IRISH LITERATURE

Jennifer Johnston / The Railway Station Man

 Helen has retreated to the remote north-west coast of Ireland to paint the sea and the shore, and to be alone with her past. English war hero Roger Hawthorne has settled in the neglected...

John B Keane - Love Bites and Other Stories - PB Mercier Press, 1991

There are more shades to John B. Keane's humour than there are colours in the rainbow. Compassion, shrewdness and a glorious sense of fun and roguery are evident in this collection. Here, in a...

John B Keane - The Man From Clare - Vintage 2nd Printing 1965 - Mercier

Deals with the personal tragedy of an aging athlete who finds he no longer has the physical strength to maintain his position as the captain of the team or his reputation as the 'best footballer in...

John B Keane / The Contractors

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John B. Keane - Big Maggie (Vintage Mercier PB 1978 - Originally 1969)

 'Big Maggie 'J. B. Keane's most outspoken play' - The Irish Press'Keane ... has brought the tyranny, the desperation and the frustration of the rural Irish matriarch roaring into the top...

John B. Keane - Letters of an Matchmaker - PB - Vintage 1977 Mercier

From the back cover: "These are the letters of a country matchmaker faithfully recorded by John B. Keane, whose knowledge of matchmaking is second to none. In these letters is revealed the...

John B. Keane - Letters of an Irish Parish Priest - Vintage PB 1980 ( Originally Mercier Press 1972)

John B. Keane was born in Ireland on July 21, 1928. He attended St. Michael's College, Listowel. By 1945, he was apprenticed to a chemist in Listowel. He eventually took over a small public house and...

John B. Keane - Letters of an Irish Publican - Vintage Mercier PB 1990 - Humour Kerry ( Originally 1974)

John B. Keane's skill at recognising the follies and weaknesses of men and women was evident in all of his writing. The letter writers and their correspondents prove to be fine examples of this. This...

John B. Keane - Strong Tea - PB Mercier - 1976 (Originally 1963)

A 1976 reprint edition paperback - of Strong Tea, a collection of mostly short essays and humourous articles, some reprinted from previously published essays in the Limerick Leader as well as radio...

John B. Keane / A High Meadow

Mollie's face clouded as it always did whenever she thought of the Ram of God. She was careful not to show her annoyance. The more she considered their relationship, the more her fury mounted...

John B. Keane / Christmas Tales (Large Paperback)

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John B. Keane / The Bodhran Makers

Life is harsh in close-knit community of Dirrabeg, a community on the Dingle Peninsula facing extinction in the mid-1950's. Many of the young have left for England or America, where there are...

John B. Keane / The Celebrated Letters of John B. Keane: v. 2 (Large Paperback)

  This collection features such famous volumes as Letters of a Civil Guard, Letters of an Irish Publican and Letters of a Country Postman. In them we find many evocations of rural Ireland,...

John B. Keane / The Celebrated Letters of John B.Keane (Large Paperback)

 John B. Keane is one of Ireland's most popular playwrights. With his plays now reaching the cinema, his work has become known to an international audience. 30 years after John B. Keane made his...

John Banville ( as Benjamin Black) / The Secret Guests

 For fans of The Crown comes an enthralling historical mystery set during the Second World WarIt is 1940 and the bombs are falling thick and fast on London. The royal family must do all they can...

John Banville ( as Benjamin Black) / Vengeance

Why would suicide need a witness?On the east coast of Ireland, Victor Delahaye, one of the country’s most prominent citizens, takes his business partner’s son out sailing. But once at...

John Banville / Ancient Light

 John Banville's Ancient Light is a story of obsessive young love and the power of grief 'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.'In a small town in 1950s Ireland...

John Banville / Ancient Light (Large Paperback)

'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.' Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small...

John Banville / April in Spain (Hardback)

 THE LOCK-UP - A THRILLING NEW STRAFFORD AND QUIRKE MYSTERY - IS AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDERThe sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from the Booker Prize winning...

John Banville / April in Spain (Large Paperback)

 When Dublin pathologist Quirke glimpses a familiar face while on holiday with his wife, it's hard, at first, to tell whether his imagination is just running away with him. Could she really be...

John Banville / Doctor Copernicus

    Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1976 this historical novel is based on the life of Nicholas Koppernigk, better known as Copernicus, whose ideas and writings...

John Banville / First Light (Large Paperback)

   John Banville is one of the finest and most critically-acclaimed writers of his generation. With elegance, insight and wit, he has secured a devoted readership and there can be few more...

John Banville / Ghosts (Hardback)

 An unnamed murderer has served time in prison then comes to live on a sparsely populated island with the enigmatic Professor Silas Kreutznaer and his laconic companion Licht. A party of...

John Banville / Mefisto

  This sourcebook of ideas is designed to help teachers, students and others interested in education to understand and engage in philosophical enquiry with children. It illustrates how...

John Banville / Mrs Osmond (Large Paperback)

 A MASTERFUL TALE OF BETRAYAL AND CORRUPTION BY THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE SEA'Banville is one of the writers I admire the most' Hanya Yanahigara, author of A Little Life 'A...

John Banville / Snow (Large Paperback)

 'An outstanding novel and an absolute page-turner.' Irish Independent'A typically elegant country house mystery.' Guardian, Biggest books of the AutumnA CrimeReads Most Anticipated Book of...

John Banville / The Drowned (Large Paperback)

“He had seen drowned people. A sight not to be forgotten.”1950s, rural Ireland. A loner comes across a mysteriously empty car in a field. Knowing he shouldn’t approach but unable to...

John Banville / The Infinities (Large Paperback)

From the writer of the Booker Prize-winning "The Sea", comes a new novel, a major literary event of the Autumn. John Banville is one of the finest and most critically-acclaimed writers of...

John Banville / The Lock-Up (Large Paperback)

 Booker Prize winner and “Irish master” ( The New Yorker ) John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mysteryIn...

John Banville / The Untouchable

The Untouchable is an engrossing, exquisitely written and almost bewilderingly smart book ...It's the fullest book I've read in a very long time, utterly accomplished, thoroughly readable,...

John Banville / The Untouchable (Large Paperback)

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John Boyne / A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom (Large Paperback)

  Some stories are universal. Some are unique. They play out across human history, and time is the river that flows through them.This story starts with a family. For now, it is a father and a...

John Boyne / All The Broken Places (Large Paperback)

   1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame, and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to...

John Boyne / My Brother's Name is Jessica (Large Paperback)

 'John Boyne made his name with The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas and he's on stellar form in My Brother's Name is Jessica.' Daily ExpressSam Waver's life has always been pretty quiet. A bit of a...

John Boyne / Next of Kin

1936: London is abuzz with gossip about the affair between Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. But the king is not the only member of the aristocracy with a hard decision to make. Owen Montignac, the...

John Boyne / The Absolutist

September 1919: Twenty-years-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a clutch of letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the...

John Boyne / The Absolutist (Large Paperback)

 September 1919:20 year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War...

John Boyne / The Echo Chamber

 From the author of The Heart's Invisible Furies and powered with the Boyne's characteristic humor and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward...

John Boyne / The Echo Chamber (Large Paperback)

 What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon...

John Boyne / The House of Special Purpose

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John Boyne / The Thief of Time

John Boyne has become internationally known for his acclaimed novels Crippen and the bestselling The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Now, for the first time in the United States, comes the book that...

John Broderick - London Irish - Vintage PB - 1981

A Pan paperback, 1981, of the 1979 novel from John Broderick. sunfade to the spine, page block tight, tanning to pages.  'At seventy-two, men are apt to behave oddly, especially where pretty...

John Broderick - The Fugitives - Vintage PB 1976 ( Originally 1962)

A lowering, chill story of the ""troubles"" relies as much on the scene it sets with considerable effectiveness as the story it has to tell. For it is to the ""certainty, the nullity, the...

John Matthews (Editor) / From the Isles of Dream (Large Paperback)

Visionary stories and poems of the Celtic Renaissance A marvelous anthology of stories and poems by writers of the early twentieth century Celtic Renaissance - including work from Ireland, Scotland...

John McGahern / Amongst Women (Hardback)

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John McGahern / Getting Through

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John McGahern / Memoir

'As wise and compelling a book as any of his elegiac and graceful novels.' David Mitchell This is the story of John McGahern's childhood; of his mother's death, his father's anger and bafflement,...

John Millington Synge - Deirdre of the Sorrows (1912) | The Tinker's Wedding, Riders to the Sea & The Shadow of the Glen (1915) - 2 Vintage HB Reprints

2 vintage uniformly sized Maunsel & Co hardcovers of J.M Synge plays, as follows -  Deirdre of the Sorrows - A Play, 1912, Maunsel & Co, Dublin & London 1912 ( originally 1910. Clean...

John O'Donnell / Almost the Same Blue (Large Paperback)

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John P Harrington / Modern Irish Drama - A Norton Critical Edition - PB

Full texts of 12 classic Irish dramas, from Yeats to Friel , with notes, commentaries, criticism and context essays.  Light student underlining and notes added.   

John Patrick McHugh / Fun and Games (Large Paperback)

A stunning debut novel following a teenage boy as he comes of age on the west coast of Ireland, from the author of the acclaimed story collection Pure Gold. Seventeen-year-old John Masterson has no...

Joseph O'Connor / Ghost Light (Large Paperback)

 Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious and flirtatious, Molly...