The Irish Times Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Factory Girls
Michelle Gallen
Patricia Forde is new Laureate na nÓg; Michelle Gallen’s Factory Girls shortlisted for Encore Award https://t.co/6fww6gdE1h
Paperback, 2022
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
Tom Hanks
US actor was speaking at the Dalkey Book Festival and discussed his debut novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece https://t.co/lQpi93aSgx
Paperback, 2024
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Found
Paul Murphy
Paul Murphy (61) and Jason Bonney (52) found guilty of providing getaway vehicles in 2016 killing of David Byrne https://t.co/YmZlhc9YaO
Paperback, 2018
$9.99Member price:$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Rachel Incident
Caroline O'Donoghue
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue: A deeply satisfying novel about friendship and love https://t.co/YDvG1CUD4u
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Thrust
Lidia Yuknavitch
Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch: Prescient, elegiac and epic https://t.co/q3YseRREc9
Paperback, 2023
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Health
David Nutt
Alcohol and your health: “Most people, the first time they drink, find it horrible,” says Prof David Nutt, the chair of Drug Science, an independent UK scientific body researching drugs and alcohol (1/5) 🧵 https://t.co/N9gyBlJ81I
Paperback, 2020
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead
Book review - Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead: a pacy, rollicking read https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/harlem-shuffle-by-colson-whitehead-a-pacy-rollicking-read-1.4664157
Paperback, 2022
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Oh William!
Elizabeth Strout
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout: a profoundly moving experience https://bit.ly/3nqjPkO
Paperback, 2022
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Biography of X
Catherine Lacey
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey: Unorthodox portrait of a revered artist by her grieving widow https://t.co/rufnnAYhS5
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
All Ukrainians know Gulliver’s Travels. Here at Marsh’s Library they love to hear about Jonathan Swift https://t.co/A8m4rw7hMF
Hardcover, 2011
$22.00Member price:$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book