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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
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.
- 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
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008579685
- ISBN
- 9780008579685
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.85
€ 19.99
€ 15.85
hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Walker Books Us
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781536239102
- ISBN
- 9781536239102
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.28
€ 20.99
€ 20.28
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
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
hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- New Island Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781835940037
- ISBN
- 9781835940037
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 19.65
€ 27.99
€ 19.65
Trade Paperback.
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781526675170
- ISBN
- 9781526675170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 12.71
€ 19.99
€ 12.71
Hardcover. Signed by the Author. John Creedon is a renowned storyteller. Following on from the sensational success of An Irish Folklore Treasury, here he seeks to capture the folklore of his own childhood. This Boy’s Heart is set in a city-centre household bursting with humanity, with a cast of a dozen children and another dozen adults, including beloved aunts, an American writer, an African doctor and a Scottish bookie. The streets outside are teeming with brewery horses, Christian Brothers, beat clubs, dance halls, a Turkish Delight shop -- and a pub where a child could sit up on a high stool and smoke his cigarette in peace. Summers are spent farmed out to friends and family in the countryside, with hilarious tales of donkey derbies and cow chases. Set in wildly contrasting worlds — from urban exotica to spacious meadows, from the classroom of fifty boys to the open road — these stories of friendship, fun, family and folklore take you on a heart-warming journey into an Irish childhood.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Gill Books Dublin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781804580486
- ISBN
- 9781804580486
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99
€ 24.99
![Roddy Doyle - The Women Behind the Door [Exclusive Kennys Signed Limited Edition] - 9781787334908 - 9781787334908](https://www.kennys.ie/products/thumbs/9781787334908.jpg "Roddy Doyle - The Women Behind the Door [Exclusive Kennys Signed Limited Edition] - 9781787334908 - 9781787334908")
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008688240
- ISBN
- 9780008688240
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.47
€ 19.99
€ 14.47
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
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Profile Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781800810945
- ISBN
- 9781800810945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 22.39
€ 33.99
€ 22.39
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
- Hachette Ireland Dublin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781399725606
- ISBN
- 9781399725606
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 21.63
€ 30.99
€ 21.63
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
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Hachette london
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781399734615
- ISBN
- 9781399734615
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 16.20
€ 24.99
€ 16.20
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
![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
Hardcover. David and Stephen Flynn, AKA The Happy Pear, need no introduction. Known and loved for their hearty yet healthy dishes, big flavours, delicious food and incredible sense of community, they have been bringing joy through good food for twenty years. Now the nation’s favourite healthy chefs are back with their essential collection of versatile and comforting plant-based recipes to help you feel great and clock up easy wins in the kitchen. Inspired by the dishes that are most requested in the café and the food that they (and their kids!) actually eat at home, this is healthy home-cooking at its best. After twenty years of testing and perfecting, these recipes are guaranteed to deliver on flavour and nutrition, all made with familiar ingredients. Embrace plant power with these tried and tested recipes, designed to make eating more veg as easy, and tasty, as possible.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Gill Books Dublin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781804581032
- ISBN
- 9781804581032
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 19.68
€ 24.99
€ 19.68
Trade Paperback.
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781408864425
- ISBN
- 9781408864425
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.78
€ 25.99
€ 17.78
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
hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393882001
- ISBN
- 9780393882001
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.87
€ 31.99
€ 26.87