Secondhand Irish Fiction Books

In three attempts at in-vitro fertilisation, Martina Devlin lost nine 'maybe babies'. But she also lost her marriage and her dreams of becoming a mother. "The Hollow Heart" is the...

Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather have decided to create the best catering company in Dublin. They have the perfect premises, heaps of talent, and even a few contacts - but...

A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK___________________________'Funny, endearing, mysterious and outrageous, this book is wildly entertaining and hugely enjoyable.' Liz Nugent, author of Unravelling OliverFrom the bestselling, prize-winning author of...

This work is dedicated to contemporary Irish writing, and consists of a mixture of poetry, prose and photography. The contributors include Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, John McGahern, Edna O'Brien, John...

Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious and flirtatious,...

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,...

`Set in a post-war London still recovering from the Blitz, the novel follows the overlapping lives of five characters who inhabit the ruins of North London . . . Casey...

Five toasts. Five people. One lifetime. THE NUMBER ONE IRISH BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 2020'A hugely enjoyable, engrossing novel, a genuine page-turner.' Donal Ryan'An extraordinary novel, a...

Maeve Binchy writes at the very top of her form in this novel of linked episodesabout a schoolteacher and his motley collection of students,who find extraordinary new leases of life...

Reflected in these writings from twenty-one Irish Americans are the themes common to all immigrant literature, but from the authors' own ethnic point of view. The struggle for success forms...

The first book in the Agnes Browne trilogyNow a film starring Anjelica Huston and Tom Jones'And what was the cause of death?''A Hunter', Agnes said.'Was he shot', the girl asked...

Scarlet Feather is set in contemporary Dublin, and is the story of Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather, who go into business together as caterers. Tom is the son of a...

Every table at Quentins restaurant has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, betrayal and revenge, of hope and despair. The staff who come and go have stories of...

Ria and Marilyn have never met - they live thousands of miles apart, separated by the Atlantic Ocean: one in a big, warm, Victorian house in Tara Road, Dublin, the...

Filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit and true storytelling genius, THIS YEAR IT WILL BE DIFFERENT powerfully evokes the lives of of wives, husbands, children, friends and lovers, all set...

Vicky Harper is still hopelessly single and having to face up to the unpalatable fact that the last time she had a relationship with that highly elusive species, the decent...

North America is truly Michael Collins's heart of darkness. And it is a territory mapped with infinite precision in this new novel of murder and menace set in the frozen...

Maggie Ryan can't help it! She constantly finds herself organizing and meddling in the lives of others, trying to match things and people together, from her neighbours in Dublin's Pleasant...

'The small room was thick with dark blue uniforms. Bull's wool the men called the material. Silver buttons. Black boots. Caps. Batons holstered in shiny black leather cylinders. Handcuffs hanging...

The story of Patty, daughter of Nora and Captain O'Higgins, who suffers from Lupus, a chronic tuberculosis of the blood sometimes leading to a wolf-like distortion of the face. Mirrored...

A warm, witty and wise novel about love, friendship and being in your thirties. Gloria, Eimear and Kate have been friends since they were a trio of six-year-olds cast as...