40 Of Ireland's Greatest Writers

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from...

With a new foreword by Colin Walsh, this is ''one of the most volatile, vital and unsafe novels in Irish literature'', banned by the censor for obscenity in 1965 -...

With a new foreword by Yiyun Li, this beloved memoir of an Irish childhood by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of classics like Amongst Women is a ''healing book'' (Sebastian Barry)''McGahern...

Introduced by Sinéad Gleeson, John McGahern''s Booker Prize-shortlisted Irish ''masterpiece'' (Colm Tóibín) is essential reading for admirers of Claire Keegan. As he weakened, Moran became afraid of his daughters. Moran''s...

When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods one day with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found,...

'A beautiful, beguiling book full of resonances that continue to sound long after you've turned the final page. Its imagining is magical, its execution dazzlingly skilful.' Sunday Tribune Ghosts opens...

Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957.'Outside lies a world of death. Inside...

OLD GOD'S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY'S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWA stunning return from the prize-winning and best-selling author ofThe Secret Scripture Jack McNulty is a 'temporary...

***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018******SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018***'Beautiful and affecting' David Nicholls 'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel' RODDY DOYLEFarouk's country has been torn apart...

This is a powerful and timely story about one boy's epic journey across Africa to Europe, a graphic novel for all children with glorious colour artwork throughout. From Eoin Colfer,...

In Dubliners, James Joyce takes us on an extraordinary journey with the ordinary men and women from the city of his birth. In 'Araby' a young boy struggles with everyday...

A landmark collection of newly written ghost stories from five of the world's greatest writers'I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which...

'Absorbing, atmospheric' Guardian'A romp of a read, a compelling fix' ScotsmanIn 1950s Dublin, world-weary pathologist Quirke is reckoning with grief. A woman he loved has died, a man he once...

An electrifying analysis of one legendary giant of twentieth-century literature by another: Beckett on Proust.The whole of Proust's world comes out of a teacup . . . When he was...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW'Banville is one of my favourite writers alive.' REBECCA F. KUANG'More than a touch of genius.' THE TIMES 'A pleasure to read' IRISH TIMESOn the...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW'Stunning' Independent'Impressive' Irish TimesWhen spring storms descend on 1950s Dublin, a body is found in a canal, and pathologist Quirke must find the truth behind...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW'Banville is one of my favourite writers alive.' REBECCA F. KUANG'More than a touch of genius.' THE TIMES William 'Big Bill' Mulholland is head of...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW'Banville is one of my favourite writers alive.' REBECCA F. KUANG'More than a touch of genius.' THE TIMES As a deep, bewildering fog cloaks Dublin,...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW'Banville is one of my favourite writers alive.' REBECCA F. KUANG'More than a touch of genius.' THE TIMES Newspaper magnate Richard Jewell is found dead...

'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose-there's no one like Edna O'Brien.' Anne Enright 'Surprising and beautiful and courageous . . . A beacon.' Megan Nolan We want to live. Drink gin....

George Bernard Shaw is one of the most famous and celebrated Irish playwrights and this new collection brings together the very best of his witty and entertaining comedies in one...