Irish Books

Once, in Kilburn, married to the sugar-lipped Catherine and sharing his daughter Immy's passion for the enchanted kingdom of winterwood, Redmond Hatch was happy. But then infidelity, betrayal and the...

Jessica and Carol, two childhood friends, are both engaged to be married. Secretly afraid her fiance is going to chicken out, Carol is insisting on a double wedding. Jessica is...

The sleepy Irish town of Mountfern is suddenly transformed one day when Ferncourt, a large house burnt down during the Troubles, is bought by an American with dreams of turning...

'Beautiful, haunting.' LOUISE KENNEDY'Vividly real . . . There's love here as well as pain.' MARIAN KEYES'A sure-footed and emotionally complex novel . . . absorbing.' IRISH TIMES'I loved it.'...

Andrea and Lexi thought they would be best friends for ever. Through thick and thin, growing pains and wild nights out, they were inseparable. But it was their biggest adventure...

He had met her three times and three times forgotten all about her...William Barrow finds himself in lonely retirement in West Cork. Once an internationally renowned pianist, a terrible skin...

A bomb is born, lives and dies in a demented rural school; Ireland experiences a rain of corpses falling from the sky; a strange tribal matriarchy on the banks of...

An anthology of Irish fiction, from "Gulliver's Travels" to the current younger generation of Irish writers. It includes sections from novels, with an introduction explaining the context, as well as...

The Forgotten Waltz is a memory of desire: a recollection of the bewildering speed of attraction, the irreparable slip into longing. In Terenure, a pleasant suburb of Dublin, in the...

'Tender, funny and romantic' Marie Claire Christine Rose is crossing the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin late one night when she sees a stranger, Adam, poised to jump. Desperate to help,...

Sheila O'Flanagan's bestselling HOW WILL I KNOW? is a heart-wrenching and life-affirming read that should not be missed by readers of Marian Keyes and Freya North. It was love at...

When Carey Browne decides it's time for a holiday and flies into New York City -- one of her favourite shopping destinations -- she knows she'll have a good time....

'The Irish do love telling stories, and we are suspicious of people who don't have long, complicated conversations. There used to be a rule in etiquette books that you should...

Fintan Doherty's 1950s childhood in Glenbay, Donegal, is filled with two things: tales of America told by a plethora of 'returned Yanks' and the silent sadness after his mother's death.Soon...

WINNER OF THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2014She stood on the edge of the grass. She hovered between worlds, deciphering the ground, tracing in mid-air the hall,...

AN IRISH TIMES FICTION BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024In Barcelona, we meet a cast of characters who live turbulent inner lives. In a Spanish hotel room a marriage...

'Exceptional ... The imaginative storytelling and fine prose of Remembrance Sunday puts McKeon in the big leagues' Irish Times'A supreme storyteller' Sunday Times'If you enjoy Colum McCann's work, this novel...

'Extraordinary. I loved it' - Jessie Burton'Engrossing and moving . . . gives voice to so much that's unspoken about Ireland' - Emma Donoghue'Wonderfully compelling . . . haunting' -...

Grania and Sylvia Fox live in the Georgian house of Aragon, with their mother, their Aunt Pidgie and Nan O'Neill, the family nurse. Grania is conducting a secret affair with...

Mary Lavelle, a young and beautiful Irish woman, travels to Spain to work as a governess and see a little of life before returning to Mellick to marry her fiance,...

Patrick Newman, a bank cashier, gives a lift to a young girl and later an enigmatic old man while driving along the east coast of Ireland. From these small incidents...

Patrick Newman, a bank cashier, gives a lift to a young girl and later an enigmatic old man while driving along the east coast of Ireland. From these small incidents...

Axel Vander, celebrated academic and man of culture, is spending his twilight years on the west coast of America. For decades, he has lived with the knowledge of a tragedy...

THE WOMEN WHO RAN AWAY, THE LATEST BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM SHEILA O'FLANAGAN, IS AVAILABLE IN EBOOK - OR PREORDER THE PAPERBACK NOW!Readers of Marian Keyes, Lisa Jewell and Santa Montefiore...

The irresistible new novel from No. 1 bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan.Abbey Andersen is the last person to go looking for change. Yes, it's tough that she barely sees her mother...

The new fabulously addictive read from the No. 1 bestselling author As TV's favourite weather forecaster, Lainey is good at making predictions. But what she doesn't foresee is that her...

Sinead Moriarty poured all her experiences in trying to get pregnant for the first time into her debut novel The Baby Trail. Her heroine Emma Hamilton discovers that the road...

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION The first novel from Joseph O'Neill since NETHERLAND. `O'Neill, in this book, has...

Everything is changing in Rossmore. No longer a sleepy Irish town, where the young people leave to travel the world; nowadays it's a prosperous place, so busy that a new...

The day Frances Fall steals a baby from outside a shop, is the day her past catches up with her. At the age of thirty-six, Frances is forced to relive...

In the museum Martin stands watch over the past. He has travelled a long way from his brutal childhood in the Loyalist heartlands of Belfast and built a life he...

The second annual collection of the finest in Irish contemporary short stories, featuring Eugene McCabe, Michael Collins, Colum McCann and Mike McCormack among others.