Fiction

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...

George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman and the Redskins - HB

Hardcover, first edition, published by Collins UK, 1982, a sold copy in a very good , slightly sunfaded dustjacket. Dustjacket also price clipped to inside front fold ( neatly at an angle)  Previous owner's gift inscription ( from a child) in LARGE...

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...

Anne Tyler / Three Days in June (Hardback)

It’s the day before her daughter’s wedding and things are not going well for Gail Baines. First thing, she loses her job – or quits, depending who you ask. Then her ex-husband Max turns up at her door expecting to stay for the...

Claudia Carroll / The Secrets of Primrose Square (Hardback)

Primrose Square #1 The Secrets of Primrose Square Claudia Carroll     There are so many stories hidden behind closed doors . . .It's late at night and the rain is pouring down on the Dublin city streets. A mother is grieving...

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...

Xenophon - The Persian Expedition (Translated by Rex Warner) - Penguin Classics PB - 1951

Paperback, published in this Penguin Classics edition 1951, UK. Originally published in this translation in 1949, specially published for Penguin Classics, translation by Rex Warner.  In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who...

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...

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...

Josephine Cox / Angels Cry Sometimes - PB

Angels Cry Sometimes - Her world is torn apart, but love prevails.. Headline Books Publishing. .   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...

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...

Brian Stone (Translator & Editor) - Sir Gawain And The Green Knight ( Penguin Classics - 1964 ( Revised Edition)

'Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain;Seek faithfully till you find me ...'A New Year's feast at King Arthur's court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He challenges any one of Arthur's men...

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

John Milton / Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (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.

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.

W. B. Yeats / Selected Poetry (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  

Robert Graves - The Greek Myths - 1 VOLUME Folio Society HB SLIPCASED Edition 1996

  'Icarus disobeyed his father's instructions and began soaring towards the sun, rejoiced by the lift of his great sweeping wings. Presently, when Daedalus looked over his shoulder, he could no longer see Icarus; but scattered feathers floated on...

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...

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...

Kayla Cottingham / This Delicious Death (Large Paperback)

Four best friends, one music festival, and a cooler filled with human organs: this summer is about to get gory. ​​​Jennifer’s Body fans will clamor for this new sapphic horror standalone from New York Times bestselling author...

Karina Halle / The Royals Next Door (Large Paperback)

An ordinary summer goes royally awry when a prince and princess move next door, bringing their handsome bodyguard with them, from New York Times bestselling author Karina Halle.Piper Evans: elementary school teacher by day--avid romance reader and...

Sayaka Murata / Convenience Store Woman (Large Paperback)

Convenience Store Woman is the heartwarming and surprising story of thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukura. Keiko has never fit in, neither in her family, nor in school, but when at the age of eighteen she begins working at the...

Keira Dominguez / The Impossible Princess (Large Paperback)

Royals of Sondmark #1 Mom's eyes narrow into tiny, triumphant slits. "I knew it. You asked her. You asked the—""Princess. Yes. I asked Princess Clara out. It seemed the gentlemanly thing to do after groping her on live television...

Mimi Grace / Make a Scene (Large Paperback)

Lovestruck #1 Make a Scene Mimi Grace     Faking this relationship should be a piece of cake.Retta Majors is having a bad day. But that's to be expected when your ex gets engaged to your cousin. Instead of (totally) freaking...

Rachel Van Dyken / The Godparent Trap (Large Paperback)

Life's Too Short meets The Unhoneymooners in this sparkling, steamy, and swoon-worthy novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken, in which two sworn enemies must share house, home—and maybe their...

Mario Vargas Llosa / In Praise of the Stepmother (Large Paperback)

Mario Vargas Llosa, the internationally acclaimed author of The Storyteller, adds his own finely-tuned poetic polish to this erotic exploration of carnality in one family. He turns the proverbial romantic triangle on its ear to create this New York Times...

Fionnuala Kearney / The Day I Lost You (Large Paperback)

When Jess’s daughter, Anna, is reported lost in an avalanche, everything changes.Left to explain her mother’s absence to Anna’s five-year-old daughter, Rose, Jess isn’t yet ready to admit to herself that her daughter might not...