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Back 2 Back - Pre-orders!

Back 2 Back - Pre-orders!

Due for publication in the first week of October. We think this one might prove quite popular!

Back 2 Back is a 168 page paperback coffee table book and a pictorial record of how the Limerick’s hurlers captured the Liam MacCarthy Cup two years in a row 2020 and 2021. Back 2 Back is officially endorsed by the Limerick County Board. With photographs by the Sportsfile team of photographers and words by Damian Lawlor.

If you'd like to pre-order the book you can do so here. You can choose to have it delivered to you or choose click & collect.

Alternatively you can call us on 061-301389 to ask for a copy to be held for you.

Belonging

Belonging

Now in stock, Catherine Corless's Belonging : A Memoir of Place, Beginnings and One Woman's Search for Truth and Justice for the Tuam Babies

"ONE WOMAN, THE SECRETS OF A SMALL TOWN, AND A QUEST FOR JUSTICE THAT ROCKED A NATION. Catherine Corless could not have known where her interest in local history would lead her, as she began researching the Tuam Mother and Baby Home in Galway in 2010. Uncovering no less than 796 missing burial records of children born there, the stark truth of their place of rest became clear: a disused sewage tank on the old home site, where two boys had once stumbled upon bones."

Available in-store or online.

 

 

New D&D Board Games

New D&D Board Games

We've added some exciting new Dungeons & Dragons board games to our D&D stock!

Click the below links for more info.

1) Dungeons & Dragons: The Legend of Drizzt

2) Dungeons & Dragons: Castle Ravenloft

3) Dungeons & Dragons: Betrayal at Baldur's Gate

All available online or in-store at Crescent Bookshop.

 

Reprint Alert! Are ye Going up Town?

Reprint Alert! Are ye Going up Town?

The hugely-popular and beautifully-illustrated Are ye Going up Town? Shops and Shopping in Limerick has just been reprinted and is now back in stock. Good news for those customers who missed out on a copy during its first print run.

A Trio of New Arrivals

A Trio of New Arrivals

Now in stock.

1) Five Minds by Guy Morpuss.

"An addictive read that will remain with you long after you emerge from the rabbit hole" THE TIMES

"This clever, twisty debut really delivers. Gripping, well-written and intriguing on every level" - SARAH PEARSE

2) Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

The brand new novel from the worldwide No. 1 bestselling author of Nine Perfect Strangers and the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning HBO series Big Little Lies

"Utterly and completely wonderful: an intelligent, forensic portrait of a family. A thrillingly honest depiction of a long marriage and an unsentimental look at the lives of their four children. Which also happens to be a hugely engaging, sometimes very funny, page-turner" MARIAN KEYES

3) Freckles by Cecelia Ahern

"Allegra Bird's arms are scattered with freckles, a gift from her beloved father. But despite her nickname, Freckles has never been able to join all the dots. So when a stranger tells her that everyone is the average of the five people they spend the most time with, it opens up something deep inside.

The trouble is, Freckles doesn't know if she has five people. And if not, what does that say about her? She's left her unconventional father and her friends behind for a bold new life in Dublin, but she's still an outsider. Now, in a quest to understand, she must find not one but five people who shape her - and who will determine her future.

Told in Allegra's vivid, original voice, moving from modern Dublin to the fierce Atlantic coast, this is an unforgettable story of human connection, of friendship, and of growing into your own skin."

All available in-store or online.

Coastal Atlas of Ireland

Coastal Atlas of Ireland

Another beautiful (and huge) volume from Cork University Press, following on from their highly-popular Atlas of the Irish Revolution and Atlas of the Great Irish Famine. The Coastal Atlas of Ireland is "...visually stunning, accessible and an academic tour de force" and "will resonate with everybody who has a connection to Ireland and anybody interested in the Irish coast".

Available in-store and online.

10% Off Teenage & YA Titles

10% Off Teenage & YA Titles

From Thursday 9th to Thursday 16th of September we are offering 10% off ALL titles from our Teenage/YA section. The discount will be applied automatically at checkout and applies to home delivery AND in-store click & collect.

Happy reading!

Top 10 Graphic Novels & Manga

Top 10 Graphic Novels & Manga

Our current Top 10 Graphic Novels & Manga Titles.

1) Heartstopper Vol. 1

2) Komi Can't Communicate Vol. 1

3) My Hero Academia Vol. 5

4) Heartstopper Vol. 2

5) The Promised Neverland Vol. 4

6) Remina

7) The Twisted Ones (Five Nights at Freddy's Graphic Novel 2)

8) Demon Slayer Vol. 5

9) Asadora, Vol. 1

10) Spider-man: Bloodline

Top 10 Fiction

Top 10 Fiction

Our current Top 10 Fiction titles. All available in-store or online.

1: Watch Over My Life by Laura Ashley Gallagher

2: Suspects by Lesley Pearse

3: Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena

4: The Nameless Ones by John Connolly

5: The Devil's Advocate by Steve Cavanagh

6: Normal Sheeple by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

7: About Us by Sinéad Moriarty

8: Freckles by Cecilia Ahern

9: Three Weddings and a Proposal by Sheila O'Flanagan

10: A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

In Hinde Sight: Postcards from Ireland Past

In Hinde Sight: Postcards from Ireland Past

Now in stock - In Hinde Sight: Postcards from Ireland Past, Paul Kelly's follow-up to his bestselling Return to Sender.

Despite the famously uncooperative Irish weather, John Hinde’s postcards of Ireland featured bright sunshine and blue skies, a country seemingly peopled entirely with redheads, happy donkeys carrying turf, and charming cottages that appeared to grow upward from the earth itself. Cars and sweaters were in primary colours, and scarlet rhododendrons sprang up in the unlikeliest of places.

John Hinde had a clear vision: ‘We need to be uplifted rather than depressed. To me pictures should always convey a positive, good feeling, something which makes people happy, which makes them smile, which makes them appreciate some tenderness.’

In these postcards, the world is a sunnier, less complicated and more colourful place. Join Paul Kelly as he returns to John Hinde’s Ireland on a photographic pilgrimage, capturing some places that have changed forever, and some that are just the same.