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The Spinning Heart
The award-winning bestseller, the ‘Irish Book of the Decade’
Unabridged
4 hours 44 min
2024
EN
**Brought to you by Penguin.Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2013****Shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award 2014Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013**Winner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2012In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus...
Heart, Be at Peace
A Novel
Unabridged
5 hours 40 min
2025
EN
**Winner of the Irish Book of the Year * A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction * Shortlisted for the Nero Novel of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editor’s ChoiceFrom one of the most acclaimed Irish writers today, a new novel about smalltown Ireland that explores a community on the mend and the power of love and trauma to both bring people together and divide them“I said it before. Madness comes c...
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- Narrated by
- Donal Ryan
Unabridged
6 hours 22 min
2020
EN
Brought to you by Penguin.‘He heard Daddy one time saying he was a grand quiet boy to Mother when he thought Johnsey couldn’t hear them talking. Mother must have been giving out about him being a gom and Daddy was defending him. He heard the fondness in Daddy’s voice. But you’d have fondness for an auld eejit of a crossbred pup that should have been drowned at birth.’While the Celtic Tiger rages, and greed becomes the norm, Johnsey Cunliffe despera...
TransAtlantic
From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin
- Narrated by
- Geraldine Hughes
Unabridged
10 hours 42 min
2020
EN
Bloomsbury presents TransAtlantic by Colum McCann, read by Geraldine Hughes.SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2013'It is, simply, perfect' Irish Examiner'Majestic' Sunday Times'Quite simply one of the best, most sustained pieces of fiction I’ve read in some time' Independent____________________In 1919 Emily Ehrlich wa...
$22.00 CAD
The Boy from the Sea
the heart-wrenching story of an ordinary Irish coastal town and an extraordinary boy
- Narrated by
- Stanley Townsend
Unabridged
10 hours 27 min
2025
EN
As read on BBC Radio 4A Sunday Times Best Book of the YearAn Observer Best Debut of the Year'Compassionate, lyrical and full of devilment' - Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses'A joy . . . vivid, loving and genuinely funny' - The Sunday Times'I didn't want it to ever end' - Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things**The Boy from the Sea is Garre...
The Bodies
The chilling new thriller from author of Richard and Judy Book Club pick The Memory Wood
- Narrated by
- Joe Jameson
Unabridged
10 hours 25 min
2025
EN
**Brought to you by Penguin.How many times would you let your child get away with murder? The new break-out thriller from Sam Lloyd, author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick The Memory Wood.**When you look down at your newborn baby, you realise they were right, those smug parents you’ve always rolled your eyes at: you’d do literally anything for your child. To make them happy, keep them safe.So when Joseph Carver wakes one night to find his teenage son Max s...
- Narrated by
- Owen RoeMichèle Forbes
Unabridged
15 hours 7 min
2024
EN
In the vast and often unforgiving city of London, two Irish outsiders seeking refuge find one another: Milly, a teenage runaway, and Pip, a young boxer full of anger and potential who is beginning to drink it all away.Over the decades their lives follow different paths, interweaving from time to time, often in one another's sight, always on one another's mind, yet rarely together.Forty years on, Milly is clinging onto the only home she's ever reall...
$33.99 CAD
History for Tomorrow
Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity
- Narrated by
- Roman Krznaric
Unabridged
7 hours 30 min
2024
EN
Brought to you by Penguin.What can humankind’s rich history of radical revolts teach us about the power of disobedience to tackle the climate crisis? What inspiration could we take from eighteenth century Japan to create a regenerative economy today? How might understanding the origins of capitalism spark ideas for bringing AI under control?In History for Tomorrow, leading social philosopher Roman Krznaric unearths fascinating insights and inspirat...
The Mark and the Void
From the author of The Bee Sting
- Narrated by
- Charlie Anson
Unabridged
14 hours 4 min
2015
EN
Brought to you by Penguin.WINNER OF THE EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 2016A comic masterpiece about love, art, greed and the banking crisis, from the author of Skippy DiesWhat links the Investment Bank of Torabundo, www.myhotswaitress.com (yes, hots with an s, don't ask), an art heist, a novel called For the Love of a Clown, a four-year-old boy named after TV detective Remington Steele, a lonely French ...
Poor
The Award-Winning Memoir of Grit, Courage, and the Life-Changing Value of Self-Belief
- Narrated by
- Katriona O'Sullivan
Unabridged
6 hours 48 min
2023
EN
Brought to you by Penguin.'We love a rags-to-riches story, and we love to see someone triumph through sheer determination. But the story is rarely that simple. My story isn't, anyway.'As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. When she became a mother at 15 and ended up homeless, what followed were five years of barely coping.This is the extraordinary story - ...
Four Letters Of Love
The international bestseller, now a major film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan
- Narrated by
- Gerry O'Brien
Unabridged
9 hours 9 min
2014
EN
When I was twelve years old God spoke to my father for the first time. God didn't say much. He told my father to be a painter and left it at that . . . ' So begins Niall Williams' magical tale about love and destiny.Nicholas Coughlan and Isabel Gore were made for each other -- but fate doesn't always take the easiest or the most obvious route to true love. For a start, Nicholas and Isabel have never met and nor are they likely to, without some kind of divine intervention. But as Go...
The Seventh Body
The unputdownable thriller from the IRISH TIMES bestselling author
- Narrated by
- Roisin Rankin
Unabridged
11 hours 20 min
2025
EN
1️⃣ 'Brilliant' Andrea Mara'Addictive' Sam Blake'Gut-wrenching' William Shaw'A page-turner' Carmel Harrington️'Superb' Jane Casey'Ingenious' Liz Nugent'Startling' Peter JamesSEVEN DEADLY SINSSEVEN BODIESONE RUTHLESS KILLERWhen six human bod...











