Irish Fiction

Nineteenth-century Dublin is a city riven by the greed of an emerging middle class and the unspeakable poverty of the poor. Alicia Buckley and Sarah Rooney, growing up there, embody...

Three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. The Pull of the Stars is the Sunday Times Bestseller from the acclaimed author of The Wonder...

A hilarious and satirical debut novel exploring religious hypocrisy in an Irish grade school. Combining the spirit of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim with a bawdy evisceration of hypocrisy in old-school...

What if your life was built on a lie...?When Cora Gartland learns that her long-term partner, Jack, has been killed in a car crash in Ireland her world falls apart....

When her husband and two daughters disappear, housewife Clare Taylor discovers that her ordinary domestic life has been built on a lie.About to turn forty, her youthful dreams of becoming...

'All she wants is a new country, a new language, new food. New people, new stories ... She wants all this newness - which is as old as the hills...

A forgotten childhood. A discovered life. What if you only had one day to find out who you really were? When Sabrina Boggs stumbles upon a mysterious collection of her...

A darkly epic novel about connection, disconnection and destruction - from the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Let the Great World Spin**Named a 2025 book...

'Poignant . . . I loved it!' ELAINE FEENEY'A beautiful, deeply affecting story.' DONAL RYAN'Hugely compelling and utterly persuasive.' JOSEPH O'CONNOR From the author of the beloved debut Boys Don't...

Hugo Hamilton is a master at evoking placelessness, and in this hypnotic, passionate andurgent novel, he cuts a clean line to the truth of our mindless moment - truly a...

Skilled portraits in miniature set in Dublin and London: masterful character sketches by one of Ireland's most observant writers. Although these are separate stories, they form chapters in a man's...

Having given up his day job in middle management, Jimmy Collins and his band are famous rock stars. With two chart topping singles and an album nearly finished, things couldn't...

Every table at Quentins Restaurant has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, betrayal and revenge. Ella Brady wants to make a documentary about the renowned Dublin restaurant that...

Leonard and Hungry Paul is the story of two friends trying to find their place in the world. It is about those uncelebrated people who have the ability to change...

The novel begins in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s when Zoli, a young Roma girl, is six years old. The fascist Hlinka guards had driven most of her people out...

'Clever and magical' - Women's Weekly'Author Jaclyn is the sister of Liane Moriarty (Big Little Lies) and has the same talent for great plots. This unusual novel tugs at the...

Phone the cops or phone Alice. But just don't expect life to ever be the same after you make that call...' When two neighbouring Dublin couples decide to cooperate in...

The latest book in the international bestselling series that has hit the charts in Germany, Italy and the Czech Republic! Snuggle up in your favourite armchair and take a trip...

New novel from bestselling author of Divorcing Jack and starring the inimitable hero Dan Starkey. Dan Starkey gets caught up in the world of writing (he can handle that) terrorists...

'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard...

If you could wish for one gift this Christmas, what would it be? Lou Suffern wishes he could be in two places at once. His constant battle with the clock...

From the bestselling author of PS I Love You comes a story of finding yourself - and finding your way home. Pip's world is small. But it's about to become...

A MUST-READ NOVEL OF 2025 IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, STYLIST, AND MANY OTHERS'One of the finest writers at work today.' ANNE ENRIGHT'McBride is a cartographer...

Tull MacAdoo TD is kept busy procuring jobs and IRA pensions for deserving voters and keeping his spendthrift son under control. Somehow he must also contest an election and save...

Darcy Archer works in a small bookstore in Manhattan. A daydream believer, she refuses to settle for anything less than being swept off her feet by the perfect man... literally....

Hope Gleeson wants to go travelling, to escape her boring London life and plan a happier future. But the unthinkable happens - the plane taking her to sunnier climes experiences...

One Day As A Tiger tells the story of Martin Hawkins, a brilliant young historian, who turns his back on a promising academic career and returns to the family sheep-farm...

Following her own brilliant short story collection Multitudes, Lucy Caldwell guest edits the sixth volume of Faber's long running series of new Irish short stories, continuing the great work started...