IRISH LITERATURE

Colin Walsh / Kala (Large Paperback)

In the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland's west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years. They - Helen, Joe and Mush - were part of an original group of six...

Colm O'Gaora / A Crooked Field (Hardback)

  A portrait of a young woman growing up with her father in rural Ireland following the death of her mother. The father's emotional insularity and obsession with his land make home life...

Colm Toibin / A Long Winter (Hardback)

One snowy morning, after arguing with her husband, Miquel’s mother walks out from their home high up in the Pyrenees and does not return. With his younger brother stationed far away on military...

Colm Toibin / Long Island (Hardback)

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of Eilis Lacey, the complex...

Colm Toibin / Mothers and Sons

 Colm Toibin's Mothers and Sons is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive,...

Colm Toibin / The Blackwater Lightship

Set in modern day Ireland, The Blackwater Lightship tells the tale of three women, Dora Devereaux, her daughter Lily and grand-daughter Helen. They arrive at an uneasy peace with each other after...

Colm Toibin / The Heather Blazing

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Colm Toibin / The Magician (Large Paperback)

 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZEFrom one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family.The...

Colm Toibin / The Master (Hardback)

 It is January 1895 and Henry James's play, GUY DOMVILLE, from which he hoped to make his fortune, has failed on the London stage.Opening with this disaster, The Master spans the next five years of...

Colm Toibin / The South

In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland and her family for Barcelona, determined to become a painter. There she meets Miguel, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and proceeds to build a...

Colm Tóibín / The Story of the Night (Hardback)

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Colum McCann / Apeirogon (Large Paperback)

 CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i PAPER, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SCOTSMAN, IRISH TIMES, BBC.COM, WATERSTONES.COM'Nothing like any book you've ever read'...

Colum McCann / Dancer

Stunning, bestselling novel based on the real life of Rudolf Nureyev from an acclaimed author.This novel opens on a battlefield: trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland,...

Colum McCann / Dancer (Large Paperback)

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Colum McCann / Everything in This Country Must (Hardback)

 In a daring tour de force, one of our writers takes on the most intractable of conflicts-the Troubles in Northern Ireland.In his fourth book, Colum McCann, a writer of fierce originality and...

Colum McCann / Fishing the Sloe-black River

Stunning collection of short stories from the prize-winning author of DANCER An ageing nun is tracked to ground by her sister; a garrulous beautician must lay out the corpse of a loved one. These are...

Colum McCann / Let the Great World Spin (Hardback)

 New York, August 1974. A man is walking the sky. The city stands still in awe. Between the newly built Twin Towers the man is striding, twirling and showboating his way through the air. One hundred...

Colum McCann / Let the Great World Spin (Large Paperback)

 New York, August 1974. A man is walking the sky. The city stands still in awe. Between the newly built Twin Towers the man is striding, twirling and showboating his way through the air. One hundred...

Colum McCann / Songdogs

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Colum McCann / Thirteen Ways of Looking (Large Paperback)

A story in this collection has been longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG short story award As it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded,...

Colum McCann / This Side Of Brightness

    On a bitter winter's day in 1916, deep below the streets of New York, a group of men is working in one of the huge pressurized tunnels that will make up the subway system. Suddenly, a tiny...

Colum McCann / This Side Of Brightness (Hardback)

 A breakthrough novel for one of the most gifted of the current generation of Irish writers. Ostensibly a love story in three generations, THIS SIDE OF BRIGHTNESS is about many other about the...

Colum McCann / This Side of Brightness (Large Paperback)

  From the author of Songdogs, a magnificent work of imagination and history set in the tunnels of New York City. In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves his native Georgia for New...

Colum McCann / Transatlantic (Large Paperback)

1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of the First World War to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west...

Colum McCann / Twist (Large Paperback)

  Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human existence—words, images, transactions, memes,...

Conor Bowman / Horace Winter Says Goodbye (Large Paperback)

'Original, moving and funny...' Irish Independent Meet Horace Winter and fall in love with life again in this bestselling novel ... Horace Winter has led an unexceptional life. Ever since that...

Conor O'Callaghan / Nothing On Earth

 As fine as it is frightening." (John Banville). "This one will stay with you like your shadow." (Guardian). "Extraordinary...pitch-perfect." (Irish Times). "Strange, beautiful and quietly terrifying...

Damien Owens / Duffy and Son

 The Sunday Business Post Fiction Book of the Year | Shortlisted for Popular Fiction Book of the Year – An Post Irish Book Awards A heart-warming and hilarious novel about life, love, and the weight...

Damien Owens / Duffy and Son (Large Paperback)

 A heart-warming and hilarious novel about life, love, and the weight of all we leave unsaid, Duffy & Son is a quietly moving masterpiece from one of Ireland's most gifted comic writers.Eugene Duffy...

Daniel Corkery - The Stormy Hills - Short Stories - Vintage Mercier Paperback

A collectionm of 9 short stories , published in this edition by Mercier Press, c 1966 - ( undated in this printing)  Priced at predecimal 6/.  Cover design by John Skelton, paperback - contains...

Danny Denton / All Along the Echo (Large Paperback)

 FIRST VOICE: Why are we listening?SECOND VOICE: I dunno, I mean, what else is there to do?Tony Cooney, a local-radio DJ, spends his days on air, talking to the listeners of Cork. They call in to...

Danny Denton / The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow

Ireland is flooded, derelict. It never stops raining. The Kid in Yellow has stolen the babba from the Earlie King. Why? Something to do with the King's daughter, and a talking statue, something...

David Marcus ( Editor) - New Irish Writing 1 - PB - 1970

Paperback,  published by Dolmen  Press, 1970.  Based on the weekly series then running in the Irish Press Newspaper as 'New Irish Writing' . Contains poetry and short fiction.  A slim paperback,...

David Park / Ghost Wedding (Large Paperback)

For fans of Sebastian Faulks, Donal Ryan and Anne Tyler comes this beautiful novel following two troubled men, separated by nearly a century, bound by the ghosts that haunt an imposing Irish...

David Park / Travelling in a Strange Land (Hardback)

Set in a frozen winter landscape, the new novel from the prize-winning, acclaimed author David Park is a psychologically astute, expertly crafted portrait of a father’s inner life and a family in...

David Pierce ( Editor) - Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century : A Reader - PB 2001

With five Nobel Prize-winners, seven Pulitzer Prize-winners and two Booker Prize-winning novelists, it could be argued that modern Irish writing has contributed something special and permanent to our...

Davy Byrnes / Stories: The Six Prize-winning Stories from the 2009 Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award as Selected by Richard Ford

The six prize-winning stories from the 2009 Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award as selected by Richard Ford: Foster ' by Claire Keegan, Living in Unknown' by Mary Leland, This Isn't Heaven' by Molly...

Declan Toohey / Perpetual Comedown (Large Paperback)

As a doctoral student at Trinity College Dublin, Darren Walton is trying to decode an elaborate conspiracy he stumbled across as an undergraduate. To do so he must locate an alternate Ireland named...

Dermot Bolger ( Editor) - The Vintage Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction - PB - USA - 1994

This volume features fiction published since 1970. Arranged in chronological order, the volume moves from the traditional to the futuristic. Authors featured include Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Faolain,...

Dermot Bolger ( Editor) / Ladies' Night At Finbar's Hotel (Large Paperback)

Finbar's Hotel has reopened for business

Dermot Bolger / Emily's Shoes (Hardback)

Michael is a reclusive young man who works in a Dublin library. He is unable to free himself from a shoe fixation which is now a torment as well as a relief.      All of our books are second hand,...

Dermot Bolger / Father's Music

From one of Ireland’s bestselling writers, a literary thriller set in London and Dublin.A combination of family fable and gripping thriller, ‘Father’s Music’ tells the story of Tracey, the troubled...

Dermot Bolger / Finbar's Hotel (Large Paperback)

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Dermot Bolger / Secrets Never Told (Large Paperback)

A widow spends weeks haunting a cemetery, desperate to track down an unknown woman who keeps leaving flowers on her husband’s grave; A daughter searches a foreign city for her father, trying to...

Dermot Healy - Fighting With Shadows - HB -1984

First Edition,  co-published by Alison & Busby UK and Brandon , 1984.  Largely set in the border village of Fanacross, Co. Fermanagh, as Ireland stumbles clumsily toward modernity, the Allen family...

Dermot Healy / Long Time No See (Large Paperback)

 Long Time, No See introduces us to the unforgettable world of Mister Psyche .In the isolated coastal townland of Ballintra in the Northwest of Ireland Recent school-leaver, occasional worker,...

Dermot Healy / Sudden Times (Hardback)

Haunted by memories, Ollie Ewing returns

Dermot Healy / Sudden Times (Large Paperback)

Ollie Ewing is barely surviving. Back home in Sligo, he's collecting trolleys in a supermarket car park and living in a run-down house with a group of art students. He has lost his child-like...

Dermot Mac Manus - The Middle Kingdom : The Faerie World of Ireland - PB

Paperback, published in this edition by Colin Smythe UK 1993, originally 1959 (and 1973)  Mac Manus gathered a collection of original tales from everyday folklore - primarily stories of interactions...

Desmond Hogan - The Leaves on Grey - HB 1980

Hardcover, first edition, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1980 Light tanning to page block, otherwise unmarked, a small format hardcover in a very good dustjacket.  The author's third published book. 

Dora Murphy - The Watched and Other Stories - PB

Published by the Carlow Writers Group, this is a collection of short stories by Dora Murphy ( born 1902) . Published 1992. 

Dora Murphy / The Watched and Other Stories (Exact Copy)

A wonderful collection of short stories by Irish author Dora Murphy, including "Saturday", in which a young woman in 1960s Ireland struggles to make travel arrangements so she can go get an abortion...