100 Best Irish Books of the 21st Century - Irish Times

Aisling is 28, and she's a complete ... Aisling.Living 'Down Home' with Mammy and Daddy, she commutes to her good pensionable job in Dublin and stays two nights a week...

New in paperback: the conversation-starting, engrossing novel about power and consent in the pressure cooker of a high-end restaurantWhen Hannah learns that famed chef Daniel Costello is facing accusations of...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NEWCOMER OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE'Milkman meets Derry Girls....

'Wonderful and mad' Roddy Doyle 'Sparks with tender charm and humour . . . Fresh, bleakly funny' Sunday Times 'Tender, laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving' Louise O'Neill 'GAS and beautiful...

Fallen by Lia Mills - a remarkable love story amidst the ruins of the First World War and the Easter RisingSELECTED AS THE 2016 'ONE CITY ONE BOOK' TITLE FOR...

*One Dublin One Book choice for 2022**Shortlisted for an Irish Book Award 2021*When Nora Barnacle, a twenty-year-old from Galway working as a maid at Finn's Hotel, meets young James Joyce...

THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING BOOK THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT!EVERY GENERATION HAS ONE GREAT LOVE STORY. THIS IS OURS.______ Losing the love of your life once is tragic. TWICE looks...

The international bestseller: a hilarious, heartfelt story of all-consuming and unexpected loveNominated for a TikTok Book Award'If you've ever been young, you will love The Rachel Incident like I did'...

The Rachel Incident is an all-consuming love story. But it's not the one you expected.2023's most anticipated summer read'Funny, LOVELY, romantic, DRENCHED in nostalgia' MARIAN KEYES'You will love The Rachel...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2017'When I finished Sara Baume's new novel I immediately felt sad that I could not send it in the post to the late John Berger....

England in the 1630s - a difficult country in turbulent times John Brigge is a governor,a man who has kept away from intrigues to work on his farm and be...

England in the 1630s: turbulent times, with fears of foreign invasion and Catholic conspiracies rife. John Brigge, a farmer and coroner, is respected in his North Country community, but harbours...

WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS"John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the story of his strangest trip."A novel of family,...

From Belfast to London and back again the eleven stories that comprise Caldwell's first collection explore the many facets of growing up - the pain and the heartache, the tenderness...

'Written with all the ingenuity and twisty tautness of a thriller' The TimesFrom the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search...

WINNER - IBA Crime Fiction Book of the YearBy the author of the Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club pick, Lying in Wait'Truly excellent ......

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024'One of the most original and brilliant debuts in years' Irish Times'Bold and totally unexpected ... I was hooked from...

Eva Tyne, an Irish violinist living and working in New York, collapses after her solo debut and is rushed to hospital. Still dazed after the incident, she finds herself embarked...

Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town....

* * * Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards and the 2015 Folio Prize * * * Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest...

* * * Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards and the 2015 Folio Prize * * * Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest...

* Shortlisted for Fiction - 2023 Nero Book Awards *After the death of a young girl, the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive family...'Ambitious and original' DAVID NICHOLLS'Gripping......

Told in Sebastian Barry's characteristically beautiful prose, A Long Long Way evokes the camaraderie and humour of Willie and his regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, but also the cruelty and...

One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry's highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied...

One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry's highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied...

From the twice Man Booker longlisted author of From a Low and Quiet Sea'A force of nature ... a life-enhancing talent' Sebastian BarryWhile the Celtic Tiger rages, and greed becomes...

'He heard Daddy one time saying he was a grand quiet boy to Mother when he thought Johnsey couldn't hear them talking. Mother must have been giving out about him...

Hawthorn and his partner, Child, are called to the scene of a mysterious shooting in North London. The only witness is unreliable, the clues are scarce, and the victim, a...

THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEARTHE INSTANT IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERPICKED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, OBSERVER, IRISH TIMES, INDEPENDENT, IRISH INDEPENDENT, IRISH...

A NEW STATESMAN FICTION HIGLIGHT OF 2024A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024October, 1891. Butte, Montana. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich...

From the Number 1 bestselling author of Our Little Cruelties and Skin DeepSally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father...

**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers 2023****WINNER Crime Novel of the Year, Irish Book Awards 2023**'Shocking, disturbing and utterly original - will grip you from first page to last'...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEIRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS, THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARDS AND THE KERRY GROUP AWARDSA BOOK OF...

EQUAL PARTS HILARIOUS AND PROFOUND, THE ALTERNATIVES IS A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL ABOUT FOUR GIFTED IRISH SISTERS, FROM A MAJOR LITERARY VOICE. PERFECT FOR FANS OF JONATHAN FRANZEN, MAGGIE O'FARRELL...

From the writer Anthony Doerr calls 'a massive talent', The Alternatives is the story of four brilliant sisters, orphaned in childhood, who scramble to reconnect when the eldest disappears into...

Love and Summer - a remarkable, heart-rending novel by acclaimed writer William Trevor'Lingers in the memory as a beautiful meditation on love, belonging and the impossibility of escape' Observer'Unbearably moving'...

It's the late 1950s, and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn't go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger appears on his bicycle and begins photographing the mourners at...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICISSHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL AWARDWINNER OF...

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i PAPER, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SCOTSMAN, IRISH TIMES, BBC.COM, WATERSTONES.COM'Nothing like any book you've ever read' MICHAEL...

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