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MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED7291,MED7292,MED7293 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 Add to Cart 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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A major biography of one of Ireland's most important dramatists - the definitive biography from a noted expert on Irish drama . MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP4338 Ulick O'Connor / Brendan Behan (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book. MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW38305K Geir Kjetsaa / Dostoyevsky (Large Paperback) Traces the dramatic life of the Russian novelist, attempts to depict his complex personality, and assesses the influence of his life on his work. Originally published in Norway in 1989 This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED7547 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - HB - Autobiography 1968 Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, EX LIBRARY BUT WITH ONLY MINOR MARKINGS is the 1st ed 1968,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW34797K,wW36216H Richard Holmes / Coleridge : Early Visions (Hardback) Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes’s seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain’s greatest poets. ‘Coleridge: Early Visions’ is the first part... 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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: wW31995K John Lanchester / Family Romance (Large Paperback) The author of The Debt to Pleasure digs into his family's extraordinary past in a memoir as enthralling as his finest fictionIt was only when his mother died that John Lanchester realized how little he really knew about his parents. With the cache of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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... 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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: 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
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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: wW31995K John Lanchester / Family Romance (Large Paperback) The author of The Debt to Pleasure digs into his family's extraordinary past in a memoir as enthralling as his finest fictionIt was only when his mother died that John Lanchester realized how little he really knew about his parents. With the cache of... 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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 | sku: MED7291,MED7292,MED7293 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 Add to Cart 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: 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 SALE 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: €5.00 Was: €5.00 Now: €2.50 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
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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
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MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 | sku: MED7291,MED7292,MED7293 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 Add to Cart 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: 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 SALE 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: €5.00 Was: €5.00 Now: €2.50 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
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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 SALE 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: €5.00 Was: €5.00 Now: €2.50 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
Quick view New Island Publishing Carlo Gebler - No One Tells You : The Last Years of Edna O'Brien - BRAND NEW As Ireland’s iconic Edna O’Brien confronts the brutal realities of old age – pain, confusion, hospitals, carers, the battle to keep writing – the world she built through language begins to contract. Her son Carlo tracks every... MSRP: Now: €22.00 Pre-Order Now Quick view sku: wW37374K Richard Greene / Russian Roulette - The Life and Times of Graham Greene (Large Paperback) Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A restless traveller, he was a witness to many of the key events... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW34797K,wW36216H Richard Holmes / Coleridge : Early Visions (Hardback) Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes’s seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain’s greatest poets. ‘Coleridge: Early Visions’ is the first part... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW35237K Olivier Philipponnat / The Life of Irene Nemirovsky: 1903-1942 (Large Paperback) The first major biography of the author of Suite FrançaiseThe posthumous publication of Suite Française won Irène Némirovsky international acclaim and brought millions of readers to her work. But the story... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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: wW31995K John Lanchester / Family Romance (Large Paperback) The author of The Debt to Pleasure digs into his family's extraordinary past in a memoir as enthralling as his finest fictionIt was only when his mother died that John Lanchester realized how little he really knew about his parents. With the cache of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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 | sku: MED7291,MED7292,MED7293 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 Add to Cart 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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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
Quick view sku: wW37321K Joseph Hone / Wicked Little Joe (Large Paperback) ''In the summer of 1939, as a two-year-old in London, I was given away by my parents to a Chelsea friend and taken on the Irish Mail boat to Dublin'' Thus begins this extraordinary memoir by travel writer and novelist Joseph Hone, one of eight children... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED7547 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - HB - Autobiography 1968 Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, EX LIBRARY BUT WITH ONLY MINOR MARKINGS is the 1st ed 1968,... 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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 | sku: MED7291,MED7292,MED7293 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 Add to Cart 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: 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
Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED7547 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - HB - Autobiography 1968 Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, EX LIBRARY BUT WITH ONLY MINOR MARKINGS is the 1st ed 1968,... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW34797K,wW36216H Richard Holmes / Coleridge : Early Visions (Hardback) Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes’s seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain’s greatest poets. ‘Coleridge: Early Visions’ is the first part... 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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: 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 SALE 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: €5.00 Was: €5.00 Now: €2.50 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
Quick view sku: wW34797K,wW36216H Richard Holmes / Coleridge : Early Visions (Hardback) Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes’s seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain’s greatest poets. ‘Coleridge: Early Visions’ is the first part... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW35237K Olivier Philipponnat / The Life of Irene Nemirovsky: 1903-1942 (Large Paperback) The first major biography of the author of Suite FrançaiseThe posthumous publication of Suite Française won Irène Némirovsky international acclaim and brought millions of readers to her work. But the story... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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: wW31995K John Lanchester / Family Romance (Large Paperback) The author of The Debt to Pleasure digs into his family's extraordinary past in a memoir as enthralling as his finest fictionIt was only when his mother died that John Lanchester realized how little he really knew about his parents. With the cache of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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... 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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
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MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €5.00 Was: €5.00 Now: €2.50 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. 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