Quick view Voigt, Cynthia / Homecoming Dicey began to panic. The four of them had been waiting in the car for hours now. Why wasn't their mother back? Why had she just walked off like that? What would they do if she never came back? Dicey had known for a while that something was not... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view James, Henry / The Europeans Felix Young and his sister the Baroness Munster descend upon their Puritan cousins, the Wentworths, in the Arcadian setting of the New England countryside of mid-19th century America. The clash between European Epicureanism and Puritan... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Shakespeare, William / The Taming of the Shrew Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Inchbald, Elizabeth / A Simple Story This novel by Inchbald (1753-1821) follows the original 1791 edition, edited by Tompkins in 1967 for the Oxford English novels series and with a new introduction by Spencer. It is concerned with the question of a woman's "proper education and... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Runyon, Damon / Guys and Dolls A collection of short stories by Damon Runyon. 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 may... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Crane, Stephen / The Red Badge of Courage With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading.Also included are two short stories:The Veteran * The Open BookThe Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It reports on the American Civil War... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Streatfeild, Noel / A Vicarage Family Once upon a time there were three little girls: Isobel, the eldest, was pretty, gentle and artistic; Louise the youngest, was sweet and talented -- and then there was Vicky, the odd one out, the plain one. Everyone pities the poor vicar, who's got... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Carey, Peter / Illywhacker Illywhacker is a dazzling comic narrative, from the lips of the 109-year-old Herbert Badgery, the 'illywhacker' or confidence trickster of the title. Overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions, peopled with aviators, car salesmen, Chinamen and... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Camus, Albert / The Outsider 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 may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Moore, Tara / RSVP RSVP is a sumptuous family saga, packed with sex, love and betrayal.The Granville Midsummer Ball is always an affair to remember. The who's who of Irish society gather at Carrickcross House - the rural family estate - for a night of revelry. But... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Doyal, Arthur Conan / The Extraordinary Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 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 may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Dickens, Charles / Complete Ghost Stories Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept, and indeed put to the test, the existence of... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Shakespeare, William / King Richard III This play charts the rise and fall of a Machiavellian villain who, by scheming and by infanticide, claws his way to the throne of England. It contains a mixture of poetry and politics, tragedy and sardonic wit. All of our books... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur / The Return of Sherlock Holmes Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach falls. In that time the criminals of London have been able to sleep safe in their beds. But with the appearance of a dangerous... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Haggard, H. Rider / Allan Quatermain This adventure story tells of three men and their guide Umslopogaas who trek into the remote interior of Africa in search of a lost white race. Through unknown territories their perilous journey takes them to Zu-vendis, a kingdom ruled by the... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Fleming, Ian / The Spy Who Loved Me - James Bond 007 Vivienne Michel is in trouble. Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court. A far cry from the privileged world she was born to, the motel is also the destination of two... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Butler, Samuel / The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler was one of the Victorian era's greatest iconoclasts. Once, he said that after reading Darwin's "The Origin of Species," that the theory of evolution had replaced Christianity for him. And this -- after Butler had originally studied... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Scott, Sir Walter / The Heart of Midlothian This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infuriated by the actions of John Porteous, Captain of the Guard, and when they hear that his death has... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view James, Henry / The Bostonians The plot of this novel revolves around the feminist movement in Boston in the 1870's. F.R. Leavis called it one of "the 2 most brilliant novels in the language. "The novel's many allusions to the historical and social background of Boston society... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Greene, Graham / Monsignor Quixote 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 may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Hornung, E.W. / Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman 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 may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Gissing, George / Born in Exile Godwin Peak, despite his education, feels alienated by his lower-class background and attempts to find some way to fit in Victorian society All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Shakespeare, William / Measure for Measure The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.This edition of... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Stendhal, / The Red and the Black In this vigorous and fast-moving novel of post-Napoleonic France, Julien Sorel's plans to reach the higher echelons of society through the priesthood are defelected by his realization that the attainment of happiness is of greater consequence than... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Gaskell, Elizabeth / Wives and Daughters Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships - father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter -... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view McCaughrean, Geraldine / Silver Myths And Legends Of The World These are the stories our ancestors told to explain how the world began; or they are legends of half-remembered heroes or people whose lives were changed by magic. Brilliantly retold in the sparkling, energetic prose of one of the great names in... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Kilroy, Claire / All Names Have Been Changed All Names Have Been Changed is set in Dublin in the mid-1980s - a city in the grip of recession and a heroin epidemic. Narrated by Declan, the only boy of a tight-knit writing group at Trinity College, it tells of their fascination with the... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Fiennes, Ranulph / Killer Elite The "enthralling page-turner" (Library Journal) now a major motion picture starring Jason Statham, Clive Owen, and Robert De Niro Here is a gripping novel, inspired by real-life events, about a private team of British vigilantes that sets out to... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Voltaire, / Candide This tale begins with the hero, Candide, being expelled from the Westphalian castle of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh for making love to the Baron's daughter, Cunegonde. So begins a series of disastrous misadventures on a fantastic odyssey for Candide,... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Trollope, Anthony / Framley Parsonage Tells the story of Mark Roberts, a young clergyman, who is the close friend of Lord Lufton and is appointed to the living of Framley by the latter's widowed mother. However, he conducts himself in such a way as to incur the displeasure of... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Greene, Graham / Travels with my Aunt A novel which follows a man who embarks on a journey around the world with his elderly yet adventurous aunt, visiting locations such as Paris and Paraguay, mixing with hippies, war criminals and CIA Agents. From the author of OUR MAN IN HAVANA... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Trollope, Anthony / The Duke's Children Plantagenet Palliser suffers a series of personal tragedies following his retirement as Prime Minister in Victorian England All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Trollope, Anthony / The Eustace Diamonds The central plot of "The Eustace Diamonds" (1872) involves the theft and ultimate discovery of a diamond necklace - the Eustace family heirloom. A splendid sense of the absurd permeates the novel and allows Trollope to examine "truth" in may... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Milton, John / Paradise Lost Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world...Sing heavenly muse' From almost the moment of its first publication in 1667, Paradise Lost was considered a classic. It is... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Bowen, Elizabeth / The Last September The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history.In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view James, Henry / The Aspern Papers 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 may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Buck, Pearl S. / The Good Earth When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes. Half-starved, the family joins... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Trollope, Anthony / The Prime Minister 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 may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Murdoch, Iris / Under The Net Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Rutherford, Mark / Clara Hopgood 'Mark Rutherford'is the pseudonym of William Hale White(1831-1913),who worked briefly for the WESTMINSTER REVIEW,where he met George Eliot,before becoming a civil servant.He continued to supplement his income with parliamentary and literaryjournalism,and... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view De Cervantes, Miguel / Don Quixote Translated by P. A. Motteux With an Introduction and Notes by Stephen Boyd, University College, Cork Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams,... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Homer, / The Iliad With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London. The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman's translation of Homer's great poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of The Iliad... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Keane, John B. / The Contractors A novel that traces the fortunes of the Irish labourers who emigrated to England in the 1950s. John B. Keane gives the reader fascinating details of their daily existence, their exhilerations and their sorrows. He has also written Durango, Letters of a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Hardy, Jules / Mister Candid He's responsible for the deaths of many people. But everything I've learned about him makes me believe he's fundamentally a good person. Sounds crazy doesn't it? How can he be a good person?' For seventeen years the FBI have been hunting down a killer, a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan / The Best of Sherlock Holmes Selected, Edited and Introduced by David Stuart Davies. The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author's... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Plunkett, James / Strumpet City This new edition of the epic Strumpet City marks the centenary of the 1913 Lockout. It has been chosen as Dublin City Libraries' One City, One Book for 2013. First published in 1969, it has repeatedly been described as one of the greatest Irish novels of... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Chaucer, Geoffrey / The Canterbury Tales Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. "The Canterbury Tales" gather twenty-nine of literature's most... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Haggard, H Rider / She Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titlesAll of our books are second hand, and while you may... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Mansfield, Katherine / Bliss A collection of short stories by Katherine Mansfield, widely recognized as one of the greatest writers of her period, that capture with accuracy those emotionally-charged moments when an individual is most revealing.All of our books are second hand, and... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Cooper, James Fenimore / The Deerslayer The Deerslayer is the culmination of James Fenimore Cooper's 'Leather-Stocking' novels, featuring Natty Bumppo (the deer-slaying young frontiersman) and the Mohican chief, Chingachgook. Cooper portrays the hubris of the conquest of a vast... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Keane, John B. / Durango This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.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... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view McCabe, Patrick / The Butcher Boy When I was a young lad, twenty or thirty or forty years ago, I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent". So speaks Francie Brady, the narrator and anti-hero of THE BUTCHER BOY . When the story begins... €2.00 Add to Cart
