Irish Fiction

THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERA marriage unravels in a Spanish hotel room as a young wife is haunted by a past love.A father travels to Paris to meet his scientist son...

'The perfect winter heart-warmer' Cathy KellyIt's winter on the Finfarran peninsula and, as Cassie Fitzgerald, fresh from Toronto, is about to discover, there's more to Christmas on the west coast...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013Colm Toibin's The Testament of Mary is the moving story of the Virgin Mary, told by a novelist famous for writing brilliantly about the...

Tariq is beset by danger on the streets and by conflict at home. Music is his only consolation. When he forms a new friendship with the volatile but intriguing record-store...

* * * Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards and the 2015 Folio Prize * * * Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest...

THE BOOK- A woman of fifty-eight, meets an illusionist - the Illusionist - on a train. At first, life is blissfully sweet, but when her first novel turns brings overnight...

'A grand feat of comic ingenuity, mischievous and insightful, and full of resonance for the way we live now... So original and vibrant.' Encore Award JudgesFINALIST FOR THE AN POST...

The palm trees give the street a holiday atmosphere. There must be something in the soil they like. They have straight leaves that get a bit ragged, with split ends....

'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...

'The Untouchable is an engrossing, exquisitely written and almost bewilderingly smart book . . . It's the fullest book I've read in a very long time, utterly accomplished, thoroughly readable,...

SHOCKING SECRETS, LIFE-CHANGING TRUTHS AND ONE UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEY . . .'One of my favourite authors' MARIAN KEYESThe stunning NUMBER ONE bestselling book by Sheila O'Flanagan, and your perfect summer read!Deira...

After years of moving from place to place, a young family finds shelter in an isolated house in the Irish countryside. Their father is missing, Mum is a healer and...

Colm Toibin is a master storyteller, renowned for his keen, spare style and the understated emotional charge of his novels. Eamon Redmond, a High Court judge in his sixties, is...

'One of the funniest writers in the land ... Schmidt Happens will be lapped up by fans' Irish IndependentI've had some pretty bad New Year's Eves in my life. But...

'A writer with the courage to reinvent the sentence as she pleases, and the virtuosity required to pull it off.' Literary Review'A writer for whom language is an end not...

'There's nobody like Binchy for warming the cockles, and this collection of Christmas stories warms them to white heat' Kate Saunders, The TimesChristmas: a time of year when emotions run...

READERS LOVE SCARLET FEATHER!'Fantastic read' 'Wonderful' 'Classic Maeve - just what I wanted!' 'A book you will not put down' Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather have decided to create the...

One long, languid midsummer's day, the Godleys gather at the family home of Arden to attend their father's bedside. Adam, the elder child, and Petra, only nineteen, find that relations...

'It is seldom that one can say a book is perfect, but this is as close as I've seen in a very long time' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT'A bold and unsettling parable...

'I was utterly charmed - a pitch-perfect delight' Marian KeyesDistance makes no difference to love...Eager to cheer up her recently-widowed gran, Cassie Fitzgerald persuades Lissbeg library to set up a...

Just moved in to a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly's pub for a pint, a slow one. One evening...

The warm, engrossing new novel from the No. 1 bestseller, Cathy Kelly Welcome to Avalon: a quaint, sleepy town on the Irish coast. Nothing has changed here for generations -...

Can she find the strength to help the family she never knew she had? Vibrant and warm, Frankie manages people as a career - so her husband's silence on redundancy...

Published for the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising, Rebel Sisters is the Number One Irish bestseller from award-winning novelist Marita Conlon-McKenna, who writes with all the emotional depth and...

We kept our heads above the morass, stifled screaming despairs only by the exercise of Good Behaviour.Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic St Charles family is sinking into...

The first book in the Agnes Browne trilogyNow a film starring Anjelica Huston and Tom Jones'And what was the cause of death?''A Hunter', Agnes said.'Was he shot', the girl asked...

This is the story of a haunted Irish childhood.The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with political hatred, family secrets and lethal intrigue....

The dazzling new novel from Sunday Times bestselling, Costa Novel Award-winning author Maggie O'Farrell, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of...

Hugo Hamilton, the internationally acclaimed author of 'The Speckled People' and 'Sailor in the Wardrobe', turns his hand back to fiction with a compelling drama tracing Berlin's central historical importance...

New York, August 1974. A man is walking the sky. The city stands still in awe. Between the newly built Twin Towers the man is striding, twirling and showboating his...

With THE LIGHT OF EVENING Edna O'Brien returns to the world of her first novel, rural Ireland and the relationship between mother and daughter. Whereas her first novel THE COUNTRY...

Colm Toibin's Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. The book that inspired the major motion picture starring Saoirse...

My mother made a snap decision.How could we know it would change us forever?'Brimming with curiosity and wonder.' Irish Times'Lushly atmospheric.' Daily Mail'Thoroughly gripping.' Lucy Caldwell'Brilliant.' Sara BaumeRage. That's the...

Feisty female Leo Street lives in Dublin and despairs of ever getting her career as a private investigator off the ground. When an obnoxious politician walks into her office demanding...

'GAVE ME SERIOUS WRITER ENVY' KIRSTY LOGAN'ONE OF MY FAVOURITE STORYTELLERS' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE'AN INCREDIBLE AND UNIQUE IMAGINATION' IRISH TIMES'I WAS DELICIOUSLY HORRIFIED' JENN ASHWORTHThe belly groan of a face...

This title is also published as Helena's Secret.A magical house. A momentous summer.It has been twenty-four years since a young Helena spent a magical holiday in Cyprus, where she fell...

The Phelans have owned Mossgrove for generations. The small, rural Irish farm has been the pride of them all until Ned's wife, Martha, arrives and begins to undermine generations of...

HE'S GOT TO GO by No. 1 bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan is a must-read for fans of Freya North and Fern Britton.What do you do when the man in your...