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. 

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. 

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

(Lesser Grade Paperback)   The picture shown is the actual book you will receive   All books with Lesser Grade in the title are worn or show heavy wear. These books are below our usual standard and could be considered as damaged. We just think...

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

(Lesser Grade Paperback)   The picture shown is the actual book you will receive   All books with Lesser Grade in the title are worn or show heavy wear. These books are below our usual standard and could be considered as damaged. We just think...

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...

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...

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’...

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...

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...

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,...

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]...

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...

Alex Pavesi / Ink Ribbon Red (Large Paperback)

A group of friends gather in a country house for a birthday party.At their host’s request, they each write a short mystery. They draw names from a in each story, one of the group is the killer, and another the victim.Of course, when given such...

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...

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. 

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...

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...

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...

Annie Proulx / Heart Songs (Large Paperback)

In the far-flung settlements of New England, life resolves around hunting. On the high, wooded hillsides there are deer to be stalked; upriver there are quiet pools of trout, grouse to be shot and traplines to be laid for fur. But the old ways are...

Margaret Cornish - Still Waters - Mystery Tales of the Canals - HB - 1982

Hardcover, published by Robert Hale UK, 1980.   

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 blonde secretaries are concerned..'Among the Irish in...

Nick Harkaway / Karla's Choice (Large Paperback)

  An extraordinary new novel set in the world of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway. It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the...

Lee Karr / Dark Cries of Gray Oaks (Large Paperback)

Orphaned Briana Anderson was grateful to be offered the job as companion to the mentally ill seventeen-years-old girl, and to be staying at the luxurious Ponce de Leon Hotel and health spa in St. Agustine, Florida. Cassie's eyes were a deep, empty...

Ger Fitzgibbon / Songs For A Burning City (Large Paperback)

On the evening of December 11, 1920, a production of The Gondoliers is in full swing at the Cork Opera House when word comes through that the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries are rampaging through the streets and setting buildings on fire. Songs for a...

Eleanor Nilsson / Outside Permission (Large Paperback)

Simon is good looking, intelligent and fun to be around, David is his best friend. They have always hung out together. But when Simon dares David to infiltrate the mysterious House of Records, everything changes. Can the files held there really predict...

Karen Hesse / Young Nick's Head (Large Paperback)

The year is 1768. Nicholas Young's mind is made up. He's had enough! Enough of the cruel butcher to whom he is apprenticed and enough of his indifferent father lurking somewhere in the background of his existence. He's had enough of the squalor of...

Biddy Jenkinson / Poetry Ireland Review Spring 2001 (Large Paperback)

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Alyson Noel / Fly Me to the Moon (Large Paperback)

When flight attendant Hailey Lane learns the rest of her trip has been cancelled and she can fly straight home to spend her birthday with her boyfriend Michael, she's thrilled. Her early arrival will allow for some additional date night prep time, a...

Edwina Currie / This Honourable House (Large Paperback)

Edwina Currie's third political novel, This Honourable House, opens with an election resulting in a victory for a party not dissimilar to New Labour. It follows with all the sex, spin, and scandal in any good political novel.   This book is second...

Scarlett Thomas / The Sleepwalkers (Large Paperback)

Still reeling from the chaos of their wedding, Evelyn and Richard arrive on a tiny Greek island for their honeymoon. It’s the end of the season and a storm is imminent. Determined to make the best of it, they check into the sun-soaked doors of...

Donald Ray Pollock / The Heavenly Table (Large Paperback)

Cane, Cob, and Chimney Jewett are young Georgia sharecroppers held under the thumb of their domineering, God-struck father Pearl. When he dies unexpectedly, they set out on horseback to rob and loot their way to wealth and infamy, inspired by a lurid...

Oona Frawley / Flight (Large Paperback)

The man of the house was mad when Sandrine came. Elizabeth’s mother rang her morning, noon and night. He’s driving me mad with his pepper talk, she said, I’ll crown him if he talks to me about the need for Vietnam to join the...

Austin Duffy / Ten Days (Large Paperback)

When Wolf's recently-estranged wife Miriam dies from cancer, his entire world is turned upside down. Wolf and his daughter, Ruth, travel to New York from London to scatter Miriam's ashes in the Hudson River. During the ten High Holy Days of Rosh...

Michael Caulfield / Any Chance of a Start? (Large Paperback)

Any Chance of a Start? is the debut novel by Annaghdown based writer Michael Caulfield. The three eldest Folan brothers - Christy, Iggy and Mikey - leave the family farm in Mayo to work on building sites in London in the late 1970s. Like so many Irish...

David Bezmozgis / The Free World (Large Paperback)

"Summer, 1978. Brezhnev sits like a stone in the Kremlin, Israel and Egypt are inching towards peace, and in the bustling, polyglot streets of Rome, strange new creatures have appeared: Soviet Jews who have escaped to freedom through a crack in the...

Sam Baker / Fashion Victim (Large Paperback)

Who would leave a highly respected, hard-won position as an investigative journalist at one of London’s top newspapers for a job at a fashion rag? That’s the question on everyone’s mind when Annie Anderson announces she’s...

Justin Hill / Shieldwall (Large Paperback)

Conquest Trilogy #1 The year is 1016 and England burns while the Viking armies blockade the great city of London. King Ethelred lies dying and the England he knew dies with him; the warring kingdoms of Mercia, Wessex and Northymbria tremble on...

Joan Brady / Venom (Large Paperback)

Recently released from prison, David Marion didn't expect to find a hitman at his door. Warned that a powerful secret organisation is after him, David goes underground and off the radar--waiting for the perfect moment to wreak revenge.Physicist Helen...

Rose Wilding / Speak of the Devil (Large Paperback)

Seven women stand in shock in a seedy hotel room; a man's severed head sits in the centre of the floor. Each of the women - the wife, the teenager, the ex, the journalist, the colleague, the friend, and the woman who raised him - has a very good...

Niall Macmonagle ( Editor)/ Lifelines - New and Collected (Coffee Table Book)

Letters from famous people about their favourite poem.    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...

Maren Stoffels / Room Service (Large Paperback)

Be careful what you order. Full of menace and suspense, this is horror at its bestA fancy hotel + no parents = party time for four friends celebrating a birthday weekend. But when an uninvited party guest seeking revenge turns up, the fun quickly turns...

T. Coraghessan Boyle / The Women (Large Paperback)

A fictional account of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright's life, told through his relationships with four women: the young Montenegrin dancer Olgivanna; Miriam, the "morphine-addicted and obsessive Southern belle"; Mamah, whose life ended in a...

Elizabeth Kay / Seven Lies (Large Paperback)

Jane and Marnie have been inseparable since they were eleven years old. They have a lot in common. In their early twenties they fell in love with and married handsome young men. But Jane never liked Marnie's husband. He was always so loud and...

Betsy Lerner / The Bridge Ladies (Large Paperback)

A fifty-year-old bridge game, and the secrets it held, provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between the author and her mother: Betsy Lerner takes us on an intimate and powerfully personal literary journey where we learn a...

Jodi Picoult / By Any Other Name (Large Paperback)

From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about two women, centuries apart—one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare’s plays—who are both forced...

Lydia Millet / Omnivores (Large Paperback)

In a claustrophobic, surreal California house, teenager Estée Kraft lives with her domineering father, whose obsession with insect taxonomy bleeds into sadism. As his schemes multiply, Estée’s bedridden mother, entranced by the...

Jean Hanff Korelitz / The Latecomer

The Oppenheimer triplets have been reared with every advantage: wealth, education, and the determined attention of at least one of their parents. But they have been desperate to escape each other ever since they were born. Now, on the verge of their...

Christopher de Vinck / Ashes

A deeply touching novel about two young women whose differences, which once united them, will tear them apart forever, during Hitler’s Nazi occupation of Belgium and France. Based on true events.For fans of All The Light We Cannot...