Irish Books

Look out for 'Summer of 85', the movie based on Aidan Chambers's 1982 novel Dance on My Grave by groundbreaking French director Francois Ozon.'The film is an opportunity to think...

With a new introduction by Lorraine Kelly, Sunday Times bestselling author of THE ISLAND SWIMMER'This is Binchy at her best' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A brilliant storyteller' GRAHAM NORTONRia and Marilyn have...

Christine Beckett is faced with some home truths when her best friend, suffering from dementia, decides after a lifetime to be honest with her; Olivia Fletcher has an epiphany at...

Rich and epic Historical Fiction set against the backdrop of the Great Famine. Perfect for fans of Winston Graham and Ken Follett. Boston in the 1850s is the hub of...

THE INSTANT TOP 5 IRISH BESTSELLER 'Wild, singular...gripped me from the start' DOUGLAS STUART 'Passionate, wild, hugely atmospheric' DAVID NICHOLLS 'Intelligent, probing' MAGGIE O'FARRELL 'A gorgeous, mysterious read' AISLING BEA...

The Sunday Times bestselling novel from the author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT*Over 260,000 copies sold*Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 'O'Farrell writes with lyrical precision about sex, fear...

The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller from the author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT*400,000 copies sold* 'Insightful and emotionally raw' Daily Telegraph______When Lily moves into Marcus's flat, she is...

The groundbreaking debut novel from the bestselling author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT: one of the most extraordinary love stories you'll ever read.*Over 480,000 copies sold* 'This devastatingly skilful...

This remarkable volume brings together all of John McGahern's short fiction, fully revised, in a definitive text. Mc Gahern has long been recognized as a contemporary master of the short...

THE BOOK- A woman of fifty-eight, meets an illusionist - the Illusionist - on a train. At first, life is blissfully sweet, but when her first novel turns brings overnight...

Set in the English countryside, Open, Heaven unfolds over the course of one year as two teenage boys meet and transform each other's lives.* A Guardian, Irish Times and BBC...

One long, languid midsummer's day, the Godleys gather at the family home of Arden to attend their father's bedside. Adam, the elder child, and Petra, only nineteen, find that relations...

After years of moving from place to place, a young family finds shelter in an isolated house in the Irish countryside. Their father is missing, Mum is a healer and...

'Jan Carson is a born storyteller: her work is so imaginative, whimsical, mischievous and brave, but tender and curious too - you never know where she's going to take you...

Willie Ryan returns to his home town in 'the great central plain of Ireland', having escaped from the insane asylum where he was committed, and unvisited, by his devout Catholic...

From the author of HAMNET and I AM, I AM, I AM comes the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller (2002) MY LOVER'S LOVER, an intense, unnerving and passionate story of...

From her home in County Wicklow, as Helena Wolff looks back on her childhood growing up in Kenya, she recalls with affection the stories of animal behaviour that her brother...

Everyone knows that Amy and Dan are made for each other. So when they announce their engagement their families are over the moon, especially Amy's mother Helen. What could be...

Although Liz McManus never knew her maternal grandparents, by using old family papers, she has pieced together their story. Wallace and Margaret McKay are Unitarian by birth and republican by...

Feisty female Leo Street lives in Dublin and despairs of ever getting her career as a private investigator off the ground. When an obnoxious politician walks into her office demanding...

Set in London and Monmouth in the late 1700s, this is an extraordinary novel about Mary Saunders, the young daughter of a poor seamstress. Mary hungers greedily for fine clothes...

'GAVE ME SERIOUS WRITER ENVY' KIRSTY LOGAN'ONE OF MY FAVOURITE STORYTELLERS' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE'AN INCREDIBLE AND UNIQUE IMAGINATION' IRISH TIMES'I WAS DELICIOUSLY HORRIFIED' JENN ASHWORTHThe belly groan of a face...

With THE LIGHT OF EVENING Edna O'Brien returns to the world of her first novel, rural Ireland and the relationship between mother and daughter. Whereas her first novel THE COUNTRY...

Set against the glorious backdrop of World War Two Ireland, this dramatic, emotional and romantic novel is perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy, Lorna Cook, Tracy Rees and Jenny Ashcroft!'A...

'It's the most wonderful time of the year: Lexie's back - in her most fun, magical and life-affirming story yet!' - Carmel HarringtonThis Christmas, Lexie Byrne is about to find...

'A writer with the courage to reinvent the sentence as she pleases, and the virtuosity required to pull it off.' Literary Review'A writer for whom language is an end not...

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLERFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR - BRITISH BOOK AWARDS'Richly sensuous... something special' The Sunday Times'A thing of...

This is the story of Dan Murray, who emigrated to England in 1952. He finds work as a building labourer and in time he becomes a building contractor.John B. Keane...