Anne Enright
Anne Enright was born in Dublin and now lives and works in County Wicklow. She is the author of a collection of stories, The Portable Virgin, which won the Rooney Prize, and three novels, The Wig My Father Wore, What Are You Like? which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and won the Encore Award, and The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch.
Featured Books, with extracts, by Anne Enright
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The Gathering
Anne Enright
Surprise winner of the Man Booker Prize 2007. A compelling family drama exploring family relationships following a tragic death. Descriptive, unsettling and inventive.
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/05/2007
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Making Babies
Anne Enright
I have read, glanced at, flicked through and even enjoyed a lot of baby books but I have never read anything as brilliant as this. In short, lyrical, highly evocative passages she traces her emotions through pregnancy to the terrible...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2005
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Books by Anne Enright
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Taking Pictures
Anne Enright
Contains stories of loss and yearning, of surrender to responsibilities or to unexpected delight: all share the unsettling and dislocated reality.
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/03/2008
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Gathering
Anne Enright
The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/05/2007
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Making Babies
Anne Enright
Contains sections on buggies ('All women with buggies look like they are on welfare'), second pregnancies ('No one gives a toss about your second pregnancy. Get on with it'), evolution ('Humans give birth in pain so that they can't run...
Format: Hardback - Released: 12/08/2004
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Yesterday's Weather
Anne Enright
Presents a series of stories about women stirred, bothered, or fascinated by men they cannot understand, or understand too well. This book features characters that are haunted by the ghosts of the lives they might have led - lit by...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2009
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Taking Pictures (large Print)
Anne Enright
Features stories that present snapshots of the body in trouble: in denial, in extremis, in love. This book includes stories about women who were stirred, bothered, or fascinated by men they cannot understand, or understand too well.
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2008
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Pleasure Of Eliza Lynch
Anne Enright
Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s, the richest woman in the world. The book opens in Paris with Eliza in bed with Francisco Solano Lopez - heir to the untold wealth of Paraguay. The fruit of their congress...
Format: Paperback - Released: 20/03/2008
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Gathering
Anne Enright
The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 20/03/2008
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Making Babies
Anne Enright
Presents a funny record of the journey from early pregnancy to age two. Written in dispatches, typed with a sleeping baby in the room, the author has the rush of good news - full of the mess, the glory, and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2005
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What Are You Like?
Anne Enright
When Maria turns twenty, she falls in love. She is in the wrong town and he is the wrong sort of man. Going through his things, she finds a photo of herself when she was twelve years old. She has...
Format: Paperback - Released: 15/03/2001
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Portable Virgin
Anne Enright
A collection of pained, precise and disquieting stories that restore to us the strangeness of the lives we follow beneath the surface of the lives we lead.
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/1998
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Gathering
Anne Enright
One day on Brighton beach, wayward but vulnerable Liam Hegarty drowns himself. His sister Veronica, trying to come to terms with the suicide of her beloved brother, begins to take a closer look at her dysfunctional family's history in an...
Format: Cd-audio - Released: 14/03/2008
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