IRISH LITERATURE

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 / 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 (Vintage Paperback)

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John McGahern / The Leavetaking

 Widely considered one of the greatest Irish writers by readers and critics alike, John McGahern has been called "arguably the most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett" ( The Guardian...

John Millington Synge - The Aran Islands - PB - ( with photographs by Synge)

First published 1907, this is Synge's account of visits to the Aran Islands, and using photographs taken by Synge himself on his visits.  In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting...

John Millington Synge / - Plays - HB 1958 Reprint ( Collected Plays )

The literary and dramatic work of J.M. Synge is most famous for the 'riots' provoked by his 1907 play The Playboy of the Western World and, indeed, this was neither the first nor the last time that...

John Montague / A Ball of Fire : Collected Stories (Hardback)

John Montague, best known as a poet, is also a gifted prose writer. A Ball of Fire collects all of his short stories, together with the erotic novella The Lost Notebooks (which he hoped to have...

John Patrick McHugh / Pure Gold: Stories (Large Paperback)

 Two boys set fires while their worlds fall apart. A couple drive out to the hills in a last-ditch effort to save their marriage. A horse crashes a house party. Set on an imagined island off the...

John Quinn / A Little Book of Ledwidge: A Selection of the Poems and Letters of Francis Ledwidge

   ABOUT THE BOOK To commemorate the centenary of Francis Ledwidge's death in the Battle of Passchendaele, John Quinn has compiled a selection of writings, both by Ledwidge and those...

John Wyse Jackson / Best-Loved Oscar Wilde (Hardback)

 Those whom the gods love grow young.Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900), one of Ireland's most beloved writers, was a playwright, poet, novelist and author of fairy stories and...

Joseph O'Connor / Ghost Light (Large Paperback)

 Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious and flirtatious, Molly...

Joseph O'Connor / Ghost Light (Signed by the Author) (Paperback).

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Joseph O'Connor / Inishowen (Large Paperback) PB

  Detective Martin Aitken's life is already in chaos but when a strange woman collapses in a Dublin street on Christmas Eve, his world is about to be turned on its head. This is a story of...

Joseph O'Connor / My Father's House (Large Paperback)

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Joseph O'Connor / New Irish Short Stories

Edited by Joseph O'Connor (author of Star of the Sea and Ghost Light) New Irish Short Stories is a stunning collection from a fascinating variety of writers, both new and established. Featuring,...

Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls

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Joseph O'Connor / Redemption Falls (Large Paperback)

  1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana,...

Joseph O'Connor / Shadowplay

 Discover the enthralling Richard & Judy Book Club pick for winter 2020 from international bestseller Joseph O'Connor.'The best novel that I've read in the last twenty years... It's...

Joseph O'Connor / Shadowplay (Hardback)

 Discover the thrilling life of Bram Stoker, the man who created Dracula, in this immersive historical novel.**Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award **1878: The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three...

Joseph O'Connor / Shadowplay (Large Paperback)

 Discover the thrilling life of Bram Stoker, the man who created Dracula, in this immersive historical novel.**Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award **1878: The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three...

Joseph O'Connor / Star of The Sea

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Joseph O'Connor / The Ghosts of Rome (Large Paperback)

Rome Escape Line Trilogy #2 In the final months of World War II, a clandestine group known as The Choir smuggles thousands of escapees out of Nazi-occupied Rome via a secret route known as the...

Joseph O'Connor / The Thrill of it All

   At college in 1980s Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese refugee. Together they form a band. Joined by cellist...

Joseph O'Connor / Where Have You Been? (Large Paperback)

 Where Have You Been? is award-winning novelist Joseph O'Connor's first collection of short stories in more than twenty years.Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York's...

Joseph OConnor / The Star of the Sea (Large Paperback)

  In a story of tragedy and mercy, love and healing, the nearer the ship gets to the Promised Land, the more her passengers seem moored to a past which will never let them go...

Julia O'Faolain / Under the Rose - Selected Stories (Large Paperback)

 Julia O'Faolain is one of the most important Irish writers of the past half-century. Under the Rose is a selection of short stories taken from her many celebrated collections.These are stories...

Julian Gough - Jude, Level 1 - SIGNED Hardcover 1st Edition 2007

A signed hardcover first edition, of Jude, by Julian Gough, and published by Old Street Publishing 2007.  This is the tale of Jude, a Tipperary-reared orphan, who on his 18th birthday, sets off...

Julian Gough / Connect

 'A work of genius' Donal RyanNevada; the near future; a family in crisisBiologist and single mother Naomi is worried about the impact her ground-breaking research might have on the world. And...

Julian Gough / Connect (Large Paperback)

'A tour de force' Joseph O'Connor'A work of genius' Donal RyanNevada; the near future; a family in crisisBiologist and single mother Naomi is worried about the impact her ground-breaking research...

Julian Gough / Jude in London (Large Paperback)

 A COMIC EPIC FOR ANYONE WHO LOVES RODDY DOYLE, P.G. WODEHOUSE, BECKETT AND KAFKA, BUT WISHES THEIR BOOKS HAD MORE EXPLOSIONS...'The Death of the Author is on your conscience!'It was. 'Sorry,' I...

Julian Gough / Jude: Level 1

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June Caldwell / Room Little Darker

   From one of Ireland's most grindingly authentic and radically original talents, Room Little Darker explores the clandestine aspects of modern life through jagged, visceral tales of...

Kate Cruise O'Brien / A Gift Horse (Vintage Paperback)

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Kate Cruise O'Brien / The Homesick Garden

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Kate O'Brien / As Music and Splendour

Set in the 1880s and '90s, As Music and Splendour tells the story of two young Irish girls who are sent to Rome for training as opera singers. Rose red-haired, big-hearted and big-voiced is soon...

Kathleen MacMahon / Nothing But Blue Sky (Large Paperback)

 'A poignant, gentle and astutely observed novel about marriage and the evolution of love' Sunday Times, NOVELS OF THE YEAR 2020________________Is there such a thing as a perfect marriage?David...

Kathleen MacMahon / Nothing but Blue Sky (Signed by the Author) (Paperback)

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Kathleen MacMahon / The Home Scar (Large Paperback)

   From the Women's Prize longlisted author of Nothing But Blue Sky 'The home scar - that's what they call the mark limpets make on the rock when they return.''Wait, they leave the...

Kathleen MacMahon / The Long, Hot Summer (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Ken Bruen - A Galway Epiphany - PB BRAND NEW

A Galway Epiphany Jack Taylor has finally traded in his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country.But on a day trip back into the city, Jack is hit by a truck and left in a...

Ken Bruen / Galway Girl (Large Paperback)

 The latest Jack Taylor novel from the Godfather of Irish noir Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom.Still reeling from a violent...

Kevin Casey / A State Of Mind (Large Paperback)

In mid-1970s rural Wicklow, John Hughes, a once-feted journalist/author with writer’s block, reflects on recent events. When English author William Cromer and his German lover Ingrid move to...

Kevin Doherty / Penny Baps (Large Paperback)

‘He won't tell Dan about the trees yet. In the spring maybe, when he knows if they're living or dead. Cahir is the right man for a secret. The great secrets of the world are best kept by fat...

Kevin Power / White City (Large Paperback)

 From the highly acclaimed author of Bad Day in Blackrock - inspiration for the 2012 award-winning film What Richard Did, directed by Lenny Abrahamson - comes a darkly funny, gripping and...

Kevin Powers / A Shout in the Ruins

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Laurence Sterne - A Sentimental Journey - HB - Heritage Press USA - 1944 - Illustrated

A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy became a hugely influential work of...

Liam O'Flaherty - The Informer - Vintage NEL PB 1971 reprint

Set in 1920's Ireland The Informer is an enthralling revolutionary drama of the Dublin underworld and inspired the classic John Ford film. In the ominous figure of Gypo, an ex-policeman, who takes...

Liam O'Flaherty / Short Stories

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Liam O'Flaherty / The Informer

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Lisa Carey / The Mermaids Singing (Hardback)

There is an island of the west coast or Ireland called Inis Muruch--the Island of the Mermaids--a world where myth is more powerful than truth, where the sea sings with the healing and haunting...

Liz Nugent / Our Little Cruelties

 'Liz Nugent is a force to be reckoned with' Lisa Jewell'Brilliantly observed family life and a plot that is part rollercoaster, part maze. Loved it!' Graham Norton'MAGNIFICENT. Her best yet,...