IRISH LITERATURE

Clare Boylan - Last Resorts - HB - US Edition 1986

Harriet's yearly family vacation on the Greek island of Keptos is disrupted by her twins' desire to get drunk with the locals, her thirteen-year-old daughter's suddenly ripe sexuality, and the abrupt...

Clare Boylan / Holy Pictures (Vintage Paperback)

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Clare Boylan / That Bad Woman (Hardback)

A collection of 14 stories which focus on the preoccupation of women everywhere: the conflict between responsibility and choice, through which the most humdrum of lives becomes illuminated with the...

Colin Walsh / Kala (Large Paperback)

In the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland's west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years. They - Helen, Joe and Mush - were part of an original group of six...

Colm Tóibín / Long Island (Large Paperback)

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of Eilis Lacey, the...

Colm Toibin / Mothers and Sons (Hardback)

Colm Toibin's new and challenging collection of stories paint rich and textured portraits of individuals at different pivotal moments in their lives. In each case, Toibin shows how their...

Colm Toibin / Nora Webster

* * * Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards and the 2015 Folio Prize * * * Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing today.It is the late 1960s in...

Colm Toibin / Nora Webster (Large Paperback)

It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at...

Colm Toibin / The Blackwater Lightship

Set in modern day Ireland, The Blackwater Lightship tells the tale of three women, Dora Devereaux, her daughter Lily and grand-daughter Helen. They arrive at an uneasy peace with each other...

Colm Toibin / The Empty Family (Large Paperback)

  In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family Colm Tóibín delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals,...

Colm Toibin / The Heather Blazing

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Colm Tóibín / The Magician (Large Paperback)

 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZEFrom one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family.The...

Colm Toibin / The Master (Hardback)

 It is January 1895 and Henry James's play, GUY DOMVILLE, from which he hoped to make his fortune, has failed on the London stage.Opening with this disaster, The Master spans the next five years...

Colm Toibin / The Testament of Mary

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013 From the author of Brooklyn comes a short, powerful novel about one of the most famous mothers in history. In a voice that is both tender and filled with...

Colum McCann / Apeirogon (Large Paperback)

 CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i PAPER, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SCOTSMAN, IRISH TIMES, BBC.COM, WATERSTONES.COM'Nothing like any book you've ever...

Colum McCann / Dancer (Large Paperback)

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Colum McCann / Let the Great World Spin (Large Paperback)

 New York, August 1974. A man is walking the sky. The city stands still in awe. Between the newly built Twin Towers the man is striding, twirling and showboating his way through the air. One...

Colum McCann / Thirteen Ways of Looking (Hardback)

   From the author of the award-winning novel Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic comes an eponymous novella and three stories that range fluidly across time,...

Colum McCann / This Side Of Brightness (Hardback)

 A breakthrough novel for one of the most gifted of the current generation of Irish writers. Ostensibly a love story in three generations, THIS SIDE OF BRIGHTNESS is about many other about the...

Colum McCann / This Side of Brightness (Large Paperback)

  From the author of Songdogs, a magnificent work of imagination and history set in the tunnels of New York City. In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves his native Georgia...

Colum McCann / Transatlantic (Large Paperback)

1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of the First World War to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west...

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

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

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Colum McCann / Zoli

   A major new novel about a gypsy woman exiled for betraying her people, from the prize-winning author of DANCERThe novel begins in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s when Zoli, a young...

Conal Creedon / Passion Play

The Pounding on his door is gettinglouder ond louder . . .- AnswerdeshaggindoorwiIlyaanswerdeshaggindoor !-l am safe...Pluto stubs out onother cigorette in the dregs ofhis coffee mug ond buries...

Conor Bowman / Horace Winter Says Goodbye (Large Paperback)

'Original, moving and funny...' Irish Independent Meet Horace Winter and fall in love with life again in this bestselling novel ... Horace Winter has led an unexceptional life. Ever since that...

Conor O'Callaghan / Nothing On Earth

 As fine as it is frightening." (John Banville). "This one will stay with you like your shadow." (Guardian). "Extraordinary...pitch-perfect." (Irish Times). "Strange, beautiful and quietly...

Daniel Corkery / Nightfall: And Other Stories

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Danny Denton / The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow

Ireland is flooded, derelict. It never stops raining. The Kid in Yellow has stolen the babba from the Earlie King. Why? Something to do with the King's daughter, and a talking statue, something...

David Marcus ( Editor) - New Irish Writing 1 - PB - 1970

Paperback,  published by Dolmen  Press, 1970.  Based on the weekly series then running in the Irish Press Newspaper as 'New Irish Writing' . Contains poetry and short fiction.  A...

David Marcus / The Irish Eros (Hardback)

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David Park / The Truth Commissioner

   Henry Stanfield, the newly arrived Truth Commissioner, is troubled by his estrangement from his daughter, and struggling with the consequences of his infidelities. Francis Gilroy,...

David Park / Travelling in a Strange Land

 Set in a frozen winter landscape, the new novel from the prize-winning, acclaimed author David Park is a psychologically astute, expertly crafted portrait of a father’s inner life and a...

David Rudkin - Cries From Casement as his Bones are Brought to Dublin - HB

Hardcover, pages tanned.  Full text of the play, broadcast by the BBC 1974. '  

Declan Toohey / Perpetual Comedown (Large Paperback)

As a doctoral student at Trinity College Dublin, Darren Walton is trying to decode an elaborate conspiracy he stumbled across as an undergraduate. To do so he must locate an alternate Ireland named...

Declan Varley / KITTYLAND (Large Paperback)

A classic and hilarious coming of age tale of college life in  Galway follows a group of West of Ireland students in the mid 1980s, in the days before hope and the Celtic Tiger. Follow them on...

Deirdre Madden / Molly Fox's Birthday

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Deirdre Madden / Molly Fox's Birthday (Large Paperback)

  Dublin, Midsummer: While absent in New York, the celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house to a playwright friend, who is struggling to write a new work. Over the course of this, the...

Dermot Bolger ( Editor) / Ladies' Night At Finbar's Hotel (Large Paperback)

Finbar's Hotel has reopened for business and is now peopled by a different kind of resident: a businesswoman is search of a sperm donation; a fashion designer who finds out her father is insane;...

Dermot Bolger / Emily's Shoes (Hardback)

Michael is a reclusive young man who works in a Dublin library. He is unable to free himself from a shoe fixation which is now a torment as well as a relief.      All of our books are...

Dermot Bolger / Father's Music

From one of Ireland’s bestselling writers, a literary thriller set in London and Dublin.A combination of family fable and gripping thriller, ‘Father’s Music’ tells the story...

Dermot Bolger / Finbar's Hotel (Large Paperback)

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Dermot Bolger / Tanglewood (Large Paperback)

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Dermot Bolger / The Picador Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction (Hardback)

 This volume features fiction published since 1970. Arranged in chronological order, the volume moves from the traditional to the futuristic. Authors featured include Samuel Beckett, Sean...

Dermot Bolger / The Valparaiso Voyage (Large Paperback)

This is the story of Brendan Brogan, who grew up in a small town outskirts of Dublin. An unhappy childhood leads to an unhappy adulthood. When circumstances offer Brogan a chance to fake his own...

Dermot Healy / A Goat's Song

In a wind-battered Mayo cottage, playwright Jack Ferris tries to salvage something from his broken love affair with Catherine Adams. Drink and despair drove her away; can his imagination call her...

Dermot Healy / Long Time No See (Large Paperback)

 Long Time, No See introduces us to the unforgettable world of Mister Psyche .In the isolated coastal townland of Ballintra in the Northwest of Ireland Recent school-leaver, occasional worker,...

Dermot Healy / Long Time, No See

 Long Time, No See introduces us to the unforgettable world of Mister Psyche .In the isolated coastal townland of Ballintra in the Northwest of Ireland Recent school-leaver, occasional worker,...

Dermot Healy / Sudden Times (Large Paperback)

Ollie Ewing is barely surviving. Back home in Sligo, he's collecting trolleys in a supermarket car park and living in a run-down house with a group of art students. He has lost his child-like...

Dermot Healy / The Bend For Home

 A funny, direct, lively and moving account of growing up in small-town Ireland. Healy lovingly coaxes his childhood into being until, one day, his elderly mother hands him the coded diary he...

Desmond Hogan / The Ikon Maker (Large Paperback)

'With forty pounds he went back to England. Curlews cried in the bog next to Ballinasloe station. A taxi-man looked harassed – no work maybe. They kissed – slenderly. The train left. She...

Donal Ryan / Strange Flowers

 WINNER of the An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2020 & longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 'You have to truly love people to write like this' Rachel Joyce'One of the...