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    Peace Apart: Lasting Impressions of C.S. Lewis

    €9.99
    Peace Apart: Lasting Impressions of C.S. Lewis is the third book in a series by Bishop Fintan Monahan on people whose lives and literary works have inspired him.

    The Written World: Essays & Reviews

    €15.00
    In You're Doing It Wrong, Kevin Power explains how he became a critic and what he thinks criticism is.

    Brian Merriman's the Midnight Court

    €21.00
    The author explores Brian Merriman's famous poem, The Midnight Court, a classic of Irish literature.

    James Joyce Remembered Edition 2022

    €25.00
    In 1968, Conn Curran summed up his life-long companionship with Joyce, including the 1904 photograph he took of his friend in his family's back garden. With this re-issue of Curran's book, another group of University College Dubliners takes a new look at his work, delving into the Curran-Laird collection at the James Joyce Library.

    Enid Blyton: A Literary Life

    €22.50
    There is discussion of her most famous series including the Famous Five, the Secret Seven, Malory Towers and Noddy, but attention is also given to lesser-known works including the family stories she published to acclaim in the 1940s and early 1950s, as well as her attempts to become a dramatist.

    The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker

    €32.50
    This biography of poet and writer Margaret Walker takes us inside America in the middle of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of one southern black woman who refused to focus on what was not possible, but what was.

    Reading Shakespeare Reading Me

    €29.40
    A gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape your own life in surprising and profound ways.

    The Life of Mark Twain: Volume 3: The Final Years, 1891-1910

    €59.00
    The last installment of Scharnhorst's three-volume biography chronicles the life of Samuel Clemens between his family's extended trip to Europe in 1891 and his death in 1910. During this period, Clemens grapples with bankruptcy, the lecture circuit, loses two daughters and his wife, and writes some of his darkest, most critical works.

    Literature: history & criticism