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Rio Ferdinand - My Decade as a Red - HB 1ST Edition Manchester United 2013

  Publisher by Bonnier UK, 2013 - it covers Ferdinand's ten years at Utd from 2002-2012, ( some of the most successful years for the club) as well as his time at West Ham,  Leeds, and as an England international. Illustrated throughout in full...

Michael Smith & David Butler - Tom Crean : Irish AntarctIc Hero ( Graphic Novel)

The unforgettable story of Ireland’s greatest unsung hero, Tom Crean, in graphic novel form. Tom Crean, the teenage son of a poor Kerry farmer, ran away from home in 1893 to seek adventure, and became a major figure in three pioneering expeditions...

Tolka Journal - Tolka Magazine - Issue 8 ( 2024) - PB

Issue Eight of Tolka - It includes:   Issue Eight, published in November 2024, is available to order. It includes: Megan Nolan – And No Animal Is Without Enemy Noreen Masud – Quietly the World Shifts Hanne Ørstavik translated by...

Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills - Irish Fairy Forts : Portals to the Past - HB - BRAND NEW

Far more than just a faint echo of the past, Ireland’s fairy forts are still vibrantly alive. The traditions connected to them are so powerful that, even today, people rarely interfere with Irish fairy forts or fairy trees. They aren’t built...

Chris Judge - Evil Duck and the Nest of Destiny - PB - BRAND NEW

The second book!      Long ago, the ancient inhabitants of Planet Duck created three magical objects to protect their world – the Egg of Time, the Feather of Fortune and the Nest of Destiny. Individually, they each bring great...

Chris Moore - Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up - PB - BRAND NEW

For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning...

Theo Dorgan - Camarade - PB - BRAND NEW

‘All things considered, I wonder if shooting that policeman made me the man that I am?’ In this masterful new work, award-winning author Theo Dorgan has written a philosophical thriller of extraordinary depth. An Irishman in Paris...

Mary O'Donnell - Walking Ghosts - PB - BRAND NEW

In these masterful stories, Mary O’Donnell captures characters caught between certainties and change — from urban encounters to sun-drenched beaches, lockdown anxieties to nightclub tensions. Her walking ghosts navigate the liminal...

Fintan Drury - Catastrophe - Nakba II - PB BRAND NEW

‘The lips of the present give depth to history, and Fintan Drury certainly knows that there are several sides to every story. He rows the boat out – for some it will be a drowning expeirence, but for others it will be a pure lifeboat. The...

Susan Stebbing - Thinking to Some Purpose - PB - 1959 ( Originally 1939)

Hannah Green ( Joanne Greenberg) - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Joanne Greenberg, written under the pen name of Hannah Green. It served as the basis for a film in 1977 The character of Dr. Fried is based closely on Greenberg's real doctor...

Liam Maher - I Remember Neil Kevin - HB 1990

A biography of Tipperary born cleric and author Neil Kevin. 

Gordon L Rottman - Guam 1941 & 1944 - Loss and Reconquest - HB ( Battles of World War II)

Hardcover, published by Osprey UK, 2009, originally 2004. Osprey are probably the preeminent publisher of battle histories, with detailed account sof forces, military commanders, how battles progessed , with maps, period photographs etc. 

Cyril Christo - The Dream of the Earth - PB

Publisher: Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990 Signed by the poet to fellow poet Eavan Boland, March 1991. 

Peter Fallon & Sean Golden ( Editors) - Soft Day : A Miscellany of Contemporary Irish Writing - PB - 1980

An anthology of 36 Irish writers published by Notre Dame Press, 1980. Poetry is most prominent, but also short stories, prose, drama and translations. ncluding: Liam O'Flaherty, Samuel Beckett, Mary Lavin, Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Heaney, and more...

John Cowper Powys - Three Fantasies - HB Carcanet UK 1985

Three fantasy stories make use of surrealism to tell the stories of two armchairs, the strange people of the Go Peninsula, and Yok Pok and his younger sister.  Hardcover, Carcanet Press UK, 1985. Afterword by Glen Cavaliero. 

Rudyard Kipling - The Five Nations - HB 1st Edition - 1903 ( Boer War )

Published by Methuen , London 1903. A collection of Kipling's poems, many from his experiences in South Africa in the Boer War era ( including 'Boots') as well as White Man's Burden and Recessional. Kipling was a noted poet of high imperialist England...

Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW)

    ‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have gone before us...

Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979

The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its  beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’...

Claim Publishing - The Student's English-Chichewa Dictionary - PB

Chewa is a Bantu language spoken in Malawi and a recognised minority in Zambia and Mozambique. The noun class prefix chi- is used for languages, so the language is often called Chichewa or Chinyanja. Published by Claim Publishing, Malawi.

Edward de Bono - Lateral Thinking - A Textbook of Creativity - PB - 1978

HE classic work about improving creativity from world-renowned writer and philosopher Edward de Bono.In schools we are taught to meet problems head-on: what Edward de Bono calls 'vertical thinking'. This works well in simple situations - but we are at a...

Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW

Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train...

Brian J. Ford - Allied Secret Weapons : The War of Science - PB

Explores the scientific and technical advances made by Allied scientists during WW2, from advances in photography and spycraft to bouncing bombs , rocketry and much more.  Paperback, 2nd printing 1977, originally 1971. 

P.G Wodehouse - Company for Henry - PB 1983 ( Originally 1967)

The titular Henry is Henry Paradenen whom after a career treading the boards has unexpectedly inherited Ashby Hall and the families associated financial obligations. American multi-millionaire relative J. Wendell Stickney and has arrived and Henry is...

Lois Gould - Such Good Friends - PB

We were at least as happily married as anybody else, which maybe was't very, but it was all anybody could reasonably expect. All I ever could, anyway . . . But now Julie Messinger, age thirty-one, mother of two, is going through the kind of hell that may...

Lucy Graham-Toler ( Countess of Norbury) - Summers of yesterday : or, memoirs and Wanderings in Northern Lands - 1934 - HB Scandinavia Travel

Published byCassell UK 1934. 160pp. 10 plates (4 in colour). 8vo. First edition. Light blue cloth binding, the front cover with dark blue title and author, the spine with the same plus publisher. Dust jacket is foxed, protected by a clear transparent...

W Carter Platts - The Young Angler ( Young Sportsman's Library) - HB 1966 ( Originally 1940)

A good all-round introduction to angling - flyfishing, coarse, salmon, trout, grayling, perch, pike, roach, barbel, boat and pier fishing, rock and surf fishing, big game fishing and a chapter on the sea and the fly rod. Aimed at a newly mobile audience...

Nevil Shute - Ruined City | An Old Captivity ( 2 Book Lot - Vintage Pan )

Ruined City - When Henry Warren, director of an English bank, lands by chance in a hospital in a bleak Northern town that has been ruined by the closure of its shipyard, he discovers nothing less than a new purpose for his life. Moved by the fate of the...

André Maurois - The Art of Writing - PB 1962 ( Originally 1957)

A collection of essays, examining the techniques and literary output of a number of notable European writers - Voltaire, Rousseau, Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, Goethe, Chekhov, Gogol and Turgenev.  Dutton USA 1962. Originally published in...

Mary Cole - Dirtroads : Footloose in Africa - HB 1977

This is the remarkable chronicle of a young Irish teacher who decided to abandon the conventional opportunities open to her at home and take the less predictable ones offered by East Africa, Kenya in particular.  Originally 1975 by Gill Publishing,...

Slavenka Drakulić / Café Europa : Life After Communism

Drakulic (How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed) notes that Eastern and central Europeans were so anxious to become like their Western counterparts in the immediate years after the fall of communism that every city & town had a Cafe Europa...

Pamela Lyon ( Editor) - Penguin Parallel Text : French Short Stories / Nouvelles Francaises - PB

 Originally written to entertain, move or chill, the eight short stories in this collection accompanied by parallel English translations now also help students gain deeper insights into French literature and life.Arranged in approximate order of...

Sean O'Brien - The Indoor Park - PB - 1983

Published by Bloodaxe Books, UK, 1983, a review slip is loosely laid in.  Aggressive, witty and dramatic, Sean O'Brien's poems convey the texture of imaginative life, not just its recorded highlights. Sean O'Brien's territory is urban pastoral. Its...

Fiona Biggs - Essential Irish History - 100 Events That Shaped Ireland - HB - 2025

Essential Irish History 100 Events that Shaped Ireland   Discover the long and rich history of the island of Ireland, from the very earliest Mesolithic inhabitants to Vikings and Celts and the modern 21st-century nation of today...

Fiona Biggs - Essential Irish Farmhouse Cookery - HB - BRAND NEW

Discover the timeless flavours of Ireland in Essential Irish Farmhouse Recipes, a collection of classic recipes that celebrate the rich culinary heritage of Ireland’s countryside. This beautifully crafted cookbook brings together wholesome,...

Fiona Biggs - Pocket Book of Ireland's Favourite Saints - HB - BRAND NEW

The Pocket Book of Ireland’s Favourite Saints takes you on a fascinating journey through Ireland’s rich spiritual history. This book illuminates the lives of a diverse array of saints from every county, from Saint Patrick, known and...

Judith Hermann - We'd Have Told Each Other Everything - PB - BRAND NEW ( Translated by Katy Derbyshire)

Winner of the Wilhelm Raabe Prize in 2023   On a dark night in Berlin’s Kastanienallee, acclaimed writer Judith Hermann runs into her psychoanalyst — a chance encounter that begins an exploration of the fluid...

John Clare - Selected Poems and Prose of John Clare ( Edited by Eric Robinson & Geoffrey Summerfield) - HB 1967

A selection of the great Romantic 'peasant poet' John Clare to making available the full range of his accomplishment - as the chronicler of nature and childhood, the champion of folkways in the face of enclosure and oppression, the love poet, the...

Allen Figgis Publishing - 3 Book Poetry Lot - Douglas Hyde | Joseph Campbell | Samuel Ferguson ( An Chomhairle Ealaion Series of Irish Authors) 1963

Three uniformly sized small format hardcovers, published 1963 as part of a multi volume series in asociation with the arts council. Allen Figgis, Dublin.  Poems of Samuel Ferguson, with an introduction by Padraic Colum Poems of Joseph Campbell, with...

Michael Walshe - It's a Long Road That Has No Turning - PB - SIGNED

Michael Walshe, a native of the glen of Aherlow, Tipperary spent 13 years in Moorepark and during this time was President of the Irish Grassland Association from 1966-1967. In 1961 he travelled to New Zealand and spent one year as a visiting Scientist at...

Matt Donovan - Vellum : Poems - PB 2007

Vellum, the exquisite debut collection from Matt Donovan, meditates on beauty, art, and the violence that is sometimes inherent in both.Here, he juxtaposes religious iconography with stories from history, biography, and personal narrative. In the...

Anthony Hecht - The Transparent Man - PB - 1991

Published by OUP, 1991. Larger format paperback, with a review slip laid in loosely. Foxing and age spotting to page block ends, otherwise unmarked.  The author's first book in eleven years, this collection included a narrative poem recalling the...

Ian R. Macleod - The Light Ages - HB - 2003

Hardcover 1st UK Edition, Earthlight UK, 2003.  Uneven age spotting and tanning to page block.  Alternate history/ fantasy SF that imagines a world where the Industrial Revolution started much earlier.. In the year 1678, Joshua Wagstaffe...

Robert Swindells - A Candle in the Night - HB 1974

Published by David & Charles UK , 1974, the author's second book for children. Illustrated by Gareth Floyd, a smaller format hardcover .  Not ex library, previous bookshop stamp on inside front cover.  Jimmy Booth goes from picking oakum in...

Susan Cooper - Victory (Hardback) - SIGNED

Two children cross an ocean, two hundred years apart. One is Sam Robbins, a powder monkey aboard H.M.S.Victory, the ship in which Lord Nelson will die a hero's death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The other is Molly Jennings, a present-day English...

Sean O'Casey - The Drums of Father Ned - Vintage PB - 1960

This good-natured late O’Casey comedy is set in the Irish village of Doonavale as the villagers prepare for a Tostal celebration – a festival celebrating Irish culture. Father Ned, a catholic priest, is heard drumming to celebrate the rites...

John Fuller - Selected Poems 1954-1982 - PB

A selection of poems, made by the author himself, published in this King Penmguin PB edition 1986. His poems, brilliant in their dexterity and virtuoso in their use of form, engage with a spectacular range of subjects, revealing a dark, haunted...

Joseph O'Connor - The Drivetime Diaries - RTÉ -2010 AUDIO CD - BRAND NEW

The Drivetime Diaries is the voice of the well known Irish author Joe O'Connor as featured on RTE's Radio 1's Drivetime programme. A selection of 16 of his best pieces from his weekly radio column, the CD includes humorous vignettes on life and living in...

Danny Sheehy - In the Wake of St Brendan - PB - BRAND NEW

A translation by Camilla Dinkel of Danny Sheehy’s book, Iomhramh Bhréanainn. The book is an account of Danny ‘s voyage from Dingle to Iceland in 2011 and back as one of the crew of the 45-foot sailing boat Ar Seachrán, skippered...

Steve MacDonagh - The Dingle Peninsula ( Revised & updated Edition) - PB Revised Edition 2018

A deailed illustrated guide to the Dingle Peninsula, written by Steve MacDonagh ( founder of Brandon Press, originally published in 1993, this is a fully revised and updated edition, with additional content by Camilla Dinkel & Mike Venner, published...

Peter Green - A Celebration of the Dingle Peninsula - Corca Dhuibhne - PB

A celebration of the spirit, the beauty, history and culture of the Dingle Peninsula, through inspirational photographic images and evocative poetry" in Irish and English translation.

Lex Croucher / You're Crushing It: Positivity for living your REAL life

Sometimes life can be pretty amazing. But other times it feels like:A. Your heart and stomach have been steamrolled into a grisly organ pancakeB. You are being put through an emotional spiralizer that creates human courgettiC. Both of the above. You're a...