Secondhand Irish Fiction Books

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...

'The thinking man's John Grisham' New Statesman The body of a small girl, dressed as an angel, is discovered late one night in a pile of autumn leaves at the...

A story in this collection has been longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG short story awardAs it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried...

Tragic, funny and utterly unsentimental, Christine Dwyer Hickey's "Tatty" is a devastating, affecting journey into the mind of a child. With the brutal clarity and touching honesty of a child,...

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...

Aisling is 28, and she's a complete ... Aisling.Living 'Down Home' with Mammy and Daddy, she commutes to her good pensionable job in Dublin and stays two nights a week...

A fiction interweaving three characters: Jack Johnson, who punched his way out of the dockyards of Galveston to become the first black heavyweight champion of the world; the English modernist...

In Heidelberg, Germany, over the course of a hot week in July, two gentle souls begin a prelude to love, testing the pull of romance against the weight of their...

Lucy Arigho is not the sort of woman to be swept off her feet. She is sober, career-minded and slightly numb since the death of her fiancee. So, it's completely...

SHORTLISTED FOR POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2023'Heartwarming' Daily Mail'A joyful read' Ruth HoganOne house, three strangers...TessaActivist, 69 years young. Not ready to sell...

Jimmy Rabbitte is unemployed and rapidly running out of money. His best friend Bimbo has been made redundant at the company where he has worked for many years. The two...

'A wonderful novel. I was deeply moved. Outstanding.' John Boyne Mark Casey did not expect to fall in love. But from the minute he saw Joanne Lynch across the garden...

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

A hilarious and satirical debut novel exploring religious hypocrisy in an Irish grade school. Combining the spirit of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim with a bawdy evisceration of hypocrisy in old-school...