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1	Master more books like this by Colm Toibin Like Michael Cunningham in "The Hours," Colm Toibin captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Brilliant and profoundly moving, "The Master" tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America's first intellectual families two decades before the Civil War. James left his country to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £5.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Blackwater lightship more books like this by Colm Tóibín 'This is the most astonishing piece of writing, lyrical in its emotion and spare in its construction ...Toibin has crafted an unmissable read' - "Sunday Herald". In Blackwater in the early 1990s, three women - Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen - have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helen ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £6.39! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The Story of the Night more books like this by Colm Toibin Set in Argentina in the 1980s, this novel follows the progress of a lonely young man trying to live openly with his homosexuality. His coming out mirrors the country's emergence from the repressive rule of the Generals to tentative new hope under the early Menem government. see all copies from £2.04! new only from £6.39! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Heather blazing more books like this by Colm Toibin The sea is eating into the land and the hill with the watchtower has disappeared. A house has crumbled and fallen into the sea. It is Ireland in the late 20th century. Eamon is a judge in the Irish High court, a man obsessed by the law, now troubled by his past. The author also wrote "The South". see all copies from £1.38! new only from £5.37! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Mothers and Sons: Stories more books like this by Colm Toibin Colm Toibin's new and challenging collection of stories paint rich and textured portraits of individuals at different pivotal moments in their lives. In each case, Toibin shows how their relationship with either a mother or a son, or their relationship to their own role as mother or son, reveals something unique and important about them. The ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £5.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	The South more books like this by Colm Toibin In 1950, determined to escape her family and become a painter, Katherine leaves Ireland for Barcelona. There she lives with an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War until her past catches up with her. The South is both powerful and lyrical, a novel of art and exile and the irreconcilable yearnings for love and freedom. "A highly impressive ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £6.39! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	The Irish Famine more books like this by Colm Toibin, Diarmaid Ferriter This book will allow the reader to understand the complex way in which the fragmentary past is both available to us - and distant from us. We get those insights from Toibin's brilliant short overview and from a rich collection of documents - government papers, recipes, journalism, letters, statistics, personal statements, all linked so the book ... see all copies from £6.01! new only from £6.01! \| first editions
8	Irish Fiction, the Penguin Book of more books like this by Various, Colm Toibin (Editor) The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction represents the entire tradition of Irish fiction in English from Jonathan Swift, born in 1667, to Emma Donoghue, born in 1968. It includes the full text of certain key masterpieces such as Gulliver in Lilliput, Maria Edgeworth's "Castle Rackrent", Joyce's "The Dead", Beckett's "First Love", and John McGahern's ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £8.60! \| first editions
9	The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe more books like this by Colm Toibin A travelogue of Colm Toibin's trips to Poland, Seville, Bavaria, Rome and the Balkans, among other places; and a chronicle of Toibin's own religious experience and the influence it has on his life. see all copies from £2.15! new only from £60.67! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Thinking Mathematically: Integrating Arithmetic & Algebra in Elementary School more books like this by Thomas P Carpenter, Colm Toibin, Megan Loef Franke Thinking Mathematically "provides a rich portrait of arithmetic set in a broader perspective on mathematics, and on what it means to do and learn it. . . . The book overflows with supports for the mathematical work of the teacher in pressing students, provoking, supporting, pointing, and attending with care." - Hyman Bass and Deborah Loewenberg ... see all copies from £13.27! new only from £13.27!
11 view cover	Ireland: On the Edge of Europe more books like this by Agnes Pataux (Photographer), Colm Toibin (Introduction by) Agnes Pataux has travelled extensively throughout Ireland, photographing its ancient, majestic, nature-dominated landscapes. Her photographs - intense and solitary - speak to us of the primordial forces of nature, forces that have shaped both the extraordinary natural environs and the psyche of an enduring people, the Irish. Pataux is bound to ... see all copies from £7.43! new only from £10.09! \| first editions
12 view cover	Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explanations of Gay Lives and Literature more books like this by Colm Toibin Colm Toibin knows the languages of the outsider, the secret keeper, the gay man or woman. He knows the covert and overt language of homosexuality in literature. In "Love in a Dark Time," he also describes the solace of finding like-minded companions through reading. Toibin examines the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £6.23! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	The New York Stories of Henry James more books like this by Henry James, Colm Toibin (Editor) Henry James led a wandering life, which took him far from his native shores, but he continued to think of New York City, where his family had settled for several years during his childhood, as his hometown. Here Colm Toibin, the author of the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel "The Master," a portrait of Henry James, brings together for the first ... see all copies from £8.08! new only from £11.37! \| first editions
14 view cover	Mothers and Sons more books like this by Colm Toibin, Gerard Doyle (Read by) Each of the nine stories in this beautifully written, intensely intimate collection centers on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balance of power between mother and son, or changes the way they perceive one another. see all copies from £5.78! new only from £6.93! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature more books like this by Colm Toibin This study of literature and artwork by gay and lesbian artists including Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Bishop, Mark Doty, and Pedro Almodovar, illuminates how their homosexuality informed their work. see all copies from £6.59! new only from £9.15! \| signed copies \| first editions
16	New Writing from Ireland more books like this by Colm Toibin (Editor) For this eclectic and expansive collection, Toibin has assembled a rousing throng of voices, including John McGahern, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Edna O'Brien, Frank McGuiness, Tom Paulin, Roddy Doyle, and Dermont Bolger, representing a wide variety of writing from poetry to fiction to screenplays. Photos and illustrations throughout. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £6.90! \| first editions
17 view cover	Samuel Beckett, Volume 01: Novels more books like this by Samuel Beckett, Paul Auster (Editor), Colm Toibin (Introduction by) In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Beckett's birth, these volumes bring together nearly every word the poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright and critic ever published. see all copies from £10.33! new only from £13.32!
18 view cover	Great Irish Speeches more books like this by Richard Aldous, Colm Toibin (Foreword by) "Great Irish Speeches" contains 50 of the most stirring and memorable speeches in Irish history. From the political oratories of Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael Collins and Eamon De Valera to emotive addresses by the nation's celebrated poets, writers and musicians, all of the included speeches have had a remarkable impact on the course of Irish ... see all copies from £9.59! new only from £11.08! \| first editions
19	Sign of the Cross more books like this by Colm Toibin This is a study of European Catholics, evoking a world of unshakeable dogma and troubled devotion. It is an unusual tour of a disturbing Europe, at odds with much of modernity. Among the places visited by Toibin are Poland, Croatia, Spain, Slovakia and Glasgow - for a Celtic match. see all copies from £2.04! new only from £5.37! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Walls of Aran more books like this by Sean Scully, Colm Toibin (Introduction by) Sean Scully is one of today's best-loved abstract painters. His familiar signature style of lines or bands of colour, alluding to architectural elements such as portals, windows and walls, is one of the most instantly recognizable in contemporary painting. This book brings together for the first time his photographs of the dry stone walls found on ... see all copies from £17.09! new only from £17.09! \| first editions
21 view cover	Soho Square Six more books like this by Colm Toibin This work is dedicated to contemporary Irish writing, and consists of a mixture of poetry, prose and photography. The contributors include Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, John McGahern, Edna O'Brien, John Banville, Frank McGuiness, Tom Paulin and Roddy Doyle. see all copies from £5.37! new only from £25.33! \| first editions
22	Walking along the border more books like this by Colm Tóibín, Tony O'Shea see all copies from £4.23! first editions
23	The Irish famine : a documentary more books like this by Colm Tóibín, Diarmaid Ferriter This volume, comprising Colm Toibin's acclaimed short text and linked collection of key documents put together by one of Ireland's younger historians, offers a many-sided view of one of history's moist poignant and far-reaching catastrophes. see all copies from £3.58! new only from £35.34! \| first editions
24 view cover	Lady Gregory's Toothbrush more books like this by Colm Toibin Yeats's friend Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) is the subject of this biography. Yeats and Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theater in Dublin and she is said to have written much of Yeats's celebrated play CATHLEEN NI HOULIHAN, which rallied the Irish Catholic Nationalist cause. see all copies from £12.46! signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Synge: A Celebration more books like this by Colm Toibin (Editor) A celebration of and homage to J. M. Synge: the man and his legacy. see all copies from £9.98! new only from £14.93!

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