Brand New Unused Books

Bernard S Wilson - Miss Mary - BRAND NEW - ( illustrated by Julia Castano )

Mary Elmes was a brilliant young woman from Cork who ventured into war zones to rescue children in trouble. When she learned that children in war-torn Europe were getting hurt, she wanted to help. She wasn’t a doctor or a...

Michael Morpurgo - The Wreck of the Zanzibar - BRAND NEW - PB

A gripping children's story from War Horse author and former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo."We all knew what was going to happen. We'd seen it before. A ship about to founder staggers before she falls. A huge wave broke over her stern and she did...

Michael Morpurgo - Escape from Shangri La - PB - BRAND NEW

A gripping and heartfelt war story from Britain's best-loved children's author, Michael Morpurgo.Turned away by his own son, Cessie's long-lost grandfather finds himself in the place he fears most - a nursing home called Shangri-La. Only Cessie loves him...

Padraig de Búrca & John F Boyle - Free State or Republic - UCD Centenary Classics - PB BRAND NEW - 2015 - ( Originally 1922

 Free State or Republic? provides eye-witness accounts by two reporters from the Irish Independent newspaper of the historic Treaty debates of Dail Eireann, held in University College Dublin's Earlsfort Terrace building in December 1921 and January...

Joseph Johnston - Civil War in Ulster - UCD Centenary Classics - PB - BRAND NEW - 2015 - ( Originally 1913)

The Centenary Classics series examines the fascinating time of change and evolution in the Ireland of 100 years ago during the 1916-23 revolutionary period. Each volume is introduced by Fearghal McGarry who sets the scene of this important period in...

Mary Carbery - The Farm by Lough Gur : The Story of Mary Fogarty - PB - BRAND NEW - Limerick

"The Farm by Lough Gur" was first published in London in 1937 and quickly reprinted. It was well received in England and a best-seller in Dublin. Some questioned its quiet recall of an elysian rural Ireland before the Land War, its image of a contented...

Christine Dwyer Hickey - Tatty - PB - 2004

This book is the portrayal of a young Dublin girl who is growing up in a turmoiled family of alcoholics. The book begins when she is four and stays with her throughout the events of her life until she is fourteen. This powerful story does not preach...

Susan Lanigan - White Feathers - PB - BRAND NEW - WW1 Novel - SIGNED

In 1913, young Irish emigrant Eva Downey is trapped in London with a remote father and hostile stepmother. When she is awarded a legacy from an old suffragette to attend a finishing school in Kent, she jumps at the chance. At the school, she finds...

Lesley Pearse - The House Across The Street - PB - BRAND NEW

Is there a murderer across the street?1964.Twenty-three-year-old Katy Speed is fascinated by glamorous Gloria and the goings-on at her house over the road.Who are the mysterious women that keep coming and going in the strange black car?Then one night,...

Simon Scarrow - The Legion ( Eagles of the Empire - Book 10 ) - PB - BRAND NEW

The Legion When the actions of a rebel gladiator in Egypt threaten the stability of the Roman Empire, Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro know he must be stopped. The locals are holding the Romans responsible for the attacks and Ajax's crew have been...

Simon Scarrow - The Gladiator ( Eagles of the Empire - Book 9

The Gladiator While centurions Macro and Cato are returning to Rome from a harrowing campaign against the Parthians, their transport ship is almost capsized by a tidal wave. They barely make it to the port of Matala in Crete where they are stunned...

J Sheridan Le Fanu - Green Tea - HB Limited Edition BRAND NEW -( Swan River Press) SIGNED Limited edition ( With Audio CD)

"The delight of hell is to do evil to man, and to hasten his eternal ruin." – SwedenborgPublished alongside “Carmilla” in the landmark collection In a Glass Darkly (1872), Le Fanu’s “Green Tea” was first...

William Hope Hodgson - The House on the Borderland - PB - Swan River Press - BRAND NEW

  I am an old man. I live here in this ancient house, surrounded by huge, unkempt gardens."An exiled recluse, an ancient abode in the remote west of Ireland, nightly attacks by malevolent swine-things from a nearby pit, and cosmic vistas beyond time...

Oscar Wilde - The Picture Of Dorian Gray - PB BRAND NEW

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the...

H.G Wells - The Time Machine - PB - BRAND NEW Classic

The Time Machine Brilliantly imaginative fiction or the shape of things to come? H.G. Wells's masterpiece still retains its power to provoke and enthral.In the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table...

H.G Wells - The War of the Worlds - PB - BRAND NEW

In this compelling novel H.G. Wells imagines a terrifying future in which civilisation itself is threatened.The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to discover that what appeared to be a falling star was, in fact, a metallic cylinder landing from...

Ann Murtagh - The Kidds of Summerhill - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021

The Kidds of Summerhill by Anne Murtagh In the spring of 1945 a mother dies, leaving four children to fend for themselves in a Dublin tenement. Nancy, the oldest, lives in dread of the family being split up. The power to send them all to...

Tony Byrne , Kathleen Maguire & Brendan Byrne - Bullying in the Workplace, Home and School - PB - BRAND NEW Blackhall Press

Bullying is a serious and complex issue facing society and this book will help families, teachers, business owners and managers alike, understand and effectively deal with this problem.  Whether you have to deal with this issue or have suffered at...

Jean Kwok - Searching For Sylvie Lee - BRAND NEW - 2021

Searching for Sylvie Lee - BRAND NEW It begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother - and then vanishes.Amy, the...

Christopher Paul Curtis - Bud, Not Buddy - PB - BRAND NEW

Bud, Not Buddy - Christopher Paul Curtis Bud is on a journey. He has hit the road with one idea in mind - he wants to discover his father. He's not got a lot to go on - just a flyer for a jazz band and his very own Rules and Things for Having a...

Chris Riddell - Guardians of Magic ( The Cloud Horse Chronicles ) - SIGNED 1ST EDITION -HB Brand New 2019

Guardians of Magic is the first title in a brilliant new magical adventure series from the creator of Goth Girl, Chris Riddell. With gorgeous two-colour illustrations throughout and a special full-colour guide to the giants in the book, this fantastic...

Philippa Gregory - The King's Curse - BRAND NEW - PB ( Cousins War - Book 6 )

THE COMPELLING NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES  BESTSELLER PHILILPPA GREGORY 'Margaret's story is shocking, deeply moving. the depiction of Henry VIII's transformation from indulged golden boy to sinister tyrant is perfect pitched' Sunday...

Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby - BRAND NEW PB - Classic

Nicholas Nickleby When Nicholas's father dies he, his mother and sister are left penniless. To earn his keep, Nicholas becomes a tutor at Dotheboys Hall but soon discovers that the headmaster, Wackford Squeers, is a one-eyed tyrant who insists...

Edward St Aubyn - At Last - BRAND NEW ( Patrick Melrose Novels - 5 )

At Last is the fifth instalment of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted in 2017 for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.As friends, relatives and foes trickle in to pay...

Tom Rob Smith - The Secret Speech - BRAND NEW PB

The Soviet Union 1956: after Stalin's death, a violent regime is beginning to fracture. Stalin's successor Khrushchev pledges reform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget the past. Leo Demidov, former MGB officer, is facing...

Ken Bruen - A Galway Epiphany - PB BRAND NEW

A Galway Epiphany Jack Taylor has finally traded in his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country.But on a day trip back into the city, Jack is hit by a truck and left in a coma, mysteriously without a scratch on him.When he...

Mary Norton - The Borrowers - PB - BRAND NEW

The Borrowers live in the secret places of quiet old houses; behind the mantelpiece, inside the harpsichord, under the kitchen clock. They own nothing, borrow everything, and think that human beings were invented just to do the dirty work. Arrietty's...

James Plunkett -Strumpet City - BRAND NEW - PB

Brand new - this edition published by Gill 2013, with an introduction by Fintan O'Toole, originally published in 1979 , and the subject of a classic RTE TV series in 1979-80.  This new edition of the epic Strumpet City marks the centenary of the...

City Cycling Europe : Slipcased set of 8 PB'S - Paris, Milan, London, Copenhagen, Berlin, Barcelona, Antwerp & Ghent and Amsterdam

The eight guides in the City Cycling Europe series are each devoted to a different city: London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Antwerp/Ghent, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona and Milan. Each compact volume features cycle-friendly neighbourhoods, itineraries, cycle...

Simon Scarrow - Centurion ( Eagles of the Empire - Book 8 ) - BRAND NEW

Centurion AD 46. Roman army officers Cato and Macro have survived many dangerous missions together. They look out for one another. They're faithful to their Emperor. And from their men they demand bravery and ruthless efficiency.With the news that...

Jack Fennell - A Brilliant Void : A Selection of Classic Irish Science Fiction - PB Anthology - Tramp Press

These fifteen darkly funny stories illuminate a side of Irish literary history that is often overlooked. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the winds of change came rushing in Ireland’s direction. Science and technology would transform everything:...

Liz Gillis- The Fall of Dublin 1922 - Mercier History of the Irish Civil War - PB Brand New 2011

Focusing on the people and the decisions they made,The Fall of Dublin examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the...

Augustine Martin ( Editor) - Soundings : Poems we did for our Leaving Cert PB

Soundings was first published in 1969. It was intended as an ‘interim’ anthology of poetry for the Leaving Certificate until such time as a more permanent volume could be devised. Twenty six years later it was replaced. In the meantime...

Des Ekin - The Stolen Village : Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates - PB - BRAND NEW

In June 1631 pirates from Algiers and armed troops of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, led by the notorious pirate captain Morat Rais, stormed ashore at the little harbour village of Baltimore in West Cork. They captured almost all the villagers and bore them...

Rory Mc Conville & Deirdre De Barra - Brian Boru & the Battle of Clontarf - PB - Graphic Novel - 2014 BRAND NEW

In 1014, Ireland was a disunited kingdom in turmoil. Viking warlords, and kings and cheiftains battke for control.  To save his kingdom, High King Brian Boru led his army to Clontarf to confront the rebel king Maol Morda. What followed was the...

Kevin Barry - There Are Little Kingdoms - PB Short Story Debut Collection - BRAND NEW

A paperback copy, Stinging Fly Press, Dublin,  of the 2007 debut collection of short stories by Kevin Barry - There are little Kingdoms. Small format paperback, this is a 2019 reprint from the same publisher .    Kevin Barry received...

Mike McCormack - Solar Bones - PB - Tramp Press - BRAND NEW

Paperback edition of the award winning novel from Mike McCormack, Solar Bones. Later printing,  Winner of the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize, and the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2016. Winner of the Dublin Literary award...

Joanna Walsh - Vertigo - PB Tramp Press - 2015 SHORT STORIES

Vertigo is the sense that if I fall I will fall not toward the earth but into space. I sense no anchorage. I will pitch forward, outward and upward. A collection of stories that are at once otherworldly and familiar, funny and...

J.K Rowling - Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban ( Book 3 ) BRAND NEW

When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run -...

Ruth Dudley Edwards - The Seven - Signatories 1916 - HB 1st Ed 2016

On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of...

Sara Baume - A Line Made by Walking - BRAND NEW PB

Paperback of the second novel by Sara Baume. A brand new copy, ORIGINALLY 2017The author of the award-winning Spill Simmer Falter Wither returns with a stunning new novel about a young artist's search for meaning and healing in rural Ireland. Struggling...

Dave Eggers- Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans - McSweeney's - HB First Edition 2004

William Henry - Galway and the Great War - PB 2006 Ireland WW1

A paperback first edition, first printing, Mercier Press 2006, of William Henry's history of Galway ( city and county) during WW1. This concentrates on the early years of the war, and the change in public mood following both the high losses on the Somme...