Irish Interest
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100 Poems
£12.99Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection from across the entire arc of his poetry, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this... - Signed
A Faithful Girl: Coming of Age in 1960s Ireland
£9.99Named for a holy martyr who was hanged, drawn and quartered, Clare Olivia seemed destined for a life of sacrifice from the very start. After five formative years in a convent boarding school, the allu... - Signed
Ash Keys : New Selected Poems by Michael Longley – Signed
£16.00Published to coincide with his 85th birthday, Ash Keys looks back on the extraordinary career of the last surviving member of the triumvirate of poets that rose out of 1960s Belfast 'A master in an... -
Close To Home
£9.99‘Luminous and devastating, a portrait of modern masculinity as shaped by class, by trauma, and by silence, but also by the courage to love and to survive"
Devotion
£11.50At the heart of Mícheál McCann’s eagerly awaited first collection is ‘Keen for A— ’, a re-imagining of Eileen O’Connell’s heartrending Lament for Art O’Leary. In Devotio...Signed
Exile – SIGNED
£16.99Leaving home was hard. Returning is impossible. Fiadh's life is turned completely upside down on a night out in Belfast. Pretty soon everyone has heard about what happened; it is impossible to keep...
Falling Animals – Sheila Armstrong
£8.99The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the last day of his life, Sheila Armstrong’s debut novel is haunting, lyrical and darkly suspenseful. O...
First Term at Fernside
£8.99It’s a new term at Fernside boarding school, and Robin can’t wait for fun in the dorm, playing games and maybe even winning the coveted Form Shield. But for new girl Linnet, Robin’s younger cous...
Fortnight Magazine issue 495
£7.00A monthly political and cultural magazine published in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The magazine was founded in 1970 with the aim of providing analysis and criticism of politics, culture, and the arts f...
GUB by Scott McKendry
£10.99Demons, geese, The Laughing Cow, marching bands, LSD and pistols smuggled home from the USSR. You'll find all these in Scott McKendry's GUB. Rooted in the language of working-class Belfast, and slippi...Signed
Heart, Be at Peace
£16.99***Limited number of signed copies available*** The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-listed, bestselling author of Strange Flowers and The Queen of Dirt Island 'Beautiful...a book full o...
IMPERMANENCE – ESSAYS
£10.00"Impermanence" is a new publication of 12 essays by writers from or living in Northern Ireland. Written against the backdrop of Brexit, the Covid pandemic, the burning of Notre Dame, and the centen...
Intermezzo – Trade Paperback
£14.99From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to h...
Into The Night That Flies So Fast
£11.00In Into the Night that Flies So Fast, the debut collection of poems from Belfast-based Milena Williamson, the speaker journeys to the small County Tipperary village of Ballyvadlea, to investigate the ...
Let’s Dance
£16.99In her latest collection of dark, hilarious and provocative short stories, Lucy Sweeney Byrne explores women on the brink - of love, of joy, of disaster - with her signature wit, insight and daring. A...
Little Acts of Vigilance by Miriam Gamble
£12.99In Little Acts of Vigilance, the first collection of essays published by The Lifeboat, poet Miriam Gamble attends with precision to that which is often invisible. Inhabiting a space where the ...
Many Professional Wrestlers Never Retire by Dane Holt
£6.50The Lifeboat Press Poetry Pamphlet #14 Many Professional Wrestlers Never Retire is a thrilling exploration of masculinity and the possibilities of the lyric. These poems which explore, among other ...
Number 5
£10.00No Alibis Press are proud to announce the reissue of Glenn Patterson's, Number 5. Number 5 is a three-bedroom terrace house in a suburban Belfast street. From the '50s to the present day, successiv...Signed
Openings-No Alibis Limited Hardback Edition-Signed & Numbered (Pre-Order May 16th)
£16.99** Limited Numbered Signed Hardback - Special No Alibis Limited Edition contains extra story 'The Chosen' ** Winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award Winner of the 2022 E. M. Forster Aw...
Ordinary Saints Pre-Order April 2025
£13.99An arresting, unmissable debut novel shortlisted for the Women's Prize Discoveries award - an exploration of family, grief, queer identity, and the legacy of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Brought...
Our London Lives
£20.001979. In the vast and often unforgiving city of London, two Irish outsiders seeking refuge find one another: Milly, a teenage runaway, and Pip, a young boxer full of anger and potential who is beginni...
Queering the Green
£15.00“… every poem is a queering of language; every poetry critic is a critic of the queer; every reader of poetry is engaged in a queer act; every performance of poetry is a queer ...
Quickly, While They Still Have Horses
£16.99In sixteen sparkling stories, Jan Carson introduces us to worlds and characters that feel real enough to touch. All of life is here: the thrill of growing up, the grief when youth is over; first love,...
Rough Beast – My Story and The Reality of Sinn Féin
£10.99Máiría Cahill grew up steeped in the traditions of Irish republicanism and the shadowy world of the IRA: her great-uncle Joe was one of the main founders of the Provisional IRA and her grandfather w...