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From the author of A Ghost in the Throat, an unforgettable book - both history and ghost story - that will leave you gasping by its final page.In the city...

'The most striking example of Toibin's emotional control . . . [An] eloquent expression of the bond between a mother and a son' GuardianOne snowy morning, after arguing with her...

Exclusive Indie signed edition with beautiful sprayed edges and endpapers.Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historicalfiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking...

Lorraine would say afterwards that she was smitten straight off with Paddy Farrell. You could tell that he was occupying the room in a different way, he found the spaces...

LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL is the story of two friends who ordinarily would remain uncelebrated. It finds a value and specialness in them that is not immediately apparent and prompts...

A 2025 BOOK TO WATCH IN THE IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY INDEPENDENT, AND RTE GUIDE'A searingly beautiful novel'Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things'Outstanding, and has lingered in my...

Meet the happy couple. Luke and Celine, are in mutual unrequited love with each other, set to marry in a year's time. The best man, Archie, is meant to want...

WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS' PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER'S...

* THE HILARIOUS, HEARTWARMING NEW NOVEL FROM INTERNATIONAL NO. 1 BESTSELLER MARIAN KEYES*Anna has just lost her taste for the Big Apple...Anna has a life to envy. An apartment in...

The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlised Small Things Like These'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' Sebastian Barry'Among the finest contemporary...

A gripping thriller based on true story of an Irish priest in the Vatican who smuggled victims of the Nazis out of Italy under the nose of his SS officer...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW 'Absorbing' The Times'Gripping' ScotsmanQuirke's pathology department, set deep beneath 1950s Dublin, is his own gloomy realm: always quiet, always night, and always under his...

'So vivid . . . What [Macmanus has] managed to do with London, and what London means to different generations of Irish people, is terrific, and deeply moving' RODDY DOYLE'Totally...

'Outstanding.' Irish Independent'Exquisite.' Daily Mail'Hypnotic.' Financial Times'This is crime fiction for the connoisseur.' The Times'The body is in the library,' Colonel Osborne said. 'Come this way.'Detective Inspector St John Strafford...

The first in a mystery series from the much-loved Irish actor, writer and comedian, for readers who enjoy the warmth of Graham Norton and the mystery of Death in Paradise,...

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK AN OBSERVER...

The latest gripping new thriller featuring DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author 'The most dangerously addictive series in crime fiction' ERIN...

Aisling is 28, and she's a complete ... Aisling.Living 'Down Home' with Mammy and Daddy, she commutes to her good pensionable job in Dublin and stays two nights a week...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER, JUNE 2021'Annie Macmanus is a writer whose understanding and capturing of human nature comes as easily to her as breathing' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'A work of...

Edna O'Brien's beloved classics plunge us into the lives and loves of two girls in rural 1950s Ireland (with a new foreword by Eimear McBride).'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose -...

Releasing 10 is an epic and unforgettable love story in the international bestselling and TikTok-phenomenon The Boys of Tommen series, from Chloe Walsh.The power and pain of first love has...

'ZADIE SMITH-ESQUE IN ITS KALEIDOSCOPE OF LONDON' NIAMH CAMPBELL 'A MASTERPIECE. THIS SEARING TALE OF LOVE, SEX AND CLASS WILL RESONATE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME' OWEN JONES Summer in London...

The Seven Sisters is a sweeping epic tale of love and loss by the international number one bestseller Lucinda Riley. Maia D'Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their...

CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS WILL BE ADAPTED FOR A BBC THREE DRAMA, PREMIERING IN 2022! ***PRE-ORDER SALLY ROONEY'S NEW NOVEL, BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU, NOW*** 'This book. This book. I...

'Memorable, unsettling and humane' GUARDIAN'One of the best books I have ever read ... I can't recommend him or it enough' JOHNNY MARR'One of the most gifted writers of his...

Shortlisted for Best Novel in the Irish Book AwardsLonglisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionThe most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of...

In The News from Dublin, a beautiful collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island, Colm Toibin delves into the days and nights of those...

January 1965. The orphaned O'Leary siblings - Tom, Jack, Anna and Peggy - arrive in the village of Ballycrea, tight-lipped about their troubled past and desperate for a fresh start....

As Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, the simmering feud between small-time drug-dealer, Cillian English, and County Mayo's enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence...

MEET THE TOBIN FAMILY ... Joy, the complicated, troubled mother She's spent her life running from her past while trying to raise her children as best she can. Conor, the...

'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...

'A burst of warmth and wit, twists and turns' MARIAN KEYES on Other WomenFour sisters. Decades of secrets. One week they'll never forget...For the first time in years, the beautiful...

The compulsive and conversation-starting new novel from #1 bestselling author Louise O'Neill - coming soon and available to pre-order now!2002.Twin sisters Madeline and Chelsea Stone are joint stars of the...

From the bestselling author of The Stolen Child and The Lighthouse Secret comes a gripping new novel about two abandoned sisters, a missing mother and a shocking twenty-five year old...

WINNER OF THE ROONEY PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2023WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION 2023WATERSTONES IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF...

It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of...

Devastating, tough and tender, a portrait of modern masculinity as shaped by violence and poverty but also by the courage to love and to surviveAnthony grew up brawling with the...

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...

'I love this woman's writing. Golden sentences' Diana Evans'She has already been compared with writers such as Eimear McBride, Ali Smith and Claire Louise Bennett, and indeed Niamh Campbell does...

'I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN' SHON FAYE 'A MASTERPIECE. THIS SEARING TALE OF LOVE, SEX AND CLASS WILL RESONATE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME' OWEN JONES 'I WAS DEEPLY MOVED BY...

A ghostwriter is locked in an interview room with a man who might be a murderer, in this gripping new mystery thriller from the #1 bestselling author of 56 Days...

* THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *'A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.' OBSERVERThe explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism On...

Taming 7 is an epic and unforgettable love story in the international bestselling and TikTok-phenomenon The Boys of Tommen series, from Chloe Walsh. The power and pain of first love...

Journey to the dusty plains of Central Australia in The Pearl Sister, the fourth book in the number one bestselling Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley. A spellbinding story of...

Colm Toibin's Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. The book that inspired the major motion picture starring Saoirse...

'Graham is a lovely writer and this is by far his best. The passage of time is beautifully handled, and the emergence of Ireland into the modern world is a...