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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31594K Katie Roiphe / Uncommon Arrangements (Large Paperback) Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits Of Married Life In London Literary Circles 1919-1939 Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6356 Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001 Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999. The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31594K Katie Roiphe / Uncommon Arrangements (Large Paperback) Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits Of Married Life In London Literary Circles 1919-1939 Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6356 Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001 Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999. The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... 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He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... 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He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31594K Katie Roiphe / Uncommon Arrangements (Large Paperback) Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits Of Married Life In London Literary Circles 1919-1939 Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6356 Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001 Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999. The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31594K Katie Roiphe / Uncommon Arrangements (Large Paperback) Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits Of Married Life In London Literary Circles 1919-1939 Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6356 Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001 Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999. The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... 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He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... 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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... 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He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31594K Katie Roiphe / Uncommon Arrangements (Large Paperback) Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits Of Married Life In London Literary Circles 1919-1939 Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6356 Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001 Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999. The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... 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He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31594K Katie Roiphe / Uncommon Arrangements (Large Paperback) Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits Of Married Life In London Literary Circles 1919-1939 Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6356 Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001 Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999. The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31594K Katie Roiphe / Uncommon Arrangements (Large Paperback) Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits Of Married Life In London Literary Circles 1919-1939 Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6356 Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001 Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999. The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... 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He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... 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He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31594K Katie Roiphe / Uncommon Arrangements (Large Paperback) Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits Of Married Life In London Literary Circles 1919-1939 Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6356 Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001 Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999. The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31594K Katie Roiphe / Uncommon Arrangements (Large Paperback) Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits Of Married Life In London Literary Circles 1919-1939 Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6356 Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001 Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999. The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... 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He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31594K Katie Roiphe / Uncommon Arrangements (Large Paperback) Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits Of Married Life In London Literary Circles 1919-1939 Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6356 Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001 Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999. The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: MED7119 Geoffrey Elborn - Francis Stuart : A Life - PB Biography -1990 MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED4100 Eileen O'Casey - Sean : A Biography ( Edited by J.C Trewin) - PB 1973 MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED755 Hugh Hunt- Sean O'Casey ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB -1980 - BIOGRAPHY MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE | sku: X88846H Richard Murphy / The Kick (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED853 Edward Stephens - My Uncle John - A Life of J.M Synge ( HB 1974 ) Edited by Andrew Carpenter MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED726,MED5240 Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983 MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5847 John McGahern - Memoir - HB Faber UK 2005 1st Edition MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED3825 Lovat Dickson - H.G Wells : His Turbulent Life and Times - HB - Biography 1971 MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6929 Michael Stanley - Famous Dubliners - PB Of the large number of Dubliners who have made their mark in politics and literature, six famous personalities are chronicled here: W. B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Jonathan Swift, Wolfe Tone and Edward Carson. These concise but comprehensive... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED6838,MED6839 C.P Curran - James Joyce Remembered ( 2022 Edition) - BRAND NEW In 1968, Conn Curran summed up his life-long companionship with Joyce, including the 1904 photograph he took of his friend in his family's back garden. With this re-issue of Curran's book, another group of University College Dubliners takes a new look at... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31743K,wW28836H Lynda La Plante / Getting Away With Murder (Large Paperback) A memoir.My unexpected life on page, stage and screen. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31594K Katie Roiphe / Uncommon Arrangements (Large Paperback) Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits Of Married Life In London Literary Circles 1919-1939 Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6356 Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001 Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999. The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... 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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Jonathan Swift, Wolfe Tone and Edward Carson. These concise but comprehensive... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED6838,MED6839 C.P Curran - James Joyce Remembered ( 2022 Edition) - BRAND NEW In 1968, Conn Curran summed up his life-long companionship with Joyce, including the 1904 photograph he took of his friend in his family's back garden. With this re-issue of Curran's book, another group of University College Dubliners takes a new look at... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31743K,wW28836H Lynda La Plante / Getting Away With Murder (Large Paperback) A memoir.My unexpected life on page, stage and screen. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31594K Katie Roiphe / Uncommon Arrangements (Large Paperback) Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits Of Married Life In London Literary Circles 1919-1939 Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6356 Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001 Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999. The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... 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He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31594K Katie Roiphe / Uncommon Arrangements (Large Paperback) Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits Of Married Life In London Literary Circles 1919-1939 Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6356 Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001 Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999. The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: MED853 Edward Stephens - My Uncle John - A Life of J.M Synge ( HB 1974 ) Edited by Andrew Carpenter MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED726,MED5240 Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983 MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5847 John McGahern - Memoir - HB Faber UK 2005 1st Edition MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED3825 Lovat Dickson - H.G Wells : His Turbulent Life and Times - HB - Biography 1971 MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6929 Michael Stanley - Famous Dubliners - PB Of the large number of Dubliners who have made their mark in politics and literature, six famous personalities are chronicled here: W. B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Jonathan Swift, Wolfe Tone and Edward Carson. These concise but comprehensive... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED6838,MED6839 C.P Curran - James Joyce Remembered ( 2022 Edition) - BRAND NEW In 1968, Conn Curran summed up his life-long companionship with Joyce, including the 1904 photograph he took of his friend in his family's back garden. With this re-issue of Curran's book, another group of University College Dubliners takes a new look at... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31743K,wW28836H Lynda La Plante / Getting Away With Murder (Large Paperback) A memoir.My unexpected life on page, stage and screen. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31594K Katie Roiphe / Uncommon Arrangements (Large Paperback) Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits Of Married Life In London Literary Circles 1919-1939 Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6356 Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001 Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999. The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: MED726,MED5240 Augustine Martin - W.B Yeats - Gill's Irish Lives - PB Biography 1983 MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED5847 John McGahern - Memoir - HB Faber UK 2005 1st Edition MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED3825 Lovat Dickson - H.G Wells : His Turbulent Life and Times - HB - Biography 1971 MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6929 Michael Stanley - Famous Dubliners - PB Of the large number of Dubliners who have made their mark in politics and literature, six famous personalities are chronicled here: W. B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Jonathan Swift, Wolfe Tone and Edward Carson. These concise but comprehensive... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED6838,MED6839 C.P Curran - James Joyce Remembered ( 2022 Edition) - BRAND NEW In 1968, Conn Curran summed up his life-long companionship with Joyce, including the 1904 photograph he took of his friend in his family's back garden. With this re-issue of Curran's book, another group of University College Dubliners takes a new look at... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31743K,wW28836H Lynda La Plante / Getting Away With Murder (Large Paperback) A memoir.My unexpected life on page, stage and screen. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31594K Katie Roiphe / Uncommon Arrangements (Large Paperback) Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits Of Married Life In London Literary Circles 1919-1939 Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6356 Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001 Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999. The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... 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Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. 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He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: MED3825 Lovat Dickson - H.G Wells : His Turbulent Life and Times - HB - Biography 1971 MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6929 Michael Stanley - Famous Dubliners - PB Of the large number of Dubliners who have made their mark in politics and literature, six famous personalities are chronicled here: W. B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Jonathan Swift, Wolfe Tone and Edward Carson. These concise but comprehensive... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED6838,MED6839 C.P Curran - James Joyce Remembered ( 2022 Edition) - BRAND NEW In 1968, Conn Curran summed up his life-long companionship with Joyce, including the 1904 photograph he took of his friend in his family's back garden. With this re-issue of Curran's book, another group of University College Dubliners takes a new look at... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31743K,wW28836H Lynda La Plante / Getting Away With Murder (Large Paperback) A memoir.My unexpected life on page, stage and screen. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31594K Katie Roiphe / Uncommon Arrangements (Large Paperback) Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits Of Married Life In London Literary Circles 1919-1939 Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6356 Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001 Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999. The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED6929 Michael Stanley - Famous Dubliners - PB Of the large number of Dubliners who have made their mark in politics and literature, six famous personalities are chronicled here: W. B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Jonathan Swift, Wolfe Tone and Edward Carson. These concise but comprehensive... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED6838,MED6839 C.P Curran - James Joyce Remembered ( 2022 Edition) - BRAND NEW In 1968, Conn Curran summed up his life-long companionship with Joyce, including the 1904 photograph he took of his friend in his family's back garden. With this re-issue of Curran's book, another group of University College Dubliners takes a new look at... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31743K,wW28836H Lynda La Plante / Getting Away With Murder (Large Paperback) A memoir.My unexpected life on page, stage and screen. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31594K Katie Roiphe / Uncommon Arrangements (Large Paperback) Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits Of Married Life In London Literary Circles 1919-1939 Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6356 Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001 Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999. The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view UCD PRESS | sku: MED6838,MED6839 C.P Curran - James Joyce Remembered ( 2022 Edition) - BRAND NEW In 1968, Conn Curran summed up his life-long companionship with Joyce, including the 1904 photograph he took of his friend in his family's back garden. With this re-issue of Curran's book, another group of University College Dubliners takes a new look at... MSRP: Now: €25.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31743K,wW28836H Lynda La Plante / Getting Away With Murder (Large Paperback) A memoir.My unexpected life on page, stage and screen. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31594K Katie Roiphe / Uncommon Arrangements (Large Paperback) Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits Of Married Life In London Literary Circles 1919-1939 Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6356 Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001 Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999. The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW31743K,wW28836H Lynda La Plante / Getting Away With Murder (Large Paperback) A memoir.My unexpected life on page, stage and screen. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW31594K Katie Roiphe / Uncommon Arrangements (Large Paperback) Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits Of Married Life In London Literary Circles 1919-1939 Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6356 Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001 Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999. The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW31594K Katie Roiphe / Uncommon Arrangements (Large Paperback) Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits Of Married Life In London Literary Circles 1919-1939 Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED6356 Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001 Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999. The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... 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Quick view sku: MED6356 Terence Brown - The Life of W.B Yeats - PB - 2001 Paperback, published in this edition by Gill and Macmillan , 2001, first publsihed in hardcover in 1999. The key to Brown's interpretation of Yeats is magic. Yeats had a lifelong interest in magic, spiritualism and the paranormal. Brown argues with... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. 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He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Lilliput Press Martin Doyle - A Hosting : Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 - BRAND NEW Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This selection of his journalism... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW27350K Tim Winton / The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardback) The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton’s imagination at work and play. A chronicler of sudden turnings, brutal revelations and tender sideswipes, Tim Winton has always been... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR34969K David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW29624K Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings (Large Paperback) Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26055H,wW27641H Kingsley Amis / The Letters of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one ofthe Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a publicimage of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness ofopinion until his death in... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW26040H Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback) This book answers fans' most burning questions about the author of the blockbuster bestselling 'Twilight' books, which have taken the world by storm. It includes eight pages of full-colour photographs, exclusive interviews and never-before-revealed... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: €18.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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