40 Of Ireland's Greatest Writers

THE BRAND NEW STRAFFORD AND QUIRKE MURDER MYSTERY FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW. A CHILLING MUST-READ.'Haunting . . . compelling.' DAILY MAIL'Banville is one of my favourite writers alive.'...

A marvellous book, lovingly edited, beautifully produced. . . and brimming with literary insights, much laughter, a sprinkle of gossip and the poet's insuppressible joie de vivre, even in adversity....

With THE LIGHT OF EVENING Edna O'Brien returns to the world of her first novel, rural Ireland and the relationship between mother and daughter. Whereas her first novel THE COUNTRY...

The masterful Richard & Judy pick, from the Sunday Times bestselling author.Winner of the Irish Book Awards Crime Fiction Book of the Year.'A TRULY GREAT WRITER' Gillian Flynn, author of...

Ulysses has been the subject of controversy since copies of the first English edition were burned by the New York Post Office authorities. Today critical interest centres on the authority...

Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to cope...

A definitive edition of perhaps the greatest short story collection in the English languageJames Joyce's Dubliners is a vivid and unflinching portrait of "dear dirty Dublin" at the turn of...

'A writer with the courage to reinvent the sentence as she pleases, and the virtuosity required to pull it off.' Literary Review'A writer for whom language is an end not...

Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves...

'Once upon a time, there was a boy who lost his mother ...' As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his...

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLERFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR - BRITISH BOOK AWARDS'Richly sensuous... something special' The Sunday Times'A thing of...

John Connolly, bestselling author of five brilliantly scary mystery novels, now turns his pen to the short story to give us a dozen chilling tales of the supernatural. In this...

Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems, together with some new ones. One...

From Maggie O'Farrell, the multi award-winning author of Hamnet, and the stunning imagination of Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini, comes a hopeful and powerful new book, based on Maggie's own experience on...

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A major film starring Brie Larson.Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.Shortlisted for the Orange Prize.Picador Classics edition with an introduction by John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped...

Through what Joyce described as their "style of scrupulous meanness," the stories present a direct, sometimes searing view of Dublin in the early twentieth century. The text of this Norton...