Fiction

Jean Kavanagh / How the Weather Was (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

How the Weather Was, Jean Kavanagh’s second collection, describes how someone’s choices can lead to an interruption of the ordinary, moving in parallel with the seemingly steadfast lives of others.Far from her origins — whether...

Stephanie McKenzie / Saviours in this Little Space for Now: Poems for Emily Carr and Vincent van Gogh (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This collection brings together two great artists - Emily Carr (1871-1945) and Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). Carr's appreciation for the First Nations of her day and Van Gogh's compassion for the impoverished seem to find a home together. So, too, do...

Mary Madec / The Egret Lands with News from Other Parts (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In this third collection, Mary Madec returns to the real world of what it means to be herself, a woman of these times, exploring again the territories of the heart. She presents a partly imagined trajectory, extending beyond the present and deep into the...

Ethna McKiernan / Light Rolling Slowly Backward: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Light Rolling Slowly Backward is Ethna McKiernan’s fifth and most ambitious collection of poetry. McKiernan, who has a gift for metaphor, gives us 120 poems in her latest volume, a third of which are new. Her work, which some critics have compared...

Alvy Carragher / the men I keep under my bed (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

A young woman wakes feeling raw and tender after a one-night stand. She leaves a strange man sleeping in her bed and goes running. Marked by the anxiety of living in a city that does not feel like home, she must face the memories and men kept under her...

J P Dancing Bear / Fish Singing Foxes (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Fish Singing Foxes is a delightful collection of two series of poems. One series borrows a line of poetry from a contemporary poet using it as an "on-ramp," a point of departure, and creates an entirely different poem from it. The second series serves as...

John Griffin / Erosions (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

  Erosions is John A. Griffin’s first full-length book of poems. Written shortly after he emigrated to the United States, the poems comprise a kind of Bildungsroman exploring themes of boyhood innocence, fantasy, landscapes, nature, death,...

Dede Cummings / The Meeting Place (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In  The Meeting Place , the speaker looks out from our coasts, east, and the unbounded sky, the sheltering coves, the sand and rocks, the spartina grass growing and blowing in the sand. The title, as the opening poem makes clear, refers to the...

John Morgan / The Hungers of the World: New & Collected Later Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

These poems are strong and full of carefully controlled feeling. They are tender and precise evocations of the moral and sensory life of man." - Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize winner"Morgan demonstrates that he understands the complexity and the enormous...

Graham Fulton / Equal Nights (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The fifth collection of poetry from Scottish poet Graham Fulton. He has been published widely in Europe and the USA.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the storage in their last location they might...

Diann Blakely / Lost Addresses: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Diann Blakely (1957-2014) was an American poet, essayist, editor, and critic. She taught at Belmont University, Harvard University, Vanderbilt University, and Watkins Arts Institute, and served as the first poet-in-residence at the Harpeth Hall School in...

Stephen Bett / The Gross & Fine Geography: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Canadian writer Stephen Bett is internationally known as one of the leading poets of his generation. The Gross & Fine Geography draws from thirteen major collections and adds a generous sampling of new work, spanning over four decades. His early work...

Paul Balfe / Four Seasons (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Paul Balfe’s poems are distinguished by a forensically intelligent eye for the telling detail which cuts to the heart of seemingly inconsequential encounters or childhood memories. All are rendered fresh in poems that need no recourse to verbal...

Phil Lynch / In a Changing Light (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Phil Lynch's first poetry collection takes us on a journey of encounter, observation, and questioning to places real and imagined. His themes range from the personal to the political and from the local to the global. There are poems inspired by love,...

Sandra Ann Winters / Do Not Touch (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Sandra Ann Winters’ ‘Our Irish Garden’ is a delicious procession of rhyming couplets using an extended garden metaphor…”– Leslie McGrath, Judge of the 2019 NY Yeats Society Poetry Prize praises a poem from this...

Eamon McGuinness / The Wrong Heroes (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

The Wrong Heroes is the powerful debut collection from Dublin writer Eamon McGuinness. Exploring major themes such as illness, personal loss, grief, love and fatherhood, the poems move through various physical and emotional landscapes, from suburban...

Alice Pettway / Station Lights (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Most experiences lie in the long miles between life’s stations, but we look toward the next town’s lights for reassurance that we will eventually arrive. When those lamps dim, or are passed by in the night, we become disoriented, caught in...

Frank Golden / The Night Game (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

New York. Late winter. The city is shrouded in fog.Mary lives alone in her childhood home, a rambling brownstone on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.After a series of menacing phone calls, and fearing that she is being stalked, Mary contacts Sheila, one...

Majella Cullinane / Whisper of a Crow's Wing (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Published simultaneously in Ireland by Salmon Poetry, Majella Cullinane’s remarkable second collection, Whisper of a Crow’s Wing, is the work of a poet with a distinct and powerful voice. These poems weigh and examine oppositions – the...

Aideen Henry / Slow Bruise (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Slow Bruise is a body of work with multiple layers and resonances. Emotion is intensely felt yet tamed, so that the poems are cool and palatable and yet red hot with feeling. Those who came before us forms the skeleton of the first section, Culvert,...

Andrea Potos / A Stone to Carry Home (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

This collection exults in images of luminous earthly beauty - a blue scarf lake, Greek bread that tastes of heaven and salt, cobbled streets shining like jet in the rain - that also hint at the inevitability of loss. In these poems, Potos prepares to...

John Morgan / The Moving Out: Collected Early Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

John Morgan studied with Robert Lowell at Harvard and won the Hatch Prize for Lyric Poetry. He received his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop where he was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize. In 1976, he moved with his family to Fairbanks,...

Tyler Farrell / Stichomythia (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Tyler Farrell received his undergraduate degree at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska where he studied with Eamonn Wall. In 2002 he received his doctorate from UW-Milwaukee where he studied with James Liddy. Farrell is currently a visiting assistant...

Marc Vincenz / Here Comes the Nightdust (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Multi-linguist poet, fiction writer, translator, editor and artist Marc Vincenz brings us far beyond the Pillars of Hercules in this collection. Part travelogue, part love song, part meditative reflection, Vincenz takes us on a profound journey of inner...

Ruth O'Callaghan / Unportioned: New and Selected Short Poems (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Ruth O’Callaghan’s work is wide-ranging in subject and versatile in form. I particularly enjoy her meditative and humane poems on human relationships."Connie Bensley on Unportioned"These are poems that confront the worst that life has to show...

Jo Slade / Cycles and Lost Monkeys (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

In her latest collection of poems Jo Slade continues her investigation of displacement and difference and illustrates how these experiences can be transformed through poetry, a transformation that is not so much redemptive, as prophetic. These are...

Timothy Houghton / Where the Lighthouse Begins (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

What lies behind much of the lyric poems in Where the Lighthouse Begins is a motivating sense of in some poems, a dead father, an aging mother, a troubled brother; or, in other poems, a conflict, such as a war. The natural world also plays a major role,...

Rachel Coventry / Afternoon Drinking at the Jolly Butchers (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

Beginning in East London, this debut collection makes its way back to Ireland and also moves from troubled youth to adulthood. Drawing on quantum mechanics, myth, religion, and philosophy to fragment its perspective and to tell and retell its stories. It...

Alice Pettway / Moth (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

No matter how far life draws us from home, the tug of the familiar is always there, turning our eyes and our steps. In Alice Pettway's second collection of poetry, the light of family and tradition is so bright it sometimes singes. These poems cast the...

Lea Graham / From the Hotel Vernon (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

These poems center on the Hotel Vernon, built at the turn of the 20th century in Worcester, Mass. Once an elegant place for local politicians to make their backdoor deals, it fell into decline. Despite this, it has always been a space where artists,...

Mark Lawrence / The Girl and the Moon (Hardback)

The fate of the world hangs from the MoonThe green world overwhelms all of Yaz’s expectations. Everything seems different but some things remain the same: her old enemies are still bent on her destruction.The Corridor abounds with plenty and...

Kevin J. Anderson / Star Wars: Tales of the Bounty Hunters

If you've ever wanted to know more about the Bounty Hunters that appear in The Empire Strikes Back, this is the book! This is an awesome collection of the following short Therefore I The Tale of IG-88 by Kevin J. Anderson, The Tale of Dengar by Dave...

Helen Carr (Editor) - Irish Gothic : Dark Tales from Le Fanu to Stoker - BRAND NEW

… the chill stole over me and the stillness of night began to embrace me … From Ireland’s best 19th century Gothic writers come ten chilling stories to cast their dark enchantment over you. The eternal struggle between good and evil...

Pádhraic Óg Ó Conaire - Fuine Gréine - HB - 1967

Cnuasach gearrscéalta , foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1967. Ba as Rosmuc i gConamara an túdar a rugadh in 1893. D'oibrigh sé mar aistritheoir i nDáil Éireann, agus mar chraoltóir ar Radió...

Glen A. Larson & Robert Thurston - Battlestar Galactica ( BOOK 2) : The Cylon Death Machine - PB - 1979

Paperback, published by Futura Paperbacks , 1979, striking cover art by Frank Frazetta. He got Apollo very well, the Glactica in the background probably less so, but the 1978 art probably predated the series itself.  Based on the episode  The...

Michael S. Begnal - Future Blues - PB

Michael S. Begnal's Future Blues is both a progression of and a break with his previous collection, Ancestor Worship. Inasmuch as any poet's work is a continuing narrative defined by nothing more or less than chronology, Future Blues is the collection...

Marck L. Beggs - Catastrophic Chords - PB

Catastrophic Chords is a 2008 poetry collection by American poet and professor Marck L. Beggs. Published by Salmon Poetry, the book explores themes of duality and paradox, split into musical poems about loss and an extended imagined dialogue between...

Drew Blanchard - Winter Dogs - PB - 2011

From Chicago to Moscow, from the Mississippi to Mt. Hood, Drew Blanchard furnishes his landscapes with stories of things people consume (“blackberry pie” and “ice buckets full of Blatz”) and the things that consume them...

Judith Barrington - The Conversation - PB - BRAND NEW

“This is a brilliant technical achievement; it reminds us all that great poetry is both fine thinking and achieved style. The narrator describes and teaches, telling us that death – and death in life – is ‘too late now for that...

Paul Allen - Ground Forces - PB - BRAND NEW

Millicent Borges Accardi - Only More So - PB -BRAND NEW

Only More So is a collection of lyric poems. Sometimes a bridge in a sad song, other times an echo that threatens to develop then fades, the images blend, twist, and entangle one another: a marriage is a song, then it’s a body, and finally a boat...

Peter J. Gloviczki - The Weight of Dandelions - PB - BRAND NEW

Peter Joseph Gloviczki’s the weight of dandelions explores each moment to discover its essence. Believing there is beauty (and humor) in the everyday world, he declares in one poem: “queen-size bed / the dog lets me / sleep there too”...

Terry Goodkind / The Pillars of Creation (Hardback)

Sword of Truth #7 The Pillars of Creation Terry Goodkind     New York Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind has created his most lavish adventure yet. Tormented her entire life by inhuman voices, a young woman named...

William C. Dietz / Heaven's Devils

For the poor, hardworking citizens of the Confederacy's fringe worlds, the Guild Wars have exacted a huge toll. Swayed by the promise of financial rewards, a new batch of recruits joins the fight alongside a slew of mysteriously docile criminals and a...

Kim Lenaghan - Irish Superstitions (Appletree Pocket Guides) - PB - BRAND NEW

Brand new, published by Appletree Press, 2019. 

Richard Coles / Murder Under the Mistletoe: A Canon Clement Christmas Novella

It is Christmas Day and at Champton Rectory, Canon Daniel Clement and his mother Audrey are joined by the residents and guests of the big house to drink, eat and be merry.At the festive feast, peace and goodwill prevail.Until two meet under the mistletoe...

Georgette Heyer / Lady of Quality (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.

Georgette Heyer / Black Sheep (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.

Leo Kessler - Death's Head - PB - 1974

A Futura PB  EDITION, 1974.  SS Assault Battalion Wotan, the toughest troops in Europe, are sent on an apparently impossible mission against the elite of the Soviet Army in a vital bid to prepare the way for Operation Barbarossa. Here, we meet...

James Stephens - The Demi-Gods - PB 1982 (Originally 1914)

Originally published 1914, this is a Butler Sims 1982 PB , with an introduction by Augustine Martin   "The Demi-Gods" by James Stephens is a novel written in the early 20th century. The narrative follows a ragged traveler named Patsy Mac Cann and...

Charles Dickens / A Christmas Carol with A Christmas Tree (Coffee Table Book)

Charles Dickens' much-loved tale of the covetous old sinner Ebenezer Scrooge, his meetings with the ghosts of Christmas, and the fate of Tiny Tim, is accompanied here by another short story, A Christmas Tree, in which the narrator reflects on the...

Patrick O'Brian / Mauritius Command

paperback, new In stock shipped from our UK warehouse   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...