Historical Fiction

A. O'Connor - The Expectation - PB - BRAND NEW

A missing woman. A suspicious death. And a housekeeper who knows too much. Ireland, 1847. As famine devastates County Kerry, Nancy Spencer arrives at Thornbury Hall to take up the position of...

A. O'Connor - By Royal Appointment - PB

In 1861 nineteen-year-old Bertie, Prince of Wales, began an affair with the Irish actress Nellie Cliffden. By Royal Appointment is a fictionalised account of their story, based on true events. In the...

A. O'Connor - The Sins of Armstrong House - PB - BRAND NEW (Armstrong House Novels - Book 4 )

Larger format trade paperback - BRAND NEW.  Present Day During a lavish wedding at her husband Nico’s ancestral home, Armstrong House, Kate Collins is intrigued when a mysterious stranger presents a...

A. O'Connor - A Great Beauty - PB - BRAND NEW

An epic story of war, love, suspense, betrayal and murder – the Michael Collins story.   It is 1920 and, as the War of Independence rages throughout Ireland, Michael Collins is the most wanted man in...

June O'Sullivan - The Lighthouse Keeper's Wife - PB - BRAND NEW

PAPERBACK, BRAND NEW Life is hard in Ireland in 1867. Eliza Carthy moves with her lighthouse-keeper husband James and sons Peter and Joseph to the remote island of Skellig Michael. Eliza is proud of...

A. O'Connor - The House - PB - BRAND NEW (Armstrong Novels - Book 1)

Paperback, brand new originally 2013.  The House is a multi-generational historical fiction novel written by A. O'Connor and published by Poolbeg Press as the first installment in the Armstrong House...

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...

Jean Plaidy - The Queen From Provence - HB - 1979 (Plantagenet Saga)

Hardcover, published by Hale UK, 1979, the 6th volume in the author's Hugely successful Plantaganet Saga.  Light sunfade to spine, edgewear to dustjacket edges. 

Jean Plaidy - Epitaph for Three Women - HB - 1981 (Plantagenet Saga)

Hardcover, published by Hale UK, 1981, the 12th volume in the author's Hugely successful Plantaganet Saga.  Light sunfade to spine, edgewear to dustjacket edges. 

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...

Winston Graham - Warleggan - HB (Poldark Novels - Book 4)

A 1978 6th impression ( originally 1953) of the fourth book in the Poldark novels - Warleggan.  This is a former institutional library copy ( from a nursing home, but with only minimal marks - stamps...

Thomas Kilroy - The Big Chapel - HB - 1st Edition 1971 - Faber

A novel about a man, a family and a town. Basing his work upon a notorious clerical scandal of Victorian Ireland, it deals with events in Ireland in teh 1870's. Thomas Kilroy has written an anatomy...

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...

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...

A O'Connor - The Secrets of Armstrong House - PB - BRAND NEW

Present day - Kate and Nico Collins are filming a docudrama about life in their home Armstrong House in Ireland during its golden age at the turn of the century. When they discover a cover-up of a...

A O'Connor - The Legacy of Armstrong House - BRAND NEW

2017 – At Armstrong House, Kate and Nico Collins are looking forward to a bright future with their young son Cian. When archaeologist Daniel Byrne arrives in the area to investigate life there during...

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...

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...

A. O'Connor - The Legacy of Armstrong House - PB - BRAND NEW (Armstrong House Novels - Book 3 )

Present day – Kate and Nico Collins are filming a docudrama about life in their home Armstrong House in Ireland during its golden age at the turn of the century. When they discover a cover-up of a...

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...

Dermot Bolger - Hide Away - PB - BRAND NEW

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...

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

Charlotte Brontë, who dazzled the world with some of literature’s most vital and richly-drawn characters, spent her brief but extraordinary life in search of love. She eventually found it with Arthur...

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...

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...

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...

Olive Collins - The Memory of Music - BRAND NEW

One Irish family - 100 turbulent years. 1916: Betty O’Fogarty is proud and clever. Spurred on by her belief in her husband Seamus’s talent as a violin-maker and her desire to escape rural life, they...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Thomas Flanagan - Year of the French - HB 1st UK ED 1979 - Killala 1798

In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard,...

(Captain) W.E Johns - The Bumper Biggles Book - HB - Omnibus - ( Biggles : Pioneer Air Fighter, Biggles Flies South, Biggles in the Orient, Biggles Defies the Swastika, Biggles in the Jungle)

5 original Biggles books in one volume , published in this edition by Chancellor Press UK, 1983.  Includes -  Biggles, Pioneer Air Fighter ( aka The Camels are Coming) ( Originally 1932)  Biggles...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...