September 2024

Hans Küng - On Being a Christian - HB -1977

Hardcover, first English language edition, 1977, ( originally 1974) translated by Edward Quinn.  An international bestseller by one of this century's most prominent theologians, On Being a Christian is a work of exhaustive scholarship,...

Bébhinn Ní Mheadhra - Faoi Rún - HB - As Gaeilge

Foilsithe ag An Gúm, clúdach crua.  1993, glan istigh is amuigh.   

Maryann Gomes - The Picture House : A Photographic Album of North West Film and Cinema - PB 1988

Large format paperback, published by the North West Film Archive at Manchester Polytechnic .  Over 180 photographs from the earliest days of cinema - fairground bioscopes in the late 1800's to the 1950's .  Previous owner's name on front...

Marijke Reesink & Francoise Trésy - An Banphrionsa a d'imíodh ar fán -HB - As Gaeilge 1980

Aistrithe go Gaeilge ag Siobhán Denman. Foilsithe ar dtús mar Het Prinsesje dat Altijd Wegliep , Rotterdam.  Foilsithe ag An Gúm, 1980. 

Clare GAA Yearbook 2014 - Bliainiris an Chláir PB Illustrated Gaelic Games

The CLARE GAA Yearbook, 2014 published by Clare County Board, Ennis.  180 pages, large format paperback, very good , apart from bumped crease to lower corners . Full colour photography throughout, and full local and club coverage.  Scuffing to...

Joseph Jacobs - Celtic Fairy Tales - PB 1980 ( Originally 1958)

This edition 1980, originally published by Frederick Muller in 1958, and collated from an earlier edition of 1892 Suitable for all ages , the edition was not necessarily aimed at children , but the text is fine for 8-12 readership upwards to...

Brian Moore - I Am Mary Dunne - PB 1977 ( Originally 1968)

First published in 1968 , I Am Mary Dunne follows one day in the life of a beautiful and well-to-do 31-year-old Canadian woman living in New York City with her third husband, a successful playwright. Triggered by seemingly unimportant occurrences, the...

W.S Merwin - The Shadow of Sirius - HB - 2008

Hardcover, first edition, Copper Cnayon Press USA, 2008.  Publisher AI ( advance info ) pages laid in loosely.  US Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who transfigured...

Pádraig Ó Siochrú - The Demon King of Munster - PB - 1991

Paperback, published by Kildanore Press 1991. Aimed at an 8-10 age readership.  A terrible evil is inflicted upon King Cathal of Munster by his rival for the high Kingship of Ireland, King Feargal of Ulster... A tale of humour and adventure from...

George Solti / Solti on Solti - A Memoir

One of the great music makers of our time has written a memoir as rich in event and adventure as it is in its reflections on, and insights into, music.Sir Georg Solti, in these pages, relives an unparalleled musical life. He tells the story of a musical...

Jane Hornby / "Good Food": 101 Budget dishes - Triple-tested Recipes

Eating on a budget doesn't mean a dull menu - with a little inspiration from the Good Food team, you can enjoy delicious food and save the pennies too. 101 Budget Dishes is full of economical and creative meal ideas made with everyday...

Sarah Hall / Sudden Traveller

WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD 2020*SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZEA Guardian, Financial Times and Irish Times Book of the Year'No one writes...

Antoinette Moses / Dolphin Music ( Cambridge English Reader - Level 5 )

English Readers Level 5"The year is 2051. CONTROL, the government of Europe, keeps everyone happy in a virtual reality. This is a world where it is too hot to go out, and where wonderful music made by dolphins gives everyone pleasure. It's a world which...

Philip Prowse / Double Cross

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. A politician survives an attempted...

Pam Rhodes / Hear My Song - Meditations on life through Favourite Hymns

The words of a favourite hymn can be a lifeline in difficult times, providing an outlet for feelings that may threaten to overwhelm us. Hymns also help us celebrate life - to see joy in the ordinary stuff of the everyday, as well as in those moments when...

Stephen Brookson / Managing Budgets

Learn all you need to know about the budgeting process from preparing a forecast to monitoring a budget and making adjustments. "Managing Budgets" gives you a clear understanding of the different types of business budget and includes a full glossary of...

Cass Lester / The One After the One

How do you know if they’re The One (after The One)? Charley’s in a new relationship with perfect boyfriend, Ricky, slowly moving on from the death of her husband. But having only ever been in love once before, how can she know when it’s...

Dictionary of Marketing: Over 6,000 terms clearly defined

This is a comprehensive vocabulary of marketing terms, all explained in clear, simple English. Each entry has a part of speech, a note on grammar and an encyclopaedic commentary.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get...

Steve Sleight / DK Essential Managers Project Management

Classify this itsy-bitsy book as a project management guide that isn't a project to read but that distills all the basics for you into a quick thumbnail guide on everything from establishing objectives and keeping to schedules and budgets to providing...

Mark Sarvas / Harry, Revised

Harry Rent, recently widowed and struggling to deal with the loss, finds himself in an unfortunate conundrum. He finds himself in love. From Harry's first hapless pursuit of Molly, the waitress at his local diner, we follow the transformation of one man...

Emma Rathbone / Losing It

Julia Greenfield has a problem: she's twenty-six years old and she's still a virgin. Sex ought to be easy. People have it all the time! But, without meaning to, she made it through college and into adulthood with her virginity intact. Something's got to...

James Le Fanu / Too Many Pills

The number of prescriptions issued by family doctors has soared threefold in just fifteen years with millions now committed to taking a cocktail of half a dozen (or more) different pills to lower the blood pressure and sugar levels, statins, bone...

Georgina Campbell's Ireland: The Best of Irish Food & Hospitality 12th Edition

  This is the ultimate guide to the best places to eat, drink and stay in Ireland - Georgina Campbell's hugely successful Website boasts more than 1 million visitors a year. Dubbed the "glove-box bible" Georgina Campbell's The Guide is Ireland's...

Hannu Rajaniemi / The Fractal Prince

Jean le Flambeur is out of prison, but still not free. To pay his debts he has to break into the mind of a living god. But when the stakes are revealed, Jean has to decide how far he is willing to go to get the job done. The sequel to Hannu Rajaniemi's...

Jim Gaffigan / Food : A Love Story

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A brilliantly funny tribute to the simple pleasures of eating” ( Parade ) from the author of Dad Is FatHave you ever finished a meal that tasted horrible but not noticed until the last bite? Eaten in...

Chris Wright / No More Worlds to Conquer: Sixteen People Who Defined Their Time – And What They Did Next

What do you do next if you have walked on the moon? How do you follow the first perfect 10 in Olympic history? How do you move on after surviving a plane crash? Some people will forever be defined by a single moment.Chris Wright has travelled the globe...

Cam Rogers / Quantum Break: Zero State

The official tie-in to the blockbuster video game, about a time travel experiment gone wrong. 2016     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...

Colin Walsh / Flotilla

A novel whose aim is to amuse, maybe more than that, make the reader laugh out loud, more embarrassing on a train than a mobile phone. Can be read safely in summer, but sure brightens long winter days. You don't have to be a sailing buff to get immersed...

Saci Lloyd / Quantum Drop

Anthony Griffin is an ordinary kid caught up in a dangerous world. The boundaries between real and virtual are more and more blurred, and when Anthony’s girlfriend is taken out in a gang hit, he has to venture into the underground world of the Drop...

Madeline Stevens / Devotion

Sexy-but-literary' Sunday Times'Complex and psychologically taut' Observer'Sensual and unsettling' The Scotsman'[A] literary psychological smoulderer' MetroDesire. Deception. Destruction. Devotion.Ella is 26, lonely, hungry and...

Kalynn Bayron / This Poison Heart

Briseis has a gift: she can grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms with a single touch.When Briseis's aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents decide to leave Brooklyn behind for the summer. Hopefully there,...

Costello Jane / Bridesmaids

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLING AUTHORIt's a happy day for everyone except the bridesmaid ...With less than an hour to go before her best friend, Grace, is to walk down the aisle, Evie is attempting to fulfil her most...

Guy Browning / How to Be Normal: A Guide for the Perplexed

From the author of Never Hit a Jellyfish With a Spade comes a new volume of answers to life's most troublesome questionsNormal people are extremely unusual. Think of all the people you know and ask yourself how many are normal. None of them! In fact...

George Lamming / In the Castle of My Skin

A classic first novel about growing up in colonial Barbados. In the Castle of my Skin is a brilliant, sensitive record of the evolving consciousness of a poor village boy, at a time of rapid social change.     All of our books are second hand,...

Sebastian Rook / Vampire Dusk : Paris

Jack wants to believe that the vampires are gone, banished for a thousand years by a ritual that sent their leader to the depths of Hell. But he isn't sure. The voice of the vampire god still echoes in his mind, promising to return. Jack's friends Ben...

William Shakespeare / Macbeth - New Swan Shakespeare

Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haunt him...

Paul Jennings / The Local: A History of the English Pub

The pub has been at the heart of English life for generations. But how has this unique institution developed over the centuries? Paul Jennings traces the history of the English pub, looking at how it evolved from the coaching inn and the humble alehouse,...

Marc Abrahams / This is Improbable Too - Synchronized Cows, Speedy Brain Extractors and More WTF Research

The mind behind the infamous Ig Nobel Prizes presents an addictive collection of improbable research all about us – and you.Marc Abrahams collects the odd, the imaginative and the brilliantly improbable. Here he turns to research on the ins and...

Kevin Ashton / How To Fly A Horse - The Secret History of Creation, Inventory and Discovery

In the vein of Susan Cain's Quiet and Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath, How to Fly a Horse is a smart, empowering book that dispels the myths around genius and creativity.There is a myth about how something new comes to be;...

Alex Khan / The Scorned

Sidra Ali has just made it home after a date. Opening the door, her blood runs cold as she realises the caller is here to take her life...When a young Asian woman is found brutally murdered in her North London home, DS Mumtaz ‘Moomy’ Ali...

Hunter Davies / A Life In The Day

Hunter Davies’ childhood lived amongst the post-war dirt and grime of Carlisle was immediately hailed as a classic memoir from one of Britain’s foremost columnists of the past half century. The Co-op’s Got Bananas! left our protagonist...

Vikas Shah / Thought Economics: Conversations with the Remarkable People Shaping Our Century

Since 2007, entrepreneur and philanthropist Vikas Shah MBE has been on a mission to interview the people shaping our century. Including conversations with world leaders, Nobel prizewinners, business leaders, artists and Olympians, he quizzes the minds...

John Micklethwait / God Is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith Is Changing the World

As the world becomes more modern, it is not becoming more secular. Instead, on the street and in the corridors of power, religion is surging. As "God is Back" shows, for better or for worse, faith is on the increase - fuelled by an American-style model...

Joseph Piercy / The Story of English: How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language

Illustrating the compelling history of how the relatively obscure dialects spoken by tribes from what are now Denmark, the Low Countries, and northern Germany became the most widely spoken language in the world, this book also explores how that...

Anna Bell / It Started With A Tweet

Could YOU survive a digital detox?Daisy Hobson lives her whole life online. But when her social media obsession causes her to make a catastrophic mistake at work, Daisy finds her life going into free-fall . . .Her sister Rosie thinks she has the answer...

Mary Higgins Clark - While My Pretty One Sleeps - HB - 1989

1989, the year of original publication, this is an ( unusual to me) imprint called Leisure Circle, which looks to be a Simon & Shuster linked Book Club edition.  In excellent condition, no marks or damage, almost 'as new' . No barcode or...

Flame Tree Publishing / Agents and Spies - Short Stories - HB -2017

Daring tales of kidnap and rescue, assassination and revenge, the politics of death and espionage, these are the themes of this latest volatile concoction of classic and new writing. The days of empire and traditional war have been replaced by cyber...

Dee Wyatt / A Price To Pay

Ann Thornton was thrilled to be offered the post of researcher on the popular TV series 'Yarwood Mill', but very soon she sensed that something was wrong...Who or what made her feel so uneasy? Was it James Yarwood himself? Or his brother, Steven, a...

Susan Moody / Takeout Double

While attending a Winter Bridge Weekend at a country hotel, former biology professor and professional bridge instructor Cassie Swann discovers the bodies of three of her students and steps in to investigate...     All of our books are second...

Julia Fitzgerald / Taboo

Mishaal was half English but born in an Arabian brothel. Trained for only one purpose--to please men--she had only one dream: to escape the degradation of the life that was her birthright and dance--as an artist. Sizzling romance from the author of Royal...

Noah Gordon / Choices

With Choices, Noah Gordon brings to a close his great trilogy spanning the generations of the Cole medical dynasty. Beginning with the legendary 11th–century doctor Robert J. Cole, each eldest son has borne the same name and middle...

Carol Jones / The Concubine's Child

In 1930s Malaysia, sixteen-year-old Yu Lan is in love with her best friend, Ming, whose father owns one of the busiest kopi shops in Petaling Street. But Ming's family don't see the apothecary's daughter as a suitable wife – for Yu Lan's father,...