Bailiúchán: Adult

Germany, May 1943: a middle-aged scholar retires to his study to reflect on the life and untimely death of his friend, a once-brilliant composer. How his friend, consumed by over-reaching ambition, entered into a pact with the Devil. How he enjoyed 24 years of musical genius and extraordinary cre...

Bray seafront meets a garden of white roses. A migrant driver cleans his bus windows and a castaway lover follows new stars. Three sisters covet a tea-set and a stowaway rabbit escapes on the motorway. Fresh baked bread hugs a regretful holiday embrace and a cargo manifest reveals carefully boxed...

New York City, late 1970s. Times Square is a haven for sex and drugs. The city teeters on the verge of bankruptcy, while blackouts can strike at any moment. This is the world of THE KITCHEN.The Irish gangs of Hell's Kitchen rule the neighborhood, bringing terror to the streets and doing the dirty...

Known for writing some of the most incisive and elegant novels of the early 20th century, Edith Wharton was also a master practitioner of the ghost story, producing dozens of frightful fictions throughout her lifetime. Combining pristine prose with strange, suffocating atmospheres and a profound ...

All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street; and they stop at the rim of the ice-edged, fish-freezing waves, and I plunge my hand in the snow and bring out whatever I can find. Dylan Thomas's lyrical account of ...

In his celebrated masterpiece 'The Symposium', Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC at which the guests include the comic poet Aristophanes and, of course, Plato's mentor Socrates.

This is the eighth studio album by the English rock band Pulp, the band's first studio album in twenty-four years

This volume contains all of Robert Louis Stevenson's supernatural short stories, showcasing both his mastery of the genre and his interest in the otherworldly and the strange ways the human brain can distort reality.They include 'The Body Snatchers', the chilling tale of an avenging ghost; 'Olall...

A gorgeous paperback edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel of the Jazz Age.