Irish Books

In the spring of 1945, farm-worker Matthew Peoples runs into a burning byre and does not come out alive. The farm's owner, Barnabas Kane, can only look on as his...

In this unique collaboration, award-winning writers Deirdre Sullivan and Oein DeBhairduin and artist Yingge Xu explore their shared passion for storytelling, folklore and ritual. Encompassing eight stories inspired by the...

It's every mother's worst fearOn a sun-hazed afternoon in the Florida Keys, a child goes missing from the beach. Dr Mirren Fitzpatrick appeals to the world to help find her...

Matthieu Zela has lived his life well. In fact, he's lived several lives well. Because Matthew Zela's life is characterised by one amazing fact: his body stopped ageing before the...

'Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century' Anthony Burgess, ObserverFollowing the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th June 1904, and what happens...

Intravenous lines, catheters, bodies in distress, wounds: three young surgical interns working the night shift must care for - and keep alive - the influx of patients, while frightened and...

In The Geometer Lobachevsky, Duncan follows his interest in internationality and materiality, leading to unforeseeable connections between people and places. Set in the early 1950s, the story follows Soviet geometer...

'Maeve Binchy! I love her stories and have since Light a Penny Candle.' TOM HANKS_____________________A FRIENDSHIP NOTHING COULD DESTROYEvacuated from Blitz-battered London, the shy Elizabeth White is sent to stay...

For fans of Marian Keyes, Dolly Alderton and Holly Bourne, ALMOST LOVE is one of the most addictive and heartbreaking reads of the year 'Compulsive' Sunday Times'Breaks another boundary' Irish...

WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS"John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the story of his strangest trip."A novel of family,...

*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...

SHOCKING SECRETS, LIFE-CHANGING TRUTHS AND ONE UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEY . . .'One of my favourite authors' MARIAN KEYESThe stunning NUMBER ONE bestselling book by Sheila O'Flanagan, and your perfect summer read!Deira...

It's New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky. Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air. Far below, the lives of complete...

Holly O'Neill knows that every charm bracelet tells a story. Many years ago she was sent one with just a single charm attached. The charms have been appearing ever since,...

The brilliant debut novel from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller NOTES TO SELFDublin, 7 October 2019One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the...

'FUNNIEST YET!' IRISH EXAMINERA love affair born in rural Ireland! Two mismatched lovers, locked in a relationship that will change both of them . . . forever! Ross O'Carroll-Kelly was...

Meet the Rabbitte family, motley bunch of loveable ne'er-do-wells whose everyday purgatory is rich with hangovers, dogshit and dirty dishes. When the older sister announces her pregnancy, the family are...

'I enjoyed Out of Love hugely! It's vivid, very compelling storytelling' Marian Keyes'I fell in love with this book. The writing was good enough to make me forget I had...

*One Dublin One Book choice for 2022**Shortlisted for an Irish Book Award 2021*When Nora Barnacle, a twenty-year-old from Galway working as a maid at Finn's Hotel, meets young James Joyce...

'The book of the summer ... Kept me rapt until the final page' THE TIMES'A sharp, smart, witty modern love story. I loved it' David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY'More...

'Brings twist after delicious twist. I love this book.' Jo Spain______________________________Their school is about to be taught a lesson...Beverley Franklin will do whatever it takes to protect her local school's...

Blinded in an attack in the aftermath of Irish independence, Rose Raven is living quietly with her brother. When she discovers he's involved in anti-government propaganda, she tells no one,...

Fiachra Sheridan's The Runners follows the adventures of Bobby and his best friend Jay, two lively 13-year-olds growing up in inner-city Dublin in the 1980s. Sheridan skilfully explores the intensity...

I was a rugby player with a great future behind me. A 35-year-old father-of-five with an expanding waistline, who was trying to survive the bloody battlefield we call everyday life....

The youngest daughter of Lord Kensley-Balfe, a wealthy landowner from the West of Ireland, Delia is privileged and beautiful. Cossetted by her parents, her older sister Mona and her brother...

For Theresa and her student friends, Belfast can seem an urban nightmare - a city where violence can erupt at any moment, where secrecy and bitterness are nursed behind closed...

The Love Department by William Trevor - a darkly comic novel about a thief of the heart, by one of the world's best writersFrom the offices of her Love Department,...

X + Y = K is the final, astonishing work by the late Ciaran Carson - an electrifying fusion of memoir, ghost story, and speculative fiction that pushes his lifelong...

'There's more than one kind of beauty, just as there's more than one kind of love.' He pauses. 'And in this community we're building, we know that love divided is...

'For over thirty years, Eoin McNamee has been one of the outstanding writers of his generation' David Peace 'McNamee's books are intense and compressed, but so carefully worked that they...

Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction and The Goldsmiths PrizeA Guardian, New York Times, Spectator, Hot Press and White Review Book of the Year'A Shock inhabits the...

In this unique collaboration, award-winning writers Deirdre Sullivan and Oein DeBhairduin and artist Yingge Xu explore their shared passion for storytelling, folklore and ritual. Encompassing eight stories inspired by the...

'A very fine debut novel from a future star of Irish crime writing' John ConnollyThe Boy is a powerful novel of wasted talent, loss, greed and revenge - but also...

Darcy Archer works in a small bookstore in Manhattan. A daydream believer, she refuses to settle for anything less than being swept off her feet by the perfect man... literally....