IRISH LITERATURE

Cláir Ní Aonghusa / Four Houses & a Marriage

Sinead's world is collapsing. Her marriage to Eoin is floundering. She's at war with her parents and the school she worked in for years is closing down. When a beloved aunt dies and leaves her a...

Claire Keegan / Antarctica

 *PRE-ORDER THE NEW NOVEL BY CLAIRE KEEGAN, SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE, NOW!*'No better feeling than reading a book that makes you excited to discover everything its author has ever written...' -...

Claire Keegan / Foster

A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known...

Claire Keegan / Small Things Like These

 ** A Book of the Year in The Times - The New Statesman - Observer - Financial Times - Irish Times - Irish Independent - Times Literary Supplement ** WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE AND THE KERRY...

Claire Keegan / Small Things Like These (Hardback)

  A SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER **** Chosen as a Spectator, Irish Times and Irish Independent Book of the Year **THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF...

Claire Kilroy / All Names Have Been Changed

 All Names Have Been Changed is set in Dublin in the mid-1980s - a city in the grip of recession and a heroin epidemic. Narrated by Declan, the only boy of a tight-knit writing group at Trinity...

Claire Kilroy / All Names Have Been Changed (Large Paperback)

  Set in the Dublin of the mid 1980s - gripped by a heroin epidemic and light years from the post EU economic boom of today - "All Names Have Been Changed" tells the story of a small group of...

Claire Kilroy / Soldier Sailor

In one of the most acclaimed novels of the year, her first in over a decade, Claire Kilroy takes us deep into the mind of her unforgettable heroine.Exploring the clash of fierce love for a new life...

Claire Kilroy / Soldier Sailor (Large Paperback)

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Claire Kilroy / Tenderwire

Eva Tyne, an Irish violinist living and working in New York, collapses after her solo debut and is rushed to hospital. Still dazed after the incident, she finds herself embarked on a chaotic and...

Claire Kilroy / Tenderwire (Large Paperback)

  Eva Tyne, an Irish violinist living and working in New York, collapses after her solo debut and is rushed to hospital. Still dazed after the incident, she finds herself embarked on a...

Clare Boylan - Holy Pictures - HB - 1st Ed 1983

Hardcover first edition, published by Hamish Hamilton UK , 1983 . Heavy tanning to pages.  For Nan, on the threshold of puberty, and her younger sister Mary, innocence blends uneasily with the...

Clare Boylan - Last Resorts - HB - US Edition 1986

Harriet's yearly family vacation on the Greek island of Keptos is disrupted by her twins' desire to get drunk with the locals, her thirteen-year-old daughter's suddenly ripe sexuality, and the abrupt...

Colin Barrett / Homesickness (Large Paperback)

 The second book from the "exact and poetic" (New York Times) author of critical smash Y oung Skins , winner of the Guardian First Book Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a...

Colin Barrett / Wild Houses (Hardback)

The remarkable, funny and thrilling debut novel from the acclaimed, prize-winning author of the short story collections, Young Skins and HomesicknessAs Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the...

Colin Walsh / Kala (Large Paperback)

In the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland's west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years. They - Helen, Joe and Mush - were part of an original group of six...

Colm Tóibín / Long Island

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of Eilis Lacey, the...

Colm Tóibín / Long Island (Large Paperback)

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of Eilis Lacey, the...

Colm Toibin / Mothers and Sons

 Colm Toibin's Mothers and Sons is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Psychologically intricate and emotionally...

Colm Toibin / Nora Webster

* * * Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards and the 2015 Folio Prize * * * Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing today.It is the late 1960s in...

Colm Toibin / The Blackwater Lightship (Hardback)

  Helen's brother is dying, and with two of his friends she waits for the end in her grandmother's crumbling old house. Her mother and grandmother, after years of strife have come to an...

Colm Toibin / The Empty Family

In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family Colm Toibin delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast...

Colm Toibin / The Magician

  Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize 2022 From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magician tells...

Colm Tóibín / The Magician (Large Paperback)

 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZEFrom one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family.The...

Colm Toibin / The South

In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland and her family for Barcelona, determined to become a painter. There she meets Miguel, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and proceeds to build a...

Colm Toibin / The Testament of Mary

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013 From the author of Brooklyn comes a short, powerful novel about one of the most famous mothers in history. In a voice that is both tender and filled with...

Colum McCann / Apeirogon (Large Paperback)

 CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i PAPER, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SCOTSMAN, IRISH TIMES, BBC.COM, WATERSTONES.COM'Nothing like any book you've ever...

Colum McCann / Dancer

Stunning, bestselling novel based on the real life of Rudolf Nureyev from an acclaimed author.This novel opens on a battlefield: trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland,...

Colum McCann / Dancer (Large Paperback)

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Colum McCann / Everything in This Country Must (Hardback)

 In a daring tour de force, one of our writers takes on the most intractable of conflicts-the Troubles in Northern Ireland.In his fourth book, Colum McCann, a writer of fierce originality and...

Colum McCann / Fishing the Sloe-black River

Stunning collection of short stories from the prize-winning author of DANCER An ageing nun is tracked to ground by her sister; a garrulous beautician must lay out the corpse of a loved one. These are...

Colum McCann / Let the Great World Spin (Hardback)

 New York, August 1974. A man is walking the sky. The city stands still in awe. Between the newly built Twin Towers the man is striding, twirling and showboating his way through the air. One...

Colum McCann / Let the Great World Spin (Large Paperback)

 New York, August 1974. A man is walking the sky. The city stands still in awe. Between the newly built Twin Towers the man is striding, twirling and showboating his way through the air. One...

Colum McCann / Songdogs

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Colum McCann / Songdogs (Hardback)

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Colum McCann / Thirteen Ways of Looking (Hardback)

   From the author of the award-winning novel Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic comes an eponymous novella and three stories that range fluidly across time,...

Colum McCann / Thirteen Ways of Looking (Large Paperback)

A story in this collection has been longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG short story award As it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded,...

Colum McCann / This Side Of Brightness

    On a bitter winter's day in 1916, deep below the streets of New York, a group of men is working in one of the huge pressurized tunnels that will make up the subway system. Suddenly,...

Colum McCann / This Side Of Brightness (Hardback)

 A breakthrough novel for one of the most gifted of the current generation of Irish writers. Ostensibly a love story in three generations, THIS SIDE OF BRIGHTNESS is about many other about the...

Colum McCann / This Side of Brightness (Large Paperback)

  From the author of Songdogs, a magnificent work of imagination and history set in the tunnels of New York City. In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves his native Georgia...

Colum McCann / Transatlantic

In 1919 Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of World War One to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of...

Colum McCann / Transatlantic (Large Paperback)

1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of the First World War to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west...

Colum McCann / Twist (Large Paperback)

  Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human existence—words, images,...

Colum McCann / Zoli

   A major new novel about a gypsy woman exiled for betraying her people, from the prize-winning author of DANCERThe novel begins in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s when Zoli, a young...

Colum Mccann / Zoli (Large Paperback)

The novel begins in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s when Zoli, a young Roma girl, is six years old. The fascist Hlinka guards had driven most of her people out onto the frozen lake and forced them...

Conal Creedon / Passion Play

The Pounding on his door is gettinglouder ond louder . . .- AnswerdeshaggindoorwiIlyaanswerdeshaggindoor !-l am safe...Pluto stubs out onother cigorette in the dregs ofhis coffee mug ond buries...

Conor Bowman / Horace Winter Says Goodbye (Large Paperback)

'Original, moving and funny...' Irish Independent Meet Horace Winter and fall in love with life again in this bestselling novel ... Horace Winter has led an unexceptional life. Ever since that...

Conor O'Callaghan / Nothing On Earth

 As fine as it is frightening." (John Banville). "This one will stay with you like your shadow." (Guardian). "Extraordinary...pitch-perfect." (Irish Times). "Strange, beautiful and quietly...

Damien Owens / Duffy and Son

 The Sunday Business Post Fiction Book of the Year | Shortlisted for Popular Fiction Book of the Year – An Post Irish Book Awards A heart-warming and hilarious novel about life, love, and...

Damien Owens / Duffy and Son (Large Paperback)

 A heart-warming and hilarious novel about life, love, and the weight of all we leave unsaid, Duffy & Son is a quietly moving masterpiece from one of Ireland's most gifted comic writers...

Danny Denton / The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow

Ireland is flooded, derelict. It never stops raining. The Kid in Yellow has stolen the babba from the Earlie King. Why? Something to do with the King's daughter, and a talking statue, something...

David Marcus ( Editor ) / Mothers and Daughters: Irish Short Stories (Hardback)

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