Irish Books

'Shroud will not be easily surpassed for its combination of wit, moral complexity and compassion. It is hard to see what more a novel could do' Irish TimesDark secrets and...

Iseult 'Izzy' Mulcahy is a mother and a woman in love, a writer and a thinker - and the last person anyone would expect to commit murder ...After being charged...

A love story. A gamble. A battle. Let the games begin.It's an era of looming war, and the erosion of freedom in the name of national security. A time of...

Midlife is a chrysalis, not a crisis. 'A warm, witty and wise guide to embracing midlife - and far beyond' Liz Earle 'As a post-menopausal woman, l can absolutely tell...

Olivia Healy is about to marry handsome Barry Breslin - heir to Breslin's Bakery - in a proper white wedding. It looks as if the family's luck is changing. Queenie,...

In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family Colm Toibin delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast...

It's been almost eleven years since Rhea Farrell last wrote to her mother.It was a Friday night ritual - until Rhea's father decided it was stupid to write letters to...

LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE'A writer out to do whatever the hell he wants . . . a grisly, gross-out slice of medieval...

It's dangerous . . . and that's the truth about love . . . A young man shields his terrible wounds from his mother; a husband believes he can love...

In the course of conversation, she learns how her birthplace is viewed and remembered by a host of Dubliners - from broadcasters to shop workers recalling showband days; by the...

'To the outside world we were this perfectly contented happy family -- a mother, a father and three little girls. And the truth? Really it was a conspiracy of silence...

'McGill writes about life, love and telegraphy with a poet's clarity' The Sunday Times*An Irish Times Book of the Year 2018*As the twentieth century dawns on the island of Rathlin,...

Richard and Judy Book Club Pick 2019 and a Sunday Times Number One Bestseller.Full of her trademark mix of unforgettable characters and heart-breaking secrets, The Butterfly Room is a spellbinding,...

In her latest collection of dark, hilarious and provocative short stories, Lucy Sweeney Byrne explores women on the brink - of love, of joy, of disaster - with her signature...

It's Derry and it's the Hallowe'en break. And Aimee McCourt Logan's cross-border exchange partner (yeah, she goes to that kind of school) Caoimhe is coming to visit. More to the...

In Dublin, a newspaper editor called Cartwright is found dead. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on Cartwright's desk. And in the dossier Owen finds a photograph,...

A classic love story and a seminal work of Irish literature that is a testament to romance, magic and the power of true love. With an introduction by actor John...

Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves...

John Connolly, bestselling author of five brilliantly scary mystery novels, now turns his pen to the short story to give us a dozen chilling tales of the supernatural. In this...

This is the stunning new novel from the Number 1 bestselling Irish author. Everybody has a secret...Erin Joyce fled Dublin two years ago for the hills and lakes and winding...

It is summer and the Canadian Rockies are on fire. Fleeing the fallout of a relationship gone wrong, Alan West returns to the small town in the valley where he...

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From critically acclaimed Irish horror writer A.M. Shine, the sequel to The Watchers, now adapted into a major motion picture produced by M. Night Shyamalan.YOU MAY HAVE ESCAPED... BUT YOU'LL...