Irish Fiction

*One Dublin One Book choice for 2022**Shortlisted for an Irish Book Award 2021*When Nora Barnacle, a twenty-year-old from Galway working as a maid at Finn's Hotel, meets young James Joyce...

A 2023 HIGHLIGHT FOR: THE TIMES * TELGRAPH * STYLIST * GQ * GUARDIAN * HARPER'S BAZAAR * GOOD HOUSEKEEPING * WATERSTONES * i-D * IRISH TIMES * HUFFINGTON POST...

TWICE WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR''Full of love and heartache, this is an unforgettable novel from one of our finest writers.'' DOUGLAS STUART ''Shocking, stunning and extraordinarily...

When several children from the same village start succumbing to a mysterious illness, the quest to discover the cause has devastating and extraordinary consequences.'Absolutely MAGNIFICENT: dark, witty, charming. I LOVED...

'THIS BOOK is EVERYTHING' Marian Keyes'Unputdownable . . . one of the best novels of the year' Sunday IndependentIn the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NEWCOMER OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE'Milkman meets Derry Girls....

'A book designed to be read in a dark January chill; it begs for a fireside and the sound of wind and rain howling outside' THE LADYThis winter, escape to...

'Written with all the ingenuity and twisty tautness of a thriller' The TimesFrom the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search...

Here is a truth that can't be escaped: for Mia 'Rabbit' Hayes, life is coming to an end . . .Rabbit Hayes loves her life, ordinary as it is, and...

An irresistible love story . . . delivered with sparkle and wit (in a too-tight red dress!) Meet Lexie Byrne. The big 4-0 is looming, but she's perfectly content without...

'Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney's best novel.' THE TIMES ***PRE-ORDER NOW****The Sunday Times and Global number one bestseller**Winner of Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish...

A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car also borrowed onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. There is...

A heartwarming debut that continues the story of the hit RTE TV series Pure Mule, which captured the whole world in one small Irish town.Scobie Donoghue was once the king...

*AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*'You'll be terrified, fascinated and above all, uplifted by Orpen - a heroine to rival Philip Pullman's Lyra or The Passage's Amy' Stylist'Fiercely feminist,...

'Flannery's flawed, hopeful characters live and grow on the page' ANNE ENRIGHTIn the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season, reliving the best...

A bold and unsettling parable about guilt, atonement and redemption from the winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award'It is time to call David Park what...

Winner of the Sunday Times short story prizeWinner of the Edge Hill short story prizeA kiss that just won't happen. A disco at the end of the world. A teenage...

Boulevard Wren and Other Stories is the stunning follow-up to the bestselling Gospel According to Blindboy, and a warped mirror held up to the Irish psyche.Provocative and unsettling, the stories...

'Wonderful and mad' Roddy Doyle'Sparks with tender charm and humour . . . Fresh, bleakly funny' Sunday Times'Tender, laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving' Louise O'Neill'GAS and beautiful and truthful and...

When a Dublin family is torn apart, can a new start in Liverpool help heal the wounds? 1940s DublinHandsome widower Johnny Cassidy is out of work, broken-hearted and lost as...

'Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney's best novel.' THE TIMES*The Sunday Times and Global number one bestseller*Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him...

'He won't tell Dan about the trees yet. In the spring maybe, when he knows if they're living or dead. Cahir is the right man for a secret. The great...

Introduced by Sinéad Gleeson, John McGahern''s Booker Prize-shortlisted Irish ''masterpiece'' (Colm Tóibín) is essential reading for admirers of Claire Keegan. As he weakened, Moran became afraid of his daughters. Moran''s...

With a new foreword by Kevin Barry, McGahern''s ''timeless'' (Sinéad Gleeson) novel of rural Irish life is perfect for admirers of Claire Keegan. ''I''m grateful for every sentence McGahern left...

Dublin, March 1874. Charles Stewart Parnell, only twenty-six years old, speaks in public for the first time as a candidate for Ireland's Home Rule Party. Hesitant and nervous, he stumbles...

From the bestselling author of The Bookshop Ladies, Faith Hogan, comes a wonderfully gripping and poignant story of two sisters and their family hotel on peaceful Pin Hill Island, once...

'A fabulous tale with refreshingly inspiring heroines' ***** HeatSheila O'Flanagan is the bestselling author of THE MISSING WIFE, and her new bestseller WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT will enchant readers who...

Escape to St Lucia in the perfect summer read from the No. 1 Irish Times bestselling author of The Summer Villa. 'Plenty of twists and turns ... combined with glitz...

Set in rural Ireland in the early 1960s, a sequel to The Woman of the House and Across the River, House of Memories concludes the story of two neighbouring farms...

Banned on its 1961 release and long overlooked, The Pilgrimage returns as a startlingly modern portrait of desire, secrecy and small-town conformity. John Broderick's fearless debut follows Julia Glynn, a...

Difficult as it may be in understand today, the Exploring English anthology of short stories was revolutionary when first published forty four years ago in 1967. For the first time...

Wolf island lies in the Mid-Atlantic Ocean, where an old lighthouse-keeper at the end of his rope, challenges the universe and his place in it. The Lightning is a tale...

'The Visit is an engrossing and tender portrait of a small town under pressure ... Stark and elemental - at the heart of the novel is a sort of quiet...

Set in the English countryside, Open, Heaven unfolds over the course of one year as two teenage boys meet and transform each other's lives.* A Guardian, Irish Times and BBC...

'DELIVERS NEW PLEASURES ON EVERY PAGE' ANNE ENRIGHT'STYLISH, SHARP AND FIERCELY INTELLIGENT' LUCY CALDWELL'A GLOWING, MOVING, DARING BOOK' SEAN HEWITTIt begins on an orange afternoon, cool but ruminant, close to...

Inspired by the mapping of Ireland in the mid nineteenth century, Land, the new novel from the author of Hamnet, is at once intimate and epic: a portrait of a...

The perfect mix of glamour and heart in this relatable story about two friends in crisis'A perfect poolside read' The Gloss'Honest, insightful and entertaining. Long Story puts female friendship under...

The new novel from the bestselling author of The Woman of the House A story of love for the land and of the passions and jealousies it can inspire. A...

They said they’d never let a man get in the way of their friendship...Laura and Dee haven’t spoken since the day they buried a body together.It was supposed to be...

THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Unforgettable' Mary Beard'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father,...

Why tell the truth...if you know it's going to hurt?Hannah has known Ellen and Barbara since they shared student digs. So when Ollie, the father of her daughter Cleo, unexpectedly...

Although Liz McManus never knew her maternal grandparents, by using old family papers, she has pieced together their story. Wallace and Margaret McKay are Unitarian by birth and republican by...