40 Of Ireland's Greatest Writers

Exam board: Edexcel, OCR, Cambridge Assessment International Education Level & Subject: AS and A Level English Literature First teaching: September 2015 Next exams: 2025 This edition of Dracula Bram Stoker...

PINOCCHIO by Carlo Collodi is a much-loved family favourite. The old wood-carver Geppetto decides to make a wonderful puppet which can dance and turn somersaults, but by chance he chooses...

'A first-rate piece of writing... the simplicity and innocent beauty of the language give it depth and elegiac quality' Independent'The play, based on Barry's own great-great-grandmother, shows he has the...

San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the City. Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of the Parisian circus: Blanche, now...

'The hotel has stood in Dublin's quays since the '20s, but its glory days have long since passed it by. It's decrepit now -- the haunt of weekend-breakers and tourists...

Set in the seaside towns of Ireland, within the tiled Victorian walls of Kensal Rise Baths, in Dublin on the day de Valera is buried, these stunning stories narrate the...

'... a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...'Swift's devastating short satire on how to solve a famineIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate...

The Portable James Joyce, edited and with an introduction by Harry Levin, includes four of the six books on which Joyce's astonishing reputatuion is founded: A Portrait of the Artist...

Another unmissable comic outing from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Bee StingShortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award'Hilarious, rich and satisfying' Times...

Meg Finn is in trouble, unearthly trouble. Cast out of her own home by her stepfather after her mother's death, Meg is a wanderer, a troublemaker. After a botched attempt...

There's nothing unusual about the Brockets. Normal, respectable, and proud of it, they turn up their noses at anyone strange or different. But from the moment Barnaby Brocket comes into...

`Here, at last, is a book which I can put into the hands of naive Americans knowing that after five hundred-odd pages they will understand that on the island of...

The translation that "rides boldly through the reefs of scholarship" (The Observer) is combined with first-rate annotation. No reading knowledge of Old English is assumed. Heaney's clear and insightful introduction...

THE BRAND NEW STRAFFORD AND QUIRKE MURDER MYSTERY FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW. A CHILLING MUST-READ.'Banville is one of my favourite writers alive.' REBECCA F. KUANG'Haunting . . ....

'Like an artist working an empty sky into a busy cityscape, or an empty chair into a crowded family portrait, Joyce creates spaces where the reader is left to themselves'...

Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel AwardLonglisted for the 2015 Man Booker PrizeA darkly glinting novel set on Ireland's Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture and...

This novel is concerned with murder, revenge and the ownership of land in contemporary Ireland.

'My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of...

"His is "close-up" poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich,...

'A brilliant, one-of-a-kind writer' DAVID NICHOLLSAt sixty-six, Paula Spencer - mother, grandmother, widow, survivor - is finally living her life.A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, a man -...