Fiction

Shannon Delany / 13 to Life (Large Paperback)

Everything about Jessie Gillmansen’s life changed when her mother died. Now even her hometown of Junction is changing.  Mysterious dark things are happening. All Jessie wants is to avoid more change...

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,...

Enid Shomer / Black Drum (Large Paperback)

In Black Drum , Enid Shomer fuses mind with body, knowledge with physical being, and affirms the capacity of language to accomplish this fusion. With clearly fashioned images, her focus often narrows...

Joe Wilkins / Notes from the Journey Westward (Large Paperback)

Notes from the Journey Westward interrogates the idea of America—especially our westering, both historical and contemporary, our rough, rocky journeys through the wind-blown interiors of the...

Harriet Levin / My Oceanography (Large Paperback)

Levin plunges into psychic depths to confront desire, fear and loss. These poems expand borders as her language strives toward transcendence. The life and work of post-minimalist sculptor Eva Hesse...

Kevin Casey / A State Of Mind (Large Paperback)

In mid-1970s rural Wicklow, John Hughes, a once-feted journalist/author with writer’s block, reflects on recent events. When English author William Cromer and his German lover Ingrid move to the Old...

Christopher Merrill / Watch Fire (Large Paperback)

"Christopher Merrill is one of the most gifted, audacious, and accomplished poets of an extraordinarily rich generation..... This collection shows a complex talent developing and extending its...

Meg Kassel / Black Bird of the Gallows (Large Paperback)

"A pleasingly original contribution to the paranormal-romance genre.” ―Kirkus Reviews A simple but forgotten Where harbingers of death appear, the morgues will soon be full. Angie Dovage can tell...

Allison Funk, Sonia Sanchez / Living at the Epicenter (Large Paperback)

Winner of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize 1995 Born in Alabama, educated in New York City, Sanchez is a leading poet of the Black Arts Movement, whose poetry is written from political, economic,...

Stephenie Meyer / New Moon (Large Paperback) ( Twilight Series - Book 2 )

I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep...

Nigel Farndale / The Blasphemer (Large Paperback)

On its way to the Galapagos Islands, a light aircraft ditches into the sea. As the water floods through the cabin, zoologist Daniel Kennedy faces an impossible choice - should he save himself, or...

Declan Toohey / Perpetual Comedown (Large Paperback)

As a doctoral student at Trinity College Dublin, Darren Walton is trying to decode an elaborate conspiracy he stumbled across as an undergraduate. To do so he must locate an alternate Ireland named...

Kate Hamer / Crushed (Large Paperback)

Phoebe stands on Pultenay Bridge trying to cover her face with her hair so she won’t be recognized. Her tights are gashed from toe to thigh. She has lost a shoe. People keep looking.Was it five, or...

Sophia Nash / Whispering in French (Large Paperback)

Award-winning romance author Sophia Nash makes her women’s fiction debut with a beautifully crafted, funny, and life-affirming story set in the Atlantic seaside region of France, as one woman returns...

Michael Callahan / Searching for Grace Kelly (Large Paperback)

For a small-town girl with big-city dreams, there is no address more glamorous than New York’s Barbizon Hotel. Laura, a patrician beauty from Smith, arrives to work at Mademoiselle for the summer...

Tamara Colchester / Heart Is a Burial Ground (Large Paperback)

'There is an addictive pungency to this exotic tale of lives lived loudly' Sunday Times 'The remarkable life of Caresse Crosby, now retold by her great-granddaughter' Observer A vivid and inventive...

Marjorie Celona / Y (Large Paperback)

"Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over. Why? . . . My life begins at the Y."So opens Marjorie Celona's highly acclaimed and...

Emily Barr / Cuban Heels (Large Paperback)

  Maggie moves to Brighton after splitting up with her long-term boyfriend, and, unable to find a job, starts work as a lapdancer. Failing to make any new friends, she writes letters compulsively,...

Stuart Hopps / The Rainbow Conspiracy (Large Paperback)

From a chance encounter with a handsome lifeguard on the beach in Cape Cod, attraction blooms for the young Clive Spoke. The US of the late sixties offers freedoms he has not yet tasted in Britain...

Marcy Dermansky / Very Nice (Large Paperback)

Rachel Klein never meant to kiss her creative writing professor, but with his long eyelashes, silky hair and the sad, beautiful life he laid bare on Twitter, she does, and the kiss is very nice.Zahid...

Wes Magee - No Man's Land - Poems - PB -1978

Published by Blackstaff Press, 1978, a review slip is loosely laid in. Unevern sunning to the red covers Magee was a teacher who published 4 collections of poetry for adults, and 80 books for young...

C Desmond Greaves - Four Letter Verses and The Mountbatten Award - PB 1983

Published by Martin Brian & O'Keeffe , UK, 1983. Loosely laid in is a review slip from the publisher, and a letter from then UCD lecturer Anthony Coughlan to then Irish Times writer Donal Fallon ,...

Gillian Clarke - Selected Poems - ( Carcanet Signature Series) PB 1985

Selected Poems, originally in Carcanet's Signatures series, has proven to be one of the most popular volumes of modern Welsh poetry, having gone through six printings in ten years after publication. ...

Alexandra Teague - The Wise and Foolish Builders - Poems - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated

Signed and dedicated by the poet to fellow poet Eavan Boland.  Published by Persea Books, USA, 2015.  A chilling exploration of American progress and its consequences, featuring Sarah Winchester (the...

Elizabeth Alexander - The Venus Hottentot - PB

Elizabeth Alexander's highly praised first collection of poems. 1992 reprint.  I didn't want to write a poem that said "blacknessis," because we know better than anyonethat we are not one or ten or...

Julie Morrissy - Where, the Mile End - Poems - PB

“In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular...

Edwin Morgan - Selected Poems - PB - Carcanet -1985

Small format paperback, published by Carcanet UK, 1985. Laid in is a review slip from Carcanet, giving publication date as 23 April 1985.  Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric...

Robert Henryson ( Translated by Seamus Heaney) - The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - HB 2009

The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty...

Eavan Boland - An Origin Like Water - POEMS - HB AS NEW COPY

Gathers selections from the poet's first five books that illuminate the tensions between literary and suburban lives as well as the entanglement of language, being, and substance Gathered from her...

Alfred Tennyson - Poems and Plays - HB 1973 OUP Edition

Hardcover, published by OUP ( Oxford University Press) in this reprint in 1973. Includes all the key poems, long poem sequences and plays from Tennyson, one of the most prominent 19th century English...

Patrick Deeley - Turane : The Hidden Village - SIGNED TO EAVAN BOLAND PB -1995

Andy McNab / Shadow State

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Ellie Dean / Homecoming

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Jill Mansell / The Wedding of the Year

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J.A. Baker / Local Girl Missing

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Owen Mullen / Family

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Michael Chaplin / Act of Betrayal

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Marcia Willett / Reflections

  Cara, Cosmo and Sam learn that for everything lost, there is something to be gained . . .After her husband dies, Cara no longer wishes to live in their London home. On impulse, she sells it and...

Charles Dickens / A Christmas Carol (Coffee Table Book)

Charles Dickens' ghostly tale of Ebenezer Scrooge has become as much a part of Christmas as trees and stockings, plum pudding and mistletoe. Containing atmospheric artwork, this edition aims to bring...

Patrick Bentley / The Time Watcher (Large Paperback)

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Danielle Steel / Never Too Late (Large Paperback)

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A Blushing Object: New Irish Writing from UCD MA Creative Writing 2016 (Large Paperback)

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Catherine Wilkie / The Easter Snow (Large Paperback)

Marianne has been carrying a secret since she escaped from her Irish midlands hometown over sixty years ago. She returns in her 80s now, to find the brother she left behind, this time as a stranger...

Jane Casey / A Stranger in the Family (Large Paperback)

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James Lee Burke / Harbour Lights (Large Paperback)

Harbour Lights is a story collection fromone of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the...

John Webster / The Duchess of Malfi ( Edited by Brian Gibbons) ( New Mermaids Plays)

One of the most haunting tragedies written in the Jacobean period, The Duchess of Malfi (1614) adapts the true story of a noble Italian widow who secretly marries her steward and has children with...

J.W. Ironmonger / The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder

  On his twenty-first birthday, Maximilian Ponder shut himself away from the world to embark on his greatest project: an attempt to record every memory in his brain. It should have taken three years...

Hilma Wolitzer / Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket

The uncannily relevant, deliciously clear-eyed collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning author who is ripe for rediscovery--with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout. From her many...

Eavan Boland - Anna Liffey - SIGNED ( Poetry Ireland Pamphlets 1997)

Published by Poetry Ireland, 1997, this is a slim 10 page booklet, issued in a signed limitation of 250 in 1997. Contains the full text of Eavan Boland's poem Anna Liffey.  This copy is unnumbered, -...

Lynsay Sands / Vampire, Interrupted

IT WAS A CASE SHE COULD SINK HER TEETH INTO...After seven hundred years of life, Marguerite Argeneau finally has a career. Well, the start of one, anyway. She's training to be a private investigator,...

Robin Talley / Our Own Private Universe

Fifteen-year-old Aki Simon already knows she's bisexual …well hypothetically at least …She just hasn't had the chance to kiss an actual, real life girl yet. So when Aki sets off on a group trip to a...