Irish - All Irish Books

Your dream island. The love of your life. A secret that changes everything . . .'I loved it' TIM WEAVER'A griptastic thriller' LIZ NUGENTFor one week, everything in Luke Miller's...

The razor-sharp, violent and darkly comic second novel from actor, comedian and writer Ardal O'Hanlon. Dove Connolly is dead. That's not good for anyone in Tullyanna, never mind Dove. Now...

HOME IS WHERE THE SECRETS ARE BURIED On Glenbeg Farm, it was a morning like any other. Only the distressed bark of beloved collie Samson hinted that all was not...

***A Most Anticipated Book for 2023 in the Daily Mail, Irish Times and Sunday Independent***'Compelling' ANNE ENRIGHT'Based on a real-life murder trial in 1897 West Virginia, this dazzling debut arrives...

Dear Lonely Leinster Lady, I'm not really sure how to begin . . .* * *The truth drifts out to sea, riding the waves out of sight. And then the...

When Patrick Grant meets Ella, he seizes the opportunity of a new life with her. He imagines the future with his beautiful second wife by his side: the years ahead...

'Heart-felt stories of life and love' Woman & Home from the No. 1 bestselling author'Maeve Binchy's work continues to inspire . . . thought-provoking, warm and funny in equal measure'...

She stood on the edge of the grass. She hovered between worlds, deciphering the ground, tracing in mid-air the hall, the dining-room, the stairs. She was despairingly close to home...

AN 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...

What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds...

THE NO. 1 BESTSELLERHer husband has betrayed her. Can she forgive him - and should she? From the bestselling author of Three Weddings and a Proposal and The Missing WifeWhat...

London, Summer, 1964. The Beatles have just released A Hard Days Night and the swinging sixties are fast approaching. Ralph, twelve years old, waves his mother goodbye as she disappears...

This searing novel, set in the trenches of Flanders and the Irish midlands, tells of two friends from a rural town who join the British army and the devastating effect...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'Annie Macmanus is writer whose understanding and capturing of human nature comes as easily to her as breathing' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'A work of gilded melancholy that...

Ireland, home of legendary poets and storytellers, has been wracked by bloody, sectarian violence over the last quarter century. Bombs and guns are the primary negotiation tools used by Catholic...

'Not only haunted by death, but also by beauty and the strangeness of being alive. A deeply memorable novel' Colm Toibin '... I have friends and family, I am in...

Written in an engrossing novelesque style, yet with nothing fictional included, the book recounts, with engaging honesty, the arc of one human journey in a Belfast-based therapy from 1988-1997. To...

Two days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage in the heart of Ireland. They were looking for a...

With his trademark wit and honesty, Peter Sheridan has written an enthralling account of his parents' relationship, from their first encounter over a poker game in a Dundalk canteen to...

For most of her life, Stefanie Preissner was a people-pleaser. From hair-raising sleepovers and endless offers of cake to unwanted second dates and unrealistic work demands, she said yes to...

'From the moment I crossed the mountain I fell in love. With the place, which was more beautiful than any place I'd ever seen. With the people I met there....

In 1946, twenty-six-year-old Bridget Dolan walked up the path to the front door of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Alone and pregnant, she was following in the footsteps of...

"When my parents signed me up to Trojan Swimming Club, they had no idea of the evil behind Gibney's interest in me. As a thirteen-year-old, who knew nothing but kindness...

The unforgettable true story behind the Sunday Times bestselling memoir Finding Tipperary Mary.Bridget 'Tipperary Mary' Larkin faced poverty, bereavement, cruelty and abandonment many times over, yet never lost the heart...

'Truth telling and truth recovery have seldom been as heart-breaking or necessary as in this powerful story of human vulnerability and failure - and the ultimate triumph of the human...

***'Raw, brutal and life-affirming - Marise has written a hugely important book that is as entertaining as it is illuminating.' - Sara Pascoe'I couldn't put this down. A brave, honest,...

'This story is the result of long hours of delving into the pasts of my nanny and my ma. I hope it will give some insight into the experiences of...

Would you, should you, ever sell your well-appointed, five-storey house near Buckingham Palace to uplift an impoverished area in rural East Africa? Kenneth King thought he should, so he did....

The book is full of warm anecdotes and wry observations on the numerous literary, artistic and musical characters John Montague encountered, befriended and occasionally provoked. He recounts his personal and...

We all did time, staff and prisoners. Each of us had a number; each of us wanted the finality of getting out that gate.When John Cuffe entered Mountjoy as a...

John Spillane fell in love with singing when he was a small boy and now that he has written about 200 songs and an opera, he feels he's starting to...

'The first time Shocks saw Amber coming, he lowered his head so she could wrap her arms around his nose. It was as if they understood each other's pain. Like...

This comprehensive directory lists historic locations in Dublin on a street-by-street basis, describing events during the tumultuous decade from the 1913 Dublin Lockout, through the 1916 Easter Rising and Irish...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Castleknock and Blanchardstown, the main settlements in the Barony of Castleknock were small villages whose trade was focused mainly on agriculture. There was...