The Amusements by Aingeala Flannery

The Amusements by Aingeala Flannery'Flannery's flawed, hopeful characters live and grow on the page' ANNE ENRIGHT In the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season, reliving the best days of their childhoods in its caravan parks, chippers and amusement arcades. Local teenager Helen Grant is indifferent to the charm of her surroundings; she dreams of escaping to art college with her glamorous classmate Stella Swaine and, from there,

and jobs made the problem of decline and decay in the city centre even more acute

'The Beautiful Stranger'

Curlews and cuckoos and herons and hoopoes

THE ART OF CYCLING traces the journey of a former professional racer regaining his love for the sport and shows how cycling can shed new light on age-old questions of selfhood

"Though absent long

the story has long been out of print in English due to uncertainty surrounding its copyright status

written in Irish

and also unusually clever

Megan Jasper

being mermaids

What is a boy to do when a lost penguin shows up at his door

member of the Jockey Club