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The Wren, The Wren
The Women's Prize for Fiction shortlisted novel from the Booker Prize-winning author
2023
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WINNER OF THE WRITERS’ PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024TAKE FLIGHT WITH THE IRRESISTIBLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNER‘A magnificent novel’ SALLY ROONEYNell is a young woman with adventure on her mind. As she sets out into the world, she finds her family history hard to escape. For her mother, Carmel, Nell’s leaving home opens a space in her heart, where the turmoil of a lifetime begins to churn. Over them both falls...
2015
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Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel AwardLonglisted for the 2015 Man Booker PrizeWinner of the Irish Novel of the Year 2015Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell. As the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from Rosal...
The Gathering
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2007
2010
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'Witty, original, inventive...utterly compelling' Daily MailWinner of the Man Booker PrizeThe nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968.The Gathering is a novel about love and disappointment, about...
Actress
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE
2020
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‘Written with all the ingenuity and twisty tautness of a thriller’ The TimesFrom the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter’s search to understand her mother’s hidden truths.This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O’Dell, as told by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London’s West End. Kathe...
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- The Jungle Beat Mysteries
2023
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First in a Samoan-set series featuring police officer Apelu Soifua: "Enright's portrait of cultural collision is the heart of this engaging series debut." — BooklistThe city of Tafuna may be located on a tropical paradise, but it's no stranger to crime. Just like anywhere else in the world, it has its fair share of murder, drugs, and robbery. Which makes Apelu Soifua the perfect man for his job. He's a cop of two worlds: San Francisco, where he started his...
2007
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From the winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Gathering. "Clever, unsettling, and thoroughly modern . . . We can hear echoes of the Joyce of Dubliners." — The New York Times Book ReviewThe second novel to be published in America by widely acclaimed Irish author Anne Enright, The Wig My Father Wore is a spry, hilarious novel about parents, love, religion, and the absurdities of them all.Grace is a young Dubliner who works ...
Attention
Writing on Life, Art and the World
2025
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The first collection of Booker Prize winner Anne Enright’s non-fiction writing about culture, literature and her own life‘A joy to read’ MAGGIE O’FARRELL‘Anne Enright might just be Ireland’s greatest living writer’ THE TIMESFor thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze over the world, literature and her own life, and gifting us with her prec...
2025
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In "Return to Gone-Away," the adventure continues as the protagonist, Portia Blake, and her cousin Julian return to the mysterious and enchanting place known as Gone-Away Lake. After a year of being away, the two children are eager to reconnect with their previous discoveries and the eccentric characters they met.The story picks up with Portia and Julian arriving back at Gone-Away, only to find that things have changed since their last visit. The once-abandoned lake houses are now inhabite...
2012
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A powerful, moving book of secrets, longing and loss, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering.If it hadn't been for the child then none of this might have happened.She saw me kissing her father.She saw her father kissing me.The fact that a child got mixed up in it all made us feel that it mattered, that there was no going back.**Shortlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction**
Yesterday's Weather
Stories
2009
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Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus Reviews, and the Washington Post Book World.From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering and Actress, this is a collection of sharp, unpredictable short fiction about people struggling to connect in an increasingly disconnected world.Yesterday's Weather shows us a rapidly changing...
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- The Jungle Beat Mysteries
2023
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Det. Apelu Soifua risks losing his career—and his life—in a case that exposes the dark heart of American Samoa, from the author of Pago Pago Tango.Long before he was a cop, Apelu Soifua performed as a fire knife dancer during his teen years in San Francisco. The Polynesian dance troupe was headed by Ezra Strand and his wife, who now live in a secluded house on the cliffs between the ocean and the jungle in Piapiatele. The elderly Ezra has once again been c...
2025
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When the movie Meet the Parents, starring Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro was released on Oct. 6, 2000, it pulled in $28,623,300 opening day and would become one of the most successful comedies ever, producing two successful sequels. What very few people know, however, is that the movie was a remake of a low-budget independent feature of the same name released 10 years before. Greg Glienna released his original Meet the Parents in 1991, and it was well received at the loca...











