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Top Ten Adult fiction 2024

Happy Christmas and happy reading to all of you from all of us here in Dublin City Libraries.
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5 December 2024

Top Ten Junior fiction 2024

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5 December 2024

Top Ten Junior nonfiction 2024

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5 December 2024

Staff Pick: The Cazalet Chronicles

The five novels, tracing the fortunes of an upper-middle-class family, are set in Sussex and London in the period surrounding the Second World War.
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13 November 2024

Staff Pick: The End of Loneliness by Benedict Wells

Suddenly his meaningless life is turned upside down and he is faced with the biggest questions: what is important to him and what will he take to get it?
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29 October 2024

Staff pick: Two books on the history of craft

The fascination and the frustration involved in the history of craft.
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9 September 2024

Staff Pick: Dublin: The Making of a Capital City

This book does a brilliant job of tracing how Dublin evolved over the centuries—from its humble Viking beginnings right up to its status as a buzzing European capital.
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9 September 2024

Staff Pick: Rag and Bone

A family history of what we’ve thrown away
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9 September 2024

Staff Pick: Florence Grace by Tracy Rees

Florrie is a likeable and endearing character who walks her own path, regardless of what others may think, believe or say,
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30 July 2024

End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

By some estimates, 49% of the world’s adult population is due to vote in elections in 2024 and what better way to begin the year than with Turchin’s brilliant book about how much trouble some of these same societies are in.
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8 January 2024