Irish Books

Now a major motion picture starring Anjelica Huston"Mammy" is what Irish children call their mothers and The Mammy is Agnes Browne-a widow struggling to raise seven children in a North...

A performance artist opens his chest and displays his beating heart on stage. A young man walks through the hills of south-west Romania, where the locals have peculiar ideas about...

'Roisin Meaney - utterly authentic, utterly irresistible' Irish IndependentIt's never too late for second chances . . .For the first time in her life, Lydia is taking a great big...

Your body. Their Choice.Great Britain, 2040. The Hope Party is in power, and their Future Generations laws have transformed the nation: the countryside is being rewilded, immigration curtailed, and births...

SIX FRIENDS. THREE COUPLES. ONE HOLIDAY THAT WILL RUIN EVERYTHING . . .'Exactly what I crave from popular fiction' MARIAN KEYES'Utterly gripping, glamorous, and emotionally devastating' LOUISE O'NEILL'Riveting' IRISH TIMESMAGGIE'S...

In 1920s rural Ireland, Pearl Somers lives happily with her parents, her sisters Opal and Ruby, and her little brother Willie in the gate lodge of Kilnashone Castle, where her...

Eva Tyne, an Irish violinist living and working in New York, collapses after her solo debut and is rushed to hospital. Still dazed after the incident, she finds herself embarked...

From the million-copy bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop! In a quiet village in Ireland, a mysterious local myth is about to change everything... One hundred years ago, Anna, a...

When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma....

* THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER (The Times) * SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 ** WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR: DEBUT FICTION **...

A startling and gripping novel, Suzy, Suzy follows a teenage girl trying to understand the chaos of her family life. Suzy lives in a dysfunctional household. She can't stand her...

Sunless is one of the lucky few. He has problems - don't we all, these days? - but at least his health insurance will allow him to have them treated....

'A beautiful, beguiling book full of resonances that continue to sound long after you've turned the final page. Its imagining is magical, its execution dazzlingly skilful.' Sunday Tribune Ghosts opens...

'Stylish, deft...an absolutely fascinating novel' Guardian'Haunting, mesmerising, and so deeply intelligent' Kamila Shamsie, author of Women's Prize for Fiction winning Home Fire'Powerful...compelling and profoundly moving' Irish Times'Heartbreaking, sweetly logical and...

***SELECTED AS A 2026 BOOK TO WATCH IN THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY INDEPENDENT, RTE***'An electrifying debut' Economist'One of the debuts of the year' Irish Times'A stylish, adroit...

'A wonderfully stylish writer with an unwavering eye' JOHN PATRICK McHUGH'Perfectly calibrated . . . These characters spike off the page' A. K. BLAKEMOREHow do you mourn someone you never...

OLD GOD'S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY'S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWA stunning return from the prize-winning and best-selling author ofThe Secret Scripture Jack McNulty is a 'temporary...

These stories rework myths and fables. It is, in form, a kind of magic alphabet, from A to Z, with the subjects drawn from chillingly comic Irish fairy tales; from...

An unexpected letter sends a man and his wife into their pasts - and offers them both a shot at redemptionAfter an involuntary retirement from his high-flying Hollywood career, Stafford...

***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018******SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018***'Beautiful and affecting' David Nicholls 'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel' RODDY DOYLEFarouk's country has been torn apart...

When a loved one disappears, you can never be sure whether they are alive or dead Jay once content with life in rural Ireland, left his childhood home and those...

For sixteen-year-old Fergal Flynn, growing up in 1980s Belfast isn't easy. His father and brothers despise him; he's his mother's favourite one day, her punching bag the next; he has...

The international bestseller, now a major film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan. _________'A breathtaking affirmation of miracles and the power of human love' - The Times'A delicate and...

In 1933, Bella Stuart leaves her quiet London life to move to Italy to tutor the child of a beautiful Jewish heiress and an elderly Italian aristocrat. Living at the...

An Irish Sunday Independent Book of the Year Pick for 2025!'Caragh Maxwell is a writer to watch.' Irish Examiner 'Unsparing and affectionate.' Anne Enright, author of The Wren, The Wren'Utterly...

'Beautiful and complex' Annie Proulx'A writer of exceptional gifts' Louise Kennedy'O'Grady strikes a beautiful note' Kevin BarryMoving from West Belfast and County Monaghan to the streets of San Francisco, Timothy...

The two protagonists of the title are mid-ranking policemen operating amongst London's criminal classes, but each is plagued by dreams of elsewhere and, in the case of Hawthorn, a nightlife...

Tracing the early years of Martin McBride, a young Catholic boy growing up on the streets of Belfast, THE FALOORIE MAN is a stark, funny, and at times heart-wrenching tale...

The new novel from the international no. 1 bestselling author. Izzie Silver left the small Irish town of Tamarin behind her for life in New York. She's big, beautiful, and...

It's bad enough that Claire's husband James left her the day he was at the birth of their first child - I mean, if he though it was going to...