Historical Fiction

Fonzie Keogh - The Half Crown Man - PB

Jimmy, the half-crown man, is selling his usual wares but rumours start spreading about the extras he is offering. Elizabeth, the newly widowed pub landlady, is besotted with Dominic, the glamorous new curate in the parish. Her friend Marion warns her...

Jack Wolf / The Tale of Raw Head & Bloody Bones (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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Joseph O'Connor / Shadowplay. (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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Colm McCann / TransAtlantic (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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George Moore - A Drama in Muslin - HB 1992 ( Originally 1886 )

Always an ambitious novelist, George Moore realised early in the composition of his third novel, 'A Drama In Muslin', how his chosen subject - the sentimental education of five girls born into the gentry of the west of Ireland - could be extended to...

Daniel Ford - Michael's War - HB - 2003

Norman Collins - Children of the Archbishop - HB

The Archbishop in question is the long dead Archbishop Bodkin, who has given his name to a large children’s orphanage in Putney, South-West London (500 of the poor little things from babies to teenagers). The story is set in the 1920s and 30s,...

Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963

Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on both the suffering and acts of heroism during the...

Robert Graves - Count Belisarius - HB

Hardcover reprint 1946, Originally 1938.  Lacks presumed original dustjacket, solid in green cloth with circular gilt cameo image to spine. Published by Cassell UK. ' This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures...

George Macdonald Fraser - Flashman ( Vintage HB 1970 ) UK Book Club Edition

A hardcover small format book club edition, published by the Book Club London, 1970, first published 1969.  Purporting to be an actual biography of Harry Flashman, a character from Tom Brown's Schooldays, based on ' papers' found hidden after his...

Eilís Dillon - Blood Relations - HB 1977 1st Edition

The sequel to Across the Bitter Sea, Blood Relations chronicles the painful birth of twentieth-century Ireland. Eils Dillon has recaptured all the essence of the time when a nation [was] struggling back into the light. It is a very wide canvas and all...

Brian Moore - Black Robe ( HB First Edition- 1985)

North America. It is the beginning of the 17th century. To Father Paul, the Algonquin are pagans in need of salvation. To the Indians, Catholic priests are greedy and selfish. Accompanying Father Paul on his mission to relieve a priest in danger of his...

Colum McCann / TransAtlantic. (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Angus MacDonald / Ardnish (Signed by the Author) (Paperback)

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Dermot Bolger - Hide Away - PB - BRAND NEW

Hidden behind the walls of Grangegorman Mental Hospital in 1941, four lives collide, all afflicted by the human cost of wars, betrayals and trauma. Gus, a shrewd attendant, is the keeper of everyone’s secrets, especially his own. Two War...

Martina Devlin - Edith : A Novel - PB - BRAND NEW

Edith by Martina Devlin  Martina Devlin, an award-winning columnist for the Irish Independent and podcaster for Dublin City of Literature #CityofBooks, has delivered a new novel based on the life of Edith Somerville of...

Kate Beaufoy / Liberty Silk (Signed by the Author) (Paperback)

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Andrew Lane / Young Sherlock Holmes: Knife Edge (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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John Sodeau - Field Lane - PB - SIGNED - BRAND NEW 2024

Charley Bates was an outsider. Always the third wheel to the Artful Dodger and Oliver Twist’s double-act in Fagin’s gang. Then he became the redeemed thief who managed to turn himself into ‘the merriest young grazier in the whole of...

Catherine Cookson - Katie Mulholland - A Novel- HB 1st Edition - 1967

Some women are destined to arouse in men either fierce hatred or insatiable desire. Such a woman was Katie Mulholland. At fifteen, a scullery maid in the house of the Rosiers, she had been raped by the master. Now, many years later, she had enough money...

Nuala O'Connor - Seaborne - PB - BRAND NEW

  After the huge success of her 2021 novel, Nora: A Love Story of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce (Irish bestseller, Vogue and New York Times recommended, One Dublin One Book), Nuala O’Connor’s sixth novel -...

Mary Morrissy - Penelope Unbound - PB - BRAND NEW - 2025

A novel about the alternative life of Norah Barnacle.... On their arrival in Trieste in 1904, James Joyce left Norah Barnacle outside a railway station while he went to scare up money. He got embroiled in a fight with a couple of sailors and was locked...

Olive Collins - Manhattan Ember - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

"The Bestselling Award-Winning Author has produced the greatest novel on the Irish-American story," The Post"A masterly constructed epic novel," Independent.In 1866, onboard an immigrant ship bound for New York, events play out which have an everlasting...

Alfred Duggan - God and My Right - HB - 1963 ( Originally 1950)

The clash of the Two Swords, of spiritual and temporal power, rings through the 12th century. In England its most famous instance was the dispute between Henry II and the Archbishop of Canterbury, a complicated story which cannot be understood unless the...

Sebastian Barry / The Temporary Gentleman. (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Juanita Casey - The Horse of Selene - PB - BRAND NEW

Paperback - BRAND NEW , published by Tramp Press 2022, originally published in 1971'Holy Mother who knows so much. Help me for I'm destroyed in the heart. Tell me is it love to be like this. That measures me on my days like the shadow on the mountain.'...

Emma Donoghue / Akin (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Susie Murphy - A Class Forsaken ( A Matter of Class Series - Book 3 ) - PB - BRAND NEW

A Matter of Class, Book Three His past could destroy their future… Having escaped capture in London, Bridget and Cormac flee to Ireland with their daughter, Emily. Their homecoming is bittersweet as they embark upon the daunting task of...

Susie Murphy - A Class Entwined ( A Matter of Class Series - Book 2 ) - PB - BRAND NEW

A Matter of Class, Book Two They never thought they’d see each other again… Trapped in a loveless marriage far from home, Bridget does what she can to fill her lonely days. She throws herself into charitable work, but her cherished...

Susie Murphy - A Class Apart ( A Matter of Class Series - Book 1 ) - PB - BRAND NEW

A Class Apart - Susie Murphy Paperback ISBN: 9781915770011 Originally Published: 10th July 2018 A Matter of Class, Book One Society said they shouldn’t fall in love… It’s 1828, and Ireland is in turmoil as Irish...

Homan Potterton - Knockfane : A Novel (Large Paperback) - BRAND NEW

Knockfane is an enthralling drama exploring inheritance, heirship and family legacy, set against the backdrop of the Ireland of its time and the conventions, customs, mistrust and suspicions which governed both Protestants and Catholics, as they...

Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach (Hardback) 1st Edition -2007

It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come.....

Rose Servitova - A Season at Sanditon - PB - 2022 - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

When Charlotte Heywood arrives at the fledging seaside resort of Sanditon, she quickly forms strong views on her new social circle. While she finds some to be agreeable enough, others inspire less charitable opinions, such as the penny-pinching Lady...

Susan Vreeland / The Passion of Artemesia (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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Lynne Reid Banks / The Dungeon (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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Michael O'Kane / Valentino McKelvie (Signed by the Author) (Paperback)

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Antoinette Tyrell - Home To Cavendish - PB - BRAND NEW 2019

The Irish Civil War is raging across County Cork, and sixteen-year-old Edith Cavendish, bored within the confines of her privileged life, embarks on a forbidden love affair with local rebel Tadgh Carey. But Edith is unaware of the dark secrets...

Theodore Dreiser - Three Novels : Sister Carrie / Jennie Gerhardt / Twelve Men - Library of America HB 1987

Theodore Dreiser was arguably the most important figure in the development of fiction in the twentieth century. In this Library of America volume are presented the first two novels and a little-known collection of biographical sketches by the man about...

Jane Buckley - Stones Corner Series - Darkness - PB - SIGNED - BRAND NEW

Darkness follows as Volume 2 from Stones Corner, Turmoil. In the early '70s, considered the darkest years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, it reveals the catastrophic fall-out from the doomed Derry City Hotel meeting.   The...

Robert Harris- The Second Sleep - SIGNED 1st Edition- HB - 2019

All civilisations think they are invulnerable. History warns us none is.1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts - coins,...

Eibhear Walshe - The Last Day at Bowen's Court : A Novel - PB - BRAND NEW - 2020

THE LAST DAY AT BOWEN'S COURT, a novel by Either Walshe, published by Somerville Press, Cork, 2020. BRAND NEW copies, larger format paperback with flaps.  This remarkable novel explores the life of the Irish novelist,...

Karen Joy Fowler - Sarah Canary - HB US 1st Edition -1991

Two unlikely people form an unexpected bond in bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler's captivating historical novel--a New York Times Notable Book. When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a Chinese labor camp in the Washington territories in 1873,...

Rose Servitova- The Watsons - SIGNED PB - Brand New - Jane Austen

Emma Watson returns to her family home after fourteen years with her wealthy and indulgent aunt. Now more refined than her siblings, Emma is shocked by her sisters’ flagrant and desperate attempts to ensnare a husband. To the surprise of the...

James Plunkett -Strumpet City - BRAND NEW - PB

Brand new - this edition published by Gill 2013, with an introduction by Fintan O'Toole, originally published in 1979 , and the subject of a classic RTE TV series in 1979-80.  This new edition of the epic Strumpet City marks the centenary of the...

Nicholas Monsarrat - 3 Book Lot - Richer Than All His Tribe ( 1968) , The Pillow Fight ( 1965) , Master MarinerRunning Proud - HB

Master Mariner - Hardcover UK 1st Edition , second printing Cassell UK, 1979 .  Some light edgewear to the covers. Period price tag from Liam Ruiséal Bookshop in  Cork on inner front cover. Tells the story of the British...