IRISH LITERATURE

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...

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 / 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 / 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 ( as Benjamin Black) / The Silver Swan

Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1950s, that low, dishonourable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man he once...

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 / 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

 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 / 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 (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 (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

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 / 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...

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 / 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 Absolutist (Large Paperback)

 September 1919:20 year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War...

John Boyne / The Echo Chamber

 From the author of The Heart's Invisible Furies and powered with the Boyne's characteristic humor and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward...

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 - 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 / Getting Through

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