Brand New Unused Books

Kevin Curran - Youth - PB - BRAND NEW - 2025

Youth by Kevin Curran dives into the lives of four teenagers in Ireland’s most diverse town, Balbriggan. Angel is about to finish school and discover if Drill music and his YouTube fame can deliver...

Mark Valentine - Lost Estates - PB - BRAND NEW

“I am, and ever have been, a great reader . . . a library cormorant. I am deep in all out of the way books.” – S. T. Coleridge (1796) The twelve stories in Lost Estates offer antiquarian mysteries,...

Robert Lloyd Parry - Friends and Spectres - PB - BRAND NEW

Friends and Spectres is an exploration of the world of M. R. James through his colleagues’ stories and biographies. The majority of pieces here were originally published under pseudonyms, and over...

Mary Morrissy - Twenty-Twenty Vision - PB - BRAND NEW

Christine Beckett is faced with some home truths when her best friend, suffering from dementia, decides after a lifetime to be honest with her; Olivia Fletcher has an epiphany at a vaccination centre...

Muireann Ní Chiobháin & Roisín Hahessy - Eoinín ag an Siopa - HB - BRAND NEW

Tá Eoinín ag dul ag siopadóireacht. Caithfidh sé tralaí a fháil agus ansin é a stiúradh timpeall an tsiopa. An féidir leatsa cabhrú le hEoinín gach ní ar a liosta siopadóireachta a fháil? Lán daite...

Claire-Louise Kieffer - Tenterhooks - PB - BRAND NEW

Fergus Kennedy - Ballybunion to the River Kwai : An Irishman's Story of Survival on the Death Railway - BRAND NEW

Ballybunion to the River Kwai is the remarkable story of Don Kennedy’s harrowing experience as an Irish prisoner of war under the Japanese from 1942–45. Vividly narrated by Don’s son Fergus, this is...

Leona Forde - Milly McCarthy's Wild Atlantic Antics - PB - BRAND NEW ( May 2025)

It’s nearly the summer holidays and Milly’s class is heading off on a school tour to the Gaeltacht in the West of Ireland. Milly can’t wait to be away from home with her friends – but the teachers...

Toner Quinn - What Ireland Can Teach the World About Music- and Other Essays - BRAND NEW

How do we create a deeper public discussion around music? What can folk music tell us about our society? How do we support music in our towns, villages and cities? And what can Ireland teach the...

Helen Grant - Atmospheric Disturbances - HB - BRAND NEW

In its dim depths living things scurried and fluttered, but human voices were very rarely heard.” – The West Window A glimpse of a grotesque illustration combined with the onset of fever instigate a...

Maeve Brennan - The Rose Garden - BRAND NEW

Paperback, published by Stinging Fly, Dublin, 2024. BRAND NEW    “Here, in a lovely new Irish edition, is the second batch of twenty stories from the unmistakable Dublin-born, New York-based, writer...

James Patterson & Bill Clinton - The President is Missing - PB - BRAND NEW

 The President is missing. The world is in shock. Terrorists are planning a devastating attack. And they have help from traitors inside the White House. The only thing standing in their way is a...

Allen Foster - Foster's Irish Oddities - A Miscellany of Strange Facts and Vital Irrelevances - HB - BRAND NEW

This addictive, fascinating and humorous book is an indispensable collection of Irish trivia, history and uncommon knowledge. Presented in short, digestible entries and engagingly written throughout,...

Sarah Kilcoyne - The Lost Treasure of Clew Bay - HB - BRAND NEW

Saoirse is visiting her grandad in rural Mayo when he tells her the story of a legendary pirate queen’s lost treasure, supposedly hidden in nearby Clew Bay. Inspired to search for it, she and...

Richard Aldous - Tony Ryan : Ireland's Aviator

 Tony Ryan was one of the greatest Irishmen of the twentieth century.Ingenious, driven and sometimes reckless, his sheer spirit and adventurousness made him Ireland's Aviator. Born in a railwayman's...

Gethan Dick - Water in the Desert Fire in the Night - PB - BRAND NEW

WINNER OF THE KATE O'BRIEN AWARD 2026.   Because the thing about the end of the world is that it happens all the time.Someone leaves and it's the end of the world.Someone comes back and

A O'Connor - The Secrets of Armstrong House - PB - BRAND NEW

Present day - Kate and Nico Collins are filming a docudrama about life in their home Armstrong House in Ireland during its golden age at the turn of the century. When they discover a cover-up of a...

A O'Connor - The Legacy of Armstrong House - BRAND NEW

2017 – At Armstrong House, Kate and Nico Collins are looking forward to a bright future with their young son Cian. When archaeologist Daniel Byrne arrives in the area to investigate life there during...

Niamh Garvey ( Editor) - Wired Our Own Way : An Anthology of Irish Autistic Voices - PB - BRAND NEW

Wired Our Own Way: An Anthology of Irish Autistic Voices is the first collection of personal essays written by autistic Irish adults. One in twenty-seven Irish school children are now diagnosed as...

A. O'Connor - The Legacy of Armstrong House - PB - BRAND NEW (Armstrong House Novels - Book 3 )

Present day – Kate and Nico Collins are filming a docudrama about life in their home Armstrong House in Ireland during its golden age at the turn of the century. When they discover a cover-up of a...

E.G Quinn - Old Irish Workbook - PB - RIA 2020 ( Originally 1975)

This is a compendium of Old-Irish grammar with translation exercises. It is a companion volume to ‘Old Irish Paradigms’ and ‘Selections from the Old-Irish Glosses’. First published in 1974, it...

Seán Farrell - Frogs For Watchdogs - BRAND NEW PB

After years of moving from place to place, a young family finds shelter in an isolated house in the Irish countryside. Their father is missing, Mum is a healer and B a formidable big sister. In his...

Sophie Kirtley ( Illustrated by Ellan Rankin) - Our Wee Place - PB - BRAND NEW

Our Wee Place by Sophie Kirtley, Illustrated by Ellan Rankin. “Let’s go on an adventure!” Granda says to Emily. Stepping out from their special wee place at the end of the garden, they find...

Gráinne O'Brien - A Limerick Fairytale - PB - BRAND NEW

A Limerick Fairytale by Gráinne O'Brien, Illustrated by Lena StawowyOnce upon a time, there was a prince who wanted to live a fairytale life. The first thing he needed was a princess, so he could...

Sarah Cassidy & Kunak McGann - The A-Z of Being Irish - BRAND NEW

The A to Z of Being Irish by Sarah Cassidy and Kunak McGannThis handy A to Z is packed with insider knowledge and quirky Irishisms for locals and blow-ins alike. Read it or we’ll tell your Mammy you...

Peter O'Shea - Historic Murders of Central Cork - SIGNED PB - BRAND NEW - 2023 ( Murder Most Local - Book 6 )

This is the 6th book in the Murder Most Local Series of County Cork. This covers all the remaining county From Ballincollig to Mallow, Glanmire to Fermoy and everywhere in between. Like the books for...

Simon Doyle - Snow Boys - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

Dean O’Donnell is a wallflower with a secret and a voice that could steal the show. Preferring to blend into the background at

Simon Doyle - Runaway Skies - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

19-year-old French student Kaiser “Kai” Kateb has too many secrets to keep. And to his deeply religious parents, the fact that he’s gay isn’t even the worst of it—He’s the only one who knows what...

Simon Doyle - Runaway Train - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

When nineteen-year-old Denis Murphy sneaks onto an exclusive overnight train from Dublin to Belfast, he wasn’t counting on being caught. Or falling in love. But he has some trust issues to overcome...

Dermot Bolger - Hide Away - PB - BRAND NEW

Una Leavy & Shannon Bergin - Over the Red-Brick Chimney - HB - BRAND NEW 2024

Little Goose is excited.  It’s time to go, before the Big Snow.  Winter is coming, and all the geese are flying to their new home in Ireland. But Little Goose gets blown down, down, down by a sudden...

Oona Frawley - Flight - BRAND NEW PB

Paperback ( larger format with flaps) 2014, Tramp Press, Dublin Nominated for Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year in the 2014 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards. The man of the house was mad...

Maeve Kelly - Orange Horses - PB - BRAND NEW

 The 20 stories that make up Orange Horses, first published as a collection in 1990, richly illustrate the plight of marginalised women in contemporary Irish society. Kelly draws from a variety of...

Leona Forde - Milly McCarthy and the Christmas Calamity - PB - BRAND NEW

It’s coming up to Christmas and Milly’s class is prepping for their end-of-term performance. This year they’ve decided on a festive concert, so they can each showcase their favourite talent. Milly...

Gaelle Bélem - There's a Monster Behind the Door - PB ( Translated by Laetittia Saint-Loubert)

In 1980s' Reunion, monsters lurk beneath the surface of vibrant island life, ready to pounce at the slightest disturbance.'In the heat of the Tropic of Capricorn, on the flanks of an active volcano,...

Gustav Parker Hibbett - High Jump as Icarus Story - PB - BRAND NEW

Just inside the track’s concentriccircus rings, at the football field’shead, is where I learned to wearthe gaze of other people like a queenwears feathers. In High Jump as Icarus Story, Gustav Parker...

Lucy Sweeney Byrne - Paris Syndrome - PB - BRAND NEW

 Shortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award 2020 Shortlisted for the John McGahern Annual Book Prize 2019 Shortlisted for the Dalkey Literary Awards Emerging Writer category 2020 Longlisted for the Edge...

Bebe Ashley - Gold Light Shining - PB - BRAND NEW

Within five minutes, I knew I loved the stranger in my head. In her debut collection of poetry, Bebe Ashley spins gold from the detritus of the internet. A landscape often depicted as a wasteland is...

Deirdre Sullivan - I Want to Know I Will Be Okay - PB - BRAND NEW

It had felt a bit like being haunted, being pregnant. Unexpected thumps, and moments when she would be reminded that there was a little person living inside of her. For a while afterwards, sometimes...

Zainab Boladale - Braids Take a Day - PB - BRAND NEW

Uncovering secrets is like undoing braids, one at a time...Abidemi can't wait for summer, her last one at home in Ennistymon before she heads off to college. She's ready to say goodbye to school,...

Roisín Hahessy & Muireann Ní Chiobháin - Bearradh Gruaige d'Eoinín - HB - As Gaeilge

Little Eoinín needs a haircut. The only problem is, he has never been to the hairdressers before! He needs to get his hair washed, cut and dried and – oh my, what’s that noise? Ahairdryer?! A lot of...

Maysa Odeh - A Map For Falasteen - PB - BRAND NEW ( Picture Book )

Illustrated by Aliaa Betawi.  Can a place exist if it's not on a map?At school, Falasteen and her classmates are tasked with finding their families' home countries on a map, but no matter how hard...

Dav Pilkey - Dog Man : Scéal an Dá Phuisín - PB - AS GAEILGE - BRAND NEW

Leagan Gaeilge do Dog Man - A Tale of Two Kitties .  October 2024 Beidh idir óg agus aosta sna trithí gáire agus iad ag léamh an tríú leabhar sa tsraith cháiliúil Dog Man. Tá a dhá oiread trioblóide...

Enya Martin - One For the Girlos - PB - BRAND NEW

Laugh, cringe and nod along with Enya Martin in her funny and disarmingly honest look at friendship. This tongue-in-cheek manual dives headfirst into the complexities of female friendships, offering...

Lucy Sweeney Byrne - Let's Dance - PB - BRAND NEW

Fritz Leiber - The Pale Brown Thing - PB - BRAND NEW

Serialised in 1977, The Pale Brown Thing is a shorter version of Fritz Leiber’s World Fantasy Award-winning novel of the supernatural, Our Lady of Darkness. Leiber maintained that the two texts...

Katharine Tynan - The Death Spancel and Others - PB - BRAND NEW ( Swan River Press)

“Come to me, a lonely ghost, / Out of the night and rain.” Katharine Tynan is not a name immediately associated with the supernatural. However, like many other writers of the early twentieth century,...

Bram Stoker - Old Hoggen & Other Adventures - Swan River Press - PB - BRAND NEW

A paperback Swan River Press edition, BRAND NEW.  At the time of his death in 1912, Bram Stoker was preparing for publication three volumes of stories. The first, Dracula’s Guest, saw print in 1914;...

Mervyn Wall - A Flutter of Wings - Swan River Press Edition - PB - BRAND NEW

"Strange," he said to himself. "I had an idea that Pat's Tommy was dead." — "Cloonaturk"First collected in 1974, the stories in A Flutter of Wings span Mervyn Wall's entire writing career, dating...

Jack Fennell ( Editor) - Your Own Dark Shadow - PB - BRAND NEW ( November 2024) SIGNED

My hand holding the revolver dropped limply to my side when, in the full glare of the lamp, I saw the Creature that squatted in the doorway ...' An old house turns out to not be as empty as its new...

Tatyana Feeney - Mo Chéad Rainn Gaeilge - HB- Leabhar Fuiame - BRAND NEW

6 beautiful traditional rhymes in Irish and 6 beautiful images6 rain áille thraidisiúnta agus 6 íomhá áilleSongs brought to life with beautiful bright pastel images Listen to the song at the push of...

Alan Nolan - The Sackville Street Caper ( Molly Malone and Bram Stoker Series) - BRAND NEW

 Dublin, 1858BRAM - boy seeking adventure (and things to write about)MOLLY - part-time fishmonger and full-time sneak thief!When Bram runs away from boarding school and meets streetwise Molly, he...