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Dalkey Essentials eBook Series

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  • Killoyle

    by Roger Boylan ...
    Series series Dalkey Essentials
    Roger Boylan is a booze-soaked humorist in the tradition of James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, and Samuel Beckett.Roger Boylan’s first novel is about the inhabitants of the Irish town of Killoyle: Milo Rogers, a headwaiter and would-be poet with a bit of a drinking problem and a bit of a sexual one; Kathy Hickman, a writer for the woman's fashion magazine Glam andformer pin-up girl; Wolfetone Grey, who ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • At My Mother's Knee...

    and other low joints

    by Paul O'Grady ...
    Paul O'Grady is one of Britain's very best loved entertainers. He is known and adored by millions, whether as the creator of the acid-tongued Blonde Bombsite, Lily Savage, or the presenter of the fantastically successful, award-winning Paul O'Grady Show on Channel 4.Now, in his own unique voice, Paul O'Grady tells story of his early life in Irish Catholic Birkenhead that started him on the long ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Country Girl

    A Memoir

    by Edna O'Brien ...
    "Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."-National Public RadioWhen Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Are You Somebody?

    The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman

    by Nuala O'Faolain ...
    #1 New York Times Bestseller: This Irish writer's memoir is "a beautiful exploration of human loneliness and happiness, of contentment and longing" (Alice McDermott, The Washington Post).One of nine children born into a penniless North Dublin family, Nuala O'Faolain was saved from a harrowing childhood by her love of books and reading. Though she ultimately became one of Ireland's best-known ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Vanished Years

    by Rupert Everett ...
    Rupert Everett's first memoir - Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins - was an international bestseller and an instant classic on publication in 2006. Reviewers compared him to Evelyn Waugh, David Niven, Noel Coward and Lord Byron. But Rupert Everett is - of course - one of a kind.Mischievous, touching and nothing less than brilliant, this new memoir is filled with stories, from childhood to the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Therapy

    by David Lodge ...
    A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his puzzling knee pain or his equally inexplicable mid-life angst.As Tubby's life fragments under the weight of his self-obsession, he ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Walking with Ghosts

    A Memoir

    by Gabriel Byrne ...
    “Make no mistake about it: Walking with Ghosts isa masterpiece. A book that will wring out our tired hearts. It is by turnspoetic, moving, and very funny. You will find it on the shelf alongside othergreat Irish memoirs including those by Frank McCourt, Nuala O'Faolain and EdnaO’Brien.” —Colum McCannAs a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin,Gabriel Byrne sought refuge in a world of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks

    The Essential Alan Coren

    by Alan Coren, Victoria Coren ...
    A hilarious anthology of comic treasures written by Britain's "comic genius"—the former editor of Punch and beloved regular on BBC's Radio 4 ( The Times).Alan Coren was one of contemporary Britain's most prolific humorists. Over his forty-year career, Coren wrote comic and satirical pieces for The New Yorker, The Times, Observer, Tatler, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, and Punch, and publi... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Priest

    A Jack Taylor Novel

    by Ken Bruen ...
    Series Book 5 - Jack Taylor Series
    The brutal murder of a local priest sets in motion the fifth explosive Jack Taylor novel from Edgar, Anthony, Shamus, Barry, and Macavity winner and finalist Ken Bruen.Ireland, awash with cash and greed, no longer turns to the Church for solace or comfort. But the decapitation of Father Joyce in a Galway confessional horrifies even the most jaded citizen.Jack Taylor, devastated by the recent ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Mammoth Books presents The Best British Crime Omnibus: Volume 7, 8 and 9

    by Maxim Jakubowski ...
    Series Book 284 - Mammoth Books
    122 fantastic stories from Britain's best crime writersFor ten years the Mammoth Best British Crime series has been publishing an annual volume of the most outstanding crime and mystery short fiction published in the UK. Over 400 stories by the very best writers in the field have been published. Contributors have included, among many others, Mark Billingham, Liza Cody, Roger Jon Ellory, Reginald ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Pistache

    by Sebastian Faulks ...
    pistache (pis-tash): a friendly spoof or parody of another's work. [Deriv uncertain. Possibly a cross between pastiche and p**stake.]From Thomas Hardy's football report to Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser, the work of the great and the not-so-great is here sent up with little hope of coming down.Most of these pieces began their life on Radio Four's The Write Stuff, but have been retooled ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Who on Earth is Tom Baker?

    An Autobiography

    by Tom Baker ...
    Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor Who on British television, brings all his talent as a raconteur to this autobiography, which was first published in 1997 and ranges from his childhood, through his 7 years as Doctor Who to the engraving of his gravestone! Born in 1934, Baker grew up in an Irish Catholic neighbourhood in wartime Liverpool. His stories about his large family, his difficulties at school, ... Read more

    $9.15 CAD