IRISH LITERATURE

John Boyne / Water (Hardback)

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small...

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 Mackenna / We Seldom Talk About the Past: Selected Short Stories (Large Paperback)

We Seldom Talk About the Past is John MacKenna’s first selected collection of short stories, from a career spanning over three decades. The stories selected come from four collections of short...

John McDonagh ( Editor) / A Fine Statement - An Irish Poet's Anthology (Hardback)

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John McGahern - Getting Through - PB - Short STORIES - 1978

  The author's 4th book , and second published collection of short stories.  Condition -LIGHT EDGEWEAR, this PB REPRINT, Poolbeg/ Quatro 1978 following the first Faber printing, 1978...

John McGahern - The Dark ( Vintage PB Edition Panther1969)

John McGahern's second novel, The Dark, confirmed and enhanced the reputation he gained with his first, The Barracks. The scene is set in rural Ireland and the central theme is adolescence, impelled...

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

 When the collection was first published in 1992, the "Sunday Times" said 'there is a vivid pleasure to be had in the reading of these stories', while for Cressida Connolly in the "Evening...

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 / 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 (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 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 Patrick McHugh / Fun and Games (Large Paperback)

A stunning debut novel following a teenage boy as he comes of age on the west coast of Ireland, from the author of the acclaimed story collection Pure Gold. Seventeen-year-old John Masterson has no...

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 Somer & J Daly ( Editors) - Scribner Book of Irish Writing - Paperback Edition 2001 Short Fiction

This is a collection of short fiction that shows the power, vitality and diversity of the modern Irish story. Fresh voices are represented alongside those synonymous with contemporary Irish...

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...

Jonathan Swift / A Modest Proposal

'... a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...'Swift's devastating short satire on how to solve a famineIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black...

Jonathan Swift / Gulliver's Travels (Large Paperback)

ulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people and their city, he is able to view...

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 / Inishowen

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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 (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 / Star of The Sea

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Joseph O'Connor / Star of the Sea (Hardback)

 In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the "Star of the Sea" sets sail for New York. On board are hundreds of refugees, some optimistic, many more are...

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...

Karl Geary / Juno Loves Legs (Large Paperback)

  Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo 'An ode to love, to the salvation of friendship, and to the families we build when our own families fail us. The characters are so real,...

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 / Mary Lavelle

 Mary Lavelle, a young and beautiful Irish woman, travels to Spain to work as a governess and see a little of life before returning to Mellick to marry her fiance, John. Despite the impressive...

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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Keith Ridgway / Hawthorn and Child

 Hawthorn and his partner, Child, are called to the scene of a mysterious shooting in North London. The only witness is unreliable, the clues are scarce, and the victim, a young man who lives...