Irish Books

Rural Irish girl Ellie loves living in New York, working as a lady's maid for a wealthy socialite. She tries to persuade her husband, John, to join her but he...

Rural Irish girl Ellie loves living in New York, working as a lady's maid for a wealthy socialite. She tries to persuade her husband, John, to join her but he...

Every woman needs her Cathy Kelly time ... Kenny's Department Store, with its handsome Edwardian facade, is the jewel in Ardagh town's crown. TV presenter Ingrid has watched her husband...

At 66, Star Street in Dublin, someone is watching over the lives of the people living in its flats. But no one is aware of it - yet...One of them...

'perhaps the best novel about Northern Ireland life which has yet appeared' Irish Times'a quiet, compassionate story' New York TimesSarah Gomartin, the servant girl on Andrew Echlin's farm on Strangford...

The thrilling, shocking and romantic sequel to the bestselling YA debut FLAWED is finally here. When we embrace all our flaws, that's when we can finally become PERFECT... Celestine North...

*A BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK *'An immensely impressive debut from a major literary talent' JOSEPH O'CONNOR'Lush, lyrical and cleverly-constructed. A beautiful book' LOUISE KENNEDYThe disquieting story...

AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023_______________'A blade-sharp coming-of-age novel' SPECTATOR'Confirms Flattery as a bracingly original writer' IRISH INDEPENDENT'In enviably elegant prose, she manages to be both arch and...

'Highly original, deeply moving, simultaneously delicate yet hard hitting' Claire Kilroy'Brilliant, provocative, and darkly funny' Sarah Dunn'Unique, refreshing and revelatory ... Reads the zeitgeist perfectly' Helen Cullen'Intriguing, fresh, and satisfyingly...

This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast girls court trouble as they cool their heels on a slow...

Enzo Secchi, harbourmaster for Massawa, Eritrea's main port, is a loyal Italian colonial servant. He takes pride in running the docks, enjoys the occasional drink with his gregarious friend Salvatore,...

Part of the Open Door series of short books for emerging readers. Larry is an 87-year-old widow. She lives with her daughters Martha and Mary. Though old and frail, she...

'It seemed as if the town of Carn, a huddled clump of windswept grey buildings split in two by a muddied main street, had somehow been spirited away and supplanted...

Lucy Woodrow, a life-loving Dublin girl, tries hard to make sense of her life and her family. Her romantic and personal adventures are full of charm, wit and are illuminating...

The stunning new novel from Costa-Novel-Award-winning novelist Maggie O'Farrell: a portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976.It's July 1976. In London, it hasn't rained...

Old God's Time (March 2023), Sebastian Barry's stunning new novel, available to pre-order nowFrom the Costa Book of the Year-winning author of Days Without EndEven when you come out of...

This is a gripping family story spanning half a century, in the mould of Jonathan Franzen and John Lanchester. Declan and Sinead Boyle are pillars of society - born into...

'A deliciously dark tale of ambition, seduction and literary theft . . . an ingeniously conceived novel that confirms Boyne as one of the most assured writers of his generation.'...

Now entering his sixty-seventh year, Chris McCool can confidently call himself a member of the Happy Club: he has an attractive and exceedingly accommodating Croatian girlfriend and has been told...

All That is Solid Melts into Air by Darragh McKeon is an exceptionally moving novel of interwoven lives, set amidst one of the most iconic disasters in living memory.'Daring, ambitious,...

Wonderfully surreal, painfully real, this is the story of a Japanese salaryman who loses his job at a TV corporation, on his 40th birthday, and slips through to a different...

Nilus Moore, a young Irish boy, lives with his father in their decaying, shambolic house. Haunted by the death of his mother, he escapes the chaos outside in the refuge...

'Devastating' Anne Enright'Beautiful' Louise Nealon'Magnificent' Aingeala Flannery'Masterful' Kathleen MacMahonJean Kennedy is a gentle, perceptive girl growing up in a very strange world: suburban Dublin in the 1970s and '80s. In...

'Jan Carson is a born storyteller: her work is so imaginative, whimsical, mischievous and brave, but tender and curious too - you never know where she's going to take you...

Sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued, a multigenerational portrait of small-town life in Ireland from a refreshing new talent in literary fiction'A bittersweet love letter to small-town Irish life over several generations, in...

In the City, everything has a price. What's yours?At the age of twenty-eight, Dubliner Geri Molloy has put her troubled past behind her to become a major player at Steiner's...

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDWINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEBGE IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand...

Habitat follows seven people over the course of a week as their mid-century apartment building in Oslo inexplicably disappears. The web of neighbours is connected by family relations, long acquaintance,...