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1	Conan Doyle, Detective: The True Crimes Investigated by the Creator of Sherlock Holmes more books like this by Peter Costello add to wishlist Arthur Conan Doyle did not rely on imagination for the amazing cases tackled by his hero, Sherlock Holmes, after all. Drawing on new research that follows the tracks the author left in the real world, Peter Costello details how Conan Doyle's fictional outpourings were the direct result of his hidden career as an amateur detective and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
2	John Stanislaus Joyce: The Voluminous Life and Genius of James Joyce's Father more books like this by John Wyse Jackson, Peter Costello add to wishlist Heroic drinker, superlative swearer, and self-described "heartburn on the arse", John Stanislaus Joyce was so bursting with charisma and wild ideas that it's not surprising he played a major role in his son James's imagination. For the first time, Joyce scholars John Wyse Jackson and Peter Costello piece together the extraordinary life of this ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	John Stanislaus Joyce more books like this by John Wyse Jackson, Peter Costello add to wishlist Obsessed with the burden of being an only son of an only son, John Joyce himself fathered 17 children with his long-suffering wife (despite many affairs and many engagements, he only married once), but was concerned only with his eldest surviving son, James. This was through no intrinsic merit on James's part but because of John Joyce's excessive ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
4	James Joyce: The Years of Growth, 1882-1915 more books like this by Peter Costello add to wishlist This first completely new biography of James Joyce in a generation updates Richard Ellmann's famous study with new sources that delve more intimately into Joyce's Irish background and that of his family. Based largely on original research, Costello sheds important new light on his subject while bringing Joyce--his flaws as well as his genius--to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $57.05! \| first editions
5	Jules Verne, Inventor of Science Fiction more books like this by Peter Costello add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
6	Real World of Sherlock Holmes: The True Crime Casebooks of Arthur Conan Doyle more books like this by Peter Castello, Peter Costello add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $70.91! \| first editions
7	The Irish 100 more books like this by Peter Costello, Peter Ostello add to wishlist Selected from Celtic times up to today, vivid portraits of the most famous Irish men and women throughout history make up this lively volume. see all copies from $2.74! new only from $2.96! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Life of Leopold Bloom more books like this by Peter Costello add to wishlist From the clues scattered throughout Joyce's UlyssessR, Bloom's life is reconstructed up to June 16, 1904, and created beyond. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| SVS
9	Leopold Bloom: A Biography more books like this by Peter Costello add to wishlist Traces the life of the fictitious main character of Joyce's Ulysses and proje what his life would have been like after the day covered by the novel. see all copies from $4.10! new only from $60.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Real World of Sherlock Holmes: The True Crimes Investigated by Arthur Conan Doyle more books like this by Peter Costello add to wishlist Sherlock Holmes' detective genius and uncanny powers of deduction actually existed. His ability to draw startling conclusions from the barest of evidence and to solve cases which baffled the police was shared by his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, pioneer, author, doctor and master criminologist. This book draws on entirely new research, the ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
11	Capital for Our Time: The Economic, Legal, and Management Challenge-- Of Intellectual Capital more books like this by John H Barton, Peter G W Keen, Joseph Costello add to wishlist Capital for Our Time compellingly describes the opportunities and risks associated with intellectual capital, from broad economic questions to specific business strategies. It includes essays by cutting-edge managers and CEOs, as well as representatives of the venture capital, government, and trade communities. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $25.00!
12	The Costello Memoirs: The Age of Prosperity more books like this by Peter Costello, Professor Peter Coleman add to wishlist In his impressive eighteen-year parliamentary career, Mr Costello was Australia's longest-serving Treasurer. As Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party for more than a decade, he worked with Liberal leaders, including John Howard, Alexander Downer, John Hewson, and Andrew Peacock.In his political memoirs, Mr Costello, the fiscal conservative and social ... see all copies from $32.64! new only from $32.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13	Dublin's Literary Pubs more books like this by Peter Costello add to wishlist For generations Dublin's great pubs have been at the heart of its social life and a meeting place for some of its greatest writers and wits. Many of the great names of modern Irish literature, such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Brendan Behan, Sean O'Casey, Patrick Kavanagh, Flann O'Brien, and Liam O'Flaherty, are associated with the pubs of Dublin. ... see all copies from $5.15! new only from $9.95!
14	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea more books like this by Jules Verne, Peter Costello (Editor) add to wishlist A ship-sinking monster confounds American boats until they discover that the creature is actually a submarine powered by the nefarious Captain Nemo (Nemo is Latin for nobody), a swashbuckling villain with grandiose ideas and deadly intentions. Probably the most famous of the novels in Verne's Voyages Extrordinaires series. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.78! \| SVS
15	Dublin churches more books like this by Peter Costello add to wishlist see all copies from $11.00!
16	The eternal Adam and other stories more books like this by Jules Verne, Peter Costello add to wishlist Jules Verne's stories ranged from social comedy and political satire to high adventure. He is credited as being the father of science fiction by many and is one of the world's most widely read authors. see all copies from $5.79!
17	Flann O'Brien: An Illustrated Biography more books like this by Peter Costello add to wishlist Under many pen-names, including that of Flann O'Brien, Brian O'Nolan was a legend among Irish writers, creating his famous novel "At Swim-Two-Birds" while still a student, contributing a column to the "Irish Times" for a quarter of a century, and in the last days of his life making a spectacular return as a novelist. Even after his death, he had a ... see all copies from $23.00! first editions \| SVS
18	The Heart Grown Brutal: The Irish Revolution in Literature from Parnell to the Death of Yeats, 1891-1939 more books like this by Peter Costello add to wishlist see all copies from $18.00!
19	Dublin Castle: In the Life of the Irish Nation more books like this by Peter Costello add to wishlist Nicknamed "Ireland's Bastille, " Dublin Castle was one of the places attacked during the Rising, and it played its role in both the maintenance of the old rule, and the arrival of the new. see all copies from $29.70!
20 view cover	The Dublin Literary Pub Crawl more books like this by Peter Costello add to wishlist see all copies from $11.99!
21	The Very Heart of the City: The Story of Denis Guiney and Clerys more books like this by Peter Costello add to wishlist see all copies from $91.77!
22 view cover	Liam O'Flaherty's Ireland more books like this by Peter Costello add to wishlist Liam O'Flaherty's Ireland portrays through atmospheric black-and-white photographs and breathtaking color images the stark beauty of the Aran Islands and other splendors of Ireland. A detailed biography of this famous son of the Aran Islands and one of Ireland's greatest writers offers insights into the writer's early years, his World War I ... see all copies from $15.95! new only from $19.95!
23	James Joyce : the years of growth, 1882-1915 : a biography more books like this by Peter Costello add to wishlist This biography of James Joyce concentrates on Joyce's early life in Dublin, since it was this period of obscurity that provided him with the material for "Dubliners", "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", "Ulysses" and even "Finnegans Wake". It draws on recently discovered or previously overlooked sources to show how Joyce's early life - his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| first editions
24	In Search of Lake Monsters more books like this by Peter Costello add to wishlist see all copies from $2.50! first editions
25 view cover	James Joyce more books like this by Peter Costello add to wishlist A biography of the Irish novelist, James Joyce, who wrote "Dubliners" (1914), "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (1916), "Ulysses" (1922) and "Finnegans Wake" (1939). Despite choosing continental Europe as his permanent home after 1912, Dublin continued to feature in Joyce's work. see all copies from $1.99! first editions

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