Dermot Bolger

Following a car crash, for several seconds Dublin photographer Sean Blake is clinically dead but finds his progress towards the afterworld blocked by a haunting face he only partially recognises....

'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...

A companion book to Bolger's recent Night and Day collection of poems about South Dublin, places this sequence in the context of other lives that Bolger's poetry has tried to...

'The hotel has stood in Dublin's quays since the '20s, but its glory days have long since passed it by. It's decrepit now -- the haunt of weekend-breakers and tourists...

In Finbar''s Hotel a bewildering array of guests disturb the manager''s peace as they run amok during the course of one night. The story was written jointly by a number...

Hidden behind the walls of Grangegorman Mental Hospital in 1941, four lives collide, all afflicted by the human cost of wars, betrayals and trauma.Gus, a shrewd attendant, is the keeper...

Life moves forward, but its meaning often emerges in hindsight. In this luminous collection, Dermot Bolger captures those unexpected moments when past loves and choices resurface with startling clarity. These...

It is Euro 88 and the excitement is high for football fanatics Eoin, Shane and Mick. They are in Germany supporting the Irish team. For years they have dreamed of...

Seven of Irelands most accomplished female writers have crafted between them this delightfully entertaining novel. Featuring authors Maeve Binchy and Deirdre Purcell.'

Imagine what it must feel like to be a doll within a doll, to lose your own identity and spend your life in darkness - A" Joey thought he'd done...

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...

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...

A marriage and a family reach breaking point on an annual holiday in the loveliest hotel in Ireland. Dermot Bolger is one of the leading figures on the Irish literary...

A marriage and a family reach breaking point on an annual holiday in the loveliest hotel in Ireland. Dermot Bolger is one of the leading figures on the Irish literary...

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 stunning historical saga set in the early decades of the twentieth century which follows the lives and loves of one extraordinary family. We first meet the Goold Verschoyle children...

'The Journey Home' is the story of a young boy's struggle towards maturity, set against a shocking portrait of Ireland: a tough urban landscape, not a rural Eden. Francis Hanrahan,...

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...

`Here, at last, is a book which I can put into the hands of naive Americans knowing that after five hundred-odd pages they will understand that on the island of...

An ordinary man is forced to confront both his own demons and the manifestation of the supernatural beyond his comprehension and control Jeremy Furlong is a successful businessman, whose life...

This is the story of Brendan Brogan, who grew up in a small town outskirts of Dublin. An unhappy childhood leads to an unhappy adulthood. When circumstances offer Brogan a...

A literary thriller with a heart. 'The Valparaiso Voyage' blows the lid off the Celtic Tiger and looks at the corruption that spawned today's Ireland. Dermot Bolger is one of...

'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...

Paperback re-issue of classic Bolger novel 'One of the essential Irish novels, certainly of the decade, and possibly of many another.' Sunday Tribune Set in the grimy, backstreets and suburbs...