40 Of Ireland's Greatest Writers

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...

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...

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...

A masterpiece of horror from the creator of Dracula. Bram Stoker stamps his powerful influence on this grisly horror of sinister proportions. When Adam Salton moves to his uncle's estate...

A novel of mothers lost and found, Wilderness is part roaring adventure, part family drama-with a charm that's all Roddy Doyle's. While Tom and Johnny are on a husky safari...

"How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and to his contemporary world?" These...

Accompanying an exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, London, Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads presents a remarkable series of hauntingly beautiful largescale drawings by the artist. The catalogue includes a new...

Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over...

Number-one bestselling author Marian Keyes, best known for hilarious and moving novels, such as This Charming Man, The Other Side of the Story and the award-winning Anybody Out There, offers...

The Great Irish Famine was a disaster hard to comprehend - two million people emigrated between 1846 and 1855. It seems strange that the famine barely appears in Irish poetry...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013Colm Toibin's The Testament of Mary is a short, powerful novel about one of the most famous mothers in history.From the author of Brooklyn,...

Captain Gault has decided that his family must leave Lahardane. They are after all Protestants living in the big house in rural Cork, and the country is in turmoil. It...

Part of the Open Door series of short books for emerging readers. Dave, Pat and Ben have been best friends since they were kids. They do everything together, and they...

Ten millennia ago, the fairy people were defeated in a great battle with mankind, forcing them to move underground. Only the 8th family of fairies remained undefeated: the demons. But...

This novel opens with a scene of war which is destined to become a classic: trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland, their horses dying around...

Ta Lisa marbh - ach ni thuigeann si e go foill. Is ait lei e nuair a dheanann daoine neamhshuim di agus gan uaithi ach beagan tuisceana. Bhi si i...