Irish Books

Every year, a close-knit group of friends spend two sun-filled weeks in a Spanish villa. For Derek and Sharonne, Conor and Maeve, Rory and Trish, and Liam, it's the perfect...

***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...

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

'Brilliant, funny and immensely moving' Catherine Isaac, author of You, Me, Everything 'Well, that was a tearjerker! Anna McPartlin's Below the Big Blue Sky is a MORE than worthy follow-up...

'A beautiful writer' HOZIERLonglisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionThe most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the...

The haunting debut novel from beloved, Irish bestselling author, Sinead Gleeson. The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the...

Love is not easy, especially if you find the woman of your dreams and then lose her - as Philip Griffin and his son Stephen each discover in turn. Stephen...

A love story full of honesty and truth, Colm Toibin portrays a difficult relationship during dark times.Richard Garay lives alone with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from...

It's the balmy days of the 1920s and where could be more pleasant for a holiday than a hotel on the Italian Riviera? Filled with prosperous English visitors, the Hotel...

'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.' Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely...

Chosen as a Book of the Year by Sebastian Barry, Martina Devlin and Peter CunninghamWinner of the Prix Gens de Mer, 2022Hector and Bolivar set sail from their South American...

In aid of Amnesty International, this is a brilliant 'serial' novel by fifteen of the very brightest talents in Irish writing. It begins with Roddy Doyle and ends with Frank...

The Dogs of Inishere collects stories from across Alannah Hop-kin's thirty-year career as a fiction and travel writer. The stories presented here move from adolescence to middle age, sensitive always...

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...

Peter Cunninham's latest novel is set in Monument, the scene for three of his previous books. It tells the story of Iz, a young woman trapped in an unhappy, adulterous...

Durango is an adventure story about the great October cattle drive of Tubberlick. Set in rural Ireland during the Second World War, this novel features the themes of love, sex,...

Oliver Flynn's wedding is the social event of the year, and the creme de la creme of Kilronan are happy to boast of being invited. Noreen, his new wife, 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...