Fiction

John Galsworthy / The Silver Spoon (Vintage Paperback)

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Catherine Gavin / The French Fortune (Vintage Paperback)

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Catherine Cookson / Kate Hannigan (Vintage Paperback)

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Helen Macinnes / Rest and Be Thankful (Vintage Paperback)

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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...

Taylor Caldwell / The Eagles Gather (Vintage Paperback)

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Perfect Questions Perfect Answers (Vintage Paperback)

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Gunnel Beckman / 19 is Too Young to Die (Vintage Paperback)

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Margaret Lewerth / Hester (Vintage Paperback)

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Ciaran Cosgrave - Lassoed Suns - PB

Paperback, published by Montezuma Publications, Dublin, 1988.  The first poetry collection from the Belfast born poet and lecturer . 

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,...

Sean Farrell ( Editor) - Tidings : An Anthology of New Irish Christmas Stories - HB - BRAND NEW

Tidings is an anthology of freshly commissioned Irish Christmas writing - short stories and essays by some of Ireland's best writers, written on the theme of 'Christmas parties'. This astounding...

David Marcus ( Editor) - New Irish Writing 1 - PB - 1970

Paperback,  published by Dolmen  Press, 1970.  Based on the weekly series then running in the Irish Press Newspaper as 'New Irish Writing' . Contains poetry and short fiction.  A slim paperback,...

Racine - Andromaque - PB ( Classiques Bordas) - In French

Un an après la guerre de Troie, Andromaque, veuve d'Hector, est prisonnière de Pyrrhus, fils d'Achille, le meurtrier d'Hector. Pyrrhus est fiancé à Hermione, fille de Ménélas, mais il est amoureux de...

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...

Dylan Brennan - Let the Dead - PB - BRAND NEW

Deeply attuned to those things that make and unmake us, Dylan Brennan’s Let the Dead concerns itself with life’s alchemical processes. A couple breathe life into a doomed poppet; a photographer...

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...

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;...

Roseann Lloyd - Tapdancing for Big Mom - PB - 1985

"In her first collection of poetry, Lloyd extends women's linguistic range by leading the way toward affirming a language power which is feminine and which, for many women writers, has been repressed...

Mary Jo Salter - Sunday Skaters : Poems - HB -1994

Hardcover first edition, published by Knopf USA, 1994, First Edition hardcover.  Mary Jo Salter gives us subtle, witty, and moving poems that reflect a woman's travels through love, family, time, and...

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...

Robert Burns - The Poems of Robert Burns - HB ( Oxford Standard Authors Edition) - 1963

Gift inscription to previous owner on the front endpages, price clipped on inside front flap.  Although heavily dustdarkened on the top edges of the page block, otherwise unmarked, a solid, small...

Suhrkamp Publishing - Irisches Lesebuch - HB - 1996

Text entirely in German - translations of a wide selection of Irish Literature (of poems , short stories and extracts from novels and plays)  Published by Gudrun Boch Suhrkamp, 311 pages

Brandon Taylor - Real Life - PB - AS NEW

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE A GUARDIAN SUM

June Caldwell - Room Little Darker - PB - AS NEW

From one of Ireland's most grindingly authentic and radically original talents, Room Little Darker explores the clandestine aspects of modern life through jagged, visceral tales of wanton sex, broken...

Paul Whyte - Harrow the Boys - PB - BRAND NEW

In a not too distant future, much of Ireland’s midwest has been flooded by rising sea water. Life goes on, people adapt, live their lives, survive. Ram is a wader from the hillside settlement of...

Mary Gordon / Spending : A Novel (Hardback)

The Barnes & Noble ReviewMarch 1998With such acclaimed works as The Shadow Man and The Other Side, Mary Gordon has established herself as one of America's most important female writers. Her novels...

Elizabeth Adler / The Last Time I Saw Paris (Hardback)

Paris, the most romantic city on earth, is a place of second honeymoons and newly discovered passions. It lures us with a banquet of tastes, sound, sights, and smells. And for Lara Lewis, it is the...

Terry Jones / Roger's Profanisaurus (Hardback)

The ultimate in schoolboy humor, this is the book for anyone who truly loves Viz humor! Roger Mellie presents a new edition of his classic dictionary of swearing that gives a hilarious new angle to...

Murphy O'Dea / The Book of Feckin' Irish Sayings For When You Go On The Batter With A Shower of Savages (Hardback)

As a serious study of the nuances of the English language as spoken in Ireland, this book is as useful as tits on a bull. On the other hand, if you’d like to have a baldy of understanding the various...

Martina Devlin - Edith : A Novel - PB - BRAND NEW

Edith by Martina Devlin  Martina Devlin, an award-winning columnist for the Irish Independent and podcaster for Dublin City of Literature #CityofBooks, has delivered a new novel based on the life of...

Rolf Boldrewood - Robbery Under Arms - PB - 1977

'A story of life and adventure in the bush and goldfields of Australia', Originally poublished in 1889, this paperback reprint 1977, as part of the Seal Books Australian Classics series.    Writing...

Joan McBreen - A Walled Garden in Moylough - PB - SIGNED -1995

A US first edition paperback, published by Story Line Press, 1995 Signed by the author, undedicated to the title page.   

Piers Anthony - Wielding a Red Sword ( Incarnations of Immortality Series - Book 4 ) - PB -1987

Published by Grafton Paperbacks UK, 1987. Cover art by Steve Crisp.  (Incarnations of Immortality is the name of an eight-book fantasy loosely linked series by Piers Anthony. The books each focus on...

David R Slavitt - Equinox and Other Poems - PB - 1988

Louisiana State University Press, paperback, 1988.  In his 1988 volume of verse, David R. Slavitt offers some of his finest poetry to date. Equinox is a collection of twenty-five poems on various...

Martina Devlin - Charlotte : A Novel - PB - BRAND NEW

Charlotte Brontë, who dazzled the world with some of literature’s most vital and richly-drawn characters, spent her brief but extraordinary life in search of love. She eventually found it with Arthur...

Benedict Kiely - A Journey to the Seven Streams and Other Stories - PB -1977

A 1977 Poolbeg Press reprint of the debut 1963 short story collection from Tyrone native Benedict Kiely. Condition - internally very good, sunfade to spine, from orange to pale yellow. 144 pages...

John Broderick - The Waking of Willie Ryan - PB - BRAND NEW 2024

The Waking of Willie Ryan by John Broderick Republished in conjunction with the John Broderick Bequest, and the Arts Council of Ireland, to mark 100 years of John Broderick. Willie Ryan returns to...

Ann Cleeves / Cold Earth (Large Paperback) ( Shetland Novels)

In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the road and sweeps down to the sea.At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez watches the flood...

Samantha Downing / For Your Own Good (Large Paperback)

Teddy Crutcher won Teacher of the Year at the prestigious Belmont Academy. Everyone thinks he's brilliant.       Only you know the truth.They all smile when he tells us his wife couldn't be more...

Mary Gaitskill / This is Pleasure (Large Paperback)

'The range of Gaitskill's humanity is astonishing' LA Times'I don't know why I behaved the way I did, and I kept doing it; he kept doing it. And though I might once have easily brushed it away,...

Catherine Phil MacCarthy ( Editor) / Poetry Ireland Review: Autumn 1998 (Large Paperback)

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Adriana Trigiani / Lucia, Lucia (Large Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This heartwarming tale is full of lessons about taking risks in life and love.”— Cosmopolitan “Funny, visual, and moving . . . A vibrant, loving, wistful portrait of a...

Claire Messud / The Woman Upstairs (Large Paperback)

Nora Eldreidge has always been a good girl: a good daughter, colleague, friend, employee. She teaches at an elementary school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the children and the parents adore...

Thomas Kinsella - The Tain - Illustrated by Louis Le Brocquy ( Vintage Dolmen Press PB - 1986)

The now standard translation of the Táin Bó Cuailnge , the 8th century epic cycle of tales , first published in 1969 in this translation.  This is a 1986 Dolmen Press edition, previous owners name...

Susan Lewis / Losing You (Large Paperback)

The powerful new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.Lauren Scott is bright, gifted and beautiful. At eighteen, she has her whole life ahead of her. And she is everything to her mother,...