September 2024

Morris West / Harlequin (Vintage Paperback)

When an envious corporate raider frames the courtly head of a prestigious European bank, George Harlequin, for murder, George will stop at nothing to save his reputation, his bank--and his life.  Originally 1974.      All of our...

K.M. Peyton / Flambards (Vintage Paperback) ( Flambards Novels - Book 1)

A totally absorbing novel about twelve-year-old Christina who is sent to live with her fierce uncle and his two sons in their decaying mansion, Flambards. Christina discovers a passion for horses and riding but finds herself part of a strange household,...

Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback)

Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost...

John Malcolm / A Back Room in Somers Town (Vintage Paperback)

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P.G. Wodehouse / Carry On, Jeeves (Vintage Paperback)

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Arthur Hailey / Overload... (Vintage Paperback)

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Alistair Cooke / Six Men (Vintage Paperback)

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Pan Business Management / Drucker (Vintage Paperback)

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Thomas Hardy / The Mayor of Casterbridge. (Vintage Paperback)

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Claire Rayner / The Haymarket (Vintage Paperback)

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Nuala Donelan / The Reluctant Gardener's Guide (Vintage Paperback)

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Richard Winer / From the Devil's Triangle to The Devil's Jaw (Vintage Paperback)

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G.F. Newman / The Guvnor (Vintage Paperback)

1977 UK PB     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive.

Dermot Bolger - Hide Away - PB - BRAND NEW

Hidden behind the walls of Grangegorman Mental Hospital in 1941, four lives collide, all afflicted by the human cost of wars, betrayals and trauma. Gus, a shrewd attendant, is the keeper of everyone’s secrets, especially his own. Two War...

Nicole Cooley - Milk Dress ( Poems) - PB 2010 - Signed & Dedicated

Published by Alice James Books, Farmington, Maine, 2010.  Signed and dedicated by the poet to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided a blurb on the back cover)  In this cool, manifold chronicle of motherhood, Nicole Cooley tackles the...

Maureen Grady - Unpack my Heart With Words - Pb - SIGNED & Dedicated - 2015

From the first poem to the last one, you will find yourself in the thrall of this poet's poet, who conjures from her Irish roots the song of the holy well. Maureen Grady opened my heart and packed it with such beautiful words, that I found myself crying...

Bruce Snider - Paradise, Indiana ( Poems) - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated - 2012

  Signed , dated and dedicated by the poet Bruce Snider to fellow poet Eavan Boland ( who had provided a blurb for the back cover) ( 2012)   A father and son shovel snow from a driveway; a boy accidentally sets himself on fire; two boys fish...

Rachel Richardson - Copperhead ( Poems) - PB - SIGNED & Dedicated 2011

These sinewy, sensuous poems lead down dusty Louisiana backroads, where anything might be lurking: family secrets, rusted relics, a viper. In Copperhead, her debut collection, Rachel Richardson pays homage to the folklore and myth of an Old South that is...

J.A Nairn & G.A Nairn - Greek Through Reading - HB 1967 ( Originally 1952)

Hardcover, the 7th impression1967, published by Ginn & Company, London Edgewear to teh covers Intended as a ' practice reader' for students of classic Greek, with notes, vocabulary, and an extensive grammar section. 

Carol Ann Duffy - Mean Time - PB - 1993 ( With Signed Postcard)

Loosely laid in is a signed addressed posted postcard from Carol Ann Duffy to fellow poet Eavan Boland. ( the book itself is unsigned)  In her prize-winning fourth collection, Mean Time, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from...

Pat Boran ( Editor) - Flowing Still : Irish Poets on Irish Poetry - PB - 2009

Published by Dedalus Press, Dublin , edited by Pat Boran, there is a loosely laid in signed postcard signed by the editor Pat Boran, no othe rmarks otr damage/ inscriptions Irish poetry is among the most vibrant language cultures in the world. A decade...

Claude Edmonde Magny - Arthur Rimbaud ( Poétes d'aujourd' hui ) - PB - 1949 )

Text entirely in French A selection of poems from the noted French poet, as well as a biography of his life , with photographs .  Paris, 1949. 

John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton

  John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused...

William B Yeats - A Vision - PB ( Originally 1937)

Yeats's indispensable, lifelong work of philosophy--a meditation on the connections between the imagination, history, and the metaphysical--this volume reveals the poet's greatest thoughts on the occult. First published as a small press edition in 1925,...

Homer - The Odyssey ( Penguin Paperback - 1991 Reprint) - Translated by E.V Rieu

'The Odyssey is a poem of extraordinary pleasures: it is a salt-caked, storm-tossed, wine-dark treasury of tales, of many twists and turns, like life itself' Guardian The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one...

Jean Plaidy / Daughter of Satan (Vintage Paperback)

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John Farris / Shadow on Harrison High (Vintage Paperback)

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John Hadfield / Modern Short Stories (Vintage Paperback)

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Marcia Kruchten / The Ghost in the Mirror (Vintage Paperback)

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Morris West / The Navigator (Vintage Paperback)

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Susan Howatch / The Dark Shore (Vintage Paperback)

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Anthony Trollope / Lady Anna (Vintage Paperback)

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R.F. Delderfield / A Horseman Riding By (Vintage Paperback)

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Doris Lessing / Martha Quest (Vintage Paperback)

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Morris West / The Second Victory (Vintage Paperback)

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Catherine Gaskin / Daughter of the House (Vintage Paperback)

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Michael B. Barry - 1588 - The Spanish Armada and the 24 Ships Lost on Ireland’s Shores - BRAND NEW

By 1588, relations between the superpower of the time, Catholic Spain and the relatively small Protestant England had deteriorated to a new low. Philip II had decided that the best way to deal with English piracy and its support for the Dutch rebels was...

Michael B. Barry & John O'Byrne - The Emergency in Colour : Ireland in Wartime - HB - BRAND NEW

The Emergency in Colour brings wartime Ireland to life in dramatic colour. Through extensive research, the photos presented here have been painstakingly hand-colourised by photographer John O’Byrne, showing what life on the island was like in...

Sinéad Moriarty - Fixing Mum and Dad - HB - BRAND NEW

Quinn is furious when her mum announces they are moving in with Grandad because her doctor dad is away working abroad again. New school, new town, new everything. She manages to make one good friend, Charlie, the goalie on her football team, who...

Ian Miller - A History of Ireland in Ten Body Parts - HB - BRAND NEW

FREE TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST Skulls, heads, hands, height, legs, sex organs, blood, brains, stomachs, ears and corpses – discover Irish history through the prism of the body. From the brutal beheading of the...

Angela Byrne - Anarchy and Authority : Irish Encounters with Romanov Russia - PB - BRAND NEW

From the ascent of Peter the Great to the Russian Revolution. From the Battle of the Boyne to the Easter Rising. Between these epochal events were two astounding centuries of war, diplomacy, intrigue, innovation and international radical political...

Judi Curtin - Sally and the Lost Photograph - PB - BRAND NEW

Sally and her sister Bridget are New Yorkers now - they've settled in and feel at home in the bustling city.Life in New York is exciting enough that the girls can rise above life with Catherine, their mean cousin.At work one day, Bridget finds a...

Erika McGann - What is a Peachick - HB - BRAND NEW

I've heard of a chickpea.I've had those for lunch.Is a peachick the same?Is it something you munch?Come on a hilarious adventure with these weird and zany creatures, from the author and illustrator of Standing on One Leg Is Hard. 

Roisín Hahessy & Muireann Ní Chiobháin - Bearradh Gruaige d'Eoinín - HB - As Gaeilge

Little Eoinín needs a haircut. The only problem is, he has never been to the hairdressers before! He needs to get his hair washed, cut and dried and – oh my, what’s that noise? Ahairdryer?! A lot of new experiences for Eoinín...

Mike Ashley ( Editor) - Lost Mars : The Golden Age of the Red Planet ( British Library Science Fiction Classics) )

These ten short stories from the golden age of science fiction feature classic SF writers including H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury and J.G. Ballard, as well as lesser-known writers from the genre. An antique shop owner gets a glimpse of the red planet through...

Sean Curtin - Limerick : A Stroll Down Memory Lane - Volume 7 ( 2007)

Volume 7 in the ongoing series of photographs by Sean Curtin of Limerick City's history, streets, and people.  104 pages, photographs from newspaper and previously unpublished sources.  Condition - Good, internally unmarked, slight dogear to...

Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin - Ceol na Mara - BRAND NEW - As Gaeilge

Cnuasach álainn amhrán bunaithe ar théama na farraige, curtha i láthair ag Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin, Caitlín Ní Chualáin agus páistí scoile as Scoil Sailearna, Indreabhán, Co. na...

Sarah Webb - I See the Moon and the Moon Sees Me : Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood- BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE A wonderful collection of nursery rhymes to treasure, songs and poems to share, gathered by Sarah Webb and with joyful illustrations by Paul Delaney that jump off every page. Oranges and lemons,...

Ciarán Prior - Traces of Truth : A CSI Investigates Life and Death- PB - BRAND NEW 2024

BRAND NEW - PUBLISHED 19TH SEPTEMBER 2024 ''This book recounts some of the more significant instances of grief, tragedy and sorrow I encountered throughout my crime scene investigation career. Along with some relevant snapshots from my earlier frontline...

Cian Manning - I Love Me County : Waterford Sporting Stories - PB - BRAND NEW

BRAND NEW - SEPTEMBER 2024 - TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST The book's title is from a famous ( and heartfelt) quote from GAA player John Mullane after the Waterford vs Cork Munster Hurling Final in 2004.  Waterford has seen...

Jeremy Clarkson / Dont Stop Me Now (Hardback)

There's more to life than cars. Jeremy Clarkson knows this. There is, after all, a whole world out there just waiting to be discovered.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of...

Harriet Lane / Her (Hardback)

Two different women; two different worlds. On the face of it, Emma and Nina have very little in common. Isolated and exhausted by early motherhood, Emma finds her confidence is fading fast. Nina is sophisticated and assured, a successful artist who seems...