December 2024

John Devoy - Recollections of an Irish Rebel - Facsimile HB - 1969 ( Originally 1929)

Facsimile issue of the first edition published in 1929, in this edition from Irish University Press, Shannon.  At age nineteen John Devoy was sworn into the Fenian movement and later signed the National Petition, a plebiscite for self-determination...

Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar - PB

Billy Liar captures brilliantly the claustrophobic atmosphere of a small town. It tells the story of Billy Fisher, a Yorkshire teenager unable to stop lying - especially to his three girlfriends. Trapped by his boring job and working-class parents, Billy...

John F Deane - High Sacrifice - PB - 1981 - SIGNED

Published by Dolmen Press, 1981, Signed by poet John F Deane to the title page - To Seamus , with deep sincere regards , John F Deane. ( The Seamus was his namesake, critic and author Seamus Deane, from whose library this copy came) 

Christopher Hampton - Socialism in a Crippled World - PB -1981

A very readable book, full of eloquent passion for Hampton's socialist cause, one that he feels is the way to make the world a more humane and just place.He argues that Marx's 19th century views have never really been tried. What is necessary is a...

Jean-Paul Sartre - Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions - PB

Although written fairly early in his career, in 1939, Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions is considered to be one of Jean-Paul Sartre's most important pieces of writing. It not only anticipates but argues many of the ideas to be found in his...

John Bakeless - The Journals of Lewis and Clark - Vintage NEL PB - 1964

Published by NEL Mentor USA, 1964.  In the spring of 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, with a small band of men set out of a voyage of discovery into the western American continent, and headed into hitherto unexplored...

Richard Butler - The Life and World of George Santayana - PB -1960

Paperback, Gateway Books USA 1960.  Partly biographical, part study of the importance of Santayana as a key thinker and philosopher during his life ( 1863-1952) 

Malcolm Brown - The Politics of Irish Literature - From Thomas Davis to W.B Yeats - PB - 1972

Examines the interaction and impacts between Irish history in the 19th century and Irish Literature and the celtic renaissance.  Edgwear to the covers, internally good. 

Ann Leckie - Provenance ( Trade Paperback) 2017

An ambitious young woman has just one chance to secure her future and reclaim her family's priceless lost artifacts in this stand-alone novel set in the world of Ann Leckie's groundbreaking, NYT bestselling Imperial Radch trilogy, which won the Hugo and...

Anne Frank - Tagebuch ( German Language Edition) PB - 2017 Reprint

German langauge edition of the Diary of Ann Frank , Translated by Mirjam Pressler from the original Dutch language.  Publisher: S Fischer Verlag GmbHISBN: 9783596152773

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 reared.' The story of Marie Fogerty, a young girl caught...

L.M. Cullen - Life in Ireland - HB 1968

A detailed account of Irish social life from earliest times to the early 20th century, with an emphasis on rural life and the process of both continuity and change in the period covered. 

John B Keane - The Voice of an Angel and Other Christmas Stories - HB - 1995 1st Edition

A collection of Christmas stories, including: Christmas Noses, A Christmas Diversion, The Woman Who Hated Christmas, The Best Christmas Dinner and A Last Christmas Gift.  Published by Mercier Press, Cork, 1995, hardcover first edition in dustjacket,...

Francis Stuart - A Hole in the Head - HB -1977

First edition, , hardcover published by Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1977. Sun fade to dudstjacket, especially to spine.     As he undergoes medical and psychiatric treatment, reality and fantasy are stretched for Barnaby Shane. 

Nioclás ó Duinnín - Fenians and Volunteers ( On Sraharla - Kilclooney Monuments ) - PB - 2013

Published locally in 2013, edited by Nioclás ó Duinnín , an account of  War of Independence activities in the Molaige- Sraharla - Kilclooney - Glenroe area in south County Limerick / North Cork ( between Mitchelstown and...

Enda O'Coineen - The Unsinkable Entrepreneur - HB - SIGNED

Once a troubled teenager and eccentric sailor, now an entrepreneur and financier - this is the story of how Enda O'Coineen made millions in the telecommunications and information technology sectors of Central and Eastern Europe. Desperate to get off the...

Janet Frame - You are now Entering the Human Heart - PB - 1984

First UK Edition, a paperback original, The Women's Press Fiction, 1984 ( originally published in NZ in 1983)  Light tanning and edgewear to the covers.    Janet Frame has been called a visionary and a genius. While she is a novelist of...

John le Carré - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - HB - ( Penguin Clothbound Classics Edition) - BRAND NEW

A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the British Intelligence Service, almost destroying it in the process. And so former spymaster George Smiley has been brought out of retirement in order to hunt down the traitor at...

Toshikazu Kawaguchi - Before the Coffee Gets Cold : Tales from the Cafe - BRAND NEW

 In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time . . .From the author of...

Michael Maclear - Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War 1945-1975

Considers objectively the various facets of the thirty-year Vietnam War, incorporating interviews with major political, diplomatic, and military participants on all sides and providing personal first-hand accounts of important events Originally 1981

Michael Alexander ( Translation) - Beowulf ( Penguin Classics) 1980 ( Originally 1973)

  When an evil monster terrorizes the land, only one man can stop him. A new horror stalks the ancient kingdom of the Danes. Grendel, a hideous beast, has crawled from hell to lay waste to the country and devour its people. His reign of slaughter...

William Blake - Penguin Poets ( Edited by J Bronowski)

A Penguin paperback reprint, 1970, originally 1958.  Poetry, letters and essays from Blake, edited and selected by Bronowski. Solid copy with sunfade to spine.  Physical description: 251 pages 18 cm. Contents: From Poetcal Sketches 1783: To...

Raymond Williams - Orwell ( Fontana Modern Masters Series ) - PB - 1971

Issued as part of the popular 1970s series of publications on "Modern Masters": study guides focused on modernist writers and thinkers.To become ' Orwell' Eric Blair deliberately exposed himself to the squalor and misery of urban 1930's England, to Spain...

John Gross - Joyce ( Fontana Modern Masters Series ) - PB - 1971

Issued as part of the popular 1970s series of publications on "Modern Masters": study guides focused on modernist writers and thinkers.In the first half of the book Gross provides us more with his own impressions of Joyce than with a straight biography,...

Theodore Roosevelt - The Strenous Life : Essays and Addresses- HB

A small format Thomas Nelson hardcover reprint, undated but probable 1910's , embossed decorated blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine. Frontis of Roosevelt . Previous owners period name  ( Dublin 1912) in faded ink to front endpages. 

Michael Crawford - The Roman Republic ( Fontana History of the Ancient World) 1984 ( Originally 1978)

Between the Sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 BC and the middle of the second century BC, a part-time army of Roman peasants, under the leadership of the ruling oligarchy, conquered first Italy and then the whole of the Mediterranean. The loyalty of these...

Susan Howatch - Cashelmara ( Vintage Pan PB 1975)

This bestselling 1974 historic saga  centres on the ( fictional) Cashelmara, an ancestral home in the Conamara mountains and follows the turbulent fortunes of the Victorianm aristocratic de Salis family through half a century of romantic encounters...

G.I Warnock - Berkeley ( Pelican Philosophy) - Vintage PB -1953

Berkeley is one of the most influential and yet most misunderstood of eighteenth-century philosophers. In this classic 1953 introduction, G.J. Warnock examines all Berkeley's major philosophical works and discusses his most original and interesting...

Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - US PB

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography describing the young and early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love...

L. Dudley Stamp - Britain's Structure and Scenery - ( Fontana New Naturalist Series ) - PB 1970 ( Originally 1946)

Britains Structure and Scenery deals with the physical background, the stage on which the drama of life is played and which provides the fundamental environment for plants, newnaturalists.com It would be difficult to find an area of comparable size...

John S. Mannet - Dread Outpost - Vintage PB

'An epic drama of the Foreign Legion', published by Trojan/ Badger Books UK Undated but 1970's reprint of a (probable 1960's) original   What was the answer to the mystery of the missing men? Who was the chief of the most sinister organisation in...

André Brink / Praying Mantis (Hardback)

A magical novel from a world class writer about a remarkable historical figure.In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of...

Thea Stilton / The Treasure Seekers (Hardback)

Join the Thea Sisters on their search for the seven missing treasures. A Treasure Hunt Begins...While on vacation in Scotland the Thea Sisters find a secret map! It holds clues to the location of the first of seven treasures that were discovered...

Rick Bass / Oil Notes (Hardback)

Rick Bass brings a lyric imagination to the oil geologist's craft. Digging for oil is a way of digging deep into human experience, a subterranean exploration of self. And nothing escapes this writer's eye or imagination. Both the science and the...

Holly Whitaker / Quit Like A Woman (Hardback)

The founder of a female-focused recovery program offers a radical new path to sobriety.“You don’t know how much you need this book, or maybe you do. Either way, it will save your life.”—Melissa Hartwig Urban, Whole30...

Anne Booth / The Sisters of Saint Philomena #1 Small Miracles (Hardback)

The 1990s are proving tough for the convent. The order of the Sisters of Saint Philomena is down to its three last nuns. The place that Sisters Margaret, Bridget and Cecilia call home is in dire need of repairs and, with no savings and no new recruits,...

Esther Dyson / Release 2.0 (Hardback)

      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 in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Ben Tonra / Ireland in International Affairs (Hardback)

      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 in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

E.D. Baker / Wide-Awake Princess #2 Unlocking the Spell (Hardback)

Now that Annie has helped her sister Gwendolyn (a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty) wake up from the 100-year curse by finding her beloved prince, you would think that things would get back to normal. Think again! That beloved prince, Beldegard, is stuck in the...

Elmore Leonard / A Coyote's in the House (Hardback)

THERE'S A COYOTE IN THE HOUSE is Elmore Leonard's first children's novel. Antwan is a coyote, living in the Hollywood Hills, who loves life on the wild side - running free in the woods with the wind in his fur, hanging with his gang the Diablos,...

Simon Barnes / Losing It: A Lifetime in Pursuit of Sporting Excellence (Hardback)

To understand Anna Karenina, Mellors, Molly Bloom, Dante, Romeo, Juliet and Bridget Jones you must also have loved and lost and won. To understand sport in the greatest arenas of them all you too must have played and lost and won, known shame, hope, joy,...

Aidan Williams / The Nearly Men: The Greatest Teams Never to Win the World Cup (Hardback)

The Nearly Men tells the fascinating stories of some of the most revered international football teams of all time. Through the history of the World Cup there are many sides who thrilled us all with their elegance and style, or who revolutionised the...

C.S. Lewis / The Chronicles of Narnia #2 Prince Caspian (Hardback)

Prince Caspian is in terrible danger when his wicked uncle, King Miraz, decides to get rid of the young heir to the throne. In desperation, Caspian blows the magic horn, calling on Peter, Susan, Lucy and Edmund in Narnia's hour of need...

Natasha Hastings / The Miraculous Sweetmakers #1 The Frost Fair (Hardback)

It’s a cold winter during the Great Frost of 1683. Thomasina and Anne are the best of friends, one running her father’s sweet shop and the other the apprentice at the family apothecary – together they sell their goods on the frozen...

Lisa McMann / Going Wild (Hardback)

Spider-Man meets Animorphs in this thrilling new middle grade series from Lisa McMann, New York Times bestselling author of the Unwanteds series. Newbery Medal–winning author Katherine Applegate calls Going Wild “gripping,...

Meghan Nuttall Sayres / Anahita's Woven Riddle (Hardback)

A richly detailed and enchanting novel, set in 20th-century PersiaAnahita, a nomad, learns that her father has promised her hand in marriage to a man she dislikes. Determined to have a say in her own fate, Anahita convinces her father to let her hold a...

Rachaele Hambleton / Part-Time Working Mummy: A Patchwork Life (Hardback)

Want to know the truth about what life is like as a mum and step-mum with a chaotic patchwork family?This book is everything I've been through that's made me who I am, plus the lessons I've learned from many mistakes. I hope that it will make you laugh...

Anne-Marie / You Deserve Better (Hardback)

Sometimes it feels so hard to love yourself. We worry that we're not good enough or we're being selfish if we take time to prioritize what we need. But self-love is so important and even if we're our own biggest critic, it can be done! You deserve better...

Dana Mele / People Like Us (Hardback)

Kay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet, but the past is past, and she's reinvented herself entirely. Now she's a star soccer player whose group of gorgeous friends run their private school with effortless popularity and acerbic wit. But when a...

Scott Turow / Ultimate Punishment (Hardback)

In this account of how his views on the death penalty have evolved, Scott Turow describes his own experiences with capital punishment from his days as an impassioned young prosecutor to his service on the Illinois commission which investigated the...

Jamila Gavin / Coram Boy (Hardback)

A tale of tradition, corruption, strife and growing-up from award-winning author Jamila Gavin. Otis takes babies and money off desperate mothers, promising to deliver them to the Coram Foundling Hospital in London. Instead, he murders them and buries...

Colin Powell, Joseph E. Persico / My American Journey: An Autobiography (Hardback)

Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history--Vietnam, the...