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Kennys Books of the Year
2024 was 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
Board Book. Manchán Magan is fascinated by words, particularly Irish words, and their connections to the natural world. Having enjoyed great success with the bestselling Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature, he now brings his infectious wonder and enthusiasm for the Irish language to an even younger audience with this board book featuring simple translations for favourite animals, birds, fish and insects. The accompanying stunning black-line illustrations will transfix even the littlest reader. Teach your little one a cúpla focail from the get-go.
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Gill Books Dublin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781804581957
- ISBN
- 9781804581957
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.63
€ 10.99
€ 10.63
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
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Footnote
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781804441183
- ISBN
- 9781804441183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.03
€ 20.99
€ 16.03
hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Fig Tree
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780241488003
- ISBN
- 9780241488003
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 24.65
€ 36.99
€ 24.65
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781529379228
- ISBN
- 9781529379228
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.69
€ 23.99
€ 16.69
Trade Paperback.
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Seven Dials
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781399619417
- ISBN
- 9781399619417
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.49
€ 21.99
€ 15.49
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Merrion Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785374845
- ISBN
- 9781785374845
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 24.07
€ 29.99
€ 24.07
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
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781399731980
- ISBN
- 9781399731980
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.81
€ 21.99
€ 15.81
Trade Paperback.
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781526675170
- ISBN
- 9781526675170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 12.71
€ 19.99
€ 12.71
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
- Fourth Estate London
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780008604189
- ISBN
- 9780008604189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.16
€ 16.99
€ 15.16
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
- 2023
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780385550888
- ISBN
- 9780385550888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.76
€ 25.99
€ 19.76
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781787334380
- ISBN
- 9781787334380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.99
€ 18.99
€ 13.99
hardcover. Richie Hogan is one of the all-time greats of hurling, winner of seven All-Ireland senior hurling medals and multiple individual awards. His epic career brought him both immense joy and incredible heartache. This success did not come about by accident: Richie’s complete focus on hurling success meant every decision he made revolved around hurling, from education to career to lifestyle choices. He grew up with Kilkenny hurling in his blood and from a very young age worked towards goals rather than dreams. Hyper-focused and determined, there wasn’t a day in his life where he didn’t think about what he needed to do to get to the highest level of the sport he loved and what he needed to do to stay up there. Now, in Whatever it Takes, Richie tells the story of his dazzling career, from his obsession with maintaining high standards in the Kilkenny team, to the stand-out moments on the pitch and the challenges he encountered along the way that threatened to derail everything. This frank and forthright account takes us inside one of the greatest hurling teams of all time as never before.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Gill Books Dublin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781804581506
- ISBN
- 9781804581506
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 19.68
€ 24.99
€ 19.68
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Gill Books Dublin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781804580660
- ISBN
- 9781804580660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.51
€ 16.99
€ 14.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: HBG. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007350612
- ISBN
- 9780007350612
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 15.94
€ 24.99
€ 15.94
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Hardcover. This is an exclusive limited Kennys edition, signed and numbered by the author, with an exclusive essay by Roddy Doyle and alternative colourway on the jacket.****THIS IS A PREORDER TO BE DELIVERED ON OR AROUND THE PUBLICATION DATE IN SEPTEMBER 2024****
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House London
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781787334908
- ISBN
- 9781787334908
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.99
€ 23.99
€ 21.99
Hardcover. *In her brand new book, The Hike Life: 50 More to Explore, Rozanna Purcell showcases 50 new trails, showing off new areas around Ireland from popular hikes to lesser known trails. There are fantastic hikes like Strickeen in the Gap of Dunloe, Urris Lakes Loop in Donegal and one of Roz’s own favourite dog-friendly trails outside of Dublin, ‘The Devil’s Glen’. It’s the perfect way to get out into the great outdoors and experience the beauty of Ireland at your own pace. As well as the familiar tips from book one, like trail details, route descriptions, best photo spots, where to eat afterwards, great places for a wild dip or somewhere wonderful to visit so that every hike can be a full day of adventure, The Hike Life: 50 More to Explore also includes even more really useful information about ticks, wildlife and even the best spots to propose!
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Black & White Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781785306990
- ISBN
- 9781785306990
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.11
€ 25.99
€ 18.11
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
- Penguin Random House UK London
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781787334793
- ISBN
- 9781787334793
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.36
€ 26.99
€ 20.36
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- 9781529922936
- ISBN
- 9781529922936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 10.50
€ 14.99
€ 10.50
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- General
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241683132
- ISBN
- 9780241683132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.75
€ 25.99
€ 18.75