Fiction

Trio Poetry 3 - Johnston Kirkpatrick | Peter McDonald | Trevor McMahon - 1982

IRISH POETRY: NORTHERN IRELAND. Johnston Kirkpatrick, Peter McDonald and Trevor McMahon. Octavo, glossy blue printed wrappers. "Trio Poetry 3" represents the first publication, in book form, of these...

John Ashbery - April Galleons -Poems - HB - 1988

In this collection, first published in 1987, John Ashbery--"one of his generation's most gifted and eloquent poets" (Michuko Kakutani, "The New York Times")--offers some of his most intimate and...

Joe Sheerin - A Crack in the Ice - PB Dolmen Press - 1985

Dolmen Press paperback, a review slip is laid in loosely.  Light edgewear to covers, otherwise unmarked. 

Wakter Hoyt French & Charles Brockway Hale ( Editors) - Middle English Metrical Romances ( Volume 2) - hb 1964

Volume 2 of a set ( but standalone in it's own accord Contents - Sir Perceval of Galles. The avowing of Arthur -- Composites: Ipomadon (selections). Eger and Grime. The squire of low degree -- The...

Frederick Rolfe - Hadrian the Seventh - PB 1982 ( Originally 1904)

Hadrian VII by Frederick William Rolfe  (Baron Corvo) This text is a novel of thwarted ambition and ecclesiastical wish-fulfillment. When a set of curious circumstances propels George Arthur Rose...

Theo Dorgan - Camarade - PB - BRAND NEW

‘All things considered, I wonder if shooting that policeman made me the man that I am?’ In this masterful new work, award-winning author Theo Dorgan has written a philosophical thriller of...

Mary O'Donnell - Walking Ghosts - PB - BRAND NEW

In these masterful stories, Mary O’Donnell captures characters caught between certainties and change — from urban encounters to sun-drenched beaches, lockdown anxieties to nightclub tensions. Her...

Cyril Christo - The Dream of the Earth - PB

Publisher: Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990 Signed by the poet to fellow poet Eavan Boland, March 1991. 

John Cowper Powys - Three Fantasies - HB Carcanet UK 1985

Three fantasy stories make use of surrealism to tell the stories of two armchairs, the strange people of the Go Peninsula, and Yok Pok and his younger sister.  Hardcover, Carcanet Press UK, 1985...

Lois Gould - Such Good Friends - PB

We were at least as happily married as anybody else, which maybe was't very, but it was all anybody could reasonably expect. All I ever could, anyway . . . But now Julie Messinger, age thirty-one,...

Pamela Lyon ( Editor) - Penguin Parallel Text : French Short Stories / Nouvelles Francaises - PB

 Originally written to entertain, move or chill, the eight short stories in this collection accompanied by parallel English translations now also help students gain deeper insights into French...

Sean O'Brien - The Indoor Park - PB - 1983

Published by Bloodaxe Books, UK, 1983, a review slip is loosely laid in.  Aggressive, witty and dramatic, Sean O'Brien's poems convey the texture of imaginative life, not just its recorded highlights...

Judith Hermann - We'd Have Told Each Other Everything - PB - BRAND NEW ( Translated by Katy Derbyshire)

Winner of the Wilhelm Raabe Prize in 2023   On a dark night in Berlin’s Kastanienallee, acclaimed writer Judith Hermann runs into her psychoanalyst — a chance encounter that begins an exploration of...

Allen Figgis Publishing - 3 Book Poetry Lot - Douglas Hyde | Joseph Campbell | Samuel Ferguson ( An Chomhairle Ealaion Series of Irish Authors) 1963

Three uniformly sized small format hardcovers, published 1963 as part of a multi volume series in asociation with the Arts Council. Allen Figgis, Dublin.  Poems of Samuel Ferguson, with an...

Matt Donovan - Vellum : Poems - PB 2007

Vellum, the exquisite debut collection from Matt Donovan, meditates on beauty, art, and the violence that is sometimes inherent in both.Here, he juxtaposes religious iconography with stories from...

Anthony Hecht - The Transparent Man - PB - 1991

Published by OUP, 1991. Larger format paperback, with a review slip laid in loosely. Foxing and age spotting to page block ends, otherwise unmarked.  The author's first book in eleven years, this...

Ian R. Macleod - The Light Ages - HB - 2003

Hardcover 1st UK Edition, Earthlight UK, 2003.  Uneven age spotting and tanning to page block.  Alternate history/ fantasy SF that imagines a world where the Industrial Revolution started much...

John Fuller - Selected Poems 1954-1982 - PB

A selection of poems, made by the author himself, published in this King Penmguin PB edition 1986. His poems, brilliant in their dexterity and virtuoso in their use of form, engage with a spectacular...

Markus Heitz / Field of Blood: Doors !

When his beloved only daughter goes missing, millionaire entrepreneur Walter van Dam calls in a team of experts - including free-climbers, a geologist, a parapsychologist, even a medium - to find her...

Stephen J. Cannell / King Con

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Leo Kessler / Devil's Shield ( Dogs of War - Book 2 )

This is

Cressida McLaughlin / The Happy Hour

Can they fall in love, sixty minutes at a time?The deliciously captivating new standalone from the bestselling author of The Staycation and The Cornish Cream Tea series.Can they fall in love, sixty...

Mariana Zapata / Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

Twenty-six-year-old Gaby Barreto might be a lot of things (loyal, sarcastic, one of the guys and a pain in the butt depending on which family member you ask), but dumb isn’t one of them. When her...

Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan / Mad Honey

Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her...

Ethan Cross / I Am Wrath

My wrath knows no bounds. Your torment knows no end.An Arizona prison officer climbs his watchtower and opens fire on the inmates and guards below. Federal investigator Marcus Williams needs to know...

Peter Robinson / Standing in the Shadows

In November 1980, Nick Hartley returns home from a university lecture to find his house crawling with police. His ex-girlfriend, Alice Poole, has been found murdered, and her new boyfriend Mark...

Raymond E. Feist / Shards of a Broken Crown (The Serpentwar Saga - Book 4)

The terrible Emerald Queen is vanquished&

J.D. Kirk / A Death Most Monumental

We all have our little secrets.When the remains of a brutally murdered young woman are left hanging from the Glenfinnan Monument in the Highlands of Scotland, DCI Jack Logan and his Major...

Emma Heatherington / Maybe Next Christmas

Ruth Ozeki / The Book of Form and Emptiness

After th

A.S. Byatt / Sugar And Other Stories

A.S. Byatt's short fictions, collected in

Mercedes Lackey / Ill Met by Moonlight (Doubled Edge #2)

England

Elaine Bedell / About That Night

Sometimes it only takes one night to change everything…Elizabeth Place might have been jilted on her wedding day one year ago, but at least she’s still got her brilliant job producing one of the...

Neil Belton / The Good Listener : A Life Against Cruelty

When Hel

R.K Narayan - The Painter of Signs - PB

A larger format King Penguin, 1985, originally 1976 Previous owner gift inscription inside front cover, tanning and edgewear.   

Anya Seton - Foxfire - Vintage PB 1964

A captivating story of adventure and romance during the Great Depression, from the bestselling author of Katherine. 'Anya Seton takes us into other worlds, making us live for a few hours on a grand...

Dorothy Whitelock - Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse - 15th Edition - PB 1979

This popular reader--a standard since its first edition in 1876--helps students acquire a sound elementary knowledge Old English by studying of a rich variety of poetry and prose. Selections cover a...

Anne Perry / Come Armageddon

Tathea, once Queen of Shinabar, has waite

Janet Dailey / The Proud and the Free

Set in the 1830s in the US state of Georg

Eileen Ramsay / Butterflies In December | Walnut Shell Days ( 2 in 1 Omnibus)

Butterflies in December - In 1886, Lucy Graham rebels against convention and attends university, followed by medical school in Edinburgh. Meanwhile, Rosie Nesbitt, born in a Dundee slum, fights to...

Rupert Thomson / Death of a Murderer

One night in November 2002, PC Billy Tyle

Robert Mendelsohn / Clash of Honour

This is a novel of two cultures and two g

Sarah Woodhouse / Enchanted Ground

Three generations of determined women fin

Mike Shupp / Morning of Creation ( Destiny Makers - Book 2 )

Tim Harper, a member of the Algheran Project, is assigned to train Kylene, a telepath, for a secret mission to change an important event in the past     All of our books are second hand, and while...

Sean O'Casey / Three Plays : "Juno and the Paycock", "Shadow of a Gunman" and "Plough and the Stars"

The clas

Carl Djerassi / Cantor's Dilemma

When Professor Isidore Cantor reveals his

Francoise Sagan - Those Without Shadows - HB UK 1st Edition - 1957

Dans un mois, dans un an (Those Without Shadows) was Françoise Sagan's third novel and was published in 1957. It is set in Paris at the time it was written, and centres around a group of artistic and...

Derek Beaven / Acts of Mutiny

The seco

Joe R. Lansdale / Savage Season

Here comes Trudy back into Hap's life, thirty-six but looking ten years younger, with long blonde hair and legs that begin under her chin, and the kind of walk that'll make a man run his car off the...

Francis MacManus - The Greatest of These - Vintage Mercier Paperback 1975

The Greatest of These was first published in Dublin in 1943 by the Talbot Press. Set in the late 19th century,  It presents a very sympathetic portrait of Bishop Ned Langton, who feels impelled to...

David Malouf / The Conversations at Curlow Creek

The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney, an illiterate Irishman, ex-convict and bushranger, is to be hanged at...

Alex Keegan / Kingfisher

A Caz Flood Mystery.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book...