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Dublin, 1907. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Outspoken and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a Catholic...

NEW selection of stories introduced by Julian Barnes The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns...

Author: John Connor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When soldier Paul Curtis, recently returned from active duty, is approached covertly by an old school friend's father and asked for...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA seemingly ordinary house hides a playground of secrets where innocence and danger collide....

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Author: John ConnorBinding: PaperbackPublisher: London : Orion, 2007Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis gripping science fiction thriller, titled Phoenix,...

An intimate and evocative celebration of the life and legacy of music and political icon Sinead O'Connor, featuring writers including Neko Case, Sinead Gleeson, Rayne Fisher-Quann, Porochista Khakpour, and more....

In the early hours of the morning in a luxury Leeds penthouse, a terrified victim is doused with petrol, set alight, and thrown out of a ninth-floor window. The victim...

A gripping thriller based on true story of an Irish priest in the Vatican who smuggled victims of the Nazis out of Italy under the nose of his SS officer...

An intimate and evocative celebration of the life and legacy of music and political icon Sinead O'Connor, featuring writers including Neko Case, Sinead Gleeson, Rayne Fisher-Quann, Porochista Khakpour, and more....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAcross centuries of faith and stone, Europe's most sacred destinations have drawn pilgrims from every corner of the Christian world...

1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out...

It's Dublin, June 1995, the hottest summer since records began. But Billy Sweeney, a middle aged salesman with a failed marriage, a faltering career and a tumbledown house, has more...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAustralia's first rock 'n' roll superstar blazed a trail so incandescent that no biography could afford to ignore...

Secondhand Literary & Contemporary Fiction Bargain Book Box (18 Books) This collection features eighteen volumes of diverse contemporary and literary fiction, offering a neutral survey of global narratives spanning various...

Among the six daughters and one son born to David, second Lord Redesdale, and his wife Sydney were Nancy, the novelist and historian; Diana, who married fascist leader Sir Oswald...

James Bailey was unemployed, heartbroken, and questioning his purpose on the planet. In desperate search of an answer, he decided to write to luminaries from all fields and ask one...

James Bailey was unemployed, heartbroken, and questioning his purpose on the planet. In desperate search of an answer, he decided to write to luminaries from all fields and ask one...

From the Bill of Rights, freedom of speech, and civil rights to jazz, blues and country music, Nat Hentoff has written about American life for decades, in the Atlantic Monthly...

Maurice O'Connor Drury was among Wittgenstein's first students after his return to Cambridge in 1929. The subsequent course of Drury's life and thought was to be enormously influenced by his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the vast, unforgiving expanse of the North African desert, a brilliant British commander achieved what many thought impossible — a decisive, crushing victory...

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WOULD YOU EVER GIVE UP ON FINDING YOUR CHILD, IF THEY VANISHED WITHOUT A TRACE? Number One Irish bestselling author of When All is Said Anne Griffin returns with this...

The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to...

A 90-second shoot with Stephen Fry in 1989 launched the career of Andy Gotts, photographer to the stars. Through grift and graft and raw, honed talent, Gotts has become one...

John McEnroe was just an eighteen-year-old amateur from Queens when he stunned the tennis world by making it to the Wimbledon semifinals in 1977. He turned pro the following year...

Author: W. Scott McpheatBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder and Stoughton, 1963Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis biographical work chronicles the life of John Flynn, a prominent figure...

Collected and annotated lyrics from one of music's most visionary bards, John Darnielle. A work of rapturous beauty, This Year- 365 songs annotated celebrates the creative life and the musical...

The Great Wall is the most famous of China s monuments. Everyone has seen pictures of the line of stone snaking over mountains. Millions every year take the five mile...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the high-stakes world of competitive and combat shooting, the difference between victory and defeat...

Read the true story that inspired the major new film, The Iron Lady. John Campbell's magisterial biography is the political biography of Margaret Thatcher. 'An enormously useful achievement...every twist and...

'Wish I Was Here is a masterpiece' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk 'It will surprise you, sometimes astound you, and leave you profoundly changed' Jonathan Coe, author...

In August 1780 Sir Theodosius Boughton, a dissolute Old Etonian twenty-year-old and heir to a Warwickshire fortune, died in painful convulsions after taking his medicine. The following year after an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the shadow of minarets and the murky underbelly of Cold War intrigue, Goodbye to Istanbul...

Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms...

In this second part of John Galworthy's trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting...

The Forsyte Saga is the first part of John Galsworthy's magnificent, well-loved Forsyte Chronicles, which trace the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty years of material triumph...

The incredible story of China's greatest archaeological treasure - the Terracotta Army - revised and updated for 2018. The Terracotta Army is one of the greatest, and most famous, archaeological...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat happens when a child prodigy, having been dumped by nineteen girls all named Katherine, sets out on a road trip to find his...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016 "As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel" ( The Economist ), the incredible true story--part...