The author of Holy Pictures picks up and finishes an unfinished manuscript by Charlotte Brontë, creating a complete narrative around the twenty pages of unfinished manuscript discovered after Brontë's death about a mysterious young student, the child of an apparently wealthy father, who turns a provincial Victorian school upside down. Reprint.

Seven Irish writers describe the revival of a legendary Dublin hotel, in individual chapters written by Maeve Binchy, Clare Boylan, Emma Donoghue, Anne Haverty, âEilis Nâi Dhuibhne, Kate O'Riordan, and Deirdre Purcell.

After fifty years of marriage in the same Dublin suburb, Dick and LIly enjoy a 'safe' life of compromise until one night when LIly awakens to find Dick under the bed, holding a shotgun, convinced there's an intruder in the house--plunging deeper into his insanity. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Presents two decades of short fiction from the acclaimed Irish writer and author of Beloved Stranger, featuring an array of witty stories that celebrate the marginalized and dispossessed, explore the inner working sof marriage and family dynamics, examines the cost of love, and provides a witty and biting self-examination. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: To Eugene Rafferty, girls are like money - they have to be saved. Despite living in 1950s Dublin, his three daughters, Bridie, Kitty and Rose, seem doomed to a Victorian childhood. However, as fortunes decline the Rafferty's are forced to take in lodgers and these independent but eccentric outsiders introduce the girls to new experiences - sex and superstition, of spite, of true love and tragedy...read more

Product Description: Book by Boylan, Clare

This title is a portrait of an eccentric Anglo-Irish family.

Product Description: This anthology records 25 centuries of cat loving and hate, in letters, journals, stories and verse from the world's most popular to the world's least likely cat commentators: from T.S. Eliot to T.E. Lawrence, from Aristotle to Amis, from Diodorus to Dickens, from Hemingway to Seamus Heaney...read more

Product Description: Looks at the techniques, methods and philosophies of some of the leading writers of modern fiction as revealed in essays by and interviews with the authors. The book takes a look at the creative powers and techniques of writers such as William Boyd, Mary Wesley, Fay Weldon and Hilary Mantel...read more

Heroine Daisy Devlin tries to create a satisfying life for herself in spite of the dismal choices presented to her in turn-of-the-century Dublin. By the author of Black Baby.

Product Description: As a child Alice had paid the nuns half a crown to adopt a black baby from the mission in Africa - a baby that never appeared. Now a loveless spinster of sixty-seven, still yearning for a daughter, Alice's life is one of dull predictability, unbroken by the ritual visit from her middle-aged relatives...read more

Harriet's yearly family vacation on the Greek island of Keptos is disrupted by her twins' desire to get drunk with the locals, her thirteen-year-old daughter's suddenly ripe sexuality, and the abrupt departure of her married lover

Short stories portray the efforts of a variety of characters to cope with disappointment and failed love affairs

Nan and Mary Cantwell struggle to grow up and learn to cope with the realities of life in Dublin during the 1920s