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Kennys Books of the Year
2024 has been a fantastic year for new releases, including some brilliant new Irish titles. Browse the categories below for some of our favourite titles of 2024...
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Kennys Books of the Year
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781035029457
- ISBN
- 9781035029457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.78
€ 17.99
€ 14.78
Hardcover. Laura de Barra, queen of the home hack, is here to help you shop for, care for and repair your clothes. New or vintage, online or high street – Laura has the tips that will ensure you buy right to begin with and maintain well for longevity. Delving into delights such as fabric composition and manufacturing techniques, as well as how to assess if garments are right for your wants and needs this practical book will teach you all you need to ensure your shopping, storage and laundry habits are enhancing and not hampering the life of your clothing. In a world of fast fashion and dwindling quality, this book will help you contribute positively to an industry impacted by overconsumption.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Gill Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780717198788
- ISBN
- 9780717198788
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.44
€ 19.99
€ 16.44
![Victoria Kennefick - Egg/Shell [Exclusive Kennys Signed Limited Edition] - 9781800173873 - 9781800173873](https://www.kennys.ie/products/thumbs/9781800173873.jpg "Victoria Kennefick - Egg/Shell [Exclusive Kennys Signed Limited Edition] - 9781800173873 - 9781800173873")
Hardback. {youtube}q1vB10c8JBk{/youtube} This is a limited edition of 300 copies, signed and numbered by the author, and the only edition in hardback. The lives depicted by Victoria Kennefick alter, shatter and re-combine in stunning poems and monologues: Egg/Shell explores early motherhood, miscarriage, the impact of a spouse’s gender transition and the dissolution of a marriage. Acclaimed as one of the boldest, clearest poetic voices in recent years, Kennefick in her second book, follow-up to her best-selling Eat or We Both Starve, breaks new ground with characteristic generosity, emotional complexity, formal ingenuity and wit.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781800173873
- ISBN
- 9781800173873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.99
€ 21.99
€ 19.99
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape London
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780224101660
- ISBN
- 9780224101660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.51
€ 18.99
€ 15.51
Paperback. Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe. In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley – aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless – is having a love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state. As Asquith reluctantly leads the country into war with Germany, a young intelligence officer is assigned to investigate a leak of top secret documents – and suddenly what was a sexual intrigue becomes a matter of national security that will alter the course of political history. Seamlessly weaving fact and fiction in a way that no writer does better, Precipice is the thrilling new novel from Robert Harris.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House UK London
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781529152838
- ISBN
- 9781529152838
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.69
€ 18.99
€ 14.69
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House London
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781787636538
- ISBN
- 9781787636538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.87
€ 16.99
€ 13.87
Paperback. *The richly atmospheric new Strafford and Quirke mystery, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Snow. ‘He had seen drowned people. A sight not to be forgotten.’ 1950s, rural Ireland. A loner comes across a mysteriously empty car in a field. Knowing he shouldn’t approach, but unable to hold back, he soon finds himself embroiled in a troubling missing person’s case, as a husband claims his wife may have thrown herself into the sea. Called in from Dublin to investigate is Detective Inspector Strafford, who soon turns to his old ally - the flawed but brilliant pathologist Quirke - a man he is linked to in increasingly complicated ways.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571370825
- ISBN
- 9780571370825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.53
€ 17.99
€ 14.53
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate London
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780008604189
- ISBN
- 9780008604189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.16
€ 16.99
€ 15.16
Paperback. * NUALA O’CONNOR’s sixth novel is her most ambitious yet. In crisp, shimmering prose, she conjures a completely unexpected portrayal of Anne Bonny, giving us so much more than just the 18th-century, Irish-born pirate of legend. In the hands of one of Ireland’s most brilliant fiction writers, Bonny is a young woman of privilege who is anything but comfortable, hell-bent on a voyage of self-realisation with or without the consent of those around her. Novelty-seeking, contrary, stubborn and bisexual, she is also neurodivergent, brave and capable of deep and enduring love.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- New Island Dublin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781848408920
- ISBN
- 9781848408920
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.91
€ 17.99
€ 13.91
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster London
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781398528383
- ISBN
- 9781398528383
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.95
€ 15.99
€ 12.95
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Fig Tree
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241667224
- ISBN
- 9780241667224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781838853457
- ISBN
- 9781838853457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.07
€ 23.99
€ 16.07
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781787332355
- ISBN
- 9781787332355
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.06
€ 19.99
€ 15.06
Paperback. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties – successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women – his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude – a period of desire, despair and possibility – a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571365470
- ISBN
- 9780571365470
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.23
€ 17.99
€ 13.23
hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Brandon
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781788494939
- ISBN
- 9781788494939
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.21
€ 14.99
€ 13.21
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780008617264
- ISBN
- 9780008617264
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.92
€ 15.99
€ 12.92
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Eriu London
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781804187036
- ISBN
- 9781804187036
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 17.48
€ 24.99
€ 17.48
![Kevin Barry - The Heart In Winter [Exclusive Kennys Signed Limited Edition] - 9781837263035 - 9781837263035](https://www.kennys.ie/products/thumbs/9781837263035.jpg "Kevin Barry - The Heart In Winter [Exclusive Kennys Signed Limited Edition] - 9781837263035 - 9781837263035")
Hardback. This is a limited edition, signed and numbered by the author. This edition also includes exclusive sprayed edges and endpapers. ***THIS IS A PRE-ORDER TO BE SHIPPED ON OR AROUND THE PUBLICATION DATE IN JUNE 2024***
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Canongate
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781837263035
- ISBN
- 9781837263035
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.99
€ 23.99
€ 21.99
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Hodder London
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781529391459
- ISBN
- 9781529391459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.69
€ 19.99
€ 14.69
Paperback.
Signed by the Author
‘O’Malley is a true artist in sketching the beautiful, small details without which the essence of place, and the identity dependent on it, can be all too easily erased.’ – EAVAN BOLAND
The poems of The Shark Nursery respond to a disturbed world. The experience of lockdown, of lives lived in an online reality, and of the animal world are the interlocking parts of the poems’ world. The animal poems draw on the tradition of animals in Irish poetry and myth. From the wolf’s touch to the rat’s tweet, animals and fish refuse the roles human beings impose on them. O’Malley’s animals find new language in the face of contemporary perils.
In fusing mythic with modern elements, The Shark Nursery is marked by rigorous attention to language and tone. Its poems weave between human, animal and metaphysical realms. In a space before noise begins, tigers visit cities and a white leopard sits on a lawn in Suburbia. In the strange, sealed off world portrayed in the ‘The Ballad of Googletown’ – an eerie, genuine ballad, where the familiar tropes and refrains of ballad are hung out to dry – lives are lived online and social interaction is unnecessary:
The cars are in the drive
And the bees are in the hive
They say the kids are safe inside
In Googletown
This new book promises, as Joseph O’Connor has written, all those things ‘we go to Mary O’Malley for: truthfulness, seriousness, playfulness, too, and then a particular sort of hesitating and hard-won wisdom, a pushback against nonsense or sentiment or fakery, the beauty of plain words placed in careful order, carefully – and always, the bliss of musicality.’
Signed by the Author
‘O’Malley is a true artist in sketching the beautiful, small details without which the essence of place, and the identity dependent on it, can be all too easily erased.’ – EAVAN BOLAND
The poems of The Shark Nursery respond to a disturbed world. The experience of lockdown, of lives lived in an online reality, and of the animal world are the interlocking parts of the poems’ world. The animal poems draw on the tradition of animals in Irish poetry and myth. From the wolf’s touch to the rat’s tweet, animals and fish refuse the roles human beings impose on them. O’Malley’s animals find new language in the face of contemporary perils.
In fusing mythic with modern elements, The Shark Nursery is marked by rigorous attention to language and tone. Its poems weave between human, animal and metaphysical realms. In a space before noise begins, tigers visit cities and a white leopard sits on a lawn in Suburbia. In the strange, sealed off world portrayed in the ‘The Ballad of Googletown’ – an eerie, genuine ballad, where the familiar tropes and refrains of ballad are hung out to dry – lives are lived online and social interaction is unnecessary:
The cars are in the drive
And the bees are in the hive
They say the kids are safe inside
In Googletown
This new book promises, as Joseph O’Connor has written, all those things ‘we go to Mary O’Malley for: truthfulness, seriousness, playfulness, too, and then a particular sort of hesitating and hard-won wisdom, a pushback against nonsense or sentiment or fakery, the beauty of plain words placed in careful order, carefully – and always, the bliss of musicality.’
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Carcanet
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781800174146
- ISBN
- 9781800174146
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.59
€ 14.99
€ 12.59
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Sphere
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751582413
- ISBN
- 9780751582413
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.08
€ 30.99
€ 22.08
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571381364
- ISBN
- 9780571381364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House London
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781844885206
- ISBN
- 9781844885206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 22.37
€ 31.99
€ 22.37