British & Irish History

Into the world of 1950s Ireland - a lushly green, windswept landscape studded with holy wells and the decaying country houses of a vanished ruling class - arrives Ithell Colquhoun....

The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry features the work of three Nobel laureates - W. B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney - as well as Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde,...

The collection includes famous poems such as Yeats's "The Fisherman" and Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" alongside new work from Ireland's finest living writers. As well as forming a...

Finfarran Book 5 'I was utterly charmed - a pitch-perfect delight' Marian Keyes 'A sparkling, life-affirming novel' Cathy Kelly Eager to cheer up her recently-widowed gran, Cassie Fitzgerald persuades Lissbeg...

THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER When death is a way of life . . . In A Life Among the Dead , David McGowan, Ireland's best known Funeral Director, and subject...

The book titled No Laughing Matter: Life and Times of Flann O'Brien by the author Anthony Cronin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Intensely private, possibly saintly, but perhaps misanthropic, Samuel Beckett was the most legendary and enigmatic of writers. Anthony Cronin's biography is a revelation of this mythical figure as fully human...

These outstanding books bring to life the people, places and events of the past in these islands, from the earliest settlers to the present day. They explore the everyday lives...

'A must read for all wildlife lovers' Dominic Dyer Foxes, buzzards, crows, badgers, weasels, seals, kites - Britain and Ireland's predators are impressive and diverse and they capture our collective...

The United Kingdom; Great Britain; the British Isles; the Home Nations: such a wealth of different names implies uncertainty and contention - and an ability to invent and adjust. In...

Between 1680 and 1807 British publishers produced a sequence of double-hemisphere world maps each printed on two sheets and conjoined. These maps are a peculiarly British phenomenon of this period...

'Clever, immersive and utterly engrossing, The Dark Hours is a triumph' Andrea Mara ' Subverted my expectations at almost every turn... Jordan shows how the aftermath of violence affects all...

The number one Irish Times bestseller! Rose Talisman is pinning it all on a fresh start. Five years after her career as a therapist ended in one catastrophic instant, she...

Frank McCourt continues his life story in the brilliant, bestselling sequel to the million-selling 'Angela's Ashes'. 'Angela's Ashes' was a publishing phenomenon. Frank McCourt's critically-acclaimed, lyrical memoir of his Limerick...

"Sweeney's prose is on fire. A blistering book that readers will relish enormously." MICHAEL HARDIN G "A cracking read ... a championship season as redemption song." MICHAEL CLIFFORD "All the...

* THE TOP TEN BESTSELLER* 'A tense, unsettling thriller' T. M. LOGAN, author of THE HOLIDAY 'Gripping . . . a bright new voice in psychological thrillers' ERIN KELLY ,...

Uncover the gripping narrative of Irish immigrants who transformed America in the aftermath of the Great Hunger. Tyler Anbinder's landmark work exposes the grit and resilience of the Famine Irish,...

***SELECTED AS A 2026 BOOK TO WATCH IN THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY INDEPENDENT, RTE*** 'One of the debuts of the year' Irish Times 'A stylish, adroit and...

A vital history from the award-winning Financial Times journalist Philip Stephens on the dramatic century since the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition. These Divided Isles tells the story from both sides...

Uncover the gripping narrative of Irish immigrants who transformed America in the aftermath of the Great Hunger. Tyler Anbinder's landmark work exposes the grit and resilience of the Famine Irish,...

'The novel's dark energies - concerned with histories of gender, property, desire, and institutionalization - carry it forth into our present moment. It remains indispensable reading' Claire Connolly from her...

THE BRAND NEW STRAFFORD AND QUIRKE MURDER MYSTERY FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW . A CHILLING MUST-READ. 'Haunting . . . compelling.' DAILY MAIL 'Banville is one of my...

From the author of the beloved debut Boys Don't Cry - an unforgettable story of love, loss, regret and the indelible marks one person can make on your life. He's...

This work features Gerry Ryan's views on life, the world, the universe - and a few things besides. Here are his experiences, stories and opinions drawn from nearly thirty years...

The Reverend Mother's investigative skills are called into action when a local tobacco factory burns down and fingers are pointed at one of her ex pupils... 1920s. Cork, Ireland. Early...

One night can change your life. Forever. 'Such a brilliant writer and this was another 5 star book for me' Reader Review 'Hugely immersive and emotional' Reader Review 'An emotional...

As a young man, James Joyce rejected his country and its religion, but went on to recreate the Dublin of his youth in his fiction. Ulysses was initially banned in...

AN IRISH TIMES DEBUT AUTHOR TO LOOK OUT FOR 2025 'Beautifully written' LOUISE KENNEDY 'Full of verve and wit and humanity' MARY COSTELLO 'Clever and original' TLS 'A tremendous new...

Explore the lives of over forty men and women - great and otherwise - whose pioneering journeys beyond the Irish shore played a profound role in world history. The Irish...

Perfect for fans of S. F. Williamson, Lynette Noni and Samantha Shannon, this is the first book in a stunningly written feminist romantasy trilogy - with dragons - by an...

A powerful, witchy retelling of Brigid, Ireland's best known saint and pagan goddess In a wild, ancient grove at the edge of winter, a desperate girl prays to the gods...

This is a journey both into a time and a place - the South of Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. The author describes a childhood outside the main currents...

Perfect for fans of Tana French, Jane Casey and Gillian Flynn 'Truly first class. Just knock-out' C. J Tudor, author of The Chalk Man 'Fantastic . . . Compelling, chilling...

The perfect gift book for Guinness lovers, served here. How did a beer from Dublin become a globally renowned symbol of Ireland? With just GBP100 in his pocket, Arthur Guinness...

Thirty-five papers selected from the 1998 conference analyze and re-explore communities of which Virginia Woolf was a part -- for example, Female Modernists, artists, lesbian and gay, communities formed by...

In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one of the Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a public image of...

The book titled Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance by the author Mary-Lou Kohfeldt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The acclaimed first volume of this definitive biography of W. B. Yeats left him in his fiftieth year, at a cross-roads in his life. The subsequent quarter-century surveyed in The...

From the bestselling writer who has been called 'incandescent' by Stephen King and 'absolutely mesmerizing' by Gillian Flynn, comes the most compelling novel of Tana French's career yet. On a...

What if your work rival was the ex that you'd never actually broken up with? 'SO GOOD' MARIAN KEYES 'Sizzling' SOPHIE IRWIN 'Witty' BETH REEKLES 'Excellent' JANE CASEY 'Pitch-perfect' EMMA...

A Collection of Les Murray's poetry that reveals the variety, intensity, and generosity of this great Australian poet's work. I starred last night, I shone: I was footwork and firework...

Godly and Righteous, Peevish and Perverse presents an extraordinary and motley collection of literary and real life characters sharing a common role and a common status, yet capable of every...

Superbly illustrated with over 150 photographs, paintings and drawings this is a crisply written, succinct summary of Ireland's past from Viking and Norman invasions to the present day. It is...

My Left Foot is Christy Brown's inspirational story of his early life, his battle against the restraints of cerebral palsy and his determination to learn to read, write, and paint,...

From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man whose direction in life takes a vastly different turn than what he expected. It's the tabloid...

The essential Irish guide to Brexit Brexit represents potentially the single greatest economic and foreign-policy challenge to the Irish state since the Second World War. There is hardly any area...

Martha is now in her thirties. Her daughter has left home and she is lonely and vulnerable. The hard knocks have taken their toll on her health, and as she...