20th Century

Pure escapism on every page, The Distant Shores tells the story of a family torn apart, and the woman who will bring them back together. 'Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore' JOJO MOYES 'An irresistible confection of family secrets, vengeful...

From the Booker Prize winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Commitments: the story of an ordinary woman whose extraordinary character will stay with you long after reading.'He loved me and he beat me. I loved him and I took it. It's as simple...

The first novel by Joseph O'Connor, bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay.Eddie Virago, proud owner of the last mohican haircut in Dublin, leaves his home town to find the fame and fortune he's convinced awaits in the wild world of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915054609Author Don SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Legend Press LtdPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

EDITED BY HANS WALTER GABLER WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY SCARLETT BARON AND JOHN BANVILLEIn this powerfully influential series of short stories, James Joyce captures uneasy souls, shabby lives and innocent minds in the dark streets and homes of his native city...

The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radical questioning of all convention...

DISCOVER PUCKOON, SPIKE MILLIGAN'S CLASSIC SLAPSTICK NOVEL'Pops with the erratic brilliance of a careless match in a box of fireworks' Daily MailIn 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733333047Author Sally HananFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Fire Drinkers PublishingPublisher Fire Drinkers PublishingWeight(grams)...

'Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore' JOJO MOYESPure escapism on every page, The Distant Shores tells the story of a family torn apart, and the woman who will bring them back together. Margot Hart travels to Ireland to write a biography of...

Our Troubles is a collection of compelling and honest stories about the Troubles in the North of Ireland - particularly the hot spot of North Belfast, from where the author hails and which accounted for one in six of the deaths in the Troubles. Two of...

Celebrating 100 Years of Joyce's masterpiece The authoritative Hans Walter Gabler text; with a new introduction by Anne Enright. Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus as they go about their daily...

From vicious rival brothers to desperate single mothers, frisky newlyweds to frigid life partners, Patrick McGinley covers all kinds of Irish (or simply human) relationship in this collection of short stories. In fourteen stories, some brief glimpses of...

Discover James Joyce's impressionistic portrait of a young man finding his artistic voice in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, reissued to coincide with 100 years since the first publication of his epic masterpiece, Ulysses EDITED BY HANS WALTER...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538828Author Edna O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 20mm

The Gods of Pegana (1905) is a short story collection by Lord Dunsany. Published at the beginning of his career, The Gods of Pegana would influence such writers as J. R. R. Tolkein, Ursula K. Le Guin, and H. P. Lovecraft. Recognized as a pioneering...

It's spring 1920 in the small military town of Nandagiri in southeast India. Colonel Aylmer, commander of the Royal Irish Kildare Rangers, is in charge. A distance away, decently hidden from view, lies the native part of Nandagiri with its heaving...

On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the Home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot of fear. To Michael Lamb, one of the youngest brothers, the regime is without hope, and when he inherits a small...

Lady Augusta Gregory's Irish Myths and Legends, or Gods and Fighting Men as it was first titled in 1904, is an essential collection of Irish myths, legends and folk tales gathered by Gregory from Irish oral story tellers at the close of the nineteenth...

In wartime Ireland, an Englishman and a German each need the other to betray his country. And if the nationalist firebrands get their way, they may have to fight to the death. But hang on!-Just a few months ago, Flight Lieutenant Oliver Carmichael and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473575151Author Michelle VernalFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint MLV Publishing LimitedPublisher MLV Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 127g

Unable to cope with his English girlfriend's death, Michael Roberts finds himself thinking back to another time and another place when he was in love for the first time. But that was when he was as a schoolboy in Belfast, at the start of The Troubles in...

Sally Mara's Intimate Diary, dating from 1950, is exceptional; a salacious, black humorous and meaningful story by the influential and erudite French novelist, Raymond Queneau. When 'Sally Mara' begins her diary in January 1934, she is 17 years old and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952314056Author Stephen Finlay ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Manzanita Writers PressPublisher Manzanita Writers PressWeight(grams) 367g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998691008Author Stephen Finlay ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Manzanita Writers PressPublisher Manzanita Writers PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998691046Author Finlay ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Stephen Finlay ArcherPublisher Stephen Finlay ArcherWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990801948Author Stephen Finlay ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Manzanita Writers PressPublisher Manzanita Writers PressWeight(grams)...

A "near-masterpiece" about faith and doubt by the award-winning, international bestselling author (The New York Times). In Rome, surrendering to secular pressures, the Fourth Vatican Council is stirring a revolution with their official denial of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649604132Author Bethan MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ambassador InternationalPublisher Ambassador InternationalWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Women's Prize for Fiction 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780593540909Author Louise KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473579906Author Michelle VernalFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint MLV Publishing LimitedPublisher MLV Publishing LimitedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915790828Author Jean GraingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Jean GraingerPublisher Jean GraingerWeight(grams) 413g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915790774Author Jean GraingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Jean GraingerPublisher Jean GraingerWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218548261Author Myrtle JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Tough Poets PressPublisher Tough Poets PressWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798894966182Author Mary Therese Therese FloodFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint Mary FloodPublisher Mary FloodWeight(grams) 549g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915790460Author Jean GraingerFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Jean GraingerPublisher Jean GraingerWeight(grams) 558g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917237345Author Flann O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Melin BapurPublisher Melin BapurWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915790453Author Jean GraingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Jean GraingerPublisher Jean GraingerWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915790781Author Jean GraingerFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint Jean GraingerPublisher Jean GraingerWeight(grams) 603g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681378800Author John McGahernFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 369g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915790835Author Jean GraingerFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Jean GraingerPublisher Jean GraingerWeight(grams) 581g