General Fiction - New & Classic Novels

Imagine you are a young mechanic living in a small community in France. You own your own home, and lead a simple life. Then, one evening, you open your front...

One of Stylist's must-read books of 2018'Original and charming, joyous and funny.' Tessa Hadley '...[this] debut novel sweeps us away to the world of Ursula Flight, wannabe actress and playwright...

Max Jackson, a New Zealander living and lecturing in Paris, has a complicated arrangement with his estranged French wife, Louise. In love with his younger Sorbonne colleague Sylvie, he finds...

Winner of the Miles Franklin Award, 2018Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, 2018 New Statesman's best books of the year, 2018Michelle de Kretser's fifth novel is both a delicious...

Nacho Figueras gallops into the world of scandal and seduction with his new series set in the glamorous, treacherous world of high-stakes polo.The naughty novel seems a dead cert to...

How many versions of the truth can there be?In June 2014, Julia White - a beautiful and intelligent young woman - blows up a coffee shop in central London, killing...

Picking up her pace, Frances saw a woman in the leaf-hung depths of the garden. She wore a long pink dress and a wide hat, and her skin was a...

Pages of a weathered original sonata manuscript - the gift of a Czech immigrant living in Queens - come into the hands of Meta Taverner, a young musicologist whose concert...

A well-researched work of fiction from bestselling author Barbara Hand Clow * From the bestselling author of The Pleiadian Agenda (98,000 copies sold) and The Mayan Code (57,000 copies sold)...

Mexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country, even for Maite, a secretary who spends her life seeking the romance found in cheap comic books and ignoring the activists protesting...

The instant Sunday Times Bestseller from the author of The Flatshare'Read this! Absolutely loved it!' Christina Lauren'This book is perfect' Rosie Walsh'Beth is quite rightly earning her title as "Queen...

'Warm ... uplifting -- Roisin Meaney is a gifted storyteller' Sheila O'Flanagan, bestselling author It's the day before the wedding ... Three strangers arrive home to Ireland to the house...

In a novel of breathtaking reach and inspired imagination, the Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's Ark tells the stories of two men who have much in common. What separates them...

By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, a profound and tender tale of guilt, a search for atonement and the hard, uncertain work of loving.'The writing is near perfect. But...

'One of the smartest writers of popular fiction around' Irish Independent'Grown up, intelligent fiction' Cathy KellyNumber 24 Ulysses Crescent is an elegant three storey mansion overlooking the beautiful Dublin Bay....

'The perfect holiday read' Irish ExaminerSummer has arrived in Derrybeggs and the biggest event of the year, the annual film festival, is less than a month away. But as the...

'An utterly captivating insight into these fascinating women and the times they lived in ... it's an absolute page-turner' Irish Independent'Masterfully and glamorously told ... essential reading for history and...

'I loved it!' Marian Keyes'Laugh-out-loud funny, sharp as a tack and compulsively readable ... I loved it.' Louise O'Neill'Astutely observed, whip-smart and very, very funny.' Sarah Breen'Laugh-out-loud hilarious ... White's...

'White's sharp-eyed take on modern life couldn't be more on target and fans of the equally readable Aisling series by Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght will doubtless lap up White's...

'Tara Stringfellow will be an author to watch for years to come . . . A stellar debut' Jacqueline Woodson, bestselling author of Red at the BoneJoan can't change her...

'Unique and breathtaking and painful and broken and perfect . . . just like love'Jodi Picoult'Exquisitely written, incredibly moving and impossible to put down' Beth O'Leary, author of The Flatshare___________Joel...

Five toasts. Five people. One lifetime. 'This is how you tell a story' Cecelia Ahern'An extraordinary novel, a poetic writer, and a story that moved me to tears.' John Boyne'I'm...

__________________________The new novel from the bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The MomentBrendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's...

*THE #3 IRISH BESTSELLER*'Momentous and epic' BERNARD MACLAVERTY'Superb and moving' JOHN BANVILLE'A lovely, piercing book' SEBASTIAN BARRYThree generations. More than a century of famine, war, violence and love. At sixteen...

'A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality' John BoyneOne summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their...

Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub...In 2012, Roddy Doyle showed us the world anew: through the back-and-forth of two Dublin pub-dwellers. They chewed the fat, set...

**Number One Sunday Times Bestseller**Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret.When Charlie comes into money,...

'An astonishingly accomplished debut . . . Secrets abound and it's blissful to watch the Brennans from the sidelines . . . Wholly engrossing.' - Cathy Kelly Some secrets you...

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Britain....

Following the bestselling The Seven Sisters, The Storm Sister is the second book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series of love and loss, based loosely on the mythology surrounding the famous...

'Imagined with an impressively detailed three-dimensional solidity' Sunday Times'Stylish and thoughtful ... The eerie claustrophobia of the setting will stay with the reader for a long while.' Literary Review 'Unputdownable...

'Confirms Tom Benn as one of the most powerful and urgent writers of our times' DAVID PEACE, author of the RED RIDING QUARTET'A rich archive of bygone badness ... Benn's...

A bold and unsettling parable about guilt, atonement and redemption from the winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award'It is time to call David Park what...

'Tender, devastating, witty. And deeply true. Sweetbitter meets Normal People' MEG MASON, author of SORROW AND BLISS'Haunting and bleakly compelling ... A writer of promise' SUNDAY TIMES'An absorbing debut about...

'I would compare her to writers like Helen Dunmore, Elizabeth Strout, Jon McGregor' BBC Radio 4'Harding achieves a weighty sense of silence and things not said in this unsettling book...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022'Absolutely dazzling' MARIAN KEYES'On every page there are little shimmering bombs' LISA TADDEO'Quietly devastating . . . Reminded me repeatedly...

For real mums at their wits' end, this grown-up activity book is perfect for all mothers in a bad mood.Let's face it: motherhood gives you SO many reasons for bad...

An English Western inspired by William Faulkner, Beneath the Trees of Eden is Tim Binding's masterpiece: a visionary depiction of England at the twilight of a rebellious era, told through...

It starts as a game at a book group one night. Never Have I Ever... done something I shouldn't. But Amy Whey has done something she shouldn't. And Roux, the...