IRISH LITERATURE

Jan Carson / The Fire Starters (Large Paperback)

 'One of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation' SUNDAY TIMES'Gripping, affecting, surprising. I inhaled it' LISA MCINERNEY'Captivating, intelligent and...

Jennifer Johnston - The Gates - Vintage PB - 1974

Once, the villagers would tip their hats respectfully when the McMahons drove out through the ornate iron gates at the end of the drive. But that was back in the days when the Major's family were...

Jennifer Johnston / Grace and Truth (Hardback)

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Jennifer Johnston / How Many Miles to Babylon

As a child Alec, heir to the big house and only son of a bitter marriage, formed a close friendship with Jerry, a village boy who shared his passion for horses. In 1914 both enlisted in the British...

Jennifer Johnston / Shadows on Our Skin

Joe Logan lives with his parents in Derry, where British soldiers are a familiar sight, and the sudden smashing and crashing of unexpected raids breaks the peace of the nights. One winter he...

Jennifer Johnston / Shadowstory (Hardback)

 A compelling novel of complicated love, from one of Ireland's greatest living writers.It is the Second World War, and tragedy strikes many families in Ireland. But it is also a thrilling time...

Jennifer Johnston / The Gingerbread Woman

On a rainy afternoon on Killiney Hill a young man walking, without his overcoat, happens upon a woman gazing out over Dublin bay, standing perilously close to the edge. From their testy encounter...

Jennifer Johnston / The Gingerbread Woman (Hardback)

  On a rainy afternoon on Killiney Hill, a man out walking without his overcoat happens upon a woman gazing out into Dublin Bay, standing perilously close to the edge. From this chance...

Jennifer Johnston / The Railway Station Man

 Helen has retreated to the remote north-west coast of Ireland to paint the sea and the shore, and to be alone with her past. English war hero Roger Hawthorne has settled in the neglected...

Jimmy Murphy / Idlewild (Large Paperback)

As the streets of Dublin play host to a bitter gangland feud, two former best friends, now rival gang leaders, meet over the grave of their best friend to finally end the bloodshed. Written by Jimmy...

John B Keane - The Man From Clare - Vintage 2nd Printing 1965 - Mercier

Deals with the personal tragedy of an aging athlete who finds he no longer has the physical strength to maintain his position as the captain of the team or his reputation as the 'best footballer in...

John B Keane / The Contractors

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John B. Keane - Man of the Triple Name ( Dan Paddy Andy) - PB 1st Edition 1984 - Brandon Books - Kerry

Internally, the pages and page block ends are age tanned heavily, but binding is tight, the book is clean and unmarked,  Dan Paddy Andy O'Sullivan, from the Stacks Mountains in Kerry, was a...

John B. Keane - Strong Tea - PB Mercier - 1976 (Originally 1963)

A 1976 reprint edition paperback - of Strong Tea, a collection of mostly short essays and humourous articles, some reprinted from previously published essays in the Limerick Leader as well as radio...

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 / 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 / Christmas Tales (Large Paperback)

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John B. Keane / Durango

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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 B. Keane / The Celebrated Letters of John B. Keane: v. 2 (Large Paperback)

  This collection features such famous volumes as Letters of a Civil Guard, Letters of an Irish Publican and Letters of a Country Postman. In them we find many evocations of rural Ireland,...

John B. Keane / The Celebrated Letters of John B.Keane (Large Paperback)

 John B. Keane is one of Ireland's most popular playwrights. With his plays now reaching the cinema, his work has become known to an international audience. 30 years after John B. Keane made his...

John B. Keane / The Field

The Field is John B. Keane's fierce and tender study of the love a man can have for land and the ruthless lengths he will go to in order to obtain the object of his desire. It is dominated by Bull...

John Banville ( as Benjamin Black) / Vengeance

Why would suicide need a witness?On the east coast of Ireland, Victor Delahaye, one of the country’s most prominent citizens, takes his business partner’s son out sailing. But once at...

John Banville / Ancient Light

 John Banville's Ancient Light is a story of obsessive young love and the power of grief 'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.'In a small town in 1950s Ireland...

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

 THE LOCK-UP - A THRILLING NEW STRAFFORD AND QUIRKE MYSTERY - IS AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDER The sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from the Booker Prize...

John Banville / April in Spain (Hardback)

 THE LOCK-UP - A THRILLING NEW STRAFFORD AND QUIRKE MYSTERY - IS AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDERThe sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from the Booker Prize winning...

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 / Doctor Copernicus

    Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1976 this historical novel is based on the life of Nicholas Koppernigk, better known as Copernicus, whose ideas and writings...

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 / Mefisto

  This sourcebook of ideas is designed to help teachers, students and others interested in education to understand and engage in philosophical enquiry with children. It illustrates how...

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 (Hardback)

'The body is in the library,' Colonel Osborne said. 'Come this way.'Following the discovery of the corpse of a highly respected parish priest at Ballyglass House - the Co. Wexford family seat of the...

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 Book of Evidence

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John Banville / The Drowned (Large Paperback)

“He had seen drowned people. A sight not to be forgotten.”1950s, rural Ireland. A loner comes across a mysteriously empty car in a field. Knowing he shouldn’t approach but unable to...

John Banville / The Infinities (Hardback)

One long, languid midsummer’s day, the Godleys gather at the family home of Arden to attend their father’s bedside. Adam, the elder child, and Petra, only nineteen, find that relations...

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)

 Booker Prize winner and “Irish master” ( The New Yorker ) John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mysteryIn...

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 Untouchable (Large Paperback)

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John Boyne / A Ladder to the Sky

 '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 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 (Large Paperback)

  Some stories are universal. Some are unique. They play out across human history, and time is the river that flows through them.This story starts with a family. For now, it is a father and a...