IRISH LITERATURE

June Caldwell / Room Little Darker

   From one of Ireland's most grindingly authentic and radically original talents, Room Little Darker explores the clandestine aspects of modern life through jagged, visceral tales of...

Keith Ridgway / The Long Falling

Grace Quinn is an Englishwoman who has lived in rural Ireland all her adult life but is still a stranger. Haunted by the death of one son, for which her brutal husband blames her, and by the absence...

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...

Kevin Barry / Beatlebone

 WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS "John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the story of his strangest trip." A novel of family,...

Kevin Barry / That Old Country Music

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Kevin Barry / The Heart in Winter (Hardback)

October, 1891. Butte, Montana. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish...

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 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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Lady Wilde - Ancient Legends , Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland - PB -1971 ( Reprint of the 1888 Edition)

This is a reprint edition, 1971, published by O'Gormans Bookshop , Galway ( now where Easons is on Shop Street) It is a facsmilie of the original by Lady Wilde - 'Speranza' - the mother of Oscar...

Lauren MacKenzie / The Couples (Large Paperback)

Eva looked out the attic window of their charming guest house and watched the sun rise. She thought she might be sick. Splayed on the lawn below was Frank, apparently out cold. Her husband snored in...

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...

Leon Uris - Trinity ( PB UK Edition 1978 ) - Classic Irish History Novel

Ever since the publication of Battle Cry , Leon Uris continued to write bestselling novels. Each displays all of the author's skill, for he is a writer at his best when the subject seems almost too...

Lisa Harding / Bright Burning Things

 Sonya used to perform on stage. She attended glamorous parties, dated handsome men, rode in fast cars. But somewhere along the way, the stage lights Sonya lived for dimmed to black. In their...

Liz Nugent / Skin Deep (Large Paperback)

 Perfect summer read for those who like their escapism on the darker side' Ian RankinThe deliciously sinister new novel from the No 1 bestselling author of Richard and Judy Book Club pick, Lying...

Liz Nugent / Strange Sally Diamond (Large Paperback)

Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do, to put him out with the rubbish when he died.Now Sally is the centre of attention,...

Louise Kennedy / The End of the World is a Cul de Sac (Large Paperback)

 'A dazzling, heartbreaking debut collection' Guardian 'Kennedy's voice, and her unforgiving gaze, are electric' Sunday Times'These stories sing, haunt and inspire laughter ... One of the best...

Louise Kennedy / Trespasses (Large Paperback)

There is nothing special about the day Cushla meets Michael, a married man from Belfast, in the pub owned by her family. But here, love is never far from violence, and this encounter will change...

Louise Nealon / Snowflake (Large Paperback)

 WINNER OF SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2021, AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS'Wonderful' Roddy Doyle'Sparks with tender charm and humour . . . Fresh, bleakly funny' Sunday Times'Sharp,...

Louise O'Neill / After the Silence (Large Paperback)

 Nessa Crowley's murderer has been protected by silence for ten years.Until a team of documentary makers decide to find out the truth.On the day of Henry and Keelin Kinsella's wild party at...

Louise O'Neill / Asking for it

'A soul-shattering novel that will leave your emotions raw. This story will haunt me forever. Everyone should read it' Guardian In a small town where everyone knows everyone, Emma O'Donovan is...

Louise O'Neill / Asking for It (Hardback)

 Emma O'Donovan is eighteen, beautiful, and fearless. It's the beginning of summer in a quiet Irish town and tonight she and her friends have dressed to impress. Everyone is at the party, and...

Louise O'Neill / Asking for it (Large Paperback)

A soul-shattering novel that will leave your emotions raw. This story will haunt me forever. Everyone should read it' Guardian In a small town where everyone knows everyone, Emma O'Donovan is...

Louise O'Neill / Idol

  Totally addictive ' JUNO DAWSON'Completely riveting' FABULOUS'Glamorous, surprising' MARIAN KEYES'Utterly gripping. Unsettling' LUCY FOLEY'An absolute page turner' CECILIA AHERN******Samantha...

Louise O'Neill / Idol (Large Paperback)

 'IDOL is fresh, glamorous, and surprising, taking an issue we all care about and with a deft twist, recalibrating our position. It dazzles us before revealing the darkness at its heart. Louise...

Lucy Caldwell / Being Various (Large Paperback)

 Featuring brand new short stories from Kevin Barry, Eimear McBride, Belinda McKeon, Lisa McInerney, Danielle McLaughlin, Stuart Neville, Sally Rooney, Kit de Waal and many more.Ireland is going...

Maeve Binchy - The Lilac Bus & Dublin 4 - Omnibus HB Edition - Irish Life Classics Collection - Best of Maeve Binchy

A hardcover copy , an omnibus edition ( including two books previously published separately) - The Lilac Bus and Dublin 4 - here issued by The Irish Life Classic Collection, 1991.  Dublin 4...

Maeve Binchy / ( 2 in 1 0mnibus Edition) Circle of Friends / Silver Wedding (Hardback)

Circle of Friends An enchanting novel of fierce loyalty and love in changing times. Big, generous-hearted Benny and the elfin Eve Malone have been best friends throughout their childhoods in sleepy...

Maeve Binchy / Circle of Friends (Hardback)

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Maeve Binchy / Evening Class

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Maeve Binchy / Evening Class (Large Paperback)

Among the many evening classes starting all over Dublin is an 'Introduction to Italian'. On the surface it could be just one of hundreds in which some students will succeed and some will fall along...

Maeve Binchy / Minding Frankie (Hardback)

  Baby Frankie is born into an unusual family. Her mother is desperate to find someone to take care of her child and she doesn't have much time. Noel doesn't seem to be the most promising of...

Maeve Binchy / Nights of Rain and Stars

Four Strangers meet in a Greek taverna high above theSmall village of Aghia Anna From Ireland, America, Germany andEngland, they have each left their homes and their old lives whena shocking tragedy...

Maeve Binchy / Nights of Rain and Stars (Hardback)

  Four strangers, with nothing in common but a need to escape, meet in a Greek taverna high above the small village of Aghia Anna. From Ireland, America, Germany and England, they have each...

Maeve Binchy / Scarlet Feather (Large Paperback)

 Scarlet Feather is set in contemporary Dublin, and is the story of Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather, who go into business together as caterers. Tom is the son of a builder and his fanatically...

Maeve Binchy / The Copper Beech: Evening Class

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Maeve Binchy / This Year it Will Be Different

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Maeve Binchy / Whitethorn Woods

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Maeve Brennan / The Visitor

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Máire Holmes ( Editor) - The Galway Review - ISSUE 3

Issue 3 of the Galway Review, published by Galway Academic Press, bound paperback anthology of poetry, shortfiction and essays and reviews.  Bright yellow covers, no title to spine.  Pasted...

Máire Holmes ( Editor) - The Galway Review - ISSUE 4

Issue 4 of the Galway Review, published by Galway Academic Press, bound paperback anthology of poetry, shortfiction and essays and reviews.  Bright yellow covers, no title to spine.   

Máire Holmes ( Editor) - The Galway Review - ISSUE 6

Issue 4 of the Galway Review, published by Galway Academic Press, bound paperback anthology of poetry, shortfiction and essays and reviews.  Bright yellow covers.   

Marian Keyes / My Favourite Mistake (Hardback)

Anna has just lost her taste for the Big Apple…Anna has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR.Who...

Marie Heaney / All Through the Night : Night Poems and Lullabies (Hardback)

     This new anthology from Poetry Ireland includes a wide selection of night poems and lullabies, to prepare readers of all ages for the shelter of untroubled sleep. Included are...

Marina Carr / Woman and Scarecrow (Large Paperback)

A woman - gaunt and ill, haggard after giving birth eight times - faces death. What was life? What was love? What else could have been? Full of mordant, bitter humour, this is a passionate threnody...

Martin Malone / This Cruel Station - Stories (Large Paperback)

The stories in This Cruel Station explore what it is like to be Irish — and new Irish — in today's society. Inspired byhis observations and interactions with recently-arrived refugees...

Martin Malone / Us

'An unusual family, Us. There's Dad, who isn't here but whose shadow is, Mum who is here but whose heart is broken. There's Gina who's sad and Karen who's not. There's Victor who's intelligent and me...

Mary Costello / Academy Street (Hardback)

 She stood on the edge of the grass. She hovered between worlds, deciphering the ground, tracing in mid-air the hall, the dining-room, the stairs. She was despairingly close to home now, to the...

Mary Morrissy / Mother Of Pearl

   MOTHER OF PEARL, the first novel by an acclaimed Irish short-story writer, explores the disturbing territory of the divided self. Through the story of the kidnapping of a baby, the...

Mary Morrissy / Mother of Pearl (Large Paperback)

The story of one woman's search for home and family details the abduction of an infant and revelation of a middle-aged woman who begins to remember her shadow-life as the daughter of a different...

Mary Morrissy / The Rising of Bella Casey

 'a wonderful book from one of our finest writers' Colum McCannBella is a bright, clever girl who trains as a school teacher, determined to escape the limitations of her genteel impoverishment...

Maura Richards - Two to Tango - Vintage PB - 1981 - Single Motherhood in Ireland

Published by Ward River Press, Dublin, 1981.  The author, Maura Richards ( born 1939) was the founder of Cherish, an association for single mothers in the Ireland of the 1960's and 1970's ...