Fiction

Graham Dury / VIZ Comic - The Bag of Slugs ( Coffee Table book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

R.F. Kuang / Babel: An Arcane History (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Graham Dury / VIZ Comic - The Bear Trapper's Hat (Coffee Table book)

From the pages of Viz, here's the new 2004 annual. Now you can enjoy all the best Viz moments from 2003 in the eighteenth annual compendium. All your favourite characters are here, from the Fat Slags to Billy No Mates, from Roger Mellie to Biffa...

Chris Donald / VIZ Comic - The Butcher's Dustbin (Children's Coffee Table book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Carl Sagan - Contact - A Novel- US HB SIGNED & Dedicated - 1985

A hardcover US edition, Simon & Schuster USA, 1985 of scientist Carl Sagan's account of first alien contact - ( also made into a film starring Jodie Foster ) - Contact. Light edgewear to the covers, Some age spotting to the edges of the page...

Mark Billingham - Sleepyhead - HB SIGNED NUMBERED 2OTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - 2020

Hardcover, a handsome hardcover red cloth edition from Sphere UK, with printed text to page block ends ( NIGHT NIGHT), SIGNED AND NUMBERED (this being copy 868 of the numbered 1000) signed by the author in black ink, undedicated.  Peelable price...

Adrian Kenny - Mint and Other Stories - PB -

These skilled portraits form chapters in a man’s life. He knows the characters ‒ in Dublin, the West of Ireland, London, provincial England ‒ and they know him. The descriptions are intimate, sympathetic; their lives are sharply drawn. A young...

James Plunkett - Strumpet City - Vintage Granada PB Reprint 1977

Originally published in 1969 , and the subject of a classic RTE TV series in 1979-80.   First published in 1969, it has repeatedly been described as one of the greatest Irish novels of all time. Centring on the seminal lockout of 20,000 workers...

Agatha Christie - Elephants Can Remember - Vintage PAN PB ( Originally 1972)

Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband and wife double murder that is still an open verdict...Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. Here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident. This was followed by the grisly discovery of...

Agatha Christie - Cards on the Table ( Vintage Pan PB )

 Mr Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless he was a man of whom everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Poirot that he considered murder an art form, the detective had some reservations about excepting a party...

Agatha Christie - The Labours of Hercules - PB ( A Hercule Poirot Novel)

Poirot sets himself a challenge before he retires - to solve 12 cases which correspond with the labours of his classical Greek namesake. In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet - reasoned the detective - like Hercules he...

Agatha Christie - A Carribbean Mystery - Vintage Fontana PB 1967

1967 reprint, tanning to page block, lowerr/h front corner slightly dogeared.  Binding tight, spine uncreased,  A Caribbean resort.  Strangers thrown togetherIs there evil in paradise? Major Palgrave enjoys an audience, and, in Miss...

Agatha Christie - Cat Among the Pigeons - Fontana PB Reprint, 1985

Schooldays can be tough. Who will learn the fatal lesson? Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light while the rest of the school sleeps. In the sports pavilion, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the...

Agatha Christie - Death in the Clouds - Vintage Fontana Paperback - 1974

A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane…From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated...

Christian Jacq / The Place of Truth (Large Paperback)

The Stone of Light #4 The beloved Master of the Place of Truth has been savagely assassinated, and the artisans of the magnificent, hidden village are deep in mourning. But even in their grief, their devoted work on the tombs of the Pharaoh...

Endre Ady / Neighbours of the Night: Selected Short Stories (Large Paperback)

NEIGHBORS OF THE NIGHT Selected Short Stories by Endre Ady, selected, translated and with a preface by Judith Sollosy 1994 Softcover 7 3/4 x 5 inches 175 pages Corvina Books Ltd.   175 pages, Paperback   This book is second hand,...

Joseph Roth / The Radetzky March (Large Paperback)

Von Trotta Family #1 The Radetzky March Joseph Roth, Joachim Neugroschel (Translator), Nadine Gordimer (Introduction)     The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth's classic saga of the privileged von Trotta...

Cho Nam-Joo / Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (Large Paperback)

  Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. She is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own. A female preyed upon by male teachers at school. A daughter whose father blames her when she is...

Leo Tolstoy / War and Peace (Large Paperback)

Set against the sweeping panoply of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, War and Peace, presented here in the first new English translation in forty years, is often considered the greatest novel ever written. At its center are Pierre Bezukhov, searching...

Jan Carson - No Vacancy : Hotel Stories - PB - BRAND NEW

No Vacancy is a short collection of micro-fiction inspired by Jan Carson's various (and numerous) hotel visits of recent years. Whether it's winning ownership of the Isle of Man in a game of pool or decoding the messages of a one-eyed man in Norwich,...

Zoltán Danyi - The Carcass Remover - PB - BRAND NEW

A veteran of the Yugoslav Wars is hit hard by the fallout. In elegant, liquid prose Danyi conveys a bitter taste of one man’s trauma. Memories collide, expand and direct the main character, while his body is also a battleground – terror...

Charlotte Elizabeth McManus - The Professor I

This Ireland I find myself in is unlike the Ireland I was taught about when I was at school ... A German scholar exploring ruins in Dungannon hits his head in a fall. He wakes to find himself in a parallel universe: an Ireland that never was, free of...

Martina Devlin - Glorious Monsters - PB - BRAND NEW

Aideen Howard - Dream Big : New Plays from the Ark 2019-2025 - BRAND NEW

Since opening its doors in 1995, The Ark has operated in Dublin city as a dedicated cultural centre for children – making and sharing fun, ambitious work that aims to realise every child’s right to participate freely in the arts. At the heart...

Fred Johnston - True North - HB - 1997

Hardcover, published by Salmon Poetry 1997. 

Patrick Chapman - Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights - HB

Hardcover, published by Salmon Press Poetry.  Slight edgewear to the dustjacket, otherwise in very good condition, internally unmarked. 

Michael Gorman - Up She Flew - PB - Poetry - 1991

A 1991 Salmon Poetry collection from the Sligo born poet Michael Gorman.  Includes a compilation of poems from previous works ( Postcards From Galway) - 1980 and Waiting For the Sky to Fall ( 1984)  Light tanning to page block, edgewear to...

Gabriel Fitzmaurice - Twenty One Sonnets - HB

Published by Salmon Press, Clare, 2007. Hardcover , illustrated by Brenda Fitzmaurice.    Condition, these are 2007 editions, and while they were acquired by us in bulk from another bookshop , and have thus not been sold or have signs of use,...

Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Mr Quin - Vintage Fontana PB 1966 ( Originally 1930)

A 1966 Fontana Books edition of The Mysterious Mr Quin, first published in 193 Usual browning/tanning  to page block. creasing to spine.    The enigmatic Mr Quin is a harbinger of love - and death. His friend Mr Satterthwaite must help...

Iain M. Banks - Against a Dark Background - HB - 1st UK Edition 1993

She came from one of the more disreputable aristocratic families.Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilization based around the planet Golter. On an island with a glass...

Desmond O'Grady - Tipperary - PB ( Poetry) 1991

Paperback, published by Salmon , 2011. Desmond O'Grady was a Limerick born poet, novelist and translator. The title of this collection - Tipperary, is a reference by the poet to the county's name in Irish Tiobraid Arann meaning the 'fountain of...

Casey McQuiston - The Pairing - HB - SIGNED - 2024

A hardcover UK SIGNED EDITION, published by Macmillan UK , ISBN differs from standard hardcover edition ( to denote publisher's signed copy edition)  As new, apart from a small blue speck of blue colour bleed (from the cover? on the page block...

Tony O'Dwyer - Waiting For the Mason- PB - BRAND NEW

Published by Salmon Press, July 2026 Mary O’Donnell: “Everyone should carry a copy of Waiting for the Mason as an antidote to despair… The poet elevates one’s sense that being human may, for once, be quite a good...

Jessie Lendennie / Even the Daybreak: 35 Years of Salmon Poetry (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Salmon Poetry's 2016 celebratory anthology, highlighting its list of Irish, American, British and European poets, all of whom represent the vibrancy of contemporary literature - distinct in style, voice, and geography. "Salmon's unique profile grows from...

Ben Howard / Firewood and Ashes: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Encompassing forms as diverse as the free-verse lyric, the sonnet sequence, the verse letter, and the meditative monologue, this selection from Ben Howard’s six previous books demonstrates the breadth of his cultural awareness and the depth of his...

Gusztáv Báger / Object Found (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  Hungarian Guszt v B ger is a rare combination of poet and economist. His striking and highly effective poems unite realism and surrealism with concern and pity for human beings. Although B ger is no tourist he is a frequent visitor in the capitals...

Julian Gough / Free Sex Chocolate (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Free Sex Chocolate is a witty, irreverent, provocative, and highly original collection of poems and songs written by Julian Gough from the 1980s to the present. An acclaimed novelist, this is his first collection of poetry. He also wrote the first short...

David McLoghlin / Waiting for Saint Brendan and Other Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

As an avid reader of Irish literature, I found David McLoghlin’s work… to be fresh and unexpected, yet still worthy of inclusion in the great canon of poetry that is produced by his nation.”Mark Shaw, Natural Bridge“Its own...

A Taste for Hemlock / Michele Vassal (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

A Taste for Hemlock is a mystical journey of transmutation birthed in the crucible of cultural dichotomy. Grounded in myths and storytelling, Michele Vassal's vision is uncompromising, incisive, and laden with a rich painterly sensuality. In this book,...

Louise C. Callaghan / The Puzzle-Heart (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The poems in this first collection range from poignant accounts of adult children leaving home, of a granddaughter and those heart searing poems which map the geography of love-loneliness, desire, and loss. These poems resonate with passion and sorrow...

Robert Fanning / Severance (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  In his fourth full-length collection, Robert Fanning takes a dramatic leap into a liminal world. In poems both measured and free, both cadenced and incantatory, we follow two marionettes—Professor and Grief—who search for a life...

Patrick Chapman / The New Pornography (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Eavan Boland, writing in Poetry Ireland Review, praised Patrick Chapman's "real gifts for rhythmic shock treatment and off-beat diction," describing him as "one of the very compelling voices" of the new generation of Irish poets. This equally sharp and...

Eva Bourke / Watching My Hands at Work: A Festschift for Adrian Frazier (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This Festschrift consists of poems, short stories, essays, and extracts from novels and plays honoring the invaluable contribution Adrian Frazier has made to education and the arts at NUI Galway and further afield in the literary community of Ireland as...

Seamus Cashman / The Sistine Gaze: I too begin with scaffolding (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The Sistine Gaze engages imaginatively and intellectually with Michelangelo’s frescoes and this demands scale and execution of a high order; it requires a more than usual organisation of sources, religious, philosophical, biblical, mythological,...

Rory Brennan / The Old in Rapallo (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Rory Brennan grew up in Dublin and took a degree in literature from Trinity College. He has worked in education, broadcasting and arts administration and has lived for extended periods in Morocco and Greece. Travel in these and many other places is...

Elvis Alves / Blackfish (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In Blackfish, Elvis Alves locates beauty in the horrid and strange that constitute familial and social history. In this way, the poems grasp after the meaning of life in an attempt to ensure survival in the midst of all that it offers. Some of the poems...

Patricia Brody / My Blazing World (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This is the third collection from New York City poet and two-time Pushcart nominee, Patricia Brody.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the storage in their last location they might have some scuffs or...

John Corless / Are You Ready? (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Corless lives and writes in County Mayo, Ireland. His poetry is a mix of political, satirical, and rural and has been described as `Paul Durcan meets The Sawdoctors.' He writes poetry, fiction, and drama; his work has been published in magazines and...

Edward Denniston / The Scale of Things (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Many of the poems in The Scale of Things were inspired by childhood experiences, and the book is dedicated to the author's mother who passed away in 2011.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the...

J.P. Dancing Bear / Conflicted Light (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Dancing Bear's poems have been published in Shenandoah, Poetry International, New Orleans Review, National Poetry Review, Marlboro Review, Mississippi Review, Atlanta Review and many others. He is the editor of the American Poetry Journal and the host of...

Nadya Aisenberg / Measures (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

      These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the storage in their last location they might have some scuffs or marks on the edges of the pages

Matt W. Miller / The Wounded For the Water (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Miller explores the littoral zone; between the firmament of experience and understanding, between first breath and death, where strict definitions of gender, fatherhood, and masculinity swirl in the pull of tides and the curl and crush of waves. In these...