Fiction

Tyler Farrell / Stichomythia (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Tyler Farrell received his undergraduate degree at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska where he studied with Eamonn Wall. In 2002 he received his doctorate from UW-Milwaukee where he studied with James Liddy. Farrell is currently a visiting assistant...

Marc Vincenz / Here Comes the Nightdust (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Multi-linguist poet, fiction writer, translator, editor and artist Marc Vincenz brings us far beyond the Pillars of Hercules in this collection. Part travelogue, part love song, part meditative reflection, Vincenz takes us on a profound journey of inner...

Ruth O'Callaghan / Unportioned: New and Selected Short Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Ruth O’Callaghan’s work is wide-ranging in subject and versatile in form. I particularly enjoy her meditative and humane poems on human relationships."Connie Bensley on Unportioned"These are poems that confront the worst that life has to show...

Jo Slade / Cycles and Lost Monkeys (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In her latest collection of poems Jo Slade continues her investigation of displacement and difference and illustrates how these experiences can be transformed through poetry, a transformation that is not so much redemptive, as prophetic. These are...

Timothy Houghton / Where the Lighthouse Begins (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

What lies behind much of the lyric poems in Where the Lighthouse Begins is a motivating sense of in some poems, a dead father, an aging mother, a troubled brother; or, in other poems, a conflict, such as a war. The natural world also plays a major role,...

Rachel Coventry / Afternoon Drinking at the Jolly Butchers (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Beginning in East London, this debut collection makes its way back to Ireland and also moves from troubled youth to adulthood. Drawing on quantum mechanics, myth, religion, and philosophy to fragment its perspective and to tell and retell its stories. It...

Alice Pettway / Moth (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

No matter how far life draws us from home, the tug of the familiar is always there, turning our eyes and our steps. In Alice Pettway's second collection of poetry, the light of family and tradition is so bright it sometimes singes. These poems cast the...

Lea Graham / From the Hotel Vernon (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

These poems center on the Hotel Vernon, built at the turn of the 20th century in Worcester, Mass. Once an elegant place for local politicians to make their backdoor deals, it fell into decline. Despite this, it has always been a space where artists,...

Mark Lawrence / The Girl and the Moon (Hardback)

The fate of the world hangs from the MoonThe green world overwhelms all of Yaz’s expectations. Everything seems different but some things remain the same: her old enemies are still bent on her destruction.The Corridor abounds with plenty and...

Kevin J. Anderson / Star Wars: Tales of the Bounty Hunters

If you've ever wanted to know more about the Bounty Hunters that appear in The Empire Strikes Back, this is the book! This is an awesome collection of the following short Therefore I The Tale of IG-88 by Kevin J. Anderson, The Tale of Dengar by Dave...

Helen Carr (Editor) - Irish Gothic : Dark Tales from Le Fanu to Stoker - BRAND NEW

… the chill stole over me and the stillness of night began to embrace me … From Ireland’s best 19th century Gothic writers come ten chilling stories to cast their dark enchantment over you. The eternal struggle between good and evil...

Pádhraic Óg Ó Conaire - Fuine Gréine - HB - 1967

Cnuasach gearrscéalta , foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1967. Ba as Rosmuc i gConamara an túdar a rugadh in 1893. D'oibrigh sé mar aistritheoir i nDáil Éireann, agus mar chraoltóir ar Radió...

Glen A. Larson & Robert Thurston - Battlestar Galactica ( BOOK 2) : The Cylon Death Machine - PB - 1979

Paperback, published by Futura Paperbacks , 1979, striking cover art by Frank Frazetta. He got Apollo very well, the Glactica in the background probably less so, but the 1978 art probably predated the series itself.  Based on the episode  The...

Michael S. Begnal - Future Blues - PB

Michael S. Begnal's Future Blues is both a progression of and a break with his previous collection, Ancestor Worship. Inasmuch as any poet's work is a continuing narrative defined by nothing more or less than chronology, Future Blues is the collection...

Marck L. Beggs - Catastrophic Chords - PB

Catastrophic Chords is a 2008 poetry collection by American poet and professor Marck L. Beggs. Published by Salmon Poetry, the book explores themes of duality and paradox, split into musical poems about loss and an extended imagined dialogue between...

Drew Blanchard - Winter Dogs - PB - 2011

From Chicago to Moscow, from the Mississippi to Mt. Hood, Drew Blanchard furnishes his landscapes with stories of things people consume (“blackberry pie” and “ice buckets full of Blatz”) and the things that consume them...

Judith Barrington - The Conversation - PB - BRAND NEW

“This is a brilliant technical achievement; it reminds us all that great poetry is both fine thinking and achieved style. The narrator describes and teaches, telling us that death – and death in life – is ‘too late now for that...

Paul Allen - Ground Forces - PB - BRAND NEW

Millicent Borges Accardi - Only More So - PB -BRAND NEW

Only More So is a collection of lyric poems. Sometimes a bridge in a sad song, other times an echo that threatens to develop then fades, the images blend, twist, and entangle one another: a marriage is a song, then it’s a body, and finally a boat...

Peter J. Gloviczki - The Weight of Dandelions - PB - BRAND NEW

Peter Joseph Gloviczki’s the weight of dandelions explores each moment to discover its essence. Believing there is beauty (and humor) in the everyday world, he declares in one poem: “queen-size bed / the dog lets me / sleep there too”...

Kim Lenaghan - Irish Superstitions (Appletree Pocket Guides) - PB - BRAND NEW

Brand new, published by Appletree Press, 2019. 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Le Petit Prince - Folio -PB - 2007 ILLUSTRATED

 Folio Junior PB ,  this reprint edition, 2007 avec les aquarelles de l'auteur.  Illustrations in colour. Price label residue on back cover, internally unmarked.  TEXT ENTIRELY IN FRENCH  "J'ai ainsi vécu seul, sans...

Richard Coles / Murder Under the Mistletoe: A Canon Clement Christmas Novella

It is Christmas Day and at Champton Rectory, Canon Daniel Clement and his mother Audrey are joined by the residents and guests of the big house to drink, eat and be merry.At the festive feast, peace and goodwill prevail.Until two meet under the mistletoe...

Leo Kessler - Death's Head - PB - 1974

A Futura PB  EDITION, 1974.  SS Assault Battalion Wotan, the toughest troops in Europe, are sent on an apparently impossible mission against the elite of the Soviet Army in a vital bid to prepare the way for Operation Barbarossa. Here, we meet...

James Stephens - The Demi-Gods - PB 1982 (Originally 1914)

Originally published 1914, this is a Butler Sims 1982 PB , with an introduction by Augustine Martin   "The Demi-Gods" by James Stephens is a novel written in the early 20th century. The narrative follows a ragged traveler named Patsy Mac Cann and...

Charles Dickens / A Christmas Carol with A Christmas Tree (Coffee Table Book)

Charles Dickens' much-loved tale of the covetous old sinner Ebenezer Scrooge, his meetings with the ghosts of Christmas, and the fate of Tiny Tim, is accompanied here by another short story, A Christmas Tree, in which the narrator reflects on the...

Niall MacMonagle (Editor) / Lifelines 2 : Letters from famous people about their favourite poem (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...

Jason Cockcroft / We Were Wolves (Coffee Table Book)

'A truly original and affecting piece of work. Unsettling but beautiful, sparse but packed with heart, it’s a real invasion of the senses' Phil Earle'Yearning regret punctuated by glimpses of real companionship and pure dread. What a joy to...

Jon Stallworthy / Anthem for Doomed Youth (Coffee Table Book)

Twelve soldier poets of the First World War       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...

Simon Marsden / Visions of Poe (Coffee Table Book)

A selection of tales and poems, visually interpreted with photographs by Simon Marsden, capturing the world as Edgar Allan Poe envisaged it.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Jeanne Schinto / The Literary Dog: Great Contemporary Dog Stories (Coffee Table Book)

The Literary Great Contemporary Dog Stories. A superlative collection of contemporary stories written by some of the most important writers of our time. These stories, selected by short-story writer Jeanne Schinto, are for lovers of good fiction -...

John Betjeman / The Illustrated Summoned by Bells (Coffee Table Book)

This verse autobiography relates the story of the author's younger days set against the places and buildings that were significant in his youth - Highgate, Cornwall, Chelsea, Marlborough, Oxford quads, churches and railway stations...

Helen McCloy - He Never Came Back - (Vintage Penguin Crime PB 1961)

Pubished by Penguin Crime UK, 1961. Originally 1954.  Small ghostmark from an old sticker on front cover, some uneven darkening to spine and adjacent areas.  The tagline is ' a shortsighted girl buys danger in New York...'' 

Gerald Heard (H.F Heard) - A Taste For Honey - Vintage Penguin Crime - 1961

First published in 1942, this is the first Penguin UK CRIME PAPERBACK EDITION, 1961.  Three horizontal green and white bands, Penguin number 1624, Small areas of edgewear to head and tail of spine.  Horror strikes when killer bees swarm amok in...

George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Vintage PB 1982)

Keep The Aspidistra Flying" is a 1936 novel by George Orwell. The book is a social critique set in 1930s London. The story revolves around the protagonist, Gordon Comstock, who fantasises about defying the worship of money and status, and how, in...

Magnus Magnusson (Translator) - The Vinland Sagas : The Norse Discovery of America - PB - 1975

Paperback, 1975, Penguin UK.  Originally published 1965, this reprint 1975. Translation of the early medieval texts by Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson.  The tales of Erik the Red and Leif the Lucky of the new land west of Greenland

Brian M. Stableford / The Dictionary of Science Fiction Places (Coffee Table Book)

  GILEAD, Margaret Atwood's sexually oppressive society in The Handmaid's Tale A. E. Van Vogt's IMPERIAL CITY, the seat of power of the Isher dynasty, which ruled Earth, Mars, and Venus for nearly five thousand years MONARCH TOWER, the...

Len Deighton / The IPCRESS File. (Vintage Paperback)

      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book.

H. G. Wells / The Invisible Man (Vintage Paperback)

      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book.

Georgette Heyer - Simon the Coldheart - HB ( 1978 Reprint, Originally 1925)

A hardcover BCA (Book Club) edition, 1978 of the 1925 original. Medieval history romance ( a subgenre that Heyer excelled at) . Age spotting to the inside of the front cover flap, previous owner's name and date to the blank front endpage. 

X.J Kennedy( Editor) - Tygers of Wrath : Poems of Hate, Anger and Invective

Hardcover, illustrated by Michael McCurdy, publsihed byGeorgia UP, 1981  

Maurice Walsh - Trouble in the Glen - HB Reprint 1980

A hardcover 1980 reprint, Chambers UK, the original publisher , with a patterned cover design showing shamrocks and thistles ( in reference to the author's Irish and Scottish links) . Heavy age spotting to the page block.  Originally 1950 - An...

Kenneth Allott - The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse - PB - 1968 Reprint

A paperback reprint, Penguin Poetry, 1968. Originally published 1950, this being teh revised and enlarged edition. Twentieth century poetry to circa 1950. Most poets included are born in the 20th century, and those that are not 20th century born, such as...

Neil Jotdan - Night in Tunisia - PB - 1982 (Originally 1976)

Paperback, published by Brandon Publishing, this reprint edition 1982, first published in 1976 by The Writer's Co-Op.  A debut collection of ( brilliant) short stories. Light edgewear only. 

Carina McNally - Mithim - PB - BRAND NEW

This is a haunting and lyrical historical novel set in 17th-century Ireland, where healer and herbalist Mithim is forced into the wild after Cromwellian forces destroy her home. Armed with ancient wisdom and a deep connection to the land, she carves out...

Thaddeus Ó Buachalla - EL - PB - BRAND NEW

A Cork academic's accidental discovery of microscopic humanoid beings living inside flies unleashes a four-century conspiracy that stretches from Galileo's revolutionary revelations to the chaos of Brexit. What begins as scientific curiosity becomes a...

Jack B Yeats - Ah Well | And to You Also - HB ( 2 IN 1 Omnibus Edition 1974)

Hardcover, a 2 in one omnibus edition ( first thus) of two works by Jack B Yeats, Ah Well ( originally 1942) & And To You Also ( Originally 1944) , here in a Routledge Keegan Paul ( RKP) edition, 1974 Heavy ( if uniform)  sunfade to the spine (...

Thomas F. Walsh / Illustrated Favourite Poems We Learned at School (Coffee Table Book)

Favourite Poems We Learned at School and its companion volumes More Favourite Poems We Learned at School and Favourite Poems We Learned at School as Gaeilge are enduring bestsellers in Ireland. The illustrated edition takes forty of the most popular...

Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes - 7 Volume PB Penguin

A partial uniform collection( Penguin UK reprints) in editions made to resemble 195's and 1960's era three vertical stripe Penguins.  Contains -  His Last Bow, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The...

Terry Pratchett / The Last Hero (Coffee Table Book)

A short but perfectly formed complete Discworld novel, fully illustrated in lavish colour throughout, THE LAST HERO is an essential part of any Discworld collection.It stars the legendary Cohen the Barbarian, a legend in his own lifetime. Cohen can...

Frank E Peretti / Piercing the Darkness (Large Paperback)

In Piercing the Darkness, Sally Beth Roe, a young loner, a burn-out, a kind of leftover hippie, finds herself caught in the middle of bizarre events, fleeing for her life while trying to recall her dark past.   This book is second hand, and...

LaQuette / Vanessa Jared's Got a Man (Large Paperback)

LaQuette's debut sexy romantic comedy Vanessa Jared's Got a Man tells the story of a woman getting her groove back and getting a second chance at love.Vanessa Jared, a 40-something divorcee, decided that the best way to pull herself out of their...