IRISH LITERATURE

Sheila O'Flanagan / The Moment We Meet

 Who you meet can change your life for ever ... A wonderful collection of short stories from Sheila O'Flanagan, bestselling author of The Hideaway and What Happened That NightA young PR girl has the...

Sigrid Rausing / Granta 135 : New Irish Writing (Large Paperback)

 Granta 135 is a snapshot of contemporary Ireland, which shows where one of the world's most distinguished and independent literary traditions is today. Here international stars rub shoulders with a...

Sinéad de Valera - More Irish Fairy Tales ( Vintage Piccolo PB )

Published in this Piccolo paperback edition, illustrations by Julek Heller.  A collection of 10 classic irish fairytales, aimed at a 8-10 readership. Tanning to page block, some uneven age spotting...

Sinners: New Irish Crime Stories

Sinners is the third enthralling anthology of new crime writing from the3percenters. A chance meeting on a luxury cruise liner triggers a series of terrifying events. Craving the approval of his...

Siobhan MacGowan / The Trial of Lotta Rae (Hardback)

Halloween night, 1906. Lotta Rae is assaulted by a wealthy gentleman and bravely takes him to trial alongside her barrister, William, who she believes her ally.But the verdict is devastating, the...

Siobhan Parkinson / Home an Anthology of Modern Irish Writing (Large Paperback)

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Sophie White / My Hot Friend

Lexi is on top of the worldThe podcast she co-hosts with her ride-or-die bestie is going stratospheric. But will all this fame and success cost them their friendship?Joanne's just had a babyBut her...

Sophie White / Such a Good Couple (Large Paperback)

Stephen Walsh / Shine | Variance (Large Paperback)

" Great, beautiful little studies of unspoken fear and longing and love, told with a sure-footed delicacy rare in a debut" Sarah Moss, Irish Times " An exciting, original, and very welcome new voice"...

Steve Macdonogh / The Brandon Book of Irish Short Stories (Large Paperback)

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Suhrkamp Publishing - Irisches Lesebuch - HB - 1996

Text entirely in German - translations of a wide selection of Irish Literature (of poems , short stories and extracts from novels and plays)  Published by Gudrun Boch Suhrkamp, 311 pages

Susan Lanigan / White Feathers (Large Paperback)

   Two lives in danger - her lover's and her sister's. But she must choose only one.In 1913, young Irish emigrant Eva Downey is trapped in London with a remote father and hostile stepmother. When...

Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin / Aniar: Véarsaíocht on Traidisiún Gaelach / Voices and Verse from the Edge of the World (Coffee Table Book)

Leabhar lándaite, le clúdach crua agus dlúthdhiosca ardchaighdeán léiriúcháin. Véarsaíocht á haithris ag triúr aisteoir aitheanta aniar.Ábhar ó thraidisiún béil na Gaeltachta atá sa leabhar maisiúil...

Tana French / Broken Harbour (Hardback)

Dublin Murder Squad #4       This book is second hand, and while you may not g

The Dublin Review - Issue 36 - Autumn 2009 - PB

Contents - Issue 36 - Winter 2009. Paperback in pale green covers, internally unmarked, mark on back covers from where a label was.  Robert Cremins  My life in Irish ‘… in the few words of my...

The Dublin Review - Issue 37 - Winter 2009-10 - PB

Contents - Issue 37 - Winter 2009-10. Paperback in pale yellow covers, internally unmarked, mark on back covers from where a label was.  Neil Burkey  Dogfish ‘”You need to get out of here.” That...

The Glass Shore : Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland (Hardback)

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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...

Thomas Murphy / The Seduction of Morality

    The Irish playwright Tom Murphy's first novel. Featuring a 38-year-old who returns from America to the small Irish town of her childhood, it is a story about the awakening of a woman's...

Tomas O Criomhthain ( Tomas O'Crohan) / The Islandman - Blaskets Kerry

Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous life of a primitive community, yet possessed...

Tony Potter / Pocket Irish Poetry (Hardback)

 In the words of Seamus Heaney, great poetry can 'Catch the heart off guard and blow it open'. This beautifully illustrated collection contains the greatest poems from the greatest Irish poets,...

Una Mannion / A Crooked Tree

 My mother made a snap decision.How could we know it would change us forever?'Brimming with curiosity and wonder.' Irish Times'Lushly atmospheric.' Daily Mail'Thoroughly gripping.' Lucy...

Una Mannion / A Crooked Tree (Hardback)

Ellen and Thomas are bickering in the back of the car. Libby has her forehead pressed against the window, she is dreading the coming summer. Ellen is going too far, disturbing their mother as she...

Una Mannion / Tell Me What I Am (Large Paperback)

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Valerie Maher / Sarah's Gate (Large Paperback)

Valerie Maher has written an earthy, comic novel about life in a fictional housing estate on the outskirts of Belfast. Set in modern times it is filled with a raw language and raw characters - spivs,...

W. B. Yeats / The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

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Walter Macken - Seek the Fair Land ( Irish Trilogy - Book 1) Vintage Pan Paperback

The first novel in Walter Macken's loose epic trilogy examining 300 years of Irish history.  Set amidst the Cromwellian Invasions, Seek the Fair Wind begins in 1641. Dominick McMahon, a merchant by...

Walter Macken - Sullivan - Vintage Pan PB 1976 Ed ( Originally 1957)

First published in 1957 ( and thus one of Macken's earliest works) thuis is a 1976 reprint edition by Pan Macmillan UK.  Usual light tanning to the page block, creases to spine. Small scorch mark to...

Walter Macken - The Coll Doll and Other Stories - Pan PB 1971

First published in 1969, this is a 1971 reprint, of a collection of short stories by Walter Macken, many of which were unpublished at the time of his death in 1968, and were collected and arranged...

Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - HB 1st Edition 1964

The third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Macmillan UK, 1964.   The three books are linked by the theme o

Walter Macken - The Scorching Wind - Irish Trilogy - Book 3 - Vintage Pan Edition 1969

Now out of print, this is the third and final book in Walter Macken's loose Irish Trilogy - The Scorching Wind, published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK, 1970   The three bo

Walter Macken / Flight of the Doves

Desperate to escape their vicious uncle in London, orphans Finn and Derval Dove embark on a dangerous journey across England to Ireland. Lonely and scared, their only hope lies in reaching the...

Walter Macken / Sullivan (Vintage Paperback) (2)

Sullivan was a born actor. Blessed and cursed with the artist's gifts and temperament in full measure, he could hold an audience, or a woman's heart, in the palm of his hand. From a boyhood stuffed...

Walter Macken/ The Scorching Wind (Vintage Paperback)

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William King / Is that All There Is? (Large Paperback)

It is boom time in Dublin, and Philip and Sam, a professional couple in banking and advertising gorged on vertiginous success, buy a run-down monastery in a wealthy suburb. As they renovate their...

William Trevor - The Old Boys - PB 1984 ( Originally 1964) ( King Penguin)

The Old Boys by William Trevor - a novel of power, revenge, love and the failure of love from one of the world's best writersA group of septuagenarians revive schoolboy conflicts in the election of...

William Trevor / Cheating at Canasta

 Cheating at Canasta - an outstanding collection of stories by the master storyteller William Trevor'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' Wall Street Journal''No...

William Trevor / Felicia's Journey

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William Trevor / Juliet's Story

 A beautiful edition of William Trevor's only book for children.Where would you find talking snails, fighting queens, Welsh witches and winter sunflowers? In stories, of course, and that's why Juliet...

William Trevor / Juliet's Story (Hardback)

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William Trevor / Last Stories (Hardback)

*A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller*'What a writer he was; he could flip over a sentence so gently, and show the underbelly in a heartbeat. His work is always quietly compassionate' Elizabeth StroutIn...

William Trevor / The Collected Stories (Hardback)

From his debut collection, The Day We Got Drunk on Cake, published in 1968, to Family Sins (1990), William Trevor has crafted the short story to perfection, giving us brilliant and subtle stories...

William Trevor / The Hill Bachelors (Hardback)

   From the pre-eminent author of Felicia’s Journey and Death in Summer, the first major collection of stories since the highly acclaimed After Rain .

William Trevor / The Love Department

    Lady Dolores ran the offices of the Love Department, resolving the heartaches of the wives of Wimbledon. Now her protege was sent on a mission to learn the secrets of Septimus and to stop him...

William Trevor / The Silence in the Garden

 Carriglas is the island estate off County Cork where Sarah Pollexfen goes to live as governess to her wealthy cousins on the eve of the First World War. Helplessly, Sarah watches her cousins lead...

William Trevor / The Story of Lucy Gault

Captain Gault has decided that his family must leave Lahardane. They are after all Protestants living in the big house in rural Cork, and the country is in turmoil. It is 1921. But 8-year-old Lucy...

William Vorm ( Editor) - Paddy No More : Modern Irish Short Stories - PB 1978

Published by Wolfhound Publishing, 1978, a collection of 10 short styories by Irish writers, most originally published in teh preceding years - so 1970-77.  Juanita Casey, Michael Foley, Dermot...

William Wall / Empty Bed Blues (Large Paperback)

When Kate Holohan's husband dies suddenly, the extent of his disastrous financial speculation is revealed – together with a mistress and a secret love-nest in the small Italian fishing port of...

William Wall / This is the Country (Large Paperback)

 In an Ireland far removed from the familiar images of travel brochures, a bright teenager is heading for son of a single mother who has given up, rarely at school, taking drugs, and hovering on the...