Irish Fiction

The narrators in this short story collection include a compulsive destroyer of books, an obscene phone caller and a child murderer. The author won the Hennesy Award for short stories...

Meet the women of Delaney Square . . .Cassie has spent her married life doing everything right - making sure her children have the perfect life, being a devoted wife...

When a group of solo travellers meet for dinner on the first night of a luxury cruise, alliances are quickly formed. But as the ship makes its way through azure...

The road silent, somnolent yet with a speech of its own, speaking back to them, father and child, through trappings of sun and fretted verdure, speaking of the old mutinies...

Focusing on the dilemmas of contemporary women and issues of responsibility and choice, Clare Boylan's writing has become a much-loved voice of contemporary fiction. Here, published in a single volume...

Cosy up with The Heart of Winter by bestselling author Emma Hannigan and escape with this warm, magical novel set over a beautiful winter wedding in an Irish country house.'A...

When you're burdened with the name of a goddess and your mother's a flamboyant actress, the last thing you want from a theatrical career is to be under the spotlight....

A love story. A gamble. A battle. Let the games begin.It's an era of looming war, and the erosion of freedom in the name of national security. A time of...

With a new introduction by bestselling author Evie Woods.'Warm, witty and with a deep understanding of what makes us tick, it's little wonder that Maeve Binchy's bewitching stories have become...

It's the winter of 1967 and snow is on the ground in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, but the Chilly weather can't stop love from warming hearts all over...

From the No. 1 international bestseller Cathy Kelly, a novel of love and longing, wishes and yearning. They all just want one thing in life - and then they'll be...

When her daughter finally starts asking questions about her father, Becky goes in search of answers - but nothing could prepare her for what she discovers...A heartfelt, uplifting story of...

One hot sticky summer three very different sisters, each with something to hide, descend on their granny ...Susan has just broken up with her fiance, but she isn't exactly telling...

Kirsty O'Neill has always known her own mind. At thirty-one years old, she is already running her own successful business, making waves in the Irish fashion world, and has decided...

The small Caravaggio which hangs in the chapel of Doon Abbey in Kildare attracts visitors to the abbey from far and wide. One night, however, the painting disappears. The Sister...

Friendship, love and isolation - both self-imposed and involuntary - and the quiet bravery of one woman are at the heart of this new novel. The time is the recent...

A classic story of superstition and sorcery set in 1950s France."The village which had so charmed her had grown sinister..."Exhausted after years of unhappiness, 20-year-old Juliet Cunningham is delighted to...

The spruces are so close together that the barks are a sable-brown.Michael O'Kane is known as the 'Kinderschrek', the 'child scarer'. He haunts Cloosh Wood in western Ireland. As a...

Three friends reunited. Three wishes made long ago. And one life-changing book.'Not something you'll ever want to put down' Sunday Independent'One of the smartest writers of popular fiction around' Irish...

Sixteen stories, sixteen intriguing situations, and a fascinating cast of characters populate The Far Side of Happiness, Boland's debut short fiction collection. An unemployed man, living alone, experiences a brief...

In a house overlooking Dublin Bay, Mimi and her daughter Grace are disturbed by the unexpected arrival of Grace's daughter Polly, and her striking new boyfriend. The events of the...

What invisible drama plays, what passes to and fro in the columns of air above them, none knows, but the disciples think: perhaps the time is arrived at last. Aged,...

In two poignant, interweaving monologues Janet and Joe tell the story of their lives of petty crime in Dublin, the act of violence that shattered their marriage and their long...

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...

Iseult 'Izzy' Mulcahy is a mother and a woman in love, a writer and a thinker - and the last person anyone would expect to commit murder ...After being charged...

'Some wrong was done long ago. It can never be righted, and it has not been forgotten. Someone remembers it.' London, 1894. Inspector Henry Cutter is in an unconvivial temper....

I slept right through to the next day. Missed the funeral and everything. Mam said it was just as well. Would've been too upsetting. I think of him now, though....