Secondhand Irish Fiction Books

Duneen is a quiet place, far enough from the big towns to have kept its own rhythms. Its residents include castdown policeman PJ who lives a lonely, uneventful life punctuated...

We don't think we can improve on the author's own summary of his book:I am many things, roysh - unbelievable babe magnet, red-hot lover, loyal kind of goy, best forward...

'Our nation's great satirist ... the most sustained feat of comic writing in Irish literature' Irish TimesIt's the end of the world as Ross knows it ... this time, there's...

'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...

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is broke and out of love. His wife has gone to America, taking his daughter with him; his mother has become a celebrity chef on daytime television, with...

ARE YOU TIRED OF BEING A GROWN UP? ESCAPE IT ALL WITH MARIAN KEYES' BRAND NEW NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, THE PERFECT ANTIDOTE TO ADULT LIFE'Magnificently messy lives, brilliantly...

Based on a notorious clerical scandal in Victorian Ireland, The Big Chapel by Thomas Kilroy deals with the indelible essence of humanity and the dangers of adhering to ideological dogma....

So when they move to a bigger house on the outskirts of Dublin, Paul hopes that it will give his family the room they need to relieve these tensions. Cleaner...

In this wonderful collection of interlinked short stories we are transported to the Caribbean island resort of White Sands. In touching, poignant and delicious tales Sheila O'Flanagan introduces some of...

'Just brilliant.' DONAL RYAN 'An exceptionally good book.' C. J. SANSOM1816 was the year without a summer. A rare climatic event has brought frost to July, and a lingering fog...

How far must you run to truly escape your past?Annie thinks she has found the answer when she leaves her home on the west coast of Ireland and boards a...

Colm Toibin's new and challenging collection of stories paint rich and textured portraits of individuals at different pivotal moments in their lives. In each case, Toibin shows how their relationship...

You loved Aisling online, now get ready to love the novel.Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen, the creators of the much-loved Aisling character and the popular Facebook page 'Oh My God,...

After Shell's mother dies, her obsessively religious father descends into alcoholic mourning and Shell is left to care for her younger brother and sister. Her only release from the harshness...

Sometimes friends hold you together.Sometimes they're why you're falling apart.Maggie, Harley and Roise are friends on the brink: of triumph, catastrophe, or maybe just finally growing up. Their crumbling Belfast...

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...

We don't think we can improve on the author's own summary of his book: So there I was roysh, in a state of basically very blissful ignorance, when suddenly Sorcha's...

'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...

The brilliant debut novel from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller NOTES TO SELFDublin, 7 October 2019One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the...

Here is a truth that can't be escaped: for Mia 'Rabbit' Hayes, life is coming to an end . . .Rabbit Hayes loves her life, ordinary as it is, and...

The youngest daughter of Lord Kensley-Balfe, a wealthy landowner from the West of Ireland, Delia is privileged and beautiful. Cossetted by her parents, her older sister Mona and her brother...

Jonathan is a private investigator in a decaying eastern European city, consumed by his work and his failing marriage. Approached one day by an elderly couple, he is presented with...

Meet Roddy Bodkin. Age 43. He has recently lost his job. His long-term girlfriend is tiring of him. He feels he is gettingold and life is passing him by. Can...

In a shocking yet all too prosaic moment Joe and Eileen O'Kane experience a terrible tragedy which leaves them bereft. Winter in Derry sets in overnight, as does a chill...

The Iron Age is part-coming-of-age novel, and part-fairy-tale told from the perspective of a young girl growing up in the poverty of post-war Finland. On her family's austere farm, the...

'Austin Duffy's uniquely dry, laconic style adds a subversive and compelling charge to this moving and intense story of the relationship between a father and daughter. A terrific novel' -...

Discover the thrilling life of Bram Stoker, the man who created Dracula, in this immersive historical novel.**Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award **1878: The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three extraordinary people...

Michigan, 1985. The drowning of a teenage girl causes ripples in the small town of Kettle Lake, though for most the waters settle quickly. For sixteen year old Joanne Kennedy,...

'Bleakly beautiful. A raw emotional depth-charge of a novel' MR Carey'Gripped me as much by the heart as it did by the throat' Kiran Millwood HargraveLAST ONES LEFT ALIVE is...

The much anticipated second novel from prize-winning Irish poet and novelist, Kerry Hardie. 'The Bird Woman' is a moving account of two marriages, a gift that feels like a curse,...

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller She will change your life forever... In the south-west of Ireland, rugged mountains meet bright blue lakes and thick forests. Deep in the woods,...

Sophie and Riba have known each other since childhood. Though they couldn't be more different - Sophie is elegant and diffident, while Riba is flamboyantly extrovert - the bond between...

In 1977, naive, twenty-one-year-old Maggie Lennon leaves Northern Ireland to look for summer work in America. What she finds is a job as an all-night DJ for Radio WA1A, a...

A white Peugot makes its way between the monasteries of Southern France. No one would suspect its driver to be the target of commando hitmen, the Gendarmerie's most wanted man...

Even the best private eye needs more than a name to find a missing person, but that's all that Father Vincent Tyrrell, the brother of prominent racehorse trainer FX Tyrrell,...