Irish Fiction

This is a murder mystery.This is a story about love.Or is it? . . . Fair Play is the puzzle-box story of two competing tales that brilliantly lay bare the...

In its brilliant recreation of the Great Irish Famine, the children's historical novel Under the Hawthorn Tree is beloved by millions and is considered a classic. Now, the Number One...

A MASTERFUL TALE OF BETRAYAL AND CORRUPTION BY THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE SEA'Banville is one of the writers I admire the most' Hanya Yanahigara, author of A...

The sleepy Irish town of Mountfern is suddenly transformed one day when Ferncourt, a large house burnt down during the Troubles, is bought by an American with dreams of turning...

Sally, an actress, has just returned from a long European tour to her house in Goatstown, and looks forward eagerly to seeing her husband, Charlie, again. When Charlie announces that...

All human life is here, and Keane tells its story in an astonishing procession of remarkable characters and in rare humorous glimpses of his own career. There are more shades...

When Drew Linden's new job brings him back to his native Belfast, he is determined to remain distant from everything that once tied him there, including his friends and family....

Another Alice is the story of a poisoned childhood, a contamination that threatens to spread through generations. She is an ordinary woman, a photographer. She has arranged her life like...

Eleanor Leyden is a rebel, a 'girl that spells trouble'. When her communist parents are killed in the car crash which also leaves her maimed, she is fostered by family...

The island of the Great Blasket lies three miles off the Kerry coast of Ireland, at the westernmost tip of Europe. Virtually unknown before this century, it was to produce...

This vivid and masterfully woven collection of short stories explores the condition of Ireland's people as the country cautiously steps towards modernity. Caught between tradition and change, these characters long...

'A brilliant, one-of-a-kind writer' DAVID NICHOLLSAt sixty-six, Paula Spencer - mother, grandmother, widow, survivor - is finally living her life.A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, a man -...

THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'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,...

The women and men in Nude play out their desires and frustrations from Dublin to Paris, Delhi to Barcelona, and beyond. In these stories there are mercurial lovers, illicit affairs...

In Springmount, County Wexford, Will hides away to watch Kate Kelly through her cottage window - a moth at the glass. As the strains of the St Anne's Reel fill...

Idealistic love and death, sibling rivalry and obsessive lust are themes familiar to McGinley's work, focusing here on Arty Brennan, who built factories, a supermarket and a noisy motel, trading...

'To the outside world we were this perfectly contented happy family -- a mother, a father and three little girls. And the truth? Really it was a conspiracy of silence...

'Wild, anarchic, and wonderfully head-spinning' Neil Jordan, award-winning film directorA dark theatrical comedy about the vexed and violent relationship between Britain and Ireland, from twice Booker-shortlisted author Patrick McCabe.It's the...

Jim Foley loves his parents, his brother, his sister, Dickens and God, although not necessarily in that order. Later, he loves Kate, enough to make her his wife; later still,...

Ollie Ewing is barely surviving. Back home in Sligo, he's collecting trolleys in a supermarket car park and living in a run-down house with a group of art students. He...

Another unmissable comic outing from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Bee StingShortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award'Hilarious, rich and satisfying' Times...

Family life is enough of a juggle without ... The In-LawsKatie, Sarah and Amanda have one thing in common: their manipulative and powerful mother-in-law, Nancy, who seems to only add...

Funny, clever and true, read the unmissable short story collection about modern relationships'Brilliant... This collection covers themes on sex, friendship and work and dives into what it means to be...

In the close-knit Northern Irish village of Ballybucklebo, it's said that a new baby brings its own welcome. Young doctor Barry Laverty and his wife Sue are anxiously awaiting their...

What happens when you invite an outsider in?A compelling and thought-provoking new novel from the author of bestseller The PrivilegedTwo weeks in White Villa, under the scorching Ibiza sun, is...