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A missing child. A shattered family. A mother's love that knows no bounds...1984. On board The Carousel cruise ship in the middle of the Mediterranean, two-year-old Robert vanishes from his...

'What a storyteller . . . masterful' - Donal Ryan 'Beautiful, compelling and exquisitely told. This story will haunt me' - Ruth Hogan 'To be savoured long after the last...

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...

'A page-turning novel filled with wonderful characters. Curl up and treat yourself to the perfect escape' Sinead Moriarty'I can highly recommend this beauty, it's a gem! Book of the year...

The sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger 'Superb.' The Times'Utterly absorbing.' Daily Mail'A joy to read.' Sunday Times'The ultimate page-turner.' Irish IndependentOn the...

My friend, Fionn, was being held hostage in, I don't know, Unganga Nanga, and the Government was refusing to send in a team of marines to extract him. Pack of...

In the cold winter of 1944, Sr Kate McCarthy - Irish nun and French Resistance leader - arrives at the gates of Ravensbruck Concentration Camp for women. She has endured...

An irresistible rivals-to-lovers romance from the author of Our SongWhat readers are saying about Our Song:'Funny, heartbreaking, with brilliant writing ... I want to read again immediately!''If you like Mhairi...

THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION**NOW A MAJOR FILM BY CHLOE ZHAO STARRING JESSIE BUCKLEY AND PAUL MESCAL**'Richly sensuous... something special' The Sunday Times'A...

Unable to free themselves from a personal trauma six years past, one that has come back to haunt them due to an outrageous miscarriage of justice, Brendan and Irene Gogarty...

One writer, one editor, one hot summer... A romance for the books? Ciara Sheridan's father has left her with three things: a sprawling and distinctly ramshackle estate on the Irish...

An Observer Best Debut Novelist of 2025 'One of the most exciting writers working in Ireland today' SALLY ROONEY 'Lively, bighearted ... an utter joy to read' COLIN BARRETT 'Truly...

A darkly epic novel about connection, disconnection and destruction - from the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Let the Great World Spin**Named a 2025 book...

Aisling is almost 32, and she's still a complete Aisling. Christmas lights are twinkling in the Big Apple, and Aisling is stunned to find her ex-boyfriend John on her doorstep....

So there I was, roysh, putting the 'in' in 'in crowd', hanging out, pick of the babes, bills from the old pair to fund the lifestyle I, like, totally deserve....

Anne Doyle has a dark side: an affinity for the ghoulish, unexplainable and supernatural. Reincarnated as the mistress of macabre, Ireland's best-loved newsreader delights in presenting Tales of the Otherworld,...

Some people are good at keeping secrets but some secrets are never meant to be kept...The beautiful old Bath House in Ballytokeep has lain empty and abandoned for decades. For...

THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING BOOK THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT!EVERY GENERATION HAS ONE GREAT LOVE STORY. THIS IS OURS.______ Losing the love of your life once is tragic. TWICE looks...

So there I was, roysh, class legend, schools rugby legend, basically all-round legend, when someone decides you can't, like, sit the Leaving Cert four times. Well that put a focking...

This new edition of the epic Strumpet City marks the centenary of the 1913 Lockout. It has been chosen as Dublin City Libraries' One City, One Book for 2013. First...

'Just brilliant.' DONAL RYAN 'An exceptionally good book.' C. J. SANSOM1816 was the year without a summer. A rare climatic event has brought frost to July, and a lingering fog...

Following on from the bestselling The Seven Sisters and The Storm Sister, The Shadow Sister is the third book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series of love and loss, loosely based...

'Honest, funny, clever, it sparkles with witty, wry observations on modern life. I loved it' Marian Keyes--------------------An uplifting story about one mother trying to hold it all together - told...

From the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of HAMNET and I AM, I AM, I AM, comes an intense, breathtakingly accomplished story of a woman's life stolen, and reclaimed. 'Unputdownable' Ali...

Aisling is 31, and she's still a complete Aisling. With BallyGoBrunch flying and the door firmly closed on her relationship with John, Aisling accepts an unexpected job offer and boards...

'So hopeful and romantic it lifted me for days' Marian Keyes'Heartwarming, moving and nostalgic' Louise O'Neill'Funny and tender - a gorgeous second chance romance' Sarra ManningIt's time to finish what...

When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as...

'EXTREMELY funny and refreshingly honest about the unacknowledged complexity of female friendship' Marian Keyes'Her best yet. It's astute, relatable, hilarious, insightful, and utterly impossible to put down' Louise O'NeillLexi is...

'An utterly captivating insight into these fascinating women and the times they lived in ... it's an absolute page-turner' Irish Independent'Masterfully and glamorously told ... essential reading for history and...

'Fans of Downton Abbey will adore this' Sunday Times'The perfect glorious escape ... the intimacy of a family drama, set against the most opulent of backdrops' Sunday Independent The Glorious...

** THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER **Some books are guaranteed to break your heart - and put it back together again. Letters to my Daughters is one of those wonderful books....

What if you had escaped your devout family in Ireland to live your best queer life - then your brother became a candidate for sainthood?An unmissable, award-winning, moving and funny...

'A writer living and thinking his way to the frontiers of human society' SpectatorCameo is the life story of invented Irish novelist Ren Duka, who has unexpected, runaway international success...

'An adventure story that is both exciting and moving' - The Times1649. As English soldiers trample Irish homesteads, leaving behind them a trail of barbarity and destruction, a few brave...

The Sunday Times top 10 bestselling summer read from author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT*Over 380,000 copies sold*Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award 'Addictive. Told with real humanity,...

THE HILARIOUS AND HEARTWARMING NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Classic Keyes: very funny' The Times'Made me punch the air' Independent'Funny, heart-breaking and wise' Daily Mail---After 20 years, high-flying PR Anna Walsh...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024****SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION AWARD 2024**'Beautiful...brings to life an entire world' SALLY ROONEY'Sublime... A thrillingly moreish novel' SUNDAY TIMESIt's the biggest...

'Huge of heart and soaring of soul' CLAIRE KILROY'A profound love story...Like Barbara Kingsolver, Hickey captures the pulse of the living moment' COLUM McCANN1979. In the vast and often unforgiving...

'Alan Murrin writes with the calm, poetic fluency of the best of Irish writers ... A stonkingly good novel. Just read it' SARAH WINMAN, bestselling author of Still Life'It will...

A NEW STATESMAN FICTION HIGLIGHT OF 2024A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024October, 1891. Butte, Montana. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich...

Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin...

Ten years on from The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Booker Prize-winning author, Roddy Doyle, returns to one of his greatest characters, Paula Spencer. Paula Spencer is turning forty-eight, and...

Celebrating 100 Years of Joyce's masterpiece The authoritative Hans Walter Gabler text; with a new introduction by Anne Enright. Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold...

'Our nation's great satirist ... the most sustained feat of comic writing in Irish literature' Irish TimesIt's the end of the world as Ross knows it ... this time, there's...

A story of a dysfunctional but deeply loveable family reunited, set during the legendary summer of 1976, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE by Maggie O'Farrell was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa...