Secondhand Irish Fiction Books

When private investigator Leo Street is sent to County Kildare to spy on the wife of a loathsome client, she's delighted to be getting away from rainy Dublin and her...

'It is difficult to convey the marvellous quality of this book' Daily TelegraphConstance Keating has lived a life of internal exile, alienated from her family and from Ireland.Now she has...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A powerful, thought-provoking novel about two sisters who must reclaim themselves after their lives are dramatically upended from one of our finest authors...

'Warm, witty and wise' Marian KeyesThree women, three birthdays, one year that will change everything...Ginger isn't spending her thirtieth the way she would have planned. Tonight might be the first...

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 new fabulously addictive read from the No. 1 bestselling author As TV's favourite weather forecaster, Lainey is good at making predictions. But what she doesn't foresee is that her...

Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men whose shared love...

Molly's perfect life comes crashing down following the unexpected death of her husband David. She is left alone with a big old house to maintain, finances in disarray and her...

A compelling and perceptive tale of intimacy, memory and relationships from the No.1 bestselling author. How can you know someone you've never met? Joyce Conway remembers things she shouldn't. She...

In these subtle, deceptively simple new stories, the acclaimed Irish writer Eilis Ni Dhuibhne demonstrates her mastery of a form she is steadily reshaping to make her own. Dealing with...

Sarah loves being a mother - it defines her.Every year she writes a birthday letter of love to her adored daughter, Izzy, now seven. And after she falls pregnant, she...

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...

The exams are finally over, the sun is shining and celebration is in the air. For twins Chloe and Alex the future looks bright, if a bit uncertain. But turbulence...

'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...

The warm and wonderful new novel fromthe natural heir to Maeve Binchy Eleanor Levine left Ireland seventy years ago with little more than a suitcase and her mother's handwritten recipe...

Tamarisk Manor is more than just a family business - but will it tear this family apart? An engrossing story filled with drama, glamour and rival passions...For the beautiful and...

***WINNER of the 2021 RSL Ondaatje Prize***'I binged it like a Netflix show... It's stunning' Luke Kennard, author of The Transition______________________________A photograph is hung on a gallery wall for the...

The Bell literary journal was founded by Sean O'Faolain and Peadar O'Donnell in 1940, and edited by O'Faolain until 1946, then by O'Donnell to 1954. Its index of writers reads...

From the very opening pages, we see many memorable characters as they move about the Ruttledges, who have come from London home to Ireland in search of a different life....

Ireland has long been a nation of story-tellers. What began as a lively form of entertainment has grown into an unrivalled literary genre. Although Ireland may mourn the loss of...

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...

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...

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...

The second book in the Agnes Browne trilogy, the basis for the BAFTA-award winning TV series Mrs Brown's Boys.Continuing the hilarious saga of the ups and downs, minor scrapes and...

THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER'A glitzy, glamorous rollercoaster of a romance - hugely entertaining and so satisfying . . . Sheila O'Flanagan at her sparkling best' Veronica HenryThe irresistible, utterly satisfying...

Heartbreaking and uplifting, Me and You is a story about how hard it is to leave our old selves behind, the tough choices we sometimes have to make and how...

Julius Winsome lives in a cabin in the hunting hearltand of the Maine woods, with only his books and his dog for company. That is until the morning he finds...