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	Celtic Designs An arts and crafts source book Author: David James Publisher: Cassell Illustrated ISBN: 0304361267 Published: 2001 Paperback: 96 pages, 275 x 220 mm Price: £9.99


	The Book of Kells - Bernard Meehan This book reproduces the most important of the fully decorated pages of the famous Book of Kells, the illuminated gospel over a thousand years old. The book also looks at the artists, the text and the writing, and examines the historical background to the book. Publisher: Thames and Hudson ISBN: 0500277907 Published: 1995 Paperback: 96 pages, 248 x 190 mm, 117 illustrations, 110 in colour Price: £9.95


	James Joyce - Ulysses Literature, as Joyce tells us through the character of Stephen Dedalus, 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, Ulysses has survived bowderlization, legal action and bitter controversy. An undisputed modernist classic, its ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishingly wide-ranging allusions confirm its standing as an imperishable monument to the human condition. Declan Kiberd says in his introduction that Ulysses is 'An endlessly open book of utopian epiphanies. It holds a mirror up to the colonial capital that was Dublin on 16 June 1904, but it also offers redemptive glimpses of a future world which might be made over in terms of those utopian moments.' This edition is the standard Random House/Bodley Head text that first appeared in 1960. Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0141182806 Published: 2000 Paperback: 1040 pages, 129 x 198 mm Price: £9.99


	James Joyce - Finnegans Wake Joyce's final work, Finnegans Wake, is his masterpiece of the night as Ulysses was of the day. Supreme linguistic virtuosity conjures up the dark underground worlds of sexuality and dream. Joyce undermines traditional storytelling and all official forms of English and confronts the different kinds of betrayal - cultural, political and sexual - he saw at the heart of Irish history. Dazzlingly inventive, with passages of great lyrical beauty and much humour, Finnegans Wake remains one of the most remarkable works of the twentieth century. Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 014118311X Published: 2000 Paperback: 688 pages, 129 x 198 mm Price: £12.99


	W. B. Yeats - Selected Poems Few have lived their ideas so passionately and nobly as W. B. Yeats in his love affairs, politics and poetry. From his youth in the 1880s, a fertile dreamer rediscovering and remaking the Irish tradition, he grew into a great and innovative poet of the twentieth century. Publisher: Penguin Classic ISBN: 0141181257 Published: 2000 Paperback: 368 pages Price: £8.99


	Seamus Heaney - New Selected Poems 1966-1987 This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection, The Haw Lantern (1987). Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Publisher: Faber and Faber ISBN: 0571143725 Published: 2002 Paperback: 256 pages Price: £11.99


	Samuel Beckett - Complete Dramatic Works Samuel Beckett's bleak vision represents the attempts of an honest and heroic artist to find some hope in the no-man's-land of contemporary existence. His plays for the theatre and radio are imbued with listlessness, desolation and despair, but always some hope of redemption is to be found in the dogged stoicism and sardonic gallows humour of his characters. Like no other dramatist before him, or since, Beckett captured the pathos and ironies of modern life, yet still maintained his faith in a capacity for compassion and survival, no matter how absurd the environment may have become. Publisher: Faber and Faber ISBN: 0571144861 Published: 1998 Paperback: 480 pages Price: £16.99


	George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own. Publisher: Penguin Classic ISBN: 0141439505 Published: 2003 Paperback: 144 pages Price: £7.99


	Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays 'To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.' The Importance of Being Earnest is a glorious comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette. Manners and morality are also victims of Wilde's sharp wit in Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, in which snobbery and hypocrisy are laid bare. In Salomé and A Florentine Tragedy, Wilde makes powerful use of historical settings to explore the complex relationship between sex and power. The range of these plays displays Wilde's delight in artifice, masks and disguises, and reveal the pretensions of the social world in which he himself played such a dazzlingly and precarious part. Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0140436065 Published: 2000 Paperback: 464 pages, 129 x 198 mm


	Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The Picture of Dorian Gray was a succès de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins, and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0141439572 Published: 2003 Paperback: 304 pages, 129 x 198 mm Price: £4.99


	The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories Ireland has long been a nation of story-tellers. What began as a lively form of entertainment has grown into an unrivalled literary genre. Although Ireland may mourn the loss of the seanchai, the old hearthside story-teller, the Irish art of story-telling is by no means lost. This varied anthology traces the development of the Irish short story from the early folk-tales of the oral tradition through Oliver Goldsmith, Maria Edgeworth, James Joyce, and Liam O'Flaherty, and on to the rising stars of the modern generation, such as Bernard Mac Laverty and Desmond Hogan. Publisher: Editor: William Trevor ISBN: 0192801937 Published: 2001 Paperback: 588 pages Price: £10.99


	Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels 'I felt something alive moving on my left Leg...when bending my Eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human Creature not six Inches high' Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift's savage satire views mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves. This text, based on the first edition of 1726, reproduces all its original illustrations and includes an introduction by Robert Demaria, Jr, which discusses the ways Gulliver's Travels has been interpreted since its first publication. Publisher: Penguin Classic ISBN: 0141439491 Published: 2003 Paperback: 336 pages, 129 x 198 mm Price: £3.99


	World Music (vol. 1) - Africa, Europe and the Middle East World Music Volume 1: Africa, Europe and the Middle East has full coverage of everything from Congolese soukous to Greek rembetika, and biographies from Thomas Mapfumo to Cheb Khaled to the Afro Celt Sound System. Includes more than 80 articles from expert contributors, focusing on the popular and roots music live and on disc. Extensive discographies for each country, with biography notes on nearly 2000 musicians and reviews of the best available CDs. Publisher: Rough Guides ISBN: 1858286352 Published: 1999 Paperback: 781 pages Price: £17.99


	Michael Collins - Tim Pat Coogan The Irish nationalist Michael Collins was murdered by a compatriot in August 1922, eight months after signing the Anglo-Irish Treaty. This biography presents the life of a man whose idealistic vigour and determination were matched by his political realism and organizational abilities. Publisher: Arrow ISBN: 0099685809 Published: 1991 Paperback: 528 pages Price: £10.99


	Bernard MacLaverty - Cal For Cal, some of the choices are devastatingly simple...he can work in an abattoir that nauseates him or join the dole queue; he can brood on his past or plan a future with Marcella. Springing out of the fear and violence of Ulster, Cal is a haunting love stroy in a land were tenderness and innocence can only flicker briefly in the dark. Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0099767112 Published: 1998 Paperback: 160 pages Price: £6.99