Brand New Unused Books

Mary O'Donnell - Walking Ghosts - PB - BRAND NEW

In these masterful stories, Mary O’Donnell captures characters caught between certainties and change — from urban encounters to sun-drenched beaches, lockdown anxieties to nightclub tensions. Her...

Fintan Drury - Catastrophe - Nakba II - PB BRAND NEW

‘The lips of the present give depth to history, and Fintan Drury certainly knows that there are several sides to every story. He rows the boat out – for some it will be a drowning expeirence, but for...

Seamus Murphy - STONE MAD ( 50th Anniversary Edition ) - Mercier PB ( BRAND NEW)

‘In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.‘ —William Trevor, The Guardian ‘The men who have...

Judith Hermann - We'd Have Told Each Other Everything - PB - BRAND NEW ( Translated by Katy Derbyshire)

Winner of the Wilhelm Raabe Prize in 2023   On a dark night in Berlin’s Kastanienallee, acclaimed writer Judith Hermann runs into her psychoanalyst — a chance encounter that begins an exploration of...

Nuala O'Faolain - Almost There : A Memoir - PB - BRAND NEW

Nuala O’Faolain’s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its author,...

Anne Paradis - Babaí Cathal - Am Dul a luí! ( Lift the Flap Book) - HB

Tá Cathal réidh le dul a luí. Ach tá rudaí ar iarraidh air. Féach faoi na flapaí agus cabhraigh leis gach rud a fháil! Leagan Gaeilge 2023, foilsithe ar dtús sa bhFrainc , coiriú Gaeilge ag Tadhg Mac...

Muireann Ní Chiobháin & Roisín Hahessy - Eoinín agus a Chairde - HB - BRAND NEW - As Gaeilge

Tá Eoinín ar bís dá chéad lá ar scoil, ach níl aithne aige ar éinne san áit nua seo. Cabhraigh le hEoinín aithne a chur ar a scoil. Meas tú an bhfuil aon chairde istigh ann? Futa Fata 2022. Muireann...

Máirtín Ó Cadhain - Dúchan - BRAND NEW

Blúirí ó shaothar Mháirtín Uí Chadhain a thugann léargas ar theanga, sochaí agus pearsantachaí Chonamara sna 1930idí. Tá deich dtéama i gceist (sláinte, grá, an talamh, an aimsir, agus an fharraige...

Carsten Krieger & Richard Creagh - Ireland's Islands - PB - BRAND NEW

Take a photographic journey around Ireland's coast and explore the landscape, history, heritage and wildlife of the offshore islands. From rugged cliffs thronged with seabirds to tranquil bays, and...

Frank O'Connor - The Lonely Voice : A Study of the Short Story - PB

Frank O’Connor was one of the twentieth century’s greatest short story writers, and one of Ireland’s greatest authors. Lilliput Press are now delighted to continue our publishing of O’Connor’s...

Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW

Cad é ról an bhéaloidis sa tsochaí thraidisiúnta in Éirinn? Conas a mhúnlaigh seantuiscintí saol an phobail? Sa bhailiúchán aistí seo a chuimsíonn cuid mhaith de réimsí a spéise léinn, déanann an...

Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW

Kevin Rafter’s short book is an entertaining taste of the use and abuse of the arts in Ireland by successive Taoisigh. It covers a century of cultural policy juxtaposed with artistic responses of the...

Ray Burke - Joyce County : Galway and James Joyce - BRAND NEW

Foreword by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland. Written in an accessible style for the general reader, this book contains considerable new information, such as the first detailed accounts of...

Mary Mulvihill - Ingenious Ireland : A County-by-County Exploration of Irish Mysteries and Marvels - PB - BRAND NEW

Ingenious Ireland is a unique study of this country’s natural wonders, clever inventions, and historic industries. Richly illustrated, meticulously researched, and lucidly written, it brings the...

Pat McCarthy - A History of the Irish Pharmaceutical Industry : Making Medicines for the World

Ireland has become a key manufacturing centre for the global pharmaceutical market and in turn pharmaceutical manufacturing is now the backbone of the Irish manufacturing sector. How the industry...

Tony Gaynor - Commanders of the British Forces in Ireland - 1796-1922 - HB - BRAND NEW

In December 1922 General Nevil Macready sailed away from Dublin for the last time, marking the end of British rule in most of Ireland. Macready was the last in a long line of commanders of the...

Robert Collins - Noraid and the Northern Ireland Troubles 1970-1994 - HB - BRAND NEW

Since the end of the eighteenth century, the United States has offered sanctuary and support to Irish men and women engaged in the struggle for Irish independence from Britain. When violence broke...

Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen - Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling ( Aisling Series : Book 1 ) BRAND NEW

Meet Aisling.She's a small-town girl who dreams of the big city.She has a heart of gold and an iron belief in the power of control tights.She has a steady job and a loyal boyfriend (though he hasn't...

Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen - Once, Twice Three Times an Aisling -Aisling Series : Book 3 ) - BRAND NEW

  The third book in Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen’s phenomenally successful, No. 1 bestselling Complete Aisling book series. Aisling’s turning 30, and she’s still a complete Aisling. Business is...

Tatyana Feeney - Stockingopolis - HB - BRAND NEW

Stockingopolis is a small grey town by the grey, grey sea. There are grey sheep with grey wool that gets knitted into grey stockings. But Ben and Lucy love COLOUR – so they set out to paint just ONE...

Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler - An Garbhán Óg - BRAND NEW

Arsa an Garbhán lena iníon óg:“Ná gabh isteach sa choill, go deo.”'Ach ní éisteann an Garbhán Óg. Isteach sa choill léi... Tá bród ar Futa Fata an leagan aistrithe seo de The Gruffalo's Child a chur...

Brian O'Kane - Starting a Business in Ireland - 8th Edition - BRAND NEW

For over 30 years, STARTING A BUSINESS IN IRELAND has been THE book that would-be entrepreneurs are advised to read before setting out on their entrepreneurial journey. Updated for its 8th...

Brian Gallagher - Case of the Secret Signal - PB - BRAND NEW

Ireland, 1911 A secret signal flashes in the night … It’s an SOS. Is someone being held prisoner? Friends Tim, Deirdre and Joe set out to investigate. What starts as a diversion while on holiday in...

Joe McHugh - Beidh Tú Alright - PB - BRAND NEW

In July 2014, Joe McHugh TD faced one of the most significant challenges of his political career. Appointed Minister for Natural Resources, the Gaeltacht and the Islands, McHugh was tasked with...

William Wall - Writers Anonymous - PB - BRAND NEW

Cormac Moore - The Root of All Evil : The Irish Boundary Commission - BRAND NEW

In May 1922, James Craig described the Boundary Commission as the ‘root of all evil’ for Ulster unionists. Conversely, it ultimately bolstered the unionist cause, leaving the border unchanged and...

Anne Marie Allen - Serve : My Lost Years at the Heart of Ireland's Opus Dei - PB - BRAND NEW

  Anne Marie Allen spent seven years within the Opus Dei cult in Ireland. She is an executive coach with a career in senior management within the Irish Prison Service and community bodies. She has...

Patricia Scanlan - CITY GIRLS TRILOGY - BRAND NEW ( City Girl | City Woman | City Lives)

  Save over €5 on the rrp (€35.25) and free An Post delivery within Ireland is included.  City Girl (BRAND NEW) ( BOOK 1 )  Devlin: Blonde, beautiful, rich and spoilt. The world is hers for the...

Charles Lang - The Oasis - PB - BRAND NEW

Pulsing with the energy of urban life, these poems traverse the gritty, playful and tender moments that shape our lives. From the thrill of evading the police in ‘The Chase’ to the nostalgia of ‘New...

Patricia Scanlan - City Lives - PB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED

WITH AN AUTHOR SIGNED ADHESIVE BOOKPLATE, LOOSELY INSERTED A brand new edition of one of the classic Irish novel.  Full of warmth, wit and wisdom, City Lives is the brilliant follow-up to City Woman...

Kevin Rafter - Dillon Rediscovered : The Newspaperman Who Befriended Kings, Presidents and Oil Tycoons - BRAND NEW

Emile Joseph Dillon witnessed some of the most dramatic events the world has ever seen including, the assassination of a Russian Tsar, the Dreyfus court martial and bloody massacres in Armenia. At a...

Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin & Neha Doshi / Irish Nurses in the NHS - An Oral History - PB - BRAND NEW

Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin and Neha Doshi.   Delivery within Ireland included in the price.  From the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Irish women and men were actively...

Kevin Curran - Youth - PB - BRAND NEW - 2025

Youth by Kevin Curran dives into the lives of four teenagers in Ireland’s most diverse town, Balbriggan. Angel is about to finish school and discover if Drill music and his YouTube fame can deliver...

Mark Valentine - Lost Estates - PB - BRAND NEW

“I am, and ever have been, a great reader . . . a library cormorant. I am deep in all out of the way books.” – S. T. Coleridge (1796) The twelve stories in Lost Estates offer antiquarian mysteries,...

Robert Lloyd Parry - Friends and Spectres - PB - BRAND NEW

Friends and Spectres is an exploration of the world of M. R. James through his colleagues’ stories and biographies. The majority of pieces here were originally published under pseudonyms, and over...

Mary Morrissy - Twenty-Twenty Vision - PB - BRAND NEW

Christine Beckett is faced with some home truths when her best friend, suffering from dementia, decides after a lifetime to be honest with her; Olivia Fletcher has an epiphany at a vaccination centre...

Muireann Ní Chiobháin & Roisín Hahessy - Eoinín ag an Siopa - HB - BRAND NEW

Tá Eoinín ag dul ag siopadóireacht. Caithfidh sé tralaí a fháil agus ansin é a stiúradh timpeall an tsiopa. An féidir leatsa cabhrú le hEoinín gach ní ar a liosta siopadóireachta a fháil? Lán daite...

Claire-Louise Kieffer - Tenterhooks - PB - BRAND NEW

Fergus Kennedy - Ballybunion to the River Kwai : An Irishman's Story of Survival on the Death Railway - BRAND NEW

Ballybunion to the River Kwai is the remarkable story of Don Kennedy’s harrowing experience as an Irish prisoner of war under the Japanese from 1942–45. Vividly narrated by Don’s son Fergus, this is...

Leona Forde - Milly McCarthy's Wild Atlantic Antics - PB - BRAND NEW ( May 2025)

It’s nearly the summer holidays and Milly’s class is heading off on a school tour to the Gaeltacht in the West of Ireland. Milly can’t wait to be away from home with her friends – but the teachers...

Toner Quinn - What Ireland Can Teach the World About Music- and Other Essays - BRAND NEW

How do we create a deeper public discussion around music? What can folk music tell us about our society? How do we support music in our towns, villages and cities? And what can Ireland teach the...

Helen Grant - Atmospheric Disturbances - HB - BRAND NEW

In its dim depths living things scurried and fluttered, but human voices were very rarely heard.” – The West Window A glimpse of a grotesque illustration combined with the onset of fever instigate a...

Maeve Brennan - The Rose Garden - BRAND NEW

Paperback, published by Stinging Fly, Dublin, 2024. BRAND NEW    “Here, in a lovely new Irish edition, is the second batch of twenty stories from the unmistakable Dublin-born, New York-based, writer...

James Patterson & Bill Clinton - The President is Missing - PB - BRAND NEW

 The President is missing. The world is in shock. Terrorists are planning a devastating attack. And they have help from traitors inside the White House. The only thing standing in their way is a...

Allen Foster - Foster's Irish Oddities - A Miscellany of Strange Facts and Vital Irrelevances - HB - BRAND NEW

This addictive, fascinating and humorous book is an indispensable collection of Irish trivia, history and uncommon knowledge. Presented in short, digestible entries and engagingly written throughout,...

Sarah Kilcoyne - The Lost Treasure of Clew Bay - HB - BRAND NEW

Saoirse is visiting her grandad in rural Mayo when he tells her the story of a legendary pirate queen’s lost treasure, supposedly hidden in nearby Clew Bay. Inspired to search for it, she and...

Richard Aldous - Tony Ryan : Ireland's Aviator

 Tony Ryan was one of the greatest Irishmen of the twentieth century.Ingenious, driven and sometimes reckless, his sheer spirit and adventurousness made him Ireland's Aviator. Born in a railwayman's...

Gethan Dick - Water in the Desert Fire in the Night - PB - BRAND NEW

WINNER OF THE KATE O'BRIEN AWARD 2026.   Because the thing about the end of the world is that it happens all the time.Someone leaves and it's the end of the world.Someone comes back and

E.G Quinn - Old Irish Workbook - PB - RIA 2020 ( Originally 1975)

This is a compendium of Old-Irish grammar with translation exercises. It is a companion volume to ‘Old Irish Paradigms’ and ‘Selections from the Old-Irish Glosses’. First published in 1974, it...

Seán Farrell - Frogs For Watchdogs - BRAND NEW PB

After years of moving from place to place, a young family finds shelter in an isolated house in the Irish countryside. Their father is missing, Mum is a healer and B a formidable big sister. In his...

Sophie Kirtley ( Illustrated by Ellan Rankin) - Our Wee Place - PB - BRAND NEW

Our Wee Place by Sophie Kirtley, Illustrated by Ellan Rankin. “Let’s go on an adventure!” Granda says to Emily. Stepping out from their special wee place at the end of the garden, they find...

Gráinne O'Brien - A Limerick Fairytale - PB - BRAND NEW

A Limerick Fairytale by Gráinne O'Brien, Illustrated by Lena StawowyOnce upon a time, there was a prince who wanted to live a fairytale life. The first thing he needed was a princess, so he could...