Irish Fiction

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERTWICE WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES, TIMES, AND IRISH TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR'A...

The final book in the Agnes Browne trilogy.At forty-seven years of age Agnes, now thirteen years happily widowed, enters the 1980s with a fruit stall in Moore Street, a French...

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

The Midnight Rose is a spellbinding tale of family secrets, sacrifice and the everlasting power of love, from Lucinda Riley, international bestselling author of the Seven Sisters series. India, 1911....

'An utterly captivating insight into these fascinating women and the times they lived in ... it's an absolute page-turner' Irish Independent'Masterfully and glamorously told ... essential reading for history and...

'An emotional and heart-warming story about community spirit, grief, and hope, The Book Club by Roisin Meaney is everything you could wish for in a novel and then some' Books...

A NO. 1 BESTSELLER IN IRELAND - MAY 2022The all-absorbing, life-affirming new novel from the bestselling author of THREE WEDDINGS AND A PROPOSAL and THE MISSING WIFE.'Do I rejoice when...

The Number One bestsellerINSPIRED BY TRUE FAMINE-TIME EVENTS, THE LETTER HOME INTERWEAVES THE LIVES OF THREE REMARKABLE WOMEN, ACROSS TIME AND TIDES, IN AN UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEY OF THE HEART.When journalist...

*From the Booker-shortlisted author of Small Things Like These*Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres...

Paul Murray's Skippy Dies is a tragicomic masterpiece about a Dublin boarding schoolLonglisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult...

'Think about a tune ... the unsayable, the invisible, the longing in music. Here is a book of tunes without musical notes ... It wrings the heart' John Berger'A masterpiece'...

So there I was roysh, life focked, reputation focked, finances focked - everything completely focked, roysh, and we're talking big time. And it's all Fionn's fault, basically. He's the four-eyed...

The beautiful family drama from the international bestselling author of THE MURDERS AT FLEAT HOOUSE and The Seven Sisters series'A beautiful story, brilliantly woven through generations' 5***** Reader Review'Stunning, enchanting,...

LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL PRIZE 2022SHORTLISTED FOR SHORT STORY OF THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2022SHORTLISTED FOR ALCS TOM-GALLON TRUST AWARD'Unsettling, unpredictable, and brilliant' Roddy Doyle'In sumptuous...

Dan Fogarty, an Irishman living in England, is looking after his sister Una, now seventy and suffering from dementia in a care home in Margate. From Dan's anarchic account, we...

'A masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected' Professor John Sutherland, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2005The Sea is John Banville's Man Booker prize-winning exploration of memory, childhood...

'A warm and beautifully evocative story of family and secrets, love and heartache, with a devastating twist' Alex Brown, bestselling author of A Postcard from Paris When your heart belongs...

'A brilliantly creepy coming of age novel' Daily Mirror'A moving fable, brilliantly imagined, about the agony of loss and the pain of young adulthood' The Times'This is no saccharine fairytale,...

OLD GOD'S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY'S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWWinner of the 2016 Costa Book of the YearWinner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction...

When is a monster's child culpable? Guilt and complicity are multifaceted. John Boyne is a maestro of historical fiction. You can't prepare yourself for the magnitude and emotional impact of...

'A rich, strange book. Very truthful and moving' Tessa Hadley 'Part thriller, part treasure hunt and part love story ... Profound and heartbreaking' Sunday Times 'A terrific, engrossing novel' Roddy...

Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Ably managed by Jimmy Rabbitte, brilliantly coached by Joey 'The Lips' Fagan, their twin...

WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZEKERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDWINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZEEimear McBride's award-winning debut novel tells the...

'IDOL is fresh, glamorous, and surprising, taking an issue we all care about and with a deft twist, recalibrating our position. It dazzles us before revealing the darkness at its...

'The funniest book I've read in ages. Savage but compelling' Ian Rankin'A fearless romp with big laughs along the way' Graham Norton'Funny, rumbustious, unstinting and wonderfully Hogarthian' The Observer'His relish...

He handed the easel to the boatman, reaching down the pier wall towards the sea.Mr Lloyd has decided to travel to the island by boat without engine - the authentic...

A love affair born in rural Ireland! Two mismatched lovers, locked in a relationship that will change both of them ... forever!From the day I was born, I was brought...

Aisling is 31, and she's still a complete Aisling. With BallyGoBrunch flying and the door firmly closed on her relationship with John, Aisling accepts an unexpected job offer and boards...

In a remote valley in Idaho in 1981, a man, a woman and three children stop running to wash the blood from their hands and bodies. They are the only...

From the author of A Ghost in the Throat, an unforgettable book - both history and ghost story - that will leave you gasping by its final page.In the city...

In the chaos of war, can their love survive? 1939. Kathleen Gallagher is training to be a handywoman - an illegal midwife in West Belfast - when war is declared....

Renting is a nightmare...Aine should be feeling happy with her life. She's just moved in with Elliot. Their new flat is in an affluent neighbourhood, surrounded by bakeries, yoga studios...

My name is Anna, and for some time now, I have been trying to account for certain events in my life - my adult life, that is - which, from...

Mary Lavin is the great unsung voice of Irish fiction. Here are her very best, most electric stories: illuminating, moving, arrows in flight.'This is a wonderful collection, and a reminder...

'A coming-of-age story filled with magic in language and plot: beautiful and devastating'Observer, Books of the Year'I felt consumed by this book. I loved it, you will love it'Daisy Johnson,...

'A profoundly compassionate novel of devastating power' Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-Winning author of Girl, Woman, Other'So deeply moving: sad and beautiful and true' Annie Macmanus, author of The Mess We're...

''Meaney weaves wonderful, feel-good tales of a consistently high standard''Irish ExaminerIt''s never too late for second chances...For the first time in her life, Lydia is taking a great big leap...

As read on BBC Radio 4A Sunday Times Best Book of the YearAn Observer Best Debut of the YearThe Boy from the Sea is Garrett Carr's brilliantly moving tale of...

Charlie has a story to tell, about his best friends Sinead and James and the bad things that happened. But he can't tell it yet, at least not 'til he's...