IRISH LITERATURE

Cathy Sweeney / Break-Down (Large Paperback)

One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in her suburban home, and without conscious purpose, walks out the front door to begin a journey that...

Christopher Nolan / Under the Eye of the Clock

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Christopher Nolan / Under the Eye of the Clock - HB US Edition 1988

 A powerful and moving autobiography from a gifted writer who Was been compared to Joyce and Yeats. 'A book of sheer wonder. As an author he competes as an equal with the ablest of them' DAILY...

Ciaran Collins / The Gamal

Charlie has a story to tell, about his best friends Sinead and James and the bad things that happened. But he can't tell it yet, at least not 'til he's worked out where the beginning is. Because is...

Claire Kilroy / The Devil I Know (Large Paperback)

  There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile He made a crooked deal and he blew a crooked pile He dug a crooked hole. And he sank the crooked isle And they all went to hell in a...

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

Set in modern day Ireland, The Blackwater Lightship tells the tale of three women, Dora Devereaux, her daughter Lily and grand-daughter Helen. They arrive at an uneasy peace with each other...

Colm Toibin / The Empty Family (Large Paperback)

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

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 Tóibín / The Master (Large Paperback)

Colm Tóibín’s beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James’s inner life” (The New York Times) captures the loneliness and hope of a master of psychological subtlety...

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...