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Donal Ryan
Donal Ryan has written three #1 bestsellers and a short story collection. He won three Irish Book Awards, the EU Prize for Literature, and the Guardian First Book Award. The Spinning Heart, his 2013 debut novel, was shortlisted for the Impac Dublin Literary Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and named Irish Book of the Decade.
Donal is an award-winning author from Nenagh, County Tipperary, whose work has been published in over twenty languages to major critical acclaim. The Spinning Heart won the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature (Ireland), and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards; it was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, longlisted for the Booker Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was voted 'Irish Book of the Decade'. His fourth novel, From a Low and Quiet Sea, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018, and won the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature. His most recent novel, Strange Flowers, was voted Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, and was a No. 1 bestseller. Donal lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. He lives with his wife Anne Marie and their two children just outside Limerick City.
HEART, BE AT PEACE - OUT AUGUST 2024
In Heart, Be at Peace, which can be read independently, Donal picks up the twenty- one voices from The Spinning Heart ten years on, in 2019.
Small-town Ireland is a different place, the economy having recovered from the economic crash that served as a backdrop to the events in that book. Now the work is back, the dramas have all seemingly died down, the dark days of recession and struggle are over.
But a new menace is creeping around the lakeshore and the lanes of the town, old grudges are festering and new ones are rising, and the peace of the community is about to be shattered in an unimaginable way. Young people are being drawn towards the promise of fast money whilst the generation above them tries to push back the tide of an enemy none of them can touch.
Donal Ryan: The Queen of Dirt Island: From the Booker-longlisted No.1 bestselling author of Strange Flowers [2022] paperback
€5.99 – €14.99From the award-winning, Booker longlisted author of the number one bestseller, STRANGE FLOWERS, a searing, jubilant novel about four generations of women and the love and stories that bind them.'One...
Donal Ryan: Strange Flowers [2020] paperback
€5.99 – €6.99WINNER of the An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2020'Endlessly surprising and incredibly moving' David Nicholls'A triumph ... the best novel I've read so far this year' Joseph O'Connor________________In...
Donal Ryan: Heart, Be at Peace [2024] paperback
€15.99In Heart, Be at Peace, which can be read independently, Donal picks up the twenty-one voices from The Spinning Heart ten years on, in 2019.Small-town Ireland is a different place,...
Donal Ryan: Heart, Be at Peace [2024] hardback
€18.99In Heart, Be at Peace, which can be read independently, Donal picks up the twenty-one voices from The Spinning Heart ten years on, in 2019.Small-town Ireland is a different place,...
Donal Ryan: Strange Flowers [2021] paperback
€5.99AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARD NOVEL OF THE YEARLonglisted for the Dublin Literary Awards"Mr. Ryan writes conspicuously beautiful prose... The fleeting happiness and abiding melancholy of the asymmetry, heightened by...
Donal Ryan: Strange Flowers: The Number One Bestseller [2021] paperback
€5.99 – €11.99WINNER of the An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2020'You have to truly love people to write like this' Rachel Joyce'One of the greatest novels of this century' Sunday...
Donal Ryan: The Spinning Heart [2013] hardback
€12.99This is the winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2013. It is longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013. It is the winner of Book of the Year at...
Donal Ryan: All We Shall Know [2016] paperback
€5.99 – €6.99`Martin Toppy is the son of a famous Traveller and the father of my unborn child. He's seventeen, I'm thirty-three. I was his teacher. I'd have killed myself by now...
Donal Ryan: From a Low and Quiet Sea [2018] paperback
€6.99 – €8.99***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018******SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018***'Beautiful and affecting' David Nicholls 'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel' RODDY DOYLEFarouk's country has been torn apart...
Donal Ryan: The Spinning Heart [2012] paperback
€5.99 – €15.70"My father still lives back the road past the weir in the cottage I was reared in. I go there every day to see is he dead and every day...
Donal Ryan: The Spinning Heart [2013] paperback
€4.99Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2013Shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award 2014Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013Winner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book...
Donal Ryan: The Thing About December [2013] paperback
€4.99 – €6.99'He heard Daddy one time saying he was a grand quiet boy to Mother when he thought Johnsey couldn't hear them talking. Mother must have been giving out about him...
Donal Ryan: All We Shall Know [2017] paperback
€4.99 – €11.41'Martin Toppy is the son of a famous Traveller and the father of my unborn child. He's seventeen, I'm thirty-three. I was his teacher. I'd have killed myself by now...
Donal Ryan: The Queen of Dirt Island [2023] paperback
€5.99 – €11.99A number one bestseller from the prizewinning author; a soaring novel about four generations of strong women and fierce love.From the award-winning, Booker longlisted author of the number one bestseller,...
John Scally: Great GAA Rivalries: Unforgettable Showdowns [2020] paperback
€11.70Fans always answer in the affirmative when their team asks: Will you still love me tomorrow? But everyone knows that it's the passion and energy of rivalries that fuel true...
Donal Ryan: The Spinning Heart [2019] paperback
€6.99 – €11.99Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2013Shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award 2014Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013Winner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book...
Donal Ryan: From a Low and Quiet Sea: From the Number 1 bestselling author of STRANGE FLOWERS [2019] paperback
€6.99 – €11.99***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018******SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018***'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel' RODDY DOYLEFarouk's country has been torn apart by war.Lampy's heart has been...
