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.... with Great National's unique collection of independent hotels and resorts from throughout Ireland and the UK.

All our hotels are individual and charming - such as the stunning Waterford Castle Hotel and Golf Resort, Little Island just outside Waterford City, and the Grand Hotel at the heart of Swansea's bustling city centre - combining Great National's signature value with popular locations including a range of leisure facilities to match.

With nearly 50 hotels throughout Ireland and the United Kingdom we offer a range of discount rates, exclusive special offers and spectacular savings with our 'Deal of the Month' when you book directly on the official hotel site.

It was November. Although it was not yet late, the sky was dark when I turned into Laundress Passage. Father had finished for the day, switched off the shop lights and closed the shutters; but so I would not come home to darkness he had left on the light over the stairs to the flat. Through the glass in the door it cast a foolscap rectangle of paleness onto the wet pavement, and it was while I was standing in that rectangle, about to turn my key in the door, that I first saw the letter. Another white rectangle, it was on the fifth step from the bottom, where I couldn't miss it.

I closed the door and put the shop key in its usual place behind Bailey's Advanced Principles of Geometry. Poor Bailey. No one has wanted his fat gray book for thirty years. Sometimes I wonder what he makes of his role as guardian of the bookshop keys. I don't suppose it's the destiny he had in mind for the masterwork that he spent two decades writing.

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