IRISH LITERATURE

Claire Kilroy / Tenderwire (Large Paperback)

  Eva Tyne, an Irish violinist living and working in New York, collapses after her solo debut and is rushed to hospital. Still dazed after the incident, she finds herself embarked on a...

Clare Boylan - Holy Pictures - HB - 1st Ed 1983

Hardcover first edition, published by Hamish Hamilton UK , 1983 . Heavy tanning to pages.  For Nan, on the threshold of puberty, and her younger sister Mary, innocence blends uneasily with the...

Clare Boylan - Last Resorts - HB - US Edition 1986

Harriet's yearly family vacation on the Greek island of Keptos is disrupted by her twins' desire to get drunk with the locals, her thirteen-year-old daughter's suddenly ripe sexuality, and the abrupt...

Colin Barrett / Homesickness (Large Paperback)

 The second book from the "exact and poetic" (New York Times) author of critical smash Y oung Skins , winner of the Guardian First Book Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a...

Colin Walsh / Kala

We used to be such a force, back then when she was still with us. What happened to her?In the seaside town of Kinlough three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years. They –...

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 (Large Paperback)

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...

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...

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...

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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Colm Toibin / The Testament of Mary

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013 From the author of Brooklyn comes a short, powerful novel about one of the most famous mothers in history. In a voice that is both tender and filled with...

Colum McCann / Apeirogon

 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICISSHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Colum McCann / Transatlantic

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

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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 -...

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...

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...

David Marcus / The Poolbeg Book of Irish Ghost Stories

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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 / The Truth Commissioner

   Henry Stanfield, the newly arrived Truth Commissioner, is troubled by his estrangement from his daughter, and struggling with the consequences of his infidelities. Francis Gilroy,...

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...

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...

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...

Deirdre Madden / Molly Fox's Birthday

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

Finbar's Hotel has reopened for business and is now peopled by a different kind of resident: a businesswoman is search of a sperm donation; a fashion designer who finds out her father is insane;...

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...

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...

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...

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 home to Sligo from London and takes up lodging in a run-down house with a group of art students, where struggles to cope with his experiences in a world...

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...