That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern

That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahernNow a major motion picture: the Booker shortlisted author's last novel: a 'masterpiece' (Observer) by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) Joe and Kate Ruttledge have come to Ireland from London in search of a different life. In passages of beauty and truth, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through the action, the rituals of work, religious observances and play.

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'The Penguin English Library Edition of Middlemarch by George Eliot

American culture doesn't seem to have a place for either of them

They are bogarted

and her name was Janet

The Hairy Hooligan tribe think he's totally useless

Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts

An ideal first Irish dictionary for kids aged 5+ and above

carrying $500

their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps and bounds from the parish hall to the steps of the studio door

Oh William

now revised and updated with a new introduction and final chapter

showing us a fascinating and previously unexplored world