In order to get more accurate results, our search has the following Google-Type search functionality:
If you use '+' in front of a word, then that word will be present in the search results.
ex: Harry +Potter will return results with the word 'Potter'.
If you use '-' in front of a word, then that word will be absent in the search results.
ex: Harry -Potter will return results without the word 'Potter'.
If you use 'AND' between two words, then both of those words will be present in the search results.
ex: Harry AND Potter will return results with both 'Harry' and 'Potter'.
If you use 'OR' between two words, then bth of those words may or may not be present in the search results.
ex: Harry OR Potter will return results with just 'Harry', results with just 'Potter' and results with both 'Harry' and 'Potter'.
If you use 'NOT' before a word, then that word will be absent in the search results.
ex: Harry NOT Potter will return results without the word 'Potter'.
Placing '""' around words will perform a phrase search. The search results will contain those words in that order.
ex: "Harry Potter" will return any results with 'Harry Potter' in them, but not 'Potter Harry'.
Using '*' in a word will perform a wildcard search. The '*' signifies any number of characters. Searches can not start with a wildcard.
ex: Pot*er will return results with words starting with 'Pot' and ending in 'er'. In this case, 'Potter' will be a match.
'Exquisite.' Damon Galgut
'Masterly.' The Times
'Miraculous.' Heral d
'Astonishing.' Colm Toibin
'Stunning. ' Sunday Independent
'Absolutely beautiful.' Douglas Stuart
A Book of the Year in The Times and The New Statesman
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.
'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' The Times
'[A] snowglobe of a story that fits a whole bustling, striving, yearning world into 114 finely wrought pages.' Sunday Times
'Powerful and affecting and very timely . . . deeply moving.' Hilary Mantel
'Stunning . . . A haunting, hopeful masterpiece.' Sinead Gleeson
'Remarkable . . . Truly exquisite.' Daily Telegraph
'A restrained and intensely moral book, full of hope and love.' Observer
'Marvellous - exact and icy and loving all at once.' Sarah Moss
'Exquisite.' Damon Galgut
'Masterly.' The Times
'Miraculous.' Heral d
'Astonishing.' Colm Toibin
'Stunning. ' Sunday Independent
'Absolutely beautiful.' Douglas Stuart
A Book of the Year in The Times and The New Statesman
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.
'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' The Times
'[A] snowglobe of a story that fits a whole bustling, striving, yearning world into 114 finely wrought pages.' Sunday Times
'Powerful and affecting and very timely . . . deeply moving.' Hilary Mantel
'Stunning . . . A haunting, hopeful masterpiece.' Sinead Gleeson
'Remarkable . . . Truly exquisite.' Daily Telegraph
'A restrained and intensely moral book, full of hope and love.' Observer
'Marvellous - exact and icy and loving all at once.' Sarah Moss