Hailed by the critics as a masterpiece, Tatty is a devastating, yet hilarious, depiction of a troubled Dublin family told through the lively, charismatic voice of a little girl. With brutal honesty, Tatty tells the story of her life with her beloved, feckless Dad, her tormented Mam, her five siblings and the booze that brings them down. This not just an entertaining tale, but also a heartbreaking account of a disturbed childhood that makes for compulsive reading.

Tatty

Literature & Fiction

Christine Dwyer Hickey

Contemporary

Vintage Books

Cold Eye of Heaven

Farley is an elderly Irishman, frail in body but sharp as a tack. Waking in the middle of the night he finds himself lying paralyzed on the cold bathroom floor. And so his mind begins to move backwards, taking us with him into his past. As Farley unravels the warp and weft of his life, he relives the loves, losses and betrayals with the darkly comic wit of a true Dubliner. For this is also Dublin's story, the city Farley has seen through poverty and prosperity, boom and bust - each the other's constant companion throughout his seventy-five years. Epic in scope, rich in detail, and shot through with black humour, The Cold Eye of Heaven is a bitter-sweet paean to Dublin and a unique meditation on the life of one of its citizens.

Literary

Atlantic

Following a long absence spent in New York, Elaine Nichols returns to her childhood home to live with her invalid father and his geriatric Alsatian dog. The house backing on theirs is sold and as she watches the old furniture pile up on the lawn, Elaine is brought back to the summer in the 1970s when scandal and trauma broke her family apart.

The Lives of Women

ATLANTIC BOOKS *

Our London Lives

Genre Fiction

Bella lives a cosseted life with her father in London. So when he announces that he has arranged for work for her as a governess in Italy, she is shocked, angry, and terribly scared of what lies in store... But as she boards a train for the northern Italian port of Bordighera, her fear soon gives way to her burgeoning sense of adventure. Bella eventually finds her young charge, Alec, at the Villa Lami, where he lives with his music teacher Edward. She delights in her relationship with the young boy, and discovers unexpected comfort in Edward who, like Bella, seems to be hiding a secret. But the atmosphere in Italy is changing quickly. As fascist laws take effect, Bella, Edward and Alec must escape the mounting threats around them, and face a rapidly changing world.

Last Train from Liguria

"The Cold Eye of Heaven" is the new bestseller from Christine Dwyer Hickey, the acclaimed author of "Last Train to Liguria". Farley is an elderly Irishman, frail in body but sharp as a tack. Waking in the middle of the night, he finds himself lying paralysed on the cold bathroom floor and so his mind begins to move back into his past. Decade by decade, Farley unravels the warp and weft of his life, recalling loves, losses and betrayals with the darkly comic wit of a true Dubliner. For this is also Dublin's story, the city Farley has seen through poverty and prosperity, boom and bust - each the other's constant companion throughout his seventy-five years. Epic in scope, rich in detail, and shot through with black humour, "The Cold Eye of Heaven" is a bitter-sweet paean to Dublin and a unique meditation on the life of one of its citizens. This title is suitable for all those who loved "Last Train from Liguria", and for readers of "Any Human Heart" by William Boyd, Colm Toibin, John Banville, Edna O'Brien, Rose Tremain, Anne Enright and Sebastian Barry.

The Cold Eye of Heaven

Atlantic Books UK

Farley is dying and we are by his side. As his mind begins to move back over his 75 years, Farley takes us into his past and with the comic wit of a true Dubliner unravels his life - its loves, its losses and its betrayals - right in front of our eyes.

A vivid recreation of Dublin and Belfast in the war years, and the capstone of a remarkable trilogy whose author has imagined herself into the history of its characters with unfailing truth and compassion' - Anthony Cronin The third book in the author's Dublin trilogy, which began with the critically acclaimed The Dancer and was followed by The Gambler, climaxes in the suburb of Crumlin with tragedy and shame for the dancer's family. Christine Dwyer Hickey's elegant and beautiful prose culminates here in the final chapter of one family's decline from prosperity to poverty. Her superbly drawn characters are made to face up to the often terrible consequences of their own actions, evoking a moving and elegiac testament to the city of Dublin in years during and after the Second World War. At once disquieting and deeply resonant, Dwyer Hickey creates a vivid sense of time and place, where, in an age of desperate poverty, the tortuous forces of life are brought to bear on this Dublin family.

The gatemaker

Biographies & Memoirs

Marino Books

Dancer

New Island Books

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Tatty

Cold Eye of Heaven

The Lives of Women

Our London Lives

Our London Lives

Last Train from Liguria

The Cold Eye of Heaven

Cold Eye of Heaven

The gatemaker

Dancer