40 Of Ireland's Greatest Writers

An epic story of family, love, and unavoidable tragedy from the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist. Now a major motion picture starring Rooney Mara. Sebastian Barry's latest novel, Days Without...

"A brave and moving novel [that] has a tender empathy with the natural world." -Hermione Lee, The New York Review of BooksFrom the two-time Booker Prize finalist author of Days...

From A Long Long Way, his Booker shortlisted novel about the Irish soldiers who fought for Britain during the First World War to his Donal McCann starring hit-play, The Steward...

From his grave in the precincts of Canterbury Cathedral, Dallas Sweetman is called to give account. He tells a story of love and death, jealousy and miraculous happenings, of the...

Celebrated children's writer Hans Christian Andersen arrives, unannounced, for a stay at Gad's Hill Place in the Kent marshes - home to Charles Dickens and his large, charismatic family. To...

Written during her time as the inaugural fellow in the Beckett archive last year, Eimear McBride's three short, characteristically brilliant texts - collected in one work, Mouthpieces.Each text depicts a...

From the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction'Powerful . . . truly a living and breathing thing.' Financial Times'McBride is on blistering form.' Sinead Gleeson'Nothing else feels so fresh,...

From the multi-award-winning author of the literary phenomenon A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing.At the mid-point of her life a woman enters an Avignon hotel room. She's been here once...

Sally Rooney: 'A series of fleeting images and memories ... united by the high intelligence and beauty of Hardwick's prose.' Rediscover a lost American classic: Sleepless Nights, a kaleidoscopic scrapbook...

WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE BORD GAIS IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2017SHORTLISTED...

From the writer of one of the most memorable debuts of recent years, a story of first love and redemption. One night in London an eighteen year old girl, recently...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE BORD GAIS IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2016From the writer of one of the...

The blistering non-fiction debut from the author of the critically acclaimed A Girl is a Half-formed Thing*As heard on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour*'A fearless, interrogative work ... A fierce...

ARE YOU TIRED OF BEING A GROWN UP? ESCAPE IT ALL WITH MARIAN KEYES' BRAND NEW NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, THE PERFECT ANTIDOTE TO ADULT LIFE'Magnificently messy lives, brilliantly...

Discover the seriously funny, stunningly written novel about one woman's attempts to put her past behind her, from the No. 1 bestselling author of Grown Ups'A brilliant, unusual, brave book...

Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to her first baby, James tells her...

The Oratory of the Sacred Heart was built by the Dominican nuns of St Mary's Convent, Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire), to celebrate peace at the end of the First World War....

Each year, over a million people walk the East and West piers at Dun Laoghaire. Whether it's for a quiet walk, family days out, first dates, weddings, hanging out with...

A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK (BOOKER PRIZE GEMS)'Molly Keane is a mistress of wicked comedy' Vogue 'I really wish I had written this book. It's a...

AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S BETWEEN OURSELVES, IN CONVERSATION WITH TARA FLYNNLaugh your socks off with this hilarious collection of tales, observations and flights of fancy from the No....

Welcome to the magnificent Making It Up as I Go Along - aka the World According to Marian Keyes (TM) - A bold, brilliant book bursting with Marian's hilarious and...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GROWN UPS, MARIAN KEYES'JUST BRILLIANT' SUNDAY TIMES___________'Myself and Hugh . . . We're taking a break.''A city-with-fancy-food sort of...

`Everybody remembers where they were the day they heard that Paddy de Courcy was getting married'Lola has every reason to be interested in who Paddy's marrying - because although she's...

Dive into the blissfully funny No. 1 bestseller about three women who find themselves criss-crossing the line between success and failure, happiness and sadness, sanity and madness, from the No....

Delve into the lives, loves and hopes of the residents of Star Street, and the mysterious visitor waiting to emerge from the shadows in the No. 1 bestseller from author...

Get comfortable, sink under the covers and dip into the hilarious Under the Duvet: Deluxe Edition for a behind-the-scenes glimpse into bestselling author Marian Keyes' life . . .'A must-read...

*** CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2022***Step into the lives of three women whose ambitions collide in the hilarious and heart-warming novel from the No....

*** CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2022***Relish the wit and wisdom of Marian Keyes in this story of four women caught up in what seems...

*** CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2022***Discover the warm, witty and compelling story of a woman trying to get her life back on track, from...

He did not ask things to have a meaning or to tell a story. To be was the only storyA semi-autobiographical novel from the author of The Green Fool and...

The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so...

Published in order of first publication as far as possible, this selection ranges from initial offerings such as 'Tinker's Wife' and 'Inniskeen Road: July Evening' to his tragic masterpiece 'The...

WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2015He will spend three days alone on his island. That is all that he asks . . . John is...

We read because we want to experience lives and emotions beyond our own, to learn, to see with others' eyes.The 32 is a celebration of working-class voices from the island...

Lilliput Press is delighted to be reissuing Traces of Peter Rice for the first time in paperback. This book is a collaborative enterprise, British, French and Irish, representing the countries...

This work is a gathering of essays in tribute to the life and achievements of a remarkable Irish- born structural engineer Peter Rice (1935-1992), 'perhaps the most influential of the...

A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style.'Julio Cortazar is truly a sorcerer and the best of him is here, in these hilariously fraught...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE'One of the best collections you'll read this year' Sunday Times'Wild, witty stories . . . Exhilarating' ObserverSince his landmark debut collection, There...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR EASON NOVEL OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDSIRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERBOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TIMES LITERARY...

How we come in, and how we go out, sex and death: these are the governing drives, our two greatest themes.In this provocative and haunting collection of short stories, acclaimed...

Sex and death are two of the most powerful, exhilarating and terrifying forces that define and shape the human experience.In this provocative and haunting collection of short stories edited by...