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  • Orange Horses

    by Maeve Kelly ...
    Series Book 3 - Recovered Voices
    Orange Horses is a collection of ferocious, witty, and thoroughly entertaining short stories. First published as a collection in 1990, they richly illustrate the plight of marginalised women in contemporary Irish society. From island life in the far west of Ireland, to dingy student accommodation in the centre of London, from the War of Independence to the IRA letter-bombing campaign in England in ... Read more

    $12.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imagining Irish Suburbia in Literature and Culture

    Edited by Eoghan Smith, Simon Workman ...
    Series series New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
    This collection of critical essays explores the literary and visual cultures of modern Irish suburbia, and the historical, social and aesthetic contexts in which these cultures have emerged. The lived experience and the artistic representation of Irish suburbia have received relatively little scholarly consideration and this multidisciplinary volume redresses this critical deficit. It ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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  • Thornyhold

    A delightfully escapist and cozy read by the Queen of the Romantic Mystery

    by Mary Stewart ...
    'Genuine escapism - I couldn't put it down!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Best read on a cold winter night with hot chocolate' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'An instant favourite' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The rambling house called Thornyhold is like something out of a fairy tale.Left to Gilly Ramsey by the cousin whose occasional visits brightened her childhood, the cottage, set deep i... ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Grass Widow's Tale

    by Ellis Peters ...
    Series Book 7 - The Felse Investigations
    Ignored on her birthday, Bunty Felse celebrates by herself—and finds herself in mortal danger. From the award-winning author of the Cadfael Chronicles.Edgar Award and CWA Diamond Dagger Award–Winning AuthorOn the eve of her forty-first birthday, Bunty Felse is overcome with depression. The weather is dreary; her only child, Dominic, fails to call with birthday greetings; and her husband, George, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Frequent Hearses. Gervase Fen Mysteries. Illustrated

    by Edmund Crispin ...
    Edmund Crispin’s Frequent Hearses is a captivating Golden Age detective novel featuring the inimitable Gervase Fen, an eccentric Oxford professor and amateur sleuth with a razor-sharp intellect and a penchant for mischief. Set against the glamorous yet treacherous backdrop of the British film industry, this mystery is filled with wit, literary allusions, and a cleverly woven plot. The story begins ... Read more

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  • Gently with the Innocents

    by Mr Alan Hunter ...
    Series series George Gently
    When an old man is found dead at the foot of the staircase in his rambling old house, a hint of murder and the lure of hidden treasure draw Gently into the case.Gently has plenty of suspects for the old man's murder. A warehouse watchman across the street misses nothing that goes on at the house, but can shed no light on the murderer. A local antiques dealer knows a suspicious amount about the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Dark Entries

    by Robert Aickman ...
    For fans of the BBC's Inside Number 9 and The League of Gentlemen**Aickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the steady accrual of realistic detail, until the reader realises that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream.Dark Entries** was first published in 1964 ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Bookworm

    A Memoir of Childhood Reading

    by Lucy Mangan ...
    **A love letter to the joys of childhood reading from Wonderland to Narnia.When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one.**She was whisked away to Narnia - and Kirrin Island - and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. She ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Innocent Blood

    by P.D. James ...
    From New York Times bestselling author of the Adam Dalgleish mystery series comes a "flawlessly crafted...profoundly, masterfully moving" (Cosmopolitan) standalone crime novel that is "the peak of the art" (London Times).Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a ... Read more

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  • Flight of a Witch

    by Ellis Peters ...
    Series Book 3 - The Felse Investigations
    A detective investigates the disappearance of a beautiful Welsh teenager in this "deeply satisfying" mystery by the author of the Brother Cadfael series ( Publishers Weekly ).Edgar Award and CWA Diamond Dagger Award–Winning AuthorAnnet Beck is hauntingly beautiful, which worries her parents so much that they guard her as closely as a prisoner . . . until the rainy Thursday in October when she ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Rainbow's End

    by Ellis Peters ...
    Series Book 13 - The Felse Investigations
    Superintendent Felse takes on the difficult case of an antiques mogul's murder in this Golden Age mystery from the author of the Cadfael Chronicles.Edgar Award and CWA Diamond Dagger Award–Winning AuthorThe sleepy village of Middlehope is suddenly jerked into life by antiques mogul Arthur Rainbow. In a whirlwind of activity, he extravagantly refurbishes the manor house; joins the golf club, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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  • That Hideous Strength

    (Space Trilogy, Book Three)

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    Series Book 3 - The Space Trilogy

    $14.49 USD