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Sebastian Barry
There were no saints in any era, Tom knew, just good men and bad, and sometimes both in the one bottle. Retired policeman Tom Kettle is enjoying the quiet of…
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Megan Nolan
London in the nineties - a tabloid journalist begins to probe long-held secrets of an Irish family implicated in a shocking crime
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Paul Murray
From the author of Skippy Dies comes a dazzlingly intricate and poignant tragicomedy about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good man at the end of the world
Sarah Gilmartin
The waitress. The chef. The chef's wife. Three different stories, but which one contains the truth?
When Hannah learns that famed chef Daniel Costello is facing accusations of sexual assault…
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Claire Kilroy
An urgent, memorable, gut-wrenching novel about motherhood, creativity and identity which is sure to get people talking.
Michael Magee
Luminous and devastating, a portrait of modern masculinity as shaped by class, by trauma, and by silence, but also by the courage to love and to survive
Colin Walsh
A big, suspenseful, page-turning debut novel of teen summers and unsolved murders, by an award-winning rising Irish star
Caroline O'Donoghue
A sharp, poignant and beautifully told story of losing yourself, finding yourself and the lengths we will go to for those we love from the critically acclaimed author of Promising…
Naoise Dolan
'A brilliant contemporary novel' COLM TOIBIN 'So witty, observant and wise' MARIAN KEYES From the author of Exciting Times, this is a sparkling ensemble novel about love and marriage, fidelity…
Senta Rich
A sharp and warm-hearted debut with an unforgettable narrator.
Louise Kennedy
One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice.
If Davy had remembered to put on a coat. If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a…
Claire Keegan
An exquisite winter tale of courage - and its cost, set in Catholic Ireland.
Lisa McInerney
A big, bold debut from a true new Irish talent.
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The third novel from the author of the Baileys Prize-winning The Glorious Heresies
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Nicole Flattery
A wildly original debut novel about two young women navigating the complex worlds of Andy Warhol's Factory, and coming of age in 1960s New York.
Maggie O'Farrell
Set at the heart of the treacherous political world of the Italian Renaissance, this is the masterful story of a young woman's battle for her very survival, written with all…
An addictive and unforgettable novel of a marriage in freefall, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2016.
Two extraordinary people. A love that draws them together. A loss that threatens to tear them apart.
Anne Enright
*LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE 2020* From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter’s search to understand her mother’s hidden truths…
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The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland for lives they never could have imagined in Dublin, New York and various third-world towns. In her early old age…
The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn’t the drink that killed him - although that certainly…
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Sally Rooney
Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity…
Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. But when Frances and Nick get unexpectedly closer, the sharply witty and emotion-averse Frances is forced to honestly confront her own vulnerabilities…
The new #1 bestseller from the author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends, now in paperback.
Roddy Doyle
‘A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality’ John Boyne One summer’s evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. But Joe has a secret he has to…
A … portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories –Provided by publisher.
She’s twenty-three and in love with love. The affair is quickly consuming. But this relationship is unpredictable, and behind his perfect looks is a mean streak. The search for a…
Eimear McBride
Tells in brutal detail the story of a young woman’s relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. In this title, the author touches…
One night in London an eighteen year old girl, recently arrived from Ireland to study drama, meets an older actor and a tumultuous relationship ensues. Set across the bedsits and…
Cecelia Ahern
Meaningful and moving - the classic million-copy bestselling love story from Cecelia Ahern.
Colm Toibin
Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village. The parish priest, Father Flood, arranges for her to travel to America, where a job opportunity has…
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In The Magician, Colm Toibin captures the profound personal conflict of a very public life, and through this life creates an intimate portrait of the twentieth century.
It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her…
Alice Ryan
A witty and warm debut novel by a young Irish writer. The Black family band together as their lost sheep, Molly, has disappeared.
Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien’s iconic first novels - The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl, and Girls in their Married Bliss - published as a trilogy with a new foreword by Eimear McBride.
Marian Keyes
Rachel Walsh has a pair of size 8 feet and such a fondness for recreational drugs that her family has forked out the cash for a spell in Cloisters -…
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The international No.1 bestselling author writes her first sequel starring her most beloved character - form an orderly line!
Playtime is over as Marian’s Sunday Times No. 1 blockbuster comes out in paperback
Tana French
Tana French follows her stunning accomplished debut, In The Woods, with an equally compelling psychological mystery that confirms her place as one of the most exciting new voices in crime…
A stunningly accomplished psychological mystery which will take you on a thrilling journey through a tangled web of evil and beyond - to the inexplicable.
Emma Donoghue
A chilling novel from the bestselling author of Room.
Jack is five and, like any little boy, excited at the prospect of presents and cake. He’s looking forward to telling his friends it’s his birthday, too. But although Jack…
Colum McCann
Told from a multitude of perspectives, in lyrical, hypnotic prose, Thirteen Ways of Looking is a ground-breaking work of true resonance.
How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live?
Kevin Barry
The Booker-longlisted novel, drenched in sex, death and narcotics, in sudden violence, old magic and the mysteries of love, from the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Goldsmiths Prize.
James Joyce
A daring work of experimental, Modernist genius, James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century, and the crowning glory of Joyce’s life.
Capturing a single day in the life of Dubliner Leopold Bloom, his friends Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus, his wife Molly, and a cast of supporting characters, the author pushes…
