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	Driving Big Davie Colin Bateman Written with Bateman's customary verve and wit, Driving Big Davie centres on journalist Dan Starkey, international man of inaction, whose unflagging pursuit of a good time invariably leads him into trouble. This time, the sudden death of punk icon Joe Strummer leads to Starkey's unwitting entanglement in robbery, violence and Al Capone's gold. ISBN: 0755309200 Paperback, 312 pages, Headline 2004 Price: €15.99
	Collected Shorter Plays Samuel Beckett This volume contains all of Beckett’s less-than-full-length works (or ‘Dramaticules’) for the stage, radio and television. Arranged in chronological order of composition, these shorter plays demonstrate the economy, compassion and absurd humour of Beckett’s dramatic vision. ISBN: 0571130402 Paperback, 316 pages, Faber and Faber, 1984 Price: €19.40
	Fat Chance Dodie Bellamy Bellamy's Fat Chance is pellucid, masterful prose, at once a bodiceful of grainy secrets, a set of falsities, and a treasury of urbane/innocent candor. To her, against eternity, I raise a glass of stingo! There are many reasons I read Bellamy, not least for the rapidity of insight, mediumistic sprit, and her enormous, at times jocular, tenderness. Paperback, 38 pages, Nomados, 2003 Price: €12.00
	Other Voices Other Rooms Truman Capote Truman Cappote's first novel is a story of almost supernatual intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the American Deep South. ISBN: 0679745645 Paperback 231 pages, Random House USA, 1994 Price: €12.00
	Life Mask Emma Donoghue About a love triangle in 1790s London, among the elite who moved through the overlapping worlds of art, politics, sport and theatre. It tells the tangled true story of three people who lived in the harsh glare of publicity: the Honourable Mrs Anne Damer (a widowed sculptor with a Sapphic reputation), the Earl of Derby (a fabulously wealthy politician who founded the Derby horserace), and Eliza Farren (the leading comedy actress on the British stage). ISBN 1860499805 Hardback, 613 pages, Virago, 2004 Price: €19.99
	The Giggler Treatment Roddy Doyle The 'giggler treatment' is meted out to adults who have been mean to children, but sometimes the Gigglers get it wrong. Robbie, Jimmy, baby Kayla, their mother Billie Jean and Rover (the dog who talks and whose girlfriend, Lassie, lives in Galway) combine forces to rescue Mister Mack from an unfair giggler treatment that would spoil his day, and definitely spoil his shoes. Roddy Doyle's first childrens' book contains all the humour of his adult novels, but with an imagination and irreverence that children will find supremely enjoyable. ISBN: 0439993857 Paperback, 108 pages, Scholastic, 2000 Price: €7.50
	Song for Salamander Miriam Gallagher When Salamander Quinn decides to liberate all the lost souls at St. Job's Infirmary, he embarks on a Kafkaesque journey. His plans are further complicated by the arrival of a mystery woman who sets in motion a chain of startling events. Faces with mounting odds, as his past comes back to haunt him, he struggles to prevail. With the Health Service in crisis and Dublin in the grip of global warmiing, he risks all to attain his goal. Powerful forces determine his ultimate destiny. ISBN: 1412012996 Paperback, 238 pages, Trafford, 2004 Price: €11.99
	The Activist Renee Gladman The Activist begins in the middle of a revolution. There is a protesting group of commuters with a missing leader. There is a bridge that may have been bombed. People speak in nonsense and cannot stop themselves. In the midst of all this, the language of news reports mixes with the language of confession. The art of this beautifully written book is in how it touchingly illustrates that relations between humans and cities are linked in a more complex interface than most realise. ISBN: 192865018X Paperback, 145 pages, Krupskya, 2003 Price: €11.00
	The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles' Antigone, translated by Seamus Heaney Nobel prize-winner poet Seamus Heaney was commisioned to translate Sophocles' great tragedy, Antigone, to mark the centenary of Dublin's legendary Abbey Theatre. Faithful to the specificity of time and place of Antigone, The Burial at Thebes also draws out the perennial dilemma of the conflict between family and state in a time of crisis. ISBN: 0571223613 Hardback, 56 pages, Faber, 2004 Price: €16.99
	Island of Lost Souls Kevin Killian Will Gabrielle Kerouac be able to protect the befuddled genius of her son, Jack, from Hollywood producers hot to make a musical out of his masterpiece, On the Road, a book she herself wrote while he was unconscious? Will she find love in the arms of ailing heiress Sunny von Bulow? Killian exposes at every turn the tangled contradictions of modern life, the fragility of the individual talent, the weird panic that ensues when suddenly you remember that many years ago you gave your baby away at the top of a waterfall... ISBN 0973152141 Paperback, 76 pages, Nomados, 2003 Price €16.00
	The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri The much-anticipated debut novel from Lahiri,whose short story collection,Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000. Rendered in language that is simple, elegant and graceful, The Namesake is the story of Gogol, a second generation Indian growing up in suburban America whose attempt to reject the Bengali culture of his family leads him on a path strewn with conflicting loyalties, love and loss. ISBN: 0006551807 Paperback, 291 pages, Flamingo, 2004 Price: €11.99
	Homeland Chris Mazza Cris Mazza's gothic family novel of filial duty explores the scariest relationship of all - the bond between a child and her parents. Coolly illustrating that home is where lives are formed and sometimes where they are destroyed, Homeland shows in stark detail why you can't go home again. ISBN: 1888996714 Paperback, 259 pages, Red Hen Press, 2004 Price: €17.95
	Dreaming Under a Ton of Lizards Marian Michener An illuminating novel about addiction and recovery, lesbian love and longing, camaraderie and courage. More than that, it deomonstrates the importance of the search for one's identity and the need for friendship and community, not only in discovering who we are, but who we can be. Warm, funny, and full of wisdom. ISBN: 1883523346 Paperback, 139 pages, Spinsters Ink, 1999 Price: €12.00
	Girl Reel Bonnie J. Morris A must-have for all film buffs, Girl Reel is a book about our relationship to popular culture-how media images both preview and rerun our own lives. By surveying images of women and lesbians in television and film over the seventies, eighties, and nineties, and chronicling the move of lesbian and gay issues from the margins to the mainstream, Morris offers her own images of strong women, for a new generation of readers. ISBN 156890942 Paperback, 167 pages, Coffeehouse Press, 2000 Price €14.95
	Mountain Language and Ashes to Ashes Harold Pinter Following from the presentation of Mountain Language and Ashes to Ashes as a double-bill at the Royal Court Theatre, London, this edition brings together two of Pinter's most powerful plays, both disturbing, dark and elegiac, and at times, brutally funny. ISBN: 0571212379 Paperback, 69 pages, Faber, 2001 Price: €11.90
	Sozaboy Ken Saro-Wiwa This is a novel of self-discovery and an indictment of a corrupt war, rendered through the vivacious, hybrid language of the narrator, a naive young recruit in the Nigerian Civil War. One of the most powerful instances of contemporary African literature, written by one of the most passionate of its writers and political activists. ISBN: 0582236991 Paperback, 188 pages, Longman, 1994 Price: €11.90
	The Sleeping Father Matthew Sharpe The Sleeping Father begins with a divorced dad who inadvertently combines two incompatible anti-depressant medications, goes into a coma, has a stroke, and emerges with brain damage. Explores the shift in the way Americans think about mental health: away from regarding humanity as being shaped by our upbringings and toward regarding ourselves as being shaped by the chemicals in our bloodstreams. The American family in this novel emerges as a microcosm of larger social institutions; Moms and Dads as in-home teachers, priests, presidents, and CEOs. In focusing on the Schwartz family in crisis, Sharpe addresses the larger crisis in faith and authority in contemporary American life. ISBN: 0340837772 Hardback, Sceptre, 2004 Price: €15.99
	The Master Colm Toibin In this brilliant and profoundly moving novel, Toibin tells the story of Henry James, the American-born genius of the modern novel who became a connoisseur of exile, living among artists and aristocrats in Paris, Rome, Venice and London. Hailed as Toibin's most accomplished novel to date, this is both tribute and insight to one of the greatest English language writers. ISBN: 0330485652 Hardback, 359 pages, Picador, 2004 Price: €19.99
	Omeros Derek Walcott An epic poem in the tradition of Homer from West Indian poet Walcott. The protagonists, Achille and Philoctete, are simple fishermen, but they and their tribulations take on the gravity and resonance of their mythic Greek namesakes. A towering achievement from this Nobel Prize winning writer. ISBN: 0571144594 Paperback, 325 pages, Faber, 1990 Price: €24.50
	Lighthousekeeping Jeannette Winterson Silver, alone and motherless and taken in by a lighthousekeeper, sifts through stories of others' passions as part of her own journey through the darkness. In the process, she guides the reader to the rooms that we too secretly inhabit. Lighthousekeeping is a powerful and lyrical novel from one of the most original writers of her generation. ISBN: 0007181515 Hardcover, 232 pages, Fourth Estate, 2004 Price: €22.00
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