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Brought to you by Penguin. The remarkable, funny and thrilling debut novel from the acclaimed, prize-winning author of the short story collections, Young Skins and Homesickness As Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, the simmering feud between small-time dealer, Cillian English...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE Longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award One of The Guardian’s Best Books of the Summer and Best Fiction of 2024 One of the Globe and Mail's most anticipated books of 2024 Named a Best Book of 2024 by the New York Times From the...

Brought to you by Penguin. *Winner of the 2014 Guardian First Book Award *Winner of the 2014 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award *Winner of the 2014 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature This magnificent collection takes us to Glanbeigh, a small town in rural Ireland - a town in which the...

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In these eight stories, Barrett takes us back to the barren backwaters of County Mayo, via Toronto, and illuminates the lives of outcasts, misfits and malcontents with an eye for the abrupt and absurd. A quiet night in the neighbourhood pub is shattered by the arrival of a sword-wielding fugitive. A funeral party teeters on the edge of this world and the next, as ghosts won't simply lay in wake. A shooting sees an everyday call-out lead a policewoman to confront the banality of her own existence.