Fiction

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 - The Clocks ( Vintage Fontana PB)

Vintage Fontana paperback reprint, 1985, in very good condition, very little wear and uncreased, light tanning only.  A typist uncovers a man's body from behind the sofa…As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19...

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 Moving Finger - Vintage Pan PB

Lymstock was a town with more than its fair share of shameful secrets - a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail caused only a minor stir. But all that changed when Mrs Symmington committed suicide.      An early 1980's...

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 - After the Funeral - Vintage Fontana PB - 1984

Vintage Fontana PB REPRINT, 1984. Light age tanning to page block, otherwise unmarked.  Time to bury the hatchet… There are certain things that are best left unsaid. Though tragedy had touched the life of the wealthy Richard Abernethie, his...

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...

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...

Kevin Barry - The Heart in Winter (Hardback - SIGNED NUMBERED KENNYS EDITION)

October, 1891. Butte, Montana. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers.Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and...

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...

Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1970

Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970   The three books are linked by the theme of Irish history, but it is not...

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 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 the...

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...

William Wall / Ghost Estate (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Seven years in the making, the themes of this book - politics, desire, terror, love, loss, and flight - have powerful resonance today, after Ireland's disastrous economic crash. It takes its title from the vast developments of surplus houses all over...

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...

Edward Denniston / For Crying Out Loud (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

About this BookA revered voice of the South East for many years, Edward Denniston sings forth anew with visionary power and profound honesty. Here in For Crying Out Loud he gives us the youthful taking off of clothes, a sheltering from rain beneath...

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,...

Alvy Carragher / Falling in Love With Broken Things (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Alvy Carragher is a Pushcart nominee and a two-time All-Ireland Slam Poetry Finalist. She has performed at many festivals throughout Ireland and abroad. She is also an award-winning blogger, and her blog With All the Finesse of a Badger has been archived...

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...

Stephen Murray / On Corkscrew Hill (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This book chronicles a journey through the contemporary landscape of a nation on its knees. As the dust settles on a country trying to pick itself up from the precipice of economic annihilation, this collection examines the emotional and human cost that...

Mary Coll / All Things Considered (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

All Things Considered' is a collection of poems which explores relationships, what can be resolved and what can hardly be understood. It is a journey through the various ties that bind, which turns each one over like a series of photographs to form a...

Patrick Chapman / A Promiscuity of Spines: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Patrick Chapman has one of the most distinctive and creative voices in poetry today. From his exciting debut, Jazztown, to the Pushcart-Prize nominated title poem of The Darwin Vampires , his work has followed its own imaginative path. Heartfelt yet...

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...

Sheila O'Hagan / Along The Liffey: Poems and Short Stories (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

O'Hagan began writing poetry in 1984 while studying at Birkbeck College, London University. In 1988 she won the Goldsmith Award for Poetry, and in 1990 returned to live in Dublin where she still resides. Since then she has three times been awarded prizes...

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...