IRISH LITERATURE

John B. Keane / A High Meadow

Mollie's face clouded as it always did whenever she thought of the Ram of God. She was careful not to show her annoyance. The more she considered their relationship, the more her fury mounted...

John B. Keane / An Irish Christmas Feast : The Best of John B. Keane's Christmas Stories (Hardback)

 'Hilariously Irish, shrewdly accurate and richly creative.' -Irish Times `Creates a charming emotional map of a fictitious but authentic-seeming place.' -Boston Globe `John B.'s love of...

John B. Keane / Big Maggie

 'Big Maggie 'J. B. Keane's most outspoken play' - The Irish Press'Keane ... has brought the tyranny, the desperation and the frustration of the rural Irish matriarch roaring into the top...

John B. Keane / Durango

This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are...

John B. Keane / Sive

This is a story of greed, sex and bitterness, of a scheming matchmaker and a resentful woman forcing a beautiful young girl to marry an old man for money. Sive is a young and beautiful orphan who...

John B. Keane / The Bodhran Makers

Life is harsh in close-knit community of Dirrabeg, a community on the Dingle Peninsula facing extinction in the mid-1950's. Many of the young have left for England or America, where there are...

John Banville ( as Benjamin Black) / The Secret Guests

 For fans of The Crown comes an enthralling historical mystery set during the Second World WarIt is 1940 and the bombs are falling thick and fast on London. The royal family must do all they can...

John Banville / Ancient Light (Hardback)

The Cleave Trilogy #3   'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.'Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely...

John Banville / Ancient Light (Large Paperback)

'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.' Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small...

John Banville / April in Spain (Large Paperback)

 When Dublin pathologist Quirke glimpses a familiar face while on holiday with his wife, it's hard, at first, to tell whether his imagination is just running away with him. Could she really be...

John Banville / First Light (Large Paperback)

   John Banville is one of the finest and most critically-acclaimed writers of his generation. With elegance, insight and wit, he has secured a devoted readership and there can be few more...

John Banville / Ghosts (Hardback)

 An unnamed murderer has served time in prison then comes to live on a sparsely populated island with the enigmatic Professor Silas Kreutznaer and his laconic companion Licht. A party of...

John Banville / Mrs Osmond (Large Paperback)

 A MASTERFUL TALE OF BETRAYAL AND CORRUPTION BY THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE SEA'Banville is one of the writers I admire the most' Hanya Yanahigara, author of A Little Life 'A...

John Banville / Shroud (Hardback)

 Axel Vander, celebrated academic and man of culture, is spending his twilight years on the west coast of America. For decades he has lived with the knowledge of a tragedy of which he was both...

John Banville / Snow

 'Outstanding.' Irish Independent'Exquisite.' Daily Mail'Hypnotic.' Financial Times'This is crime fiction for the connoisseur.' The Times'The body is in the library,' Colonel Osborne said. 'Come...

John Banville / Snow (Large Paperback)

 'An outstanding novel and an absolute page-turner.' Irish Independent'A typically elegant country house mystery.' Guardian, Biggest books of the AutumnA CrimeReads Most Anticipated Book of...

John Banville / Snow (Large Paperback) (5 Copies) (Book Club Bundle)

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John Banville / The Blue Guitar

 From John Banville, one of the world's greatest writers, comes The Blue Guitar, a story of theft and the betrayal of friendship.Adultery is always put in terms of thieving. But we were happy...

John Banville / The Blue Guitar (Hardback)

 From John Banville, one of the world's greatest writers, comes The Blue Guitar, a story of theft and the betrayal of friendship. Adultery is always put in terms of thieving. But we were happy...

John Banville / The Infinities (Large Paperback)

From the writer of the Booker Prize-winning "The Sea", comes a new novel, a major literary event of the Autumn. John Banville is one of the finest and most critically-acclaimed writers of...

John Banville / The Lock-Up (Large Paperback) (5 Copies) (Book Club Bundle)

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John Banville / The Singularities

From the revered, Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multi-layered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated...

John Banville / The Singularities: A Novel (Hardback)

 A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car also borrowed onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. There is a new family living in the drafty old the Godleys,...

John Banville / The Untouchable

The Untouchable is an engrossing, exquisitely written and almost bewilderingly smart book ...It's the fullest book I've read in a very long time, utterly accomplished, thoroughly readable,...

John Banville / The Untouchable (Large Paperback)

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John Boyne / A Ladder to the Sky (Large Paperback)

   'A deliciously dark tale of ambition, seduction and literary theft . . . an ingeniously conceived novel that confirms Boyne as one of the most assured writers of his generation.' Hannah...

John Boyne / A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom

 Some stories are universal. They play out across human history. And time is the river which will flow through them.It starts with a family, a family which will mutate. For now, it is a father,...

John Boyne / All The Broken Places (Large Paperback)

   1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame, and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to...

John Boyne / Mutiny on the Bounty

Pickpocket John Jacob Turnstile is on his way to be detained at His Majesty's Pleasure when he is offered a lifeline, what seems like a freedom of sorts - the job of personal valet to a departing...

John Boyne / Mutiny On The Bounty (Large Paperback)

 This was set in December 23, 1787, Deptford on the south bank of the river Thames. A 15-year-old boy, Billy, has got into trouble with the police on one too many occasions and is about to be...

John Boyne / My Brother's Name is Jessica (Large Paperback)

 'John Boyne made his name with The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas and he's on stellar form in My Brother's Name is Jessica.' Daily ExpressSam Waver's life has always been pretty quiet. A bit of a...

John Boyne / The Echo Chamber (Large Paperback)

 What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon...

John Boyne / The Heart's Invisible Furies

   the most beautifully written and crafted novel ... heartbreaking' Santa Montefiore'It's been a long time since I read anything so compelling and satisfying. At times, incredibly funny,...

John Boyne / The Thief of Time

John Boyne has become internationally known for his acclaimed novels Crippen and the bestselling The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Now, for the first time in the United States, comes the book that...

John Boyne / This House is Haunted

   1867. On a dark and chilling night Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as governess at Gaudlin Hall. As she makes her way across the station platform, a pair of...

John Broderick - An Apology For Roses - HB 1973 - 1st Edition

'She had been born with a greater capacity for love and pleasure than most people; and her nature had very early on found itself at war with the primitive, property-ridden society in which she was...

John Broderick - London Irish - Vintage PB - 1981

A Pan paperback, 1981, of the 1979 novel from John Broderick. sunfade to the spine, page block tight, tanning to pages.  'At seventy-two, men are apt to behave oddly, especially where pretty...

John Connolly / The Land of Lost Things (Large Paperback)

  Twice upon a time - for that is how some stories should continue . . .Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident. She is a body without a spirit, a stolen child...

John F. Deane / In the Name of the Wolf (Large Paperback)

On the island of Achill, off the west coast of Ireland, Nora and Captain O'Higgins are troubled by their daughter's unexplained illness. Patty O'Higgins is a young woman suffering from lupus, a...

John McGahern - Memoir - HB Faber UK 2005 1st Edition

  Some small indents to the back cover, light scratches to the dustjacket front cover. A personal account of John McGahern's childhood; of his mother's death, his father's anger and bafflement,...

John McGahern - The Barracks - Vintage Panther PB ED 1967 - Gárda Siochána

The first novel by John McGahern, originally published in 1963. Elizabeth Regan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children...

John McGahern / Amongst Women

  Michael Moran is an old Irish Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the Irish War of Independence. Moran is still fighting — with...

John McGahern / Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories

McGahern's command of the short story places him among the finest practitioners of the form, in a lineage that runs from Chekhov through Joyce and the Anglo-American masters. When the collection was...

John McGahern / Getting Through

To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all...

John McGahern / High Ground

To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all...

John McGahern / Love of the World: Essays

 John McGahern did not spread himself thinly as a writer. Nearly all of his creative energy went into what was central for him: the great novels and stories that are now part of the canon of...

John McGahern / Memoir

'As wise and compelling a book as any of his elegiac and graceful novels.' David Mitchell This is the story of John McGahern's childhood; of his mother's death, his father's anger and bafflement,...

John McGahern / Memoir (Hardback)

This is the story of John McGahern's childhood; of his mother's death, his father's anger and bafflement, and his own discovery of literature and his ambition to become a writer. At the...

John McGahern / That They May Face the Rising Sun

Now a major motion picture: the Booker-shortlisted Irish author's last novel: a 'masterpiece' (Observer ) - 'wise and compelling ... elegiac and graceful' (David Mitchell) - by 'one of the greatest...

John McGahern / That They May Face the Rising Sun (Hardback)

  From the very opening pages, we see many memorable characters as they move about the Ruttledges, who have come from London home to Ireland in search of a different life. There is John...

John McGahern / The Barracks

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John McGahern / The Collected Stories - Faber PB

This collection of short stories are from the author shortlisted for the 1990 Booker Prize with his book "Amongst Women". John McGahern is also the author of "The Barracks", "The Dark", "Getting...