40 Of Ireland's Greatest Writers

Every table at Quentins restaurant has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, betrayal and revenge, of hope and despair. The staff who come and go have stories of...

Scarlet Feather is set in contemporary Dublin, and is the story of Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather, who go into business together as caterers. Tom is the son of a...

A silver wedding means a family gathering - difficult occasions at the best of times. But for the Doyles - Deirdre, Desmond and their children Anna, Helen and Brendan -...

'What is a really good novel like? This for a start' The TimesWhen Maria turns twenty, she falls in love. She is in the wrong town, and he is the...

When Ulysses was first published was first published Jmes Joyce wrote 'I am extremely irritated by all the printer's errors'. Are these to be perpetuated in future editions? I hope...

The Hill Bachelors - a remarkable collection of stories from the master storyteller William Trevor'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' The Wall Street JournalThe Hill...

Announcing the 2007 winner of the Yale Drama SeriesJohn Connolly's The Boys from Siam has been chosen as the first winner of the Yale Drama Series. This play was selected...

Maeve Binchy writes at the very top of her form in this novel of linked episodesabout a schoolteacher and his motley collection of students,who find extraordinary new leases of life...

Samuel Johnson - with a little help from his dachshund Boswell and a very unlucky demon named Nurd - has sent the demons back to Hell. But the diabolical Mrs...

Samuel Johnson - with a little help from his dachshund Boswell and a very unlucky demon named Nurd - has sent the demons back to Hell. But the diabolical Mrs...

This work is dedicated to contemporary Irish writing, and consists of a mixture of poetry, prose and photography. The contributors include Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, John McGahern, Edna O'Brien, John...

'John Connolly is the creator of a unique blend of thriller and horror who receives rave reviews every time' Sunday TelegraphA Child Missing. A Mother Accused. Charlie Parker Is Their...

The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later,...

Edna O'Brien returns to the world of her debut novel, The Country Girls, in an inspired account of a dying mother and her daughterFrom her hospital bed in Dublin, the...

Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather have decided to create the best catering company in Dublin. They have the perfect premises, heaps of talent, and even a few contacts - but...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Book of Evidence by John Banville is a gripping portrait of a cold, deceptive killer; an unreliable narrator with a dark story to tell.Freddie...

A volume containing the English texts of all the plays of Samuel Beckett, including "Waiting For Godot", "Krapp's Last Tape", "Endgame" and "Not I".

'So whenever I die, they will know where to bury me. And after my day the grave will not be opened again, for I'm the last of the name' Charles...

Ita Doyle: 'In all my life I have lived in two houses, had two jobs, and one husband. I'm a very interesting person.' Rory and Ita, Roddy Doyle's first non-fiction...

A novella by bestselling author Marian Keyes for the Open Door series of short books for emerging readers. Lizzie is dead - she just hasn't realised it yet. She can't...

This unique collection of formal portraits and informal album pictures covers the period 1953 to 1979 when the author and her husband, the engraver and painter Reynolds Stone, lived at...

They are the Reapers, the elite among killers. Men so terrifying that their names are mentioned only in whispers. The assassin Louis is one of them. But now Louis, and...

An Irish ex-Catholic sets out to discover the faith that compels more Europeans than any other religion. Beginning with a haunting description of the cathedral in the Irish provincial town...

A major new novel about a gypsy woman exiled for betraying her people, from the prize-winning author of DANCERThe novel begins in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s when Zoli, a...