A Chicago detective thinks he's found a piece of paradise in the west of Ireland... but all that glisters is not gold. Some of it is coldly gleaming revenge.
A novel set in 1846, during the Great Famine in Ireland: a young woman works in the big house and must struggle to help her family. A doomed romance, love and tragedy. For ages 12 and over.
A mother and her daughter navigate their betrayal by a ruthlessly self-regarding poet. Enright is superb at unpicking complex relationships and laying out their strands: we watch, spellbound... read more
A hefty and well-illustrated work of scholarship that engages with all aspects of architecture in the British Isles from towns and villages to military and industrial buildings.
Described in her lifetime as 'the most famous unknown photographer in America', Hofer's work has recently been the subject of a London exhibition. This handsome production focuses on her ima... read more
Compiled from Dervla's books and journalism: fifty years of travelling in Spain, Afghanistan, India, Nepal, the Andes, Africa, Palestine, the Balkans, Jamaica... She never went by car and w... read more
The first print run of The Irish Bakery is now sold out; however, we are still taking orders for the book's next print run in early February, 2024.
Sweet and savoury: recipes f... read more
An illustrated monograph on the Irish painter Anne Yeats (1919-2001), daughter of the poet W. B. Yeats and the niece of the painter Jack Yeats. Two of her aunts trained with William Morris s... read more
She grew up in Chelsea (indeed her father was a John Sandoe customer); she was a deb in 1958. Then she devoted herself to the IRA and became a terrorist.
The highways and byways of the Good Friday Agreement - by a distinguished journalist who spent several decades covering the troubled state of Northern Ireland.
Pitches the reader from the quiet observations of a retired Irish policeman into the shadows of his past, his family and youth. About experience, memory and what we manage to live with.
Casey's first novel, recently reissued, is set on an imaginary island off the west coast of Ireland. It traces the conflict between traditional rural values and those of the Swinging Sixtie... read more
A short novel about an ageing Irish republican, father to four and newly remarried, who has lost touch with his past. As he slopes towards his end, the landscape, villages and communities wh... read more
An unusual study of ten houses that were burnt down in Ireland during the 1920s, and how it was for their owners and families, some of whom believed themselves to be integrated members of th... read more
The murderer from The Book of Evidence is released from prison and enters the troubled world of the Godleys, whom we met in Infinities. Tricksy (of course) and brilliant.
A vivid novel about Edith Somerville, co-author of the Irish R.M., set against the backdrop of burnings, politics and lawlessness of Ireland in the early 1920s.
Heaney's translations from Old and Middle Irish, Italian (both medieval and modern), classical Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Romanian, German - and this is not a complete list. A staggerin... read more
A visceral evocation of the 'badlands' between the Five Counties of Northern Ireland and Eire, blending dialects from across the British Isles with photography.
A neglected Irish girl is fostered out to her mother's sister for the summer in this perfect, understated story. Almost too short even to be called a novella. Keegan is short-listed for this... read more
A stellar second collection: each character and action is precisely observed, each story is shot with humour and pathos. Humane and wistful, these stories - mostly set in Ireland, in County ... read more
She grew up in Chelsea (indeed her father was a John Sandoe customer); she was a deb in 1958. Then she devoted herself to the IRA and became a terrorist.
A powerful debut novel set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles: a young woman embarks on an affair with a married man, and - inevitably - there are consequences, sharpened by the layerin... read more
From the library of Marguerite Littman.
First edition, first printing, in fine condition with a good dust jacket: there is some shelf wear along bottom edge, and a chip missing from the l... read more
Keenly anticipated first volume of poetry from this wonderful, delicate writer. Many of the poems were written during a period of illness, when Toibin found himself only able to write for a... read more
The melancholic pathologist Quirke and the Dublin detective St. John Stafford find themselves at work in a sun-dappled San Sebastián. Previously Banville published the Quirke crime series p... read more
The two authors - husband and wife - settled in the west of Ireland over thirty years ago, casting off from their life in the US on a romantic impulse to begin a new life near Christine's fa... read more
"Ballymaloe!" - thus would Lewis Carroll have chortled in his joy had he ever had the pleasure of sitting down to a soup of the evening with Rachel Allen, scattered with beautiful za'atar cr... read more
A pair of achingly clever young women email each other about the state of the world. They are young, Irish, anxious and in love with unsuitable men. So far so Rooney. But this much-hyped thi... read more
Uncovers the illicit affair between the novelist and the author's grandfather, Humphry House, which Parry discovered on being delivered a box of letters.
Every Christmas needs an escapist book and this year we think this fits the bill - a novel about the three daughters of the first Earl of Iveagh. There is of course the old chestnut that Pr... read more
A comic masterpiece of a memoir: the subject, chiefly, is the Irish filmmaker Brian Desmond Hurst, who once described himself as tri-sexual - "the Army, the Navy and the Household Cavalry"..... read more
Rossmore's photographs of fading historic buildings, taken over a decade from the early 1960s, are now lodged in the Irish Architectural Archive. Here seventy images from the length and brea... read more