mrs. Nugent is the final, terrifying act of a young boy at the end of a relentless …
Winterwood
Häftad, 2007
207 kr
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Once, in Kilburn, married to the sugar-lipped Catherine and sharing his daughter Immy's passion for the enchanted kingdom of winterwood, Redmond Hatch was happy. But then infidelity, betrayal and the 'scary things' from which he would protect his daughter steal into the magic kingdom, and bad …
Breakfast on Pluto
Häftad, 2026
142 kr
Kommande
From internationally acclaimed author Patrick McCabe, the Booker Prize-nominated novel that tracks the chaotic life of an abandoned orphan who escapes her hometown, braving the combustible streets of London in the 1970s.With wonderful delicacy and subtle insight and intimation, McCabe creates Mr …
Poguemahone
Häftad, 2026
166 kr
Kommande
‘If you’re looking for this century’s Ulysses, look no further’ - The Observer‘Wildly original’ - Times Literary SupplementDan Fogarty is visiting his seventy-year-old sister Una, who is living in a care home in Margate. Una has dementia, but she is still able to recall her youth, spent in a hippie …
Goldengrove
Häftad, 2026
142 kr
Kommande
‘This is nothing less than the work of a genuine master, a must-read’ - Billy O’Callaghan‘Wonderful, shape-shifting stuff’ - Colum McCannChenevix Meredith, recently retired, is whiling away his time somewhere on the south coast of England, when his old colleague, Henry Plumm, is found dead. The …
Goldengrove
E-bok, 2026
194 kr
Kommande
‘This is nothing less than the work of a genuine master, a must-read’ - Billy O’Callaghan‘Wonderful, shape-shifting stuff’ - Colum McCannChenevix Meredith, recently retired, is whiling away his time somewhere on the south coast of England, when his old colleague, Henry Plumm, is found dead. The …
Create Computer Games
Design and Build Your Own Game
E-bok, 2017
151 kr
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PUT DOWN YOUR CONTROLLER Why just play videogames when you can build your own game? Follow the steps in this book to learn a little about code, build a few graphics, and piece together a real game you can share with your friends. Who knows? What you learn here could help you become the next …
Create Computer Games
Design and Build Your Own Game
E-bok, 2017
151 kr
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PUT DOWN YOUR CONTROLLER Why just play videogames when you can build your own game? Follow the steps in this book to learn a little about code, build a few graphics, and piece together a real game you can share with your friends. Who knows? What you learn here could help you become the next …
Holy City
E-bok, 2011
109 kr
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Now entering his sixty-seventh year, Chris McCool can confidently call himself a member of the Happy Club: he has an attractive and exceedingly accommodating Croatian girlfriend and has been told he bears more than a passing resemblance to Roger Moore. As he looks back on the glory days of his …
Winterwood
E-bok, 2009
211 kr
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Once, in Kilburn, married to the sugar-lipped Catherine and sharing his daughter Immy''s passion for the enchanted kingdom of winterwood, Redmond Hatch was happy. But then infidelity, betrayal and the ''scary things'' from which he would protect his daughter steal into the magic kingdom, and bad …
Stray Sod Country
E-bok, 2010
239 kr
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It is 1958, and as Laika, the Sputnik dog is launched into space, Golly Murray, the Cullymore barber''s wife, finds herself oddly obsessing about the canine cosmonaut. Meanwhile, Fonsey ''Teddy'' O''Neill, is returning, like the prodigal son, from overseas, with brylcream in his hair, and a …
Stray Sod Country
Häftad, 2011
234 kr
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It is 1958, and as Laika, the Sputnik dog is launched into space, Golly Murray, the Cullymore barber's wife, finds herself oddly obsessing about the canine cosmonaut. Meanwhile, Fonsey 'Teddy' O'Neill, is returning, like the prodigal son, from overseas, with brylcream in his hair, and a …
Emerald Germs of Ireland
E-bok, 2011
158 kr
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Meet Pat McNab, forty-five years old, often to be found endlessly puffing smokes and propping up the counter of Sullivan’s Select Bar or sitting on his mother’s knee, both of them singing away together like some ridiculous two-headed human juke box. But that was all before the story really begins. …
Dead School
E-bok, 2012
189 kr
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Malachy Dudgeon has escaped the misery and madness of his childhood home and landed a job in the most famous school in Dublin. The headmaster, Raphael Bell, has overcome his own tragedies to forge a model career, but when Malachy Dudgeon and Raphael Bell meet, they become inextricably engaged in a …
Breakfast on Pluto
E-bok, 2012
123 kr
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‘Dysfunctional Ireland in all its glories is here, with humour of the blackest hue, madness and violence, hopelessly randy priests, dodgy politicians, a grand gallery of misfits culminating in McCabe’s hero in Breakfast on Pluto, Patrick “Pussy” Braden, the transvestite prostitute from the village …
Carn
E-bok, 2012
158 kr
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‘It seemed as if the town of Carn, a huddled clump of windswept grey buildings split in two by a muddied main street, had somehow been spirited away and supplanted by a thriving, bustling place which bore no resemblance whatever to it.For a split second, she saw her own death, a gunmetal face fixed …
Mondo Desperado
E-bok, 2012
158 kr
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You wouldn't expect to find a mature woman of twenty-eight years of age mixed up with a bunch of swingers in a small town like Barntrosna. But that's exactly what happened according to Walter Bunyan. And he should know, she was his wife. As for Declan Coyningham - there wasn't a holier boy in all …
Emerald Germs of Ireland
Häftad, 2013
211 kr
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Meet Pat McNab, forty-five years old, often to be found endlessly puffing smokes and propping up the counter of Sullivan’s Select Bar or sitting on his mother’s knee, both of them singing away together like some ridiculous two-headed human juke box. But that was all before the story really begins. …
Mondo Desperado
Häftad, 2014
150 kr
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You wouldn't expect to find a mature woman of twenty-eight years of age mixed up with a bunch of swingers in a small town like Barntrosna. But that's exactly what happened according to Walter Bunyan. And he should know, she was his wife. As for Declan Coyningham - there wasn't a holier boy in all …
Carn
Häftad, 2014
148 kr
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‘It seemed as if the town of Carn, a huddled clump of windswept grey buildings split in two by a muddied main street, had somehow been spirited away and supplanted by a thriving, bustling place which bore no resemblance whatever to it.For a split second, she saw her own death, a gunmetal face fixed …
Butcher Boy
Picador Classic
E-bok, 2014
194 kr
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A modern classic of Irish fiction, shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize.When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent.Francie Brady is a small-town rascal who spends his days turning a blind …
Poguemahone
E-bok, 2022
283 kr
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A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue by the Booker-shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto . Una Fogarty, suffering from dementia in a seaside nursing home, would be all alone without her brother Dan, whose epic free-verse monologue tells their family story. Exile from …
