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

    Inspired by the fantastic list pulled together by the Irish Times of the Best 100 Irish Books of the 21st Century, we have added a few of our own – based on the books that we constantly have to restock and customer recommendations – our additions are here also to avoid confusion

    Books are in descending order and we are not claiming that it is definitive in any sense - in fact, our favourite reads haven’t made either list! However, it would be impossible to find a bad book here and is a huge testament to the quality of Irish writing in general!  Notable that in the same week The Spectator is heralding the death throes of Literary Fiction in the UK, we can’t edit a list to 100 excellent reads without losing some incredible books – in fact several authors deserve to have everything they have ever produced on here!

    Occasionally, multiple editions of the same book become available; we list those currently in stock.


    PS: Let us know if we missed any!

    Christine Dwy Hickey: The Narrow Land [2020] paperback

    €4.99€11.70

    WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT HISTORICAL PRIZE FOR FICTION, 2020WINNER OF THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARD FOR NOVEL OF THE YEAR, 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS, 2019An Irish Independent and...

    Christine Dwy Hickey: The Narrow Land [2019] paperback

    €4.99€14.99

    "A brilliant portrait... With a beguiling grace and a deceptive simplicity, Christine Dwyer Hickey reminds us that the past is never far away - rather, it constantly surrounds us, suspends...

    Audrey Magee: Colony The Longlisted For The Boo [2023] paperback

    €5.99€9.99

    **AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022'Luminous.' Observer'I utterly ADORED it.' MARIAN KEYESHe handed the easel to the boatman, reaching down the pier wall...

    Colm Toibin: Long Island [2024] paperback

    €10.99€14.99

    The sequel to Colm Toibin's prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn.A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello's door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and...

    Connor Joseph O: Shadowplay W2 [2020] paperback

    €4.99€11.99

    Discover the enthralling Richard & Judy Book Club pick from international bestseller Joseph O'Connor.'The best novel that I've read in the last twenty years... It's fantastic' RICHARD MADELEY'Breathtaking... A hugely...

    Patrick McCabe: Winterwood [2007] paperback

    €4.99€5.99

    Once, in Kilburn, married to the sugar-lipped Catherine and sharing his daughter Immy's passion for the enchanted kingdom of winterwood, Redmond Hatch was happy. But then infidelity, betrayal and the...

    Patrick McCabe: Winterwood [2006] hardback

    €12.99€19.99

    The intention was, of course, to bring her out to Winterwood - to that magical place that only me and her knew - but I wouldn't tell her that until...

    David Park: The Truth Commissioner [2009] paperback

    €4.99€15.70

    Henry Stanfield, the newly arrived Truth Commissioner, is troubled by his estrangement from his daughter, and struggling with the consequences of his infidelities. Francis Gilroy, veteran Republican and recently appointed...

    Christine Dwyer Hickey: Tatty [2004] paperback

    €5.99€9.99

    Tragic, funny and utterly unsentimental, Christine Dwyer Hickey's "Tatty" is a devastating, affecting journey into the mind of a child. With the brutal clarity and touching honesty of a child,...

    Jan Carson: Firestarters W2 [2020] paperback

    €4.99€13.00

    **WINNER of the EU Prize for Literature**'One of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation' SUNDAY TIMES'Gripping, affecting, surprising. I inhaled it' LISA MCINERNEY 'Captivating, intelligent...

    Kevin Barry: There Are Little Kingdoms [2017] paperback

    €5.99€13.00

    This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast girls court trouble as they cool their heels on a slow...

    Neill Jamie O: AT SWIM TWO BOYS [2002] paperback

    €3.99€13.00

    ~ The Irish contemporary classic in a beautiful new edition ~ 'Weren't you never out for an easy dip?' he asked . . . 'I don't mean the baths, I...

    David Park: Travelling in a Strange Land [2018] paperback

    €4.99€13.00

    WINNER OF THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 'I loved this delicate, beautifully written novella about fathers and sons' David Nicholls'One of Ireland's great novelists' Roddy Doyle 'Wrings...

    David Park: Travelling in a Strange Land [2018] hardback

    €3.99€19.99

    WINNER OF THE KERRY GROUP IRISH BOOK AWARDS Set in a frozen winter landscape, the new novel from the prize-winning, acclaimed author David Park is a psychologically astute, expertly crafted...

    Deirdre Madden: Molly Fox's Birthday [2008] paperback

    €5.99€16.90

    Dublin, Midsummer: While absent in New York, the celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house to a playwright friend, who is struggling to write a new work. Over the...

    Deirdre. Madden: MOLLY FOXS BIRTHDAY Z16 [2013] paperback

    €6.99€8.99

    Dublin. Midsummer. While absent in New York, the celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house to a playwright friend, who is struggling to write a new work. Over the...

    Rob Doyle: HERE ARE THE YOUNG MEN P/B - Z48 [2014] paperback

    €4.99€8.99

    NOW A MAJOR FILM STREAMING ON ALL PLATFORMS, STARRING ANYA TAYLOR JOYSHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 'NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR' AWARDCHOSEN AS ONE OF 'IRELAND'S 20 GREATEST NOVELS SINCE...

    Brien Edna O: The Little Red Chairs [2016] paperback

    €4.99€13.00

    The legendary Edna O'Brien's tale of a mysterious stranger spellbinding an Irish village is 'the kind of masterpiece that reminds you why you read books in the first place' (Observer).ONE...

    Edna O'Brien: LITTLE RED CHAIRS THE [2022] hardback

    €19.99€24.99

    Ten years on from her last novel, Edna O'Brien reminds us why she is thought to be one of the great Irish writers of this and any generation. When a...

    Edna O'Brien: The Little Red Chairs [2015] paperback

    €5.99€6.99

    A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYA Sunday Times, Observer, Financial Times and Sunday Express Book of the YearWhen a man who calls himself a faith healer...

    Niall Williams: This Is Happiness [2020] paperback

    €5.99€13.00

    Shortlisted for Best Novel in the Irish Book AwardsLonglisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionThe most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of...

    Anne Enright: The Wren, The Wren [2023] paperback

    €7.99€15.99

    Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other; one life into...

    Anne Enright: The Wren, The Wren [2024] paperback

    €8.99€10.99

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other,...

    Louise O'Neill: Asking For It: the haunting novel from a celebrated voice in feminist fiction [2016] paperback

    €4.99€13.00

    'A soul-shattering novel that will leave your emotions raw. This story will haunt me forever. Everyone should read it' Guardian In a small town where everyone knows everyone, Emma O'Donovan...

    Exciting Times: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 [2021] paperback

    €3.99€5.99

    'The book of the summer ... Kept me rapt until the final page' THE TIMES'A sharp, smart, witty modern love story. I loved it' David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY'More...

    Louise Kennedy: The End of the World is a Cul de Sac [2022] paperback

    €6.99€11.99

    'A dazzling, heartbreaking debut collection' Guardian'Kennedy's voice, and her unforgiving gaze, are electric' Sunday Times'These stories sing, haunt and inspire laughter ... One of the best collections I've read in...

    Intermezzo [2024] paperback

    €9.99€14.99

    IntermezzoSally RooneyAn exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, fromthe global phenomenon Sally Rooney.Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have littlein...

    Roddy Doyle: Paula Spencer [2006] hardback

    €19.99€49.99

    When we first met Paula Spencer - in "The Woman Who Walked into Doors" - she was thirty-nine, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her family together. "Paula Spencer"...

    Roddy Doyle: Paula Spencer [2007] paperback

    €4.99€13.00

    Ten years on from The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Booker Prize-winning author, Roddy Doyle, returns to one of his greatest characters, Paula Spencer. Paula Spencer is turning forty-eight, and...

    Sebastian Barry: Days without End [2016] hardback

    €12.99€14.99

    "A beautiful, savage, tender, searing work of art. Sentence after perfect sentence it grips and does not let go." (Donal Ryan). "A violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision...

    Sebastian Barry: Days Without End [2016] paperback

    €4.99€19.99

    WINNER OF 2016 COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR'A violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making [and] the most fascinating line-by-line first person narration I've...

    Sebastian Barry: Days Without End [2017] paperback

    €3.99€13.00

    Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the YearWinner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017Longlisted for the Man Booker...

    Sebastian Barry: Days Without End [2017] paperback

    €4.99€11.41

    WINNER OF 2016 COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR'Pitch-perfect, the outstanding novel of the year so far.' Robert McCrum, Observer'More wrenching and beautiful than anything I've read in a long time.'...

    Sebastian Barry: Days Without End: Sebastian Barry [2017] paperback

    €5.99€13.00

    OLD GOD'S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY'S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWWinner of the 2016 Costa Book of the YearWinner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction...

    John Boyne: Hearts Invisible Furies W2 [2017] paperback

    €4.99€14.30

    'Compelling and satisfying... At times, incredibly funny, at others, heartrending' Sarah Winman, author of When God Was a RabbitForced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin finds...

    John Boyne: The Heart's Invisible Furies [2017] hardback

    €19.99

    Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then...

    John Boyne: The Heart's Invisible Furies [2017] paperback

    €9.99€19.99

    Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then...

    John Boyne: The Heart's Invisible Furies [2017] paperback

    €7.99

    Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then...

    Joseph O'Connor: Ghost Light [2010] hardback

    €10.99€14.99

    Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious and flirtatious,...

    Joseph O'Connor: Ghost Light [2010] paperback

    €2.99€19.99

    Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious and flirtatious,...

    Joseph O'Connor: Ghost Light [2011] paperback

    €3.99€7.99

    Dublin, 1907. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Outspoken and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a Catholic...

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