Irish Fiction

All of Aiden Mathews's stories take their frail and passionately wrong-headed narrators over the edge into the obscene and the sacrilegous. They circle dangerously around the secret places where incest,...

A powerful debut set in Belfast and London in the latter years of the twentieth century. The Troubles turned Northern Ireland into a ghost factory: as the manufacturing industry withered,...

Published in French in 1961, and in English in 1964, How It Is is a novel in three parts, written in short paragraphs, which tell (abruptly, cajolingly, bleakly) of a...

Superb storytelling from one of the world's best-loved writers.Just round the corner from St Jarlath's Crescent (featured in MINDING FRANKIE) is Chestnut Street. Here, the lives of the residents are...

The brand new, utterly hilarious and totally addictive romantic comedy in the No. 1 bestselling AISLING series'Aisling is one of the finest comic creations of all time' MARIAN KEYES'That rare,...

1936: London is abuzz with gossip about the affair between Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. But the king is not the only member of the aristocracy with a hard decision...

Micheal Burns lives alone in his family's bungalow at the end of Kerry Head in Ireland. It is a picturesque place, but the cliffs have a darker side to them:...

Sixteen years on from his last novel, Bernard MacLaverty reminds us why he is regarded as one of the greatest living Irish writers. A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore,...

CAROLINE'S SISTER by No. 1 bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan is an unforgettable tale of family ties, secrets and surprises - not to be missed by readers of Veronica Henry and...

If Dostoyevsky had been born in Dublin this is the book he would have written. Noel Boyle, newly arrived in Dublin, is a man threatened by his past and petrified...

WINNER NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2021 AT THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 'Wonderful and mad' Roddy Doyle'Sparks with tender charm and humour . . . Fresh, bleakly funny' Sunday...

This novel opens with a scene of war which is destined to become a classic: trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland, their horses dying around...

THE RACHEL INCIDENT - Caroline O'Donoghue's bestselling new novel* - is out nowCharlie's life isn't going forward - so she's decided to go backAfter a tough few years floundering around...

Pickpocket John Jacob Turnstile is on his way to be detained at His Majesty's Pleasure when he is offered a lifeline, what seems like a freedom of sorts - the...

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...

LONGLISTED FOR BOOKTOK AUTHOR OF THE YEARBridesmaids meets The Hangover in the laugh-out-loud rom-com of the yearWhat happens in Vegas . . . doesn't always stay there.Kate is the ultimate...

The heartwarming new novel from this No.1 bestselling authorRestoring a romantic, crumbling villa brings Shelly back to the small Spanish village she and her husband Gerry fell in love with...

These deftly told, amusing but disturbing stories vividly capture an Ireland in flux and crisis where the coping classes, "the squeezed middle", increasingly face the threat of economic and emotional...

'A strange, original and unusual novel, which takes two unlikely worlds and yokes them together. Remarkable ... I've never read anything quite like it' Carlo GeblerDolly Considine runs a late-night...

Esther Doyle is a young Irish girl growing up in a small fishing community in Connemara in the 1950s. Her life is a stable one, bound by the slow rhythms...

Piper McKenzie is young, beautiful and rich - the darling of the Dublin social scene. Married to handsome music promoter Charlie White and successful in taking over the family hotel...

This book presents Irish women - known and unknown, real and invented - as their compatriots have described and interpreted them. They range from figures in history to the hairdresser,...

The Tottenham family is falling apart. There is no money to maintain the crumbling house and farm in County Westmeath, so decisions have to be made. Brothers Nick and Tony,...

Forty-two-year-old Vinnie knows lots of things.He knows new books and school shoes are expensive. He knows his teenage daughter keeps getting into trouble and he knows his seven-year-old has wet...

Following the premature death of her parents, 19-year-old Dee Hewson puts her college plans on hold to go travelling with her boyfriend, Neil. All goes well until they reach Las...

Kitchen Confidential meets Nick Hornby - a brilliant portrait of the highs and lows of life in contemporary DublinAfter Rory has returned to Dublin to bury his mother, he decides...

'The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is as sensuous and polished as an ornate painting' Daily TelegraphBeautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s, the richest woman in the world....

"This unflinching novel chronicles a woman's relationship with a violent man in a way that brings fresh insight to the subject . . . engaging and uplifting." -O, The Oprah...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A.S. BYATTWhen eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers' residence in Paris, little does she know what fascinating secrets the house itself contains. Henrietta finds that her...

The most important lessons in life can be the hardest to learn...Your family are always there for you...aren't they?For Tara, Vee, Niall and Damian, the children of the Shine family,...