IRISH LITERATURE

William Trevor / Love and Summer (Large Paperback)

  It's the late 1950s, and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn't go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger appears on his bicycle and begins photographing the mourners at Mrs...

William Trevor / Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel

  Ivy Eckdorf, a well-known, but rather eccentric photographer, travels to Dublin to do a photographic study of a rundown hotel that houses a group of misfits       All...

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...

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 Trevor / Two Lives

   Two beautiful, memorable novels in one volume, both focussing on women who retreat into their imaginations until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred. In...

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 / Grace's Day (Large Paperback)

 An Irish Independent Book of the Year. As the great John McGahern used to say, there's verse, and there's prose, and then there's poetry; William Wall is a poet in both mediums' John Banville...

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...

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...