Secondhand Irish Fiction Books

THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERAN IRISH TIMES FICTION BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024In Barcelona, we meet a cast of characters who live turbulent inner lives. In a Spanish hotel...

Ever since Taney was four she's known she could see things before they happened. She also knows that she must keep her gift a secret - at all costs. Teased...

The Tottenham family is falling apart. There is no money to maintain the crumbling house and farm in County Westmeath, so decisions have to be made. Brothers Nick and Tony,...

At thirty, Luke Reid seems to have an enviable life. He is a child of the leafy suburbs, attractive - in an understated way, tolerant and erudite, socially assured, professionally...

Anita is a wife on the edge. Thanks to her husband Frank's success in business she has lived a lavish lifestyle at the heart of the city's elite. However, now...

This is a gripping family story spanning half a century, in the mould of Jonathan Franzen and John Lanchester. Declan and Sinead Boyle are pillars of society - born into...

In the City, everything has a price. What's yours?At the age of twenty-eight, Dubliner Geri Molloy has put her troubled past behind her to become a major player at Steiner's...

Absence makes the heart grow fonder...doesn't it? What happens when two people decide to take a year off...from each other? Annie and Dan were the perfect couple. But now the...

Shauna and Greg's marriage is under pressure. She wants another baby. He doesn't. She also has to endure her obnoxious in-laws, 'The Freeloaders', Della, Eddie and their spoilt kids. They...

'I had been mistaken for him so many times that when he died it was as if part of myself had died too.'Kevin Thunder grew up with a double -...

The city is Dublin, the year is 1972. Redser and Pancho are two teenagers from the North Wall. Redser is top of the class, especially good at maths. Pancho's knack...

'The Butcher's Apprentice' is an intriguing story of one man's search for his identity and his yearning for a love he thought never existed.On his death-bed in hospital, Robert Kelly...

Two women. Two stories. One hundred years of secrets. A sweeping novel of love, loss, family and history for readers who love Maggie O'Farrell, John Boyne and Donal Ryan 'Thrilling,...

'She had been born with a greater capacity for love and pleasure than most people; and her nature had very early on found itself at war with the primitive, property-ridden...

People come to the guest house for fresh air and views across the Atlantic. But if they're lucky, they might just leave with the second chance they didn't know they...

'Highly original, deeply moving, simultaneously delicate yet hard hitting' Claire Kilroy'Brilliant, provocative, and darkly funny' Sarah Dunn'Unique, refreshing and revelatory ... Reads the zeitgeist perfectly' Helen Cullen'Intriguing, fresh, and satisfyingly...

Chud Conduit, the wild grandson of the most successful businesswoman in Monument, and Anglo-Irish Jack Santry, the gentle heir to Main, the big estate on the hill, are unlikely friends....

When love flies out the window married life can be hell. With an unplanned baby on the way, a newly-wed daughter whose marriage is already in trouble, a teenager who...

Family secrets never stay buried... 1951, Ireland On the windswept Cork coast, the lighthouse-keepers' wives wait, watching the sea. Their husbands are coming home. But one secret can never be...

A compelling and perceptive tale of intimacy, memory and relationships from the bestselling author How can you know someone you've never met? Joyce Conway remembers things she shouldn't. She knows...

After Rory has returned to Dublin to bury his mother, he decides that New York, with the flash job, fast money and high tech apartment is just not for him...

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...