Fiction

Blindboy Boatclub - The Gospel According to Blindboy - HB - Short Stories - 2017

 The Gospel According to Blindboy is a surreal and genre-defying collection of short stories and visual art exploring the myths, complacencies and contradictions at the heart of modern Ireland. Covering themes ranging from love and death to sex and...

Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond - The J.R.R Tolkien Companion and Guide - 2 Volume Set Slipcased : Chronology & Reader's Guide - USA 2006 1st Editions

This is the US Houghton Mifflin edition of the 2 Volume gudie to Tolkien by Christina Schull & Wayne Hammond , first printings , 2006 , in uniform editions , Chronology and Reader's Guide. In black slipcase, with titles to slipcase in gily lettering...

Daniel Ford - Michael's War - HB - 2003

Molly Keane & Sally Phipps - Molly Keane's Ireland : An Anthology - PB 1993

A Ted Smart ( Bookclub) edition 1993, of an anthology of Irish writing - fiction, poetry, historical accounts, essays, non fiction, from earliiest times, edited and selected by Molly Keane. 

Seamus Heaney - Door Into the Dark - PB Reprint 2002, Originally 1969

Originally published in 1969, Seamus Heaney's Door into the Dark continues a furrow so startlingly opened in his first collection, Death of a Naturalist (1966). With the sensuosness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early...

Mitchelstown Writers Group - Another Mitchelstown Miscellany - PB 2016

Published 2016, a collection of local history, stort stories, poetry and essays by local writers and residents of the north Cork town. 

Louis L'Amour / Reilly's Luck (Lesser Grade Paperback)

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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Balance of Power (Lesser Grade Paperback)

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Robert Silverberg / The Face of the Waters (Lesser Grade Paperback)

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Bram Stoker / Dracula (Lesser Grade Paperback)

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Marion Zimmer Bradley / Leroni of Darkover (Lesser Grade Paperback)

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Marion Zimmer Bradley / The Shadow Matrix (Lesser Grade Paperback)

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Neal Stephenson / Zodiac (Lesser Grade Paperback)

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David Weber / March to the Sea (Lesser Grade Paperback)

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L.E. Modesitt / The Ecologic Envoy (Lesser Grade Paperback)

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Marcia Clark / Killer Ambition (Large Paperback)

Killer Ambition: A Rachel Knight novel     When the daughter of a billionaire Hollywood director is found murdered after what appears to be a kidnapping gone wrong, Los Angeles Special Trials prosecutor Rachel Knight and...

Susie Dent / Guilty by Definition (Large Paperback)

The Clarendon Lexicographers #1 She knew there'd be ghosts in Oxford, she just didn't think they'd make their way to the dictionary.Oxford, England. After a decade abroad, Martha Thornhill has returned home to the city whose ancient...

Margaret Kirk / In the Blood (Large Paperback)

THE COMPELLING, GOTHIC, BRILLIANTLY ATMOSPHERIC THIRD NOVEL IN THE DI LUKAS MAHLER SERIESSome cases are personal...Tied to a derelict pier on Orkney, the bloated remains of a man bob in the waves, under the shadow of forbidding Sandisquoy House. The...

Smyth Amanda / A Kind of Eden (Large Paperback)

Martin Rawlinson is a stranger in a strange land, an Englishman in Trinidad, and he is relishing it. He has asked for his temporary consultancy position with the Trinidad police to be made permanent, and is hoping to start a new life with the...

Jill Childs / Jessica's Promise (Large Paperback)

Teresa's heart stops when she enters her daughter's bedroom to find that her sweet, trusting little girl is gone. Teresa can't bear to think who would take a terrified three-year-old from her mother in the middle of the night, but all the signs point...

Amanda Quick / Quicksilver - (Looking Glass Trilogy - Book 2) Large Paperback)

Quicksilver (Arcane Society, #11)   In the latest sizzling Victorian novel from the compelling world of the mysterious Arcane Society, a paranormal killer pushes an unlikely duo's powers and passions to the limit. Virginia Dean wakes at...

Harriet Evans/ The Garden of Lost and Found (Large Paperback)

Nightingale House, 1919. Liddy Horner discovers her husband, the world-famous artist Sir Edward Horner, burning his best-known painting The Garden of Lost and Found days before his sudden death.Nightingale House was the Horner family's beloved home -...

Michael Ondaatje / Anil's Ghost (Large Paperback)

With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize-winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to...

Lauren Oyler / Fake Accounts (Large Paperback)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZEA wry, provocative and very funny debut novel about identity, authenticity and the self in the age of the internet‘I loved it’ Zadie Smith‘Brilliant, very funny’...

Tash Aw / We the Survivors (Large Paperback)

A murderer’s confession – devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable – which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable workings of destiny.Ah Hock is an ordinary, uneducated man born in a Malaysian fishing...

Stephen Coonts / Saucer (Large Paperback)

  Stephen Coonts has earned an extraordinary worldwide reputation with his military thrillers featuring Jake Grafton, one of the most popular and recognizable characters in contemporary suspense fiction. In this exhilarating departure, Coonts...

Nicci French / The Last Days of Kira Mullan (Large Paperback)

Maud O’Connor Mysteries #2 From international bestselling master of suspense Nicci French comes a chilling new psychological thriller about a woman determined to get justice for a murder no one else believes happened.Nancy North is ready...

Nicky Pellegrino / Tiny Pieces of Us (Large Paperback)

My heart is less than 1% of my body, it weighs hardly anything; it is only a tiny piece of me, yet it is the part everyone finds most interesting. Vivi Palmer knows what it's like to live life carefully. Born with a heart defect, she was given a...

R.B. Kelly / Edge of Heaven (Large Paperback)

April 2119: in the Reserve Naturelle de l Auvergne, a dog walker makes a gruesome discovery - a badly decomposed body, half buried under a landslide. In that moment of horror, she sets in motion a chain of events that will bring catastrophe in...

John Dowds / Remembering Betsy Gray (Large Paperback)

Remembering Betsy Gray is set in Ireland during 1795-98 and follows the journey of a young Irish woman who dreamt it was possible for the people of her beloved country to overcome centuries of sectarian hatred and build a new society in which...

Danny Denton / The Stinging Fly Issue 45 (Large Paperback)

The Stinging Fly Issue 45/Volume Two Winter 2021-22 Danny Denton (Editor )     FictionLorie Broumand | ‘Talk To Bridget’Wendy Erskine | ‘Golem’Liz MacBride | ‘The Johnny’Eamon...

Robert Hass / Into The Garden - Poetry and Prose in Love and Marriage (Large Paperback)

For brides and grooms who want to give their weddings new depth and meaning, two acclaimed poet-translators have gathered a stunning collection of poems and prose that will add a unique and personal dimension to the ceremony. This book is second hand,...

Denis Johnson / Jesus' Son (Large Paperback)

American master Denis Johnson's nationally bestselling collection of blistering and indelible tales about America's outcasts and wanderers.Denis Johnson's now classic story collection Jesus' Son chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost...

A.B. Yehoshua / The Retrospective (Large Paperback)

A New York Times Editor's Choice “[Yehoshua] achieves an autumnal tone as he ruminates on memory's slippery hold on life and on art.”—The New Yorker“Yehoshua's stories remind us that Israeli literature. . . [has]...

Fiona Lowe / The Accident (Large Paperback)

A terrible crash... but the facts don't add up.Worlds converge and two women's lives are torn apart when a devastating accident uncovers a shocking web of lies. A gripping and thought-provoking new mystery from bestselling Australian author Fiona...

Diney Costeloe / Evil on the Wind (Large Paperback)

Living with the rising tyranny of the Nazis and their determination to make their Reich Jew Free, Ruth and her family run a desperate race to escape the Nazi terror as it marches inexorably to its ‘final solution’ of the Jewish Problem. This...

W.H Auden - Selected Poems - PB 1968

Previous owner's name and dates to front endpages.  Uneven partial sunfade tpo the front cover and spine.  This edition 1968   

Ted Hughes - Selected Poems 1957-1967 - PB

Previous owner's name anbd date to front endpages. Spine and areas close to spine are slightly sun faded Contains a wide selection of pomes from three of Hughes's collections - Lupercal, Woodwo and The Hawk in the Rain. 

Daphne du Maurier - Frenchman's Creek - Vintage Penguin PB - 1962 ( Originally 1941)

A 1962 paperback, originally 1941.  Closed tear to upper edge of spine, previous owner's name  and station address ( a Garda) on title page. Vertical three band cover design, Penguin number 1724. 

Brinsley MacNamara - The Clanking of Chains ( A story of Sinn Féin) - Anvil Press Vintage PB

A paperback REPRINT edition, Anvil Press, of Brinsley Macnamara's The Clanking of Chains, first published in 1919- 20 by Maunsel. Originally titled as The Clanking of Chains - A Story of Sinn Féin. John Weldon, who used the penname Brinsley...

John B. Keane - Letters of a Civic Guard - Vintage PB - 1st 1976

A first paperback edition originally published 1976 Leo Molair is a longtime Garda, writing letters to his nephew who is also a guard, but of only two years standing..  

John Wyndham - The Seeds of Time - Vintage Penguin PB SF 1963 ( Originally 1956(

In this thrilling collection of stories, John Wyndham, author of the acclaimed classics The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos, conducts ten experiments along the theme of 'I wonder what might happen if . . .' There's the story of the meteor,...

Peadar O'Donnell - Proud Island - PB - 1985 ( Originally 1975)

A 1985 O'Brien Press reprint of the 1975 original. Light spotting to pages, binding tight, otherwise unmarked. 

Brendan Behan - The Quare Fellow - 1976 PB Edition

The Quare Fellow was the play that established Brendan Behan as a writer, first produced in 1956. When he wrote it, Behan has spebnt 8 of his 33 years in British prisons, knew the combined horror and frace of prison and borstal life , and had met men...

Arthur Conan Doyle - The Complete Sherlock Holmes - HB B&N Deluxe Edition

Hardcover, one of the Barnes & Noble USA 'Deluxe edition ' hardcovers, with gilt edge finish toi page block, illustrated leather effect covers, illustrated endpages.  This edition 2009 - the complete collected Sherlock Holmes in a handsome...

Greg Baxter / Munich Airport (Large Paperback)

An American expat in London receives a piece of news that is nearly the body of his sister Miriam has been found in her Berlin apartment, dead from starvation. Three weeks later, the man, his elderly father, and an American consular official find...

Patrick Deville / Plague and Cholera (Large Paperback)

  Paris, May 1940. Nazi troops storm the city and at Le Bourget airport, on the last flight out, sits Dr Alexandre Yersin, his gaze politely turned away from his fellow passengers with their jewels sewn into their luggage. He is too old for the...

Ali Sethi / The Wish Maker (Large Paperback)

A brilliant, enthralling debut novel about a fatherless boy growing up in a family of outspoken women in contemporary Pakistan. The Wish Maker is also a tale of sacrifice, betrayal and indestructible friendship. Zaki Shirazi and his female cousin Samar...

Michele Giuttari / A Florentine Death (Large Paperback)

Michele Ferrara #1 Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara knows that the beautiful surface of his adopted city, Florence, hides dark undercurrents. When called in to investigate a series of brutal and apparently random murders, his intuition is...

Rory Clements / A Prince and a Spy (Large Paperback)

Tom Wilde #5 In the gripping new spy thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hitler's Secret, a Cambridge spy must unravel a dangerous mystery that goes all the way to the heart of the Third Reich - and the British Monarchy . . .Sweden,...

Rory Clements / The English Führer (Large Paperback)

Tom Wilde #7 Autumn 1945 - Off the east coast of England, a Japanese sub surfaces, unloads its mysterious cargo, then blows itself to pieces.Former spy Professor Tom Wilde is enjoying peacetime in Cambridge, settling back into teaching and family...

Maria Scrivan / Nat Enough (Large Paperback)

A New York Times bestseller! Making friends isn't easy, but losing them is even harder! Natalie has never felt that she's enough -- athletic enough, stylish enough, or talented enough. And on the first day of middle school, Natalie discovers that...