Brand New Unused Books

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...

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...

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...

Gerard Whelan - The Guns of Easter - BRAND NEW - PB - 1916 Novel

Real history seen through the eyes of a child from a master storyteller. It is 1916 and Europe is at war. From the poverty of the Dublin slums twelve-year-old Jimmy Conway sees it all as glorious, and loves the British Army for which his father is...

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 -...

Garry Bannister - What's That as Gaeilge : An English-Irish Phrasebook - PB - BRAND NEW

What's That as Gaeilge? will help you to express in Irish the most common idioms in everyday English. The Irish equivalents suggested in this phrasebook are colourful and exciting, many with cultural, mythological and philosophical significance and even...

Margaret Wise Brown - The Dead Bird - Classic illustrated Children's Picture Book

A New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2016. This heartwarming classic picture book by beloved children's book author Margaret Wise Brown is beautifully re-illustrated for a contemporary audience by the critically acclaimed, award-winning illustrator...

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...

Hugh Oram - Bygone Limerick - The City & County in days gone by - PB Illustrated Mercier 2010

A paperback first edition, Mercier Press 2010, of Hugh Oram's illustrated guide to historic Limerick county and city - with a host of black and white photographs. In excellent condition, as new ( although 2010)  Has images of many rural...

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...