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    The finest fiction Ireland has to offer. Our extensive Irish fiction book collection contains modern authors like Maeve Binchy, Kevin Barry and Caroline Ahern. Chapters Bookstore's Irish Fiction collection showcases a rich array of contemporary Irish literature from top Irish authors. Notable authors include Maeve Binchy, known for her heartwarming tales of Irish life; Kevin Barry, celebrated for his vivid storytelling; and Caroline Ahern, among others.  Other notable works include Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 and The Bee Sting by Paul Murray, a tragicomic exploration of family and fortune.

    Belinda McKeon: Solace [2012] paperback

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    'A wonderful novel. I was deeply moved. Outstanding.' John Boyne Mark Casey did not expect to fall in love. But from the minute he saw Joanne Lynch across the garden...

    Tóibín Colm: The Story of the Night [2024] paperback

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    Richard Garay lives alone with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from those around him. Stifled by a job he despises, he finds himself willing to take considerable...

    Tóibín Colm: The Heather Blazing [2024] paperback

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    Colm Toibin's The Heather Blazing details the life of Eamon Redmond, a judge in Ireland's high court, a man remote from his wife, his son and daughter and, at least...

    Tóibín Colm: The Master [2024] paperback

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    In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The...

    Tóibín Colm: The South [2024] paperback

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    A classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity. This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn. This...

    Sheila O'Flanagan: Anyone but Him [2005] paperback

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    Two sisters can't quite believe what their mother has done. And now they have to decide what to do about it. As if their own personal lives aren't complicated enough...

    Adrian Kenny: Portobello Notebook [2012] paperback

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    This collection of stories is set in Portobello, on the edge of Dublin city centre, just inside the canal. The stories reflect on characters on the edge of life, personalities...

    Emily Hourican: The Privileged [2016] paperback

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    In an exclusive all girls' secondary school, they become friends. They choose the same university, and through smoke-filled nights, lectures, sexual encounters and first loves, their bond deepens: a friendship...

    Ruth Gilligan: Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan [2016] paperback

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    1901. Cork can sound very similar to New York to foreign ears and tired brains, so it's no surprise that Ruth's family - Jewish refugees fleeing the European pogroms -...

    MacMahon Kathleen: The Home Scar [2024] paperback

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    "MacMahon writes with such beautiful simplicity, conjuring real and complex people straight off the page ... subtle and authentic" - Claire Fuller On opposite sides of the world, half-siblings Cassie...

    Catherine Mangan: One Italian Summer [2023] paperback

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    Escape to Italy this summer and fall in love with the perfect holiday romance! 'A gorgeous escapist holiday read' - MY WEEKLY 'A heart-warming and uplifting romance' - WOMAN'S OWN...

    Joyce Russell: Bloodlines And Other Stories [2023] paperback

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    Does a child come wailing into this world with the patterns that define it already beating in the blood? Do daughters ever believe that mother knows best and can a...

    Ronan Bennett: The Catastrophist [1999] paperback

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    Gillespie, an Irishman, goes to the Congo in 1959 in pursuit of his beautiful lover Ines, a passionate Italian journalist. Unlike her, Gillespie has no interest in the deepening independence...

    Claire McGowan: This Could Be Us [2023] paperback

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    Kate has failed at life. Once she had everything - a great job in local journalism, a happy marriage to Andrew and a baby on the way - but when...

    Maggie O'Farrell: The Hand That First Held Mine [2010] hardback

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    A gorgeously written story of love and motherhood, this is a tour de force from one of our most acclaimed and best loved novelists. When the bohemian, sophisticated Innes Kent...

    Roddy Doyle: The Dead Republic [2010] paperback

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    At the end of Oh, Play That Thing, the second volume of Roddy Doyle's trilogy about Henry Smart, Henry, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawls...

    Kevin Myers: Banks of Green Willow [2002] paperback

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    A powerful, moving novel of love and war Dublin airport, 1972. Gina, nineteen, too young to be wise, but old enough for love, sex and the repercussions of both, is...

    Jan Carson: The Raptures [2022] hardback

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    'Absolutely MAGNIFICENT: dark, witty, charming. I LOVED it.' MARIAN KEYES'Original, terrifying, hilarious and memorable.' SUNDAY TIMES IRELAND 'An Agatha Christie-esque whodunnit, a dark supernatural mystery and an account of mass...

    Jan Carson: Quickly, While They Still Have Horses [2024] paperback

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    '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...

    Fiona Scarlett: Boys Don't Cry [2021] hardback

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    'I can't remember ever reading anything so moving . . . It's so beautiful.' MARIAN KEYESThey say boys don't cry.But Finn's seen his Da do it when he thinks no...

    Andrew Hughes: Emma, Disappeared [2024] paperback

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    'Compelling, unsettling and very creepy' Catherine Kirwan'Atmospheric and filled with twists and turns ... a fantastic read' Patricia GibneyEveryone is talking about the disappearance of Emma Harte.A high-achieving university graduate...

    Sam McAughtry: Touch and Go [1993] paperback

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    A fast-paced thriller, this includes sex, violence, humor, and wit, but not necessarily in that order. It introduces Hugh Reilly, an RAF bomber-pilot, womanizer, and alcoholic. Scarred by his war...

    Wilkinson Sheena: Mrs Hart's Marriage Bureau [2024] paperback

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    'This is a gem. Kate Atkinson fans will love it.' The Irish Independent 'A briskly witty delight.' The Irish Times April McVey hasn't a romantic bone in her body. So...

    Kate O'Brien: Mary Lavelle [2000] paperback

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    Mary Lavelle, a young and beautiful Irish woman, travels to Spain to work as a governess and see a little of life before returning to Mellick to marry her fiance,...

    Deirdre Purcell: Children of Eve [2005] paperback

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    Eve Moraghan broke one of the great taboos when she abandoned her children as toddlers. Now adults, Arabella, Willow and Rowan have heard nothing of their mother since the day...

    Deirdre Madden: Nothing is Black [2013] paperback

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    Nothing is Black is a beautifully told story of three women who find themselves in a remote part of Donegal at a defining moment in their lives.Wealthy and successful, Nuala...

    Deirdre Madden: Nothing is Black [2013] paperback

    €7.99

    Nothing is Black is a beautifully told story of three women who find themselves in a remote part of Donegal at a defining moment in their lives.Wealthy and successful, Nuala...

    Hugo Hamilton: Every Single Minute [2015] paperback

    €6.99

    'Not only haunted by death, but also by beauty and the strangeness of being alive. A deeply memorable novel' Colm Toibin '... I have friends and family, I am in...

    Hugo Hamilton: Every Single Minute [2015] paperback

    €8.99

    'Not only haunted by death, but also by beauty and the strangeness of being alive. A deeply memorable novel' Colm Toibin '... I have friends and family, I am in...

    Maeve Binchy: Evening Class [1997] paperback

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    Among the many evening classes starting all over Dublin is an 'Introduction to Italian'. On the surface it could be just one of hundreds in which some students will succeed...

    Kate Kerrigan: Ellis Island [2009] paperback

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    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...

    Niall Bourke: Line [2021] paperback

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    Willard, his mother and his girlfriend Nyla have spent their entire lives in an endless journey where daily survival is dictated by the ultimate imperative: obey the rules, or you...

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