Irish Books

An engrossing and utterly absorbing read, The Thief of Time introduces a storyteller of rare distinction. It is 1758 and Matthieu Zela is fleeing Paris for Dover, having witnessed the...

This collection of stories is set in Portobello, on the edge of Dublin city centre, just inside the canal. The stories reflect on characters on the edge of life, personalities...

*A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller*'What a writer he was; he could flip over a sentence so gently, and show the underbelly in a heartbeat. His work is always quietly...

It's ten years on from the first winter gathering when four of Maggie Quinn's closest friends rushed in to spend Christmas with her after her husband walked out just days...

A brilliant new translation of O Cadhain's modern Irish literature masterpiece, meant to spark debate and comparison with Alan Titley's Dirty Dust, now with bonus materials on its history, reception,...

A fast-paced thriller, this includes sex, violence, humor, and wit, but not necessarily in that order. It introduces Hugh Reilly, an RAF bomber-pilot, womanizer, and alcoholic. Scarred by his war...

The million-copy bestselling love story... ''Remember our wonderful memories, but don't be afraid to make some more...' Holly and Gerry had the perfect life. Happily married, living in Dublin close...

Once, the villagers would tip their hats respectfully when the McMahons drove out through the ornate iron gates at the end of the drive. But that was back in the...

1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out...

A day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who has returned to Ireland after a year's sabbatical in London, where he married an American divorc...

A gorgeously romantic novel you will fall in love with and tell all your friends about! One love. Two people. Twenty Years. From the moment their eyes met across the...

Trouble brews when an old flame of Meany's arrives back in town. She brightens up his lonely life, but if they are every to marry, Meany must loosen his grip...

You wouldn't expect to find a mature woman of twenty-eight years of age mixed up with a bunch of swingers in a small town like Barntrosna. But that's exactly what...

'The Butcher's Apprentice' is an intriguing story of one man's search for his identity and his yearning for a love he thought never existed.On his death-bed in hospital, Robert Kelly...

'Bright, pacy... Fans of Downton Abbey will adore this, and it would be surprising if the book weren't made into a luscious mini-series'The Sunday Times'A captivating and page-turning novel about...

Acclaimed as one of the funniest and most assured Irish novels of recent years, An Evening of Long Goodbyes is the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and the heroic squandering...

The town of Rossmore is a special place, full of character charm. Nestled beside the Whitethorn Woods, the town has grown since the days when it was small and friendly...

'Absolutely MAGNIFICENT: dark, witty, charming. I LOVED it.' MARIAN KEYES'Original, terrifying, hilarious and memorable.' SUNDAY TIMES IRELAND 'An Agatha Christie-esque whodunnit, a dark supernatural mystery and an account of mass...

'Mary Lavin's stories... are subtle without making a palaver about it, beautifully told, no pat endings, no slickness; and as in life, nothing is resolved.' William TrevorFirst published in 1943,...

Includes That They May Face the Rising Sun, Amongst Women, The Pornographer, The Dark, and The Barracks. All B format paperbacks in a slipcase.

'You know that moment between sleep and waking? I read somewhere that the first thing that comes into your head is what you desire or fear the most. I don't...

Gillespie, an Irishman, goes to the Congo in 1959 in pursuit of his beautiful lover Ines, a passionate Italian journalist. Unlike her, Gillespie has no interest in the deepening independence...

A pair of novellas, set over two pivotal summers in the lives of two young men from Belfast, recall the constraints of the place where they were born and the...

Magic was dormant - never deadTo some, Emri - the adopted heir and daughter of two queens - is a living reminder that her birth father tried to usurp the...

'I've been waiting for this book for over 15 years and it is everything I hoped it would be and more. Simply breathtaking' MARK BILLINGHAMTwice upon a time - for...

1846. County Cork. On the barren outskirts of Macroom, Padraig and Cait ua Buachalla face a perilous winter after the failure of their blighted crop. At the centre of town,...