IRISH LITERATURE

John Banville / First Light (Large Paperback)

   John Banville is one of the finest and most critically-acclaimed writers of his generation. With elegance, insight and wit, he has secured a devoted readership and there can be few more...

John Banville / Mrs Osmond (Large Paperback)

 A MASTERFUL TALE OF BETRAYAL AND CORRUPTION BY THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE SEA'Banville is one of the writers I admire the most' Hanya Yanahigara, author of A Little Life 'A...

John Banville / Snow

 'Outstanding.' Irish Independent'Exquisite.' Daily Mail'Hypnotic.' Financial Times'This is crime fiction for the connoisseur.' The Times'The body is in the library,' Colonel Osborne said. 'Come...

John Banville / Snow (Large Paperback)

 'An outstanding novel and an absolute page-turner.' Irish Independent'A typically elegant country house mystery.' Guardian, Biggest books of the AutumnA CrimeReads Most Anticipated Book of...

John Banville / The Infinities (Large Paperback)

From the writer of the Booker Prize-winning "The Sea", comes a new novel, a major literary event of the Autumn. John Banville is one of the finest and most critically-acclaimed writers of...

John Banville / The Singularities

From the revered, Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multi-layered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated...

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 Banville / The Untouchable

The Untouchable is an engrossing, exquisitely written and almost bewilderingly smart book ...It's the fullest book I've read in a very long time, utterly accomplished, thoroughly readable,...

John Boyne / A Ladder to the Sky (Large Paperback)

   'A deliciously dark tale of ambition, seduction and literary theft . . . an ingeniously conceived novel that confirms Boyne as one of the most assured writers of his generation.' Hannah...

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 / Mutiny on the Bounty

Pickpocket John Jacob Turnstile is on his way to be detained at His Majesty's Pleasure when he is offered a lifeline, what seems like a freedom of sorts - the job of personal valet to a departing...

John Boyne / The Absolutist

September 1919: Twenty-years-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a clutch of letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the...

John Boyne / The Absolutist (Large Paperback)

 September 1919:20 year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War...

John Boyne / The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

 When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no...

John Boyne / The Thief of Time

John Boyne has become internationally known for his acclaimed novels Crippen and the bestselling The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Now, for the first time in the United States, comes the book that...

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 Broderick - London Irish - Vintage PB - 1981

A Pan paperback, 1981, of the 1979 novel from John Broderick. sunfade to the spine, page block tight, tanning to pages.  'At seventy-two, men are apt to behave oddly, especially where pretty...

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 F. Deane / In the Name of the Wolf (Large Paperback)

On the island of Achill, off the west coast of Ireland, Nora and Captain O'Higgins are troubled by their daughter's unexplained illness. Patty O'Higgins is a young woman suffering from lupus, a...

John McGahern - Getting Through - PB - Short STORIES - 1978

  The author's 4th book , and second published collection of short stories.  Condition -LIGHT EDGEWEAR, this PB REPRINT, Poolbeg/ Quatro 1978 following the first Faber printing, 1978...

John McGahern - Memoir - HB Faber UK 2005 1st Edition

  Some small indents to the back cover, light scratches to the dustjacket front cover. A personal account of John McGahern's childhood; of his mother's death, his father's anger and bafflement,...

John McGahern / Amongst Women

  Michael Moran is an old Irish Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the Irish War of Independence. Moran is still fighting — with...

John McGahern / Amongst Women (Hardback)

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

McGahern's command of the short story places him among the finest practitioners of the form, in a lineage that runs from Chekhov through Joyce and the Anglo-American masters. When the collection was...

John McGahern / Getting Through

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John McGahern / High Ground

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John McGahern / Love of the World (Hardback)

 John McGahern did not spread himself thinly as a writer. Nearly all of his creative energy went into what was central for him: the great novels and stories that are now part of the canon of...

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 / That They May Face the Rising Sun

Now a major motion picture: the Booker-shortlisted Irish author's last novel: a 'masterpiece' (Observer ) - 'wise and compelling ... elegiac and graceful' (David Mitchell) - by 'one of the greatest...

John McGahern / That They May Face the Rising Sun (Hardback)

  From the very opening pages, we see many memorable characters as they move about the Ruttledges, who have come from London home to Ireland in search of a different life. There is John...

John McGahern / The Barracks

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John McGahern / The Leavetaking

 Widely considered one of the greatest Irish writers by readers and critics alike, John McGahern has been called "arguably the most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett" ( The Guardian...

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 Millington Synge / The Complete Works of J. M. Synge - Plays

 Edited and with an Introduction by Aidan Arrowsmith, Manchester Metropolitan University.The literary and dramatic work of J.M. Synge is most famous for the 'riots' provoked by his 1907 play The...

John P Harrington / Modern Irish Drama - A Norton Critical Edition - PB

Full texts of 12 classic Irish dramas, from Yeats to Friel , with notes, commentaries, criticism and context essays.  Light student underlining and notes added.   

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 Somer & J Daly ( Editors) - Scribner Book of Irish Writing - Paperback Edition 2001 Short Fiction

This is a collection of short fiction that shows the power, vitality and diversity of the modern Irish story. Fresh voices are represented alongside those synonymous with contemporary Irish...

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...

Joseph O'Connor - My Father's House - PB ( Rome Trilogy - Book 1 )

When the Nazis take Rome, thousands go into hiding. One priest will risk everything to save them. September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. An Irish...

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 / Redemption Falls

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Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls ( Signed by the Author ) ( Large Paperback )

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Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback)

  1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana,...

Joseph O'Connor / Shadowplay

 Discover the enthralling Richard & Judy Book Club pick for winter 2020 from international bestseller Joseph O'Connor.'The best novel that I've read in the last twenty years... It's...

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 / Shadowplay. (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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Joseph O'Connor / Star of the Sea (Hardback)

 In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the "Star of the Sea" sets sail for New York. On board are hundreds of refugees, some optimistic, many more are...

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 / The Thrill of it all (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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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...