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Attempting to rebuild her life after a violent relationship, Maggie Turner, a successful young artist, moves from London to Allihies and buys an ancient abandoned cottage. Keen to concentrate on...

A policeman's lot is not a happy one or so the song goes,but throw in the IRA, loyalist paramilitaries, the British army and aRepublican hunger strike, and it gets a...

Abandoned by their mother at a young age the Peters sisters, Aly, Mer and Cassie, have formed a tight bond in their new home in Germany with their father. When...

The city is Dublin, the year is 1972. Redser and Pancho are two teenagers from the North Wall. Redser is top of the class, especially good at maths. Pancho's knack...

Two sisters...two very different lives. Alison's American dream is in tatters. Her highflying career is on the skids in the financial meltdown. Her Upper East Side apartment is now way...

When Keeley and Mary, best friends from Dublin, go off to pick grapes in France in 1977, both their lives change profoundly. Provence is utterly different from boring, repressive Ireland....

Grace Quinn is an Englishwoman who has lived in rural Ireland all her adult life but is still a stranger. Haunted by the death of one son, for which her...

Successful, happy, rich, healthy, well-dressed, well-read, well-regarded and well-mannered, Aaron Gunn believes there's nothing he couldn't do or have if he really set his mind to it. Only the great-love-of-his-life...

Louisa is fed up with every aspect of her life. Boyfriend, job, flat - all these need an instant and radical makeover. And so she decides to change it all...

'THERE AREN'T ENOUGH WORDS FOR HOW MUCH I LOVE IT' MARIAN KEYES 'Humour, warmth & quintessential Irishness. Incredibly uplifting' WOMAN & HOME BOOKS OF THE YEARThe hilarious new romantic comedy...

In the cold dawn of Christmas Day 1897, Gilbert Rice, 85-years-old and in failing health, recounts his journey into manhood in a city on the cusp of great change. Belfast...

From the highly acclaimed author of Bad Day in Blackrock - inspiration for the 2012 award-winning film What Richard Did, directed by Lenny Abrahamson...Shortlisted for the 2021 An Post Irish...

Eve Moraghan broke one of the great taboos when she abandoned her children as toddlers. Now adults, Arabella, Willow and Rowan have heard nothing of their mother since the day...

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009.In Dublin, a newspaper editor is found dead. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on the dead man's desk. And in...

Where Have You Been? is award-winning novelist Joseph O'Connor's first collection of short stories in more than twenty years. Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York's Lower...

'It is no small matter, after all, to create something - to make it so only by setting down the words. We forget the magnitude, sometimes, of that miracle' Mr...

"As fine as it is frightening." (John Banville). "Strange, beautiful and quietly terrifying." (Donal Ryan, author of The Spinning Heart). "An original story, brilliantly told." (Irish Times). "This one will...

Controversial novel that challenges the moral standing of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland.

"In The Forest", set in the west of Ireland and based on a horrendous true crime, is the story of a young man who shoots dead three people in a...

Full of humour and unexpected imagery, this story follows Minnie O'Brien's progress, as a young bride sipping her first and only glass of port wine in Dublin - 'the city...

It is April 1941 and German bombers are in the air, about to attack Belfast. Oskar is a Luftwaffe conscript whose sweetheart, Elsa, was forced to flee Berlin for Ireland...