40 Of Ireland's Greatest Writers

A widow spends weeks haunting a cemetery, desperate to track down an unknown woman who keeps leaving flowers on her husband's grave; A daughter searches a foreign city for her...

'There is one thing you must never lose sight of. No matter what life deals you, promise me that you will strive tooth and nail for the right to be...

In blind old age, Dublin's most famous gunslinger, the legendary street character Bang Bang, recalls decades roaming the streets of Dublin, which became Dodge City in his mind as he...

Bolger's spellbinding novel is based on a real-life rescue in 1943, when the MV Kerlogue's crew risked their lives to save 168 drowning German sailors. The story is seen through...

Phone the cops or phone Alice. But just don't expect life to ever be the same after you make that call...' When two neighbouring Dublin couples decide to cooperate in...

For over four decades The Hennessy Literary Awards have been a linchpin for successive generations of Irish writers to announce their arrival on the national and international stage. The awards...

'A sequence of poems that no writer would ever wish to write' The Venice Suite is a deeply personal sequence of poems that charts poet Dermot Bolger's experience of sudden...

'A gorgeous tale that will delight, charm and captivate the reader' Swirl and Thread'Meaney leaves you wanting to know more about the characters and what they do next, almost as...

Three couples. One weekend. Everything is about to change...The sparkling and spellbinding new novel from Number One bestselling author Roisin MeaneyLily and Charlie separated after twenty-six years of marriage. Now,...

Fans of Maeve Binchy will love the NO.1 BESTSELLER Roisin Meaney and this heart-warming story of love, friendship and fate set on Roone, a small island off the west coast...

A feel-good tale of magic, sparkle and new beginnings from Roisin Meaney, author of The Reunion, One Summer and The People Next Door.It's three days before Christmas ...Tilly boards a...

It's three days before Christmas ...Tilly boards a plane on the other side of the world. She's determined to reach Roone, a small island off the west coast of Ireland,...

Maeve Binchy fans will love THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER Roisin Meaney's warm storytelling and unforgettable characters. The residents of Roone are getting ready for a summer of love, secrets and...

True Believers projects the reader into a world of characters stunning in their variety. Here are sad-hearted priests, old friends, young lovers, rockers and rebels. Here are runaway husbands and...

'Warm ... uplifting -- Roisin Meaney is a gifted storyteller' Sheila O'Flanagan, bestselling author It's the day before the wedding ... Three strangers arrive home to Ireland to the house...

'A gorgeous tale that will delight, charm and captivate the reader' Swirl and Thread'Meaney leaves you wanting to know more about the characters and what they do next, almost as...

An intimate human study and subtle portrait of a country in flux from New Island author Dermot Bolger.While a floundering Irish government clings to its illusion of power as an...

An intimate human study and subtle portrait of a country in flux from New Island author Dermot Bolger.While a floundering Irish government clings to its illusion of power as an...

A woman determined to make her mark. A journey that will change everything.'Ratchets up the pace until it's hurtling along as fast as the train itself' - Alice Winn, author...

The Sunday Times no. 3 bestselling novel from author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT*Over 330,000 copies sold*Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 'A complex, riveting novel of love and...

The Sunday Times top 10 bestselling novel from the author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT*Over 400,000 copies sold* Winner of the 2010 Costa Novel Award 'Exquisitely sensual' Emma Donoghue,...

The Sunday Times bestselling novel from the author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT*Over 260,000 copies sold*Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 'O'Farrell writes with lyrical precision about sex, fear...

The groundbreaking debut novel from the bestselling author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT: one of the most extraordinary love stories you'll ever read.*Over 480,000 copies sold* 'This devastatingly skilful...

Ths volume contains all of Beckett's less-than-full-length works (or 'Dramaticules') for the stage, radio and television. Arranged in chronological order of composition, these shorter plays demonstrate the laconic means and...

The novel begins in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s when Zoli, a young Roma girl, is six years old. The fascist Hlinka guards had driven most of her people out...

This remarkable volume brings together all of John McGahern's short fiction, fully revised, in a definitive text. Mc Gahern has long been recognized as a contemporary master of the short...

It is Enniscorthy in the south-east of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. Thus when a...

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...

Dubliners was first published in 1914. The book depicts middle-class Catholic life in Dublin at the beginning of the twentieth century. The topics related in the opening stories include the...

In Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can commit: the abduction and possible murder of her child. Everyone - ambitious politicians in an election season,...

'An extraordinary story of grace, forgiveness and moral courage' Patrick Radden KeefeA 2024 HIGHLIGHT IN THE OBSERVER, GUARDIAN AND IRISH TIMESSHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDSAN IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL...

"Cerebral and lyrical, he is the new crown prince of Ireland's majestic theatrical tradition" (Newsweek) In Boss Grady's boys, Mick and Josey are two old fellas employed on a hill-farm...

James Joyce's deeply personal and "most memorable novel" (H. G. Wells) detailing the spiritual and artistic awakening of Stephen Dedalus, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature...