Fiction

Oscar Wilde - Play, Prose Writings and Poems - HB

1991 EDITION, HARDCOVER - LACKS THE ORIGINAL PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET. sOME SCUFFS TO THE MAROON CLOTH COVERS.  Effortlessly achieved, each revealing a different aspect of his brilliance, all of the...

J.P Donleavy - A Fairytale of New York - Penguin PB 1978

A Fairy Tale of New York is a funny, lusty, and sad novel of comic genius. Returning from study abroad, Cornelius Christian enters customs with his luggage and his dead wife. His first encounter in...

Patricia Looney (Editor) - Cork Words 3 : An Anthology of Contemporary Cork Writing - PB - 2022

The third anthology of Cork Writers and writing, published by Cork City Libraries - a mix of essays, poems, short stories, extracts from novels - all manner of Cork writing, some of it unpublished...

J.T Edson - The Devil Gun - Vintage 1967 PB

Paperback, 1967 reprint, Sabre Books UK , first publsihed in the USA in 1966.  Slight spine lean, Dublin bookshop sticker on front cover.  The story revolves around a deadly threat to Texas during...

Charles J Kickham - Knocknagow or The Homes of Tipperary ( First Published 1879) Mercier PB Edition, 1978 ( ABRIDGED VERSION)

To describe Knocknagow as an Irish publishing phenomenon would be somewhat of an understatement - it was probably among the most read works of Irish fiction published in the last 100 years, going...

Iain Banks - The Bridge (HB Reprint - 2001)

The man who wakes up in the extraordinary world of a bridge has amnesia, and his doctor doesn't seem to want to cure him. Does it matter? Exploring the bridge occupies most of his days. But at night...

J.P Donleavy - A Singular Man - Vintage Penguin PB 1966

What will happen to George Smith? Mysteriously rich and desperately lonely, George appears to be under attack from all quarters: his former wife and four horrible children are suing to get his money;...

Eoin Neeson - The Second Book of Irish Myths and Legends - Vintage Mercier PB

Paperback, published by Mercier Paperbacks, fifth impresssion, originally published 1966.  Light edgewear to back cover.  Includes the Children of Lir, Diarmuid and Graine, and the Sickbed of...

Daniel Corkery - The Wager and Other Stories - HB - Illustrated 1950

Hardcover, published by the Devin Adair Company, New York 1950. Illustrated by Elizabeth Rivers- striking black and white woodcut images, (she also provided the cover art). The first US publication...

Wilbur Smith / A Falcon Flies (Vintage Paperback) (1)

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Carlos Fuentes / The Death of Artemio Cruz (Vintage Paperback)

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Albert Camus / The Plague (Vintage Paperback)

From the Publisher: From one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth century-two novels, six short stories, and a pair of essays in a single volume. In both his essays and his...

Bernard Shaw / Heartbreak House (Vintage Paperback) (1)

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Doris Lessing / The Story of a Non-Marrying Man and Other Stories (Vintage Paperback)

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Oscar Wilde / Lady Windermere's Fan; a Woman of No Importance; an Ideal Husband; the Importance of Being Earnest; Salome (Vintage Paperback)

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Muriel Spark / The Driver's Seat (Vintage Paperback)

Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking. One day she walks out of her office, acquires a gaudy new outfit, adopts a girlier tone of voice, and heads to the airport to fly south. On the...

John le Carre / The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Vintage Paperback) (1)

*The Spy Who Came in from the Cold* is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré. It depicts Alec Leamas, a British intelligence officer, being sent to East Germany as a faux...

P.G. Wodehouse / Cocktail Time (Vintage Paperback)

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Graham Greene / Our Man in Havana: An Entertainment (Vintage Paperback)

MI6’s man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb’s Tales from...

P.G. Wodehouse / Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (Vintage Paperback)

'Why have you got to go anywhere? Are you on the run from the police?' 'Doctor's orders.' When Bertie Wooster overdoes metropolitan life, his doctor prescribes fresh air in the depths of the country...

Jean Plaidy / The Captive Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart Series: Volume 2) (Vintage Paperback)

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Lucy Maud Montgomery / Anne of Green Gables (Vintage Paperback)

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone...

Laurent De Brunhoff / New Adventures of Babar (Children's Coffee Table book)

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Anita Ganeri / Secrets and Spies (Children's Coffee Table book)

Prepare to go undercover and enter a world of secret missions, covert operations and classified information. Explore the history of espionage from ancient secret agents to modern-day surveillance,...

Virginia Hamilton / The People Could Fly (Children's Coffee Table book)

A group of slaves dreams that they have the ability to fly back to their native land where a life of freedom and dignity await them amidst the people they know and love, in a re-release of an...

Nanna Aida Svendsen / Freya and the Magic Cloak (Children's Coffee Table book)

A tale about a young boy, Thomas, and a snow fairy, Freya, who comes into his life only to be captured by an ogre planning to use her magic cloak as a way to lure other fairies into his lair.    ...

John Patience / New Adventures in Fern Hollow (Children's Coffee Table book)

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Philip Pullman / Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp (Children's Coffee Table book)

Philip Pullman's wry wit and award-winning talent brings much to this rich, dark and uplifting rendition of the classic tale ALADDIN AND THE ENCHANTED LAMP. With magic and mischief in equal measure,...

Patricia Moffet / Fairyland Magic (Augmented Reality) (Augmented Reality Book) (Children's Coffee Table book)

"Fairyland Magic" contains Augmented Reality - an amazing new technology that allows your webcam to recognise pages in the book and turn them into 3D images that you can control on your computer...

J.T Edson - The Man From Texas - (Vintage Brown Watson PB) 1966

J.T Edson - You're in Command Now, Mr Fog - (Vintage Corgi PB) 1973

Set during the American Civil War, the story follows a 17-year-old Dusty Fog serving as a freshly promoted first lieutenant in the Confederate Army. When his company's commanding officer is suddenly...

Tom Evans / Famous Myths and Legends of Canada and Northern United States (Children's Coffee Table book)

Creatures of the air, water, and plains feature in Myths and Legends of North America: Canada and Northern United States. Through engaging narration and colorful illustrations, the volume helps...

Marilyn Tolhurst / A Scary Adventure (Children's Coffee Table book)

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Gaby Goldsack / Three Little Pigs (Coffee Table Book)

Tells the story of three little pigs who leave home to seek their fortunes and how they deal with the big bad wolf.     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Cheryl Evans / The Usborne Complete Book of Magic (Coffee Table Book)

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Anness Publishing / Myth and Legend of the Celtic World (Coffee Table Book)

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Mike Jefferies / Fantasy Art (Collins Learn to Draw) (Coffee Table Book)

This best-selling title is relaunched in April 2006 with a fresh new cover design. Packed with step-by-step illustrations, this comprehensive guide provides all the techniques needed to master...

Claire Philip / Magical Unicorn Stories (Coffee Table Book)

This fantastic collection includes four original fiction stories featuring some very special unicorns. Young children will love reading these magical adventures and heart-warming tales. The large...

Bruce F. Murphy / The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery (Coffee Table Book)

An indispensable reference for lovers of the mystery genre looks at mystery writers, famous and lesser known, in an A-to-Z format, and offers a cross-referenced catalog of titles, characters, movie...

My Little Pony / My Little Pony (Coffee Table Book)

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Roisin Duffy / Everything Under the Sun (Coffee Table Book)

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Journal of the Cork Historical & Archaeological Society - Poetry and Legendary Ballads of the South of Ireland - HB 1894

Poetry & Legendary Ballads of the South of Ireland. By Various Writers, with Biographical Notices, Notes, etc. First Series. Cork: published and bound by Guy and Company, 1894. First Edition. Pp 360...

William Shakespeare - The Sonnets - HB Gift Edition Illustrated - 1995

Published by Barrie & Jenkins UK, as issued in illustrated blue boards with cameo portait of the poet to front covers.  Interiorart ( which is excellent) by Ian Penney. All 154 sonnets included, and...

Eugene O'Neill - Complete Plays ( Volume 3) - 1932-1943 ( Library of America) HB

Hardcover, contains all 8 plays written by O'Neill during the period, including his masterwork The Iceman Cometh, and the classics of hughie, and Long Day's Journey into Night    

Eugene O'Neill - Complete Plays ( Volume 2) - 1921-1931 ( Library of America) HB

Hardcover, contains all 13 plays written by O'Neill during the decade, including All God's Chillun got Wings, as well as desire Under the Elms, and Mouring Becomes Electra.   

William Faulkner - Novels 1936-1940 : Absalom, Absalom! | The Unvanquished | If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem | The Hamlet ( HB Library of America Edition)

Between 1930 and 1935, William Faulkner came into full possession of the genius and creativity that made him one of America’s finest writers of the twentieth century. The four novels in this Library...

William Faulkner - Novels 1930- 1935 : William Faulkner Novels 1930-1935 - As I Lay Dying | Sanctuary | Light in August | Pylon ( HB Library of America Edition)

Between 1930 and 1935, William Faulkner came into full possession of the genius and creativity that made him one of America’s finest writers of the twentieth century. The four novels in this Library...

Carson McCullers - Complete Novels : The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | Reflections in a Golden Eye | The Ballad of the Sad Cafe | The Member of the Wedding | Clock Without Hands ( HB Library of America Edition)

Complete Novels: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Ballad of the Sad Cafe / The Member of the Wedding / Clock Without Hands When The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was...

Rachel Ferguson - Alas, Poor Lady - PB (Persephone Books 2006) ( Originally 1937)

Paperback, in wraps, Number 65 in the reissues of classics under the Persephone imprint.  Light scuffing to page block.  horror and disbelief at what had happened to the daughters of extravagantly...

Edgar Allen Poe - The Raven and Other Poems - HB (Illustrated by Gustave Doré )

A beautifully presented version of Poe's works, the illustrations accentuate the drama of his classic work The Raven. Published by Arcturus , 2010, the poem was first published in 1845, the Doré...

Belinda Gallagher / 50 Magical Stories (Coffee Table Book)

50 Magical Stories is an enchanting anthology of magical stories that will whisk young readers aged 6+ away into imaginary worlds of curious characters, fantastical creatures and spellbinding events...

Mystics and Prophets (Marvels & Mysteries S.) (Coffee Table Book)

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