IRISH LITERATURE

John Banville / The Singularities: A Novel (Hardback)

 A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car also borrowed onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. There is a new family living in the drafty old the Godleys,...

John Boyne / A History of Loneliness

  Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen...

John Boyne / All The Broken Places (Large Paperback)

   1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame, and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to...

John Boyne / My Brother's Name is Jessica (Large Paperback)

 'John Boyne made his name with The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas and he's on stellar form in My Brother's Name is Jessica.' Daily ExpressSam Waver's life has always been pretty quiet. A bit of a...

John Broderick - An Apology For Roses - HB 1973 - 1st Edition

'She had been born with a greater capacity for love and pleasure than most people; and her nature had very early on found itself at war with the primitive, property-ridden society in which she was...

John Connolly / The Land of Lost Things (Large Paperback)

  Twice upon a time - for that is how some stories should continue . . .Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident. She is a body without a spirit, a stolen child...

John McDonagh ( Editor) / A Fine Statement - An Irish Poet's Anthology (Hardback)

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John McGahern - The Pornographer - Vintage PB -1980 - Poolbeg

Michael, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an ideal world of sex through his two stock athletes, Colonel Grimshaw and Mavis Carmichael, while he bungles every phase of his entanglement with...

John McGahern / Creatures of the Earth : New and Selected Stories (Hardback)

 When the collection was first published in 1992, the "Sunday Times" said 'there is a vivid pleasure to be had in the reading of these stories', while for Cressida Connolly in the "Evening...

John McGahern / Memoir

'As wise and compelling a book as any of his elegiac and graceful novels.' David Mitchell This is the story of John McGahern's childhood; of his mother's death, his father's anger and bafflement,...

John McGahern / Memoir (Hardback)

This is the story of John McGahern's childhood; of his mother's death, his father's anger and bafflement, and his own discovery of literature and his ambition to become a writer. At the...

John McGahern / The Barracks (Vintage Paperback)

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John Millington Synge / - Plays - HB 1958 Reprint ( Collected Plays )

The literary and dramatic work of J.M. Synge is most famous for the 'riots' provoked by his 1907 play The Playboy of the Western World and, indeed, this was neither the first nor the last time that...

John Montague / A Ball of Fire : Collected Stories (Hardback)

John Montague, best known as a poet, is also a gifted prose writer. A Ball of Fire collects all of his short stories, together with the erotic novella The Lost Notebooks (which he hoped to have...

John Patrick McHugh / Pure Gold: Stories (Large Paperback)

 Two boys set fires while their worlds fall apart. A couple drive out to the hills in a last-ditch effort to save their marriage. A horse crashes a house party. Set on an imagined island off the...

John Wyse Jackson / Best-Loved Oscar Wilde (Hardback)

 Those whom the gods love grow young.Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900), one of Ireland's most beloved writers, was a playwright, poet, novelist and author of fairy stories and...

Jonathan Swift / Gulliver's Travels (Vintage Paperback)

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Joseph O'Connor / Ghost Light (Large Paperback)

 Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious and flirtatious, Molly...

Joseph O'Connor / Ghost Light (Signed by the Author) (Paperback).

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Joseph O'Connor / Inishowen

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Joseph O'Connor / Inishowen (Large Paperback) PB

  Detective Martin Aitken's life is already in chaos but when a strange woman collapses in a Dublin street on Christmas Eve, his world is about to be turned on its head. This is a story of...

Joseph O'Connor / My Father's House (Large Paperback)

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Joseph O'Connor / New Irish Short Stories

Edited by Joseph O'Connor (author of Star of the Sea and Ghost Light) New Irish Short Stories is a stunning collection from a fascinating variety of writers, both new and established. Featuring,...

Joseph O'Connor / Shadowplay (Hardback)

 Discover the thrilling life of Bram Stoker, the man who created Dracula, in this immersive historical novel.**Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award **1878: The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three...

Joseph O'Connor / Shadowplay (Large Paperback)

 Discover the thrilling life of Bram Stoker, the man who created Dracula, in this immersive historical novel.**Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award **1878: The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three...

Joseph O'Connor / Star of The Sea

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Joseph O'Connor / The Salesman

 It's Dublin, June 1995, the hottest summer since records began. But Billy Sweeney, a middle-aged salesman with a failed marriage, a faltering career and a tumbledown house, has more than...

Joseph O'Connor / The Thrill of it All

   At college in 1980s Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese refugee. Together they form a band. Joined by cellist...

Joseph O'Connor / Where Have You Been? (Large Paperback)

 Where Have You Been? is award-winning novelist Joseph O'Connor's first collection of short stories in more than twenty years.Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York's...

Joseph OConnor / The Star of the Sea (Large Paperback)

  In a story of tragedy and mercy, love and healing, the nearer the ship gets to the Promised Land, the more her passengers seem moored to a past which will never let them go...

Julia O'Faolain / Under the Rose - Selected Stories (Large Paperback)

 Julia O'Faolain is one of the most important Irish writers of the past half-century. Under the Rose is a selection of short stories taken from her many celebrated collections.These are stories...

Julian Gough - Jude, Level 1 - SIGNED Hardcover 1st Edition 2007

A signed hardcover first edition, of Jude, by Julian Gough, and published by Old Street Publishing 2007.  This is the tale of Jude, a Tipperary-reared orphan, who on his 18th birthday, sets off...

Julian Gough / Connect

 'A work of genius' Donal RyanNevada; the near future; a family in crisisBiologist and single mother Naomi is worried about the impact her ground-breaking research might have on the world. And...

Julian Gough / Connect (Large Paperback)

'A tour de force' Joseph O'Connor'A work of genius' Donal RyanNevada; the near future; a family in crisisBiologist and single mother Naomi is worried about the impact her ground-breaking research...

Julian Gough / Jude in London (Large Paperback)

 A COMIC EPIC FOR ANYONE WHO LOVES RODDY DOYLE, P.G. WODEHOUSE, BECKETT AND KAFKA, BUT WISHES THEIR BOOKS HAD MORE EXPLOSIONS...'The Death of the Author is on your conscience!'It was. 'Sorry,' I...

Julian Gough / Jude: Level 1

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Kate Cruise O'Brien / A Gift Horse (Vintage Paperback)

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Kate Cruise O'Brien / The Homesick Garden

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Kathleen MacMahon / Nothing But Blue Sky (Large Paperback)

 'A poignant, gentle and astutely observed novel about marriage and the evolution of love' Sunday Times, NOVELS OF THE YEAR 2020________________Is there such a thing as a perfect marriage?David...

Kathleen MacMahon / Nothing but Blue Sky (Signed by the Author) (Paperback)

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Kathleen MacMahon / The Home Scar (Large Paperback)

   From the Women's Prize longlisted author of Nothing But Blue Sky 'The home scar - that's what they call the mark limpets make on the rock when they return.''Wait, they leave the...

Kathleen MacMahon / The Long, Hot Summer (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Keith Ridgway / The Parts (Large Paperback)

  Keeping her company are her companion of many years Kitty Flood, and the discreetly insane American, Dr George Addison-Powell. Why is Delly so keen to die? What exactly is in the letter...

Ken Bruen / Galway Girl (Large Paperback)

 The latest Jack Taylor novel from the Godfather of Irish noir Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom.Still reeling from a violent...

Kevin Barry / That Old Country Music (Hardback)

 'One of the best collections you'll read this year' Sunday Times'Wild, witty stories . . . Exhilarating' ObserverSince his landmark debut collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, and its...

Kevin Casey ( Editor) - Winter's Tales From Ireland : Volume 2 - HB - Short Story Anthology 1972

Published by Gill & Macmillan , Dublin, 1972 ( the second book of 'Winter's Tales' short stories, hence the Volume 2) this is a top notch anthology of the best of 20th century Irish short story...

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...

Kevin Doherty / Penny Baps (Large Paperback)

‘He won't tell Dan about the trees yet. In the spring maybe, when he knows if they're living or dead. Cahir is the right man for a secret. The great secrets of the world are best kept by fat...

Kevin Power / White City (Large Paperback)

 From the highly acclaimed author of Bad Day in Blackrock - inspiration for the 2012 award-winning film What Richard Did, directed by Lenny Abrahamson - comes a darkly funny, gripping and...

Kevin Powers / A Shout in the Ruins

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Laurence Sterne - A Sentimental Journey - HB - Heritage Press USA - 1944 - Illustrated

A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy became a hugely influential work of...

Lia Mills / Fallen (Large Paperback)

 Fallen by Lia Mills - a remarkable love story amidst the ruins of the First World War and the Easter. Rising Spring, 1915. Katie Crilly gets the news she dreaded: her beloved twin brother,...