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Have you dropped in to get your copy of Sally Rooney's Intermezzo yet?

From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable.

But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother.

Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude - a period of desire, despair and possibility - a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

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The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-listed, bestselling author of Strange Flowers and The Queen of Dirt Island

Some things can send a heart spinning; others will crack it in two... In a small town in rural Ireland, the local people have weathered the storms of economic collapse and are looking towards the future. The jobs are back, the dramas of the past seemingly lulled, and although the town bears the marks of its history, new stories are unfolding.

But a fresh menace is creeping around the lakeshore and the lanes of the town, and the peace of the community is about to be shattered in an unimaginable way. Young people are being drawn towards the promise of fast money whilst the generation above them tries to push back the tide of an enemy no one can touch…

Told in twenty-one voices, Heart, be at Peace is a heartfelt, lyrical novel that can be read independently, or as a companion to Donal Ryan’s multi-award-winning novel, The Spinning Heart, voted ‘The Irish Book of the Decade’.

We have so many beautiful picture books in stock. Drop in or browse our website antoniasbookstore.com to see the full range.

Daisy and Dandelion
For children, this book helps readers express their emotions, and to recognise there'll be happy days and sad days, but that love endures. For adults, this book delivers much more - Inspired by author's journey in therapy with his adopted chlildren, this sensitive story centres around the pressure children can feel to be 'perfect' and explores 'toxic positivity' that may arise from well-meaning parents who instantly try to 'fix' everything. As parents, we often forget to take the time to really listen, but this book helps to create a safe space where children can vocalise their worries, bringing families closer together, in readiness for life's tougher moments.
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The Girl Who Stole the Stars
Everybody loves the stars but have you ever loved them enough to steal them? Not just one or two, but all of them? When alittle girl decides she wants a real star of her own she can't resist taking them all. What she doesn't realise is that taking the stars will have disastrous consequences for her and millions of other children around the world. But what will it take for her to give them back?
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Pinkie and Boo!
Pinkie loves being the smallest in her family, but the arrival of a baby means everything is about to change.
It seems like the tiny new addition to the family will get all the attention . . .
and Pinkie isn't happy about that. To cheer her up Mum and Dad give her a lovely toy monkey called Boo. But it turns out there's much more to him than meets the eye - at least in Pinkie's imagination.
Their outrageous efforts to regain some attention lead to a whole lot of mess and mayhem, but everything works out happily in the end.
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Step inside the pages of an immortal adventure... Rachel and Robert have defeated the tyrant Malstain and become the heroes of Krasnia, but all is not how it should be.

Robert is swept away with his new friends, leaving Rachel alone to take care of her ailing father, who's lost without their beloved mother. From nowhere, a boy appears knowing the secrets of the hidden blood-red key 🔑 . For the key is a way into the Hinterland - and Rachel must promise that, as a new key keeper, she will answer when it calls.

When a young girl, Elsa Spiegel, is illegally smuggled into the Hinterland, Rachel has no choice but to use her key to save Elsa. But her fate is linked to Krasnia, and Rachel must battle to save her home as she knows it. 📚

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Can you work out Cluedunnit? Perfect for mystery fans, Cluedle - The Case of the Dumpleton Diamond is a funny, mystery puzzle book for code-cracking families and skilful young super sleuths. The ideal activity book for holidays⛱️, car journeys 🚙 and rainy days ☔️!

Solve 50 fun brain-busting puzzles to reveal clues and uncover the mystery in the village of Dumpleton. Team up with world famous private investigator Hartigan Browne 🕵️ and crack the curious case of the missing Dumpleton Diamond 💎 .

Use your detective skills to discover:
Who pup-napped Dave the dog? 🐶
What is important about The Flying Goat? 🐐
Why a missing key can unlock this case? 🗝️

Packed full of codes to crack, evidence to evaluate, clues to unravel and maps 🗺️ to navigate, Cluedle - The Case of the Dumpleton Diamond is puzzling fun for the whole family.

Available in store and on antoniasbookstore.com

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Exciting Book Announcement! Cover Reveal for The Salmon of Knowledge by Eithne Massey and illustrated by Ellen Kane. Cover Illustration by Ellen Kane. Coming out October 2024 from The O'Brien Press

Pre-order now from Antonia’s Bookstore https://antoniasbookstore.com/product/the-salmon-of-knowledge/.

You can order on our website antoniasbookstore.com and choose shop pickup or get your order posted to anywhere in Ireland for just €3.50 (or free if you spend over €50). Or drop into our shop in Trim - Eircode C15P8XE.

How would you react if you had to leave your home at a moments notice? What would you bring? Where would you go? How would you adjust to living in a new place where everyone sounded and spoke differently?

Each year, UNHCR and Childrens Books Ireland invite children to experience life as someone forced to flee. Whether its fact, fiction, autobiography orphotography, our annual book reading campaign, run in partnership with libraries and bookshops across Ireland, gives readers an opportunity to see the world from the perspective of one of the world's 25 million refugees.

Find the list of books herehttps://www.unhcr.org/ie/sites/en-ie/files/2023-06/CBI%20UNHCR%20Book%20List%202023%20web.pdf

Programmes for Hinterland Festival Kells are available to pick up in store. You can also buy your tickets in Antonia’s Bookstore, Trim or The BOOK MARKet, Kells or online at hinterland.ie. Some events are selling fast so get your tickets soon to avoid disappointment.

What will you be reading this bank holiday weekend?

We’ll be closed on Sunday & Monday but our website is open 24/7 antoniasbookstore.com. Postage is only €3.50 to anywhere in Ireland or if you want to collect at the shop there is a shop pickup option on the checkout page.

Long Island by Colm Tóibín is available in store and on antoniasbookstore.com.

Long Island is Colm Tóibín’s masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever. The sequel to Colm Tóibín's prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn.

A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello’s door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn - perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future.

And yet this stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created. For the first time in years she suddenly feels very far from home and the revelation will see her turn towards Ireland once again. Back to her mother. Back to the town and the people she had chosen to leave behind. Did she make the wrong choice marrying Tony all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?

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We have signed copies of Catherine Carton’s Heart & Home available in store and on our website
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For all you Space enthusiasts, we have lots of great things in stock.

May the 4th be with you.

Celebrate today by re-appreciating old nursery rhymes 🪿🎶

Today is Eeyore’s birthday. We’re not sure what age he is but A.A. Milne’s ‘Winnie the Pooh’ was first published in 1926. Happy birthday Eeyore.

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