 | The Green Flag: A History of Irish Nationalism by Robert Kee
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £4.43 Excellent objective guide to Irish history for both newcomers and the well read.
|
 | Sorcerer's Apprentice by Tahir Shah
Buy used from: £19.99 In my view Tahir Shah's best book. This has everything, travel adventures, humour, plot. Also check out BEYOND THE DEVILS TEETH, TRAIL OF FEATHERS, AND KING SOLOMON'S MINES
|
 | Looking Through Glass by Mukul Kesavan
Buy used from: £0.01 Woderfully funny book. Looks at the creation of Pakistan. The author is kidnapped by the past.....
|
 | The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion and Power in Celtic Ireland by Mary Condren
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £10.20 This book covers new ground. It covers the "Decline of female power in western civilisation" from an irish celtic perspective. A must read.
|
 | Man of the Triple Name by John B. Keane
Buy used from: £0.01 A multifaceted account of a famed matchmaker in Ireland in the 1930s onwards. This Ireland is now nearly gone, but it is true. The listmaker is from this part of Ireland.
|
 | Darkest England by Idries Shah
Buy new: £16.50 / Used from: £4.65 Simply brilliant book packed with everything you need to know about the English. Probably the most intelligent humour you will find anywhere. Also THE NATIVES ARE RESTLESS & THE ENGLISHMAN'S HANDBOOK
|
 | The Leavetaking by John McGahern
Buy used from: £0.01 One of Ireland's greatest writers. This is close to the bone and my favourite book by McGahern
|
 | Dead as Doornails: A Memoir by Anthony Cronin
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £4.09 A penetrating look at the Irish literary scene in the early 1960s onwards.
|
| Time Will Darken it by William Maxwell
Buy used from: £2.59 Hard to find better than this. Also check out THE FOLDED LEAF.
|
 | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
Buy new: £5.69 / Used from: £2.61 Searing account of a modern genocide in 1994. Largely forgotten.
|
 | Among the Dervishes by Omar M. Burke
Buy new: £8.95 / Used from: £8.49 Simply wonderful book. Packed with info.
|
 | Adventures in Afghanistan by Louis Palmer
Buy new: £8.95 / Used from: £4.49 Action packed account of travels in Afghanistan during the war with USSR.
|
 | Death and Nightingales by Eugene McCabe
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.01 Excellent book. Thriller\History book\Drama. Top quality writing.
|
 | Dog Eat Dog: AND Little Boy Blue by Edward Bunker
Buy used from: £1.24 Tough, realistic writing, from 1st. hand experience
|
 | Home Before Night (Methuen Biography) by Hugh Leonard
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.60 Charming acount of a Dublin Childhood
|
Listmania!
