Irish Books

Part and parcel of a large and boisterous family, he is pushed around the streets of Dublin by his brothers; the small crippled occupant of a boxcar, silently witnessing the...

This vivid and masterfully woven collection of short stories explores the condition of Ireland's people as the country cautiously steps towards modernity. Caught between tradition and change, these characters long...

Countless readers have been delighted by Father Andrew M.Greeley's bestselling tales of Nuala Anne McGrail, a fey, Irish-speaking woman blessed with the gift of second sight, and her husband and...

Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel AwardLonglisted for the 2015 Man Booker PrizeA darkly glinting novel set on Ireland's Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture and...

This novel is concerned with murder, revenge and the ownership of land in contemporary Ireland.

'A brilliant, one-of-a-kind writer' DAVID NICHOLLSAt sixty-six, Paula Spencer - mother, grandmother, widow, survivor - is finally living her life.A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, a man -...

Pre-order now! A stunning reissue to celebrate the highly-acclaimed debut from beloved, global no. 1 bestseller Marian Keyes'A warm and hilarious page turner' Good Housekeeping'Gloriously funny' Sunday Times'Keyes is in...

When Lara was twelve, and her younger brother Alfie eight, their father died in a helicopter crash. A prominent plastic surgeon, and Irishman, he had honed his skills on the...

I slept right through to the next day. Missed the funeral and everything. Mam said it was just as well. Would've been too upsetting. I think of him now, though....

This is a collection of stories about Irish characters, often far from home, who are passionate, disparate and desperate. His stories are peopled with exiles, misfits, deviants of all kinds...

________________________'A thriller with a difference. The plot is as taught as the prose is tight - both qualities reminiscent of Graham Greene' - Sunday Express'Once you have opened its first...

Three school friends, Cassie, Laura and Aileen, shared their secrets and dreams as young girls. Now they are together again, sharing their aspirations, as Cassie launches her interior design business,...

When Michael Connolly was a child in the 1970s, his mother told him about all the things that happened to her in that place. All that the nuns had done....

WINNER OF THE 2025 KATE O'BRIEN AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE'A taut generational story set on a South London estate' Independent, July Book of the Month'McDonald is skilled...

Kilkenny, 1939. Ireland might be neutral, but Kitty Flynn is caught in her own war. Forced to give up her child at seventeen, she escaped to London in search of...

*A SUNDAY INDEPENDENT HOT DEBUT AUTHOR OF 2025* Into the woods. Count to ten. Only one of us comes home again. 1995, Ireland. Panic grips the village of Drumsuin when...

A Lebanese student has had enough of a lecturer's inappropriate advances; a frustrated author takes her revenge on a publisher; a petty dispute over a land boundary escalates wildly; a...

You're nine when you get your first computer. It's not long before you discover porn. You don't know what you're watching, but you do know that you shouldn't tell anybody.Later,...

Based on a notorious clerical scandal in Victorian Ireland, The Big Chapel by Thomas Kilroy deals with the indelible essence of humanity and the dangers of adhering to ideological dogma....