IRISH LITERATURE

Emma Donoghue / Room

He lives in a single room with his Ma.The room is locked.Neither Jack nor Ma have a key. The novel opens as Jack turns five. Jack has never been outside of Room, as he calls it, and although he and...

Graham Norton / Holding (Large Paperback)

Duneen is a quiet place, far enough from the big towns to have kept its own rhythms. Its residents include castdown policeman PJ who lives a lonely, uneventful life punctuated only by the next meal -...

Joseph O'Connor / Star of The Sea

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Sally Rooney / Conversations with Friends

 'This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear I'm not alone.'- Sarah Jessica Parker (Instagram)WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND...

Donal Ryan / The Spinning Heart

Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2013Shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award 2014Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013Winner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards...

Paul Murray / The Bee Sting (Large Paperback)

 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. The Barnes...

Graham Norton / Home Stretch (Large Paperback)

 Shame and longing can flow through generations, but the secrets of the heart will not be buried for ever.It is 1987 and a small Irish community is preparing for a wedding. The day before the...

Graham Norton / A Keeper

     Atmospheric, creepy and impossible to put down.' the TIMES'A compelling and moving story, expertly told, that will draw you in and keep you in its grip until the last page.'...

James Joyce / Dubliners

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Graham Norton / Forever Home (Large Paperback)

 The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author Graham Norton 'A magnificent novelist.' STUART HERITAGE for THE GUARDIAN'Blend[s] dark humour and emotional weight with ease.' RADIO...

Graham Norton / A Keeper (Large Paperback)

   Dear Lonely Leinster Lady, I'm not really sure how to begin . . .* * *The truth drifts out to sea, riding the waves out of sight. And then the tide turns.Elizabeth Keane returns to...

Graham Norton / Home Stretch

 'Graham is a lovely writer and this is by far his best. The passage of time is beautifully handled, and the emergence of Ireland into the modern world is a joy to read... There's a lovely...

James Plunkett / Strumpet City

This new edition of the epic Strumpet City marks the centenary of the 1913 Lockout. It has been chosen as Dublin City Libraries' One City, One Book for 2013. First published in 1969, it has...

Sebastian Barry / The Secret Scripture

  Told through the journals of Roseanne McNulty and her psychiatrist Dr Grene, the story that emerges - of Roseanne’s family in 1930s Sligo - is at once shocking and deeply beautiful...

Brian Friel / Philadelphia, Here I Come - Play

Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and the humiliating job in his father's grocery shop, with his frustrated love for Kathy Doogan who married a richer,...

James Joyce / Ulysses

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom...

Emma Donoghue / Room (Large Paperback)

This is the story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world. Jack is five and, like any little boy, excited at the prospect of presents and cake. He's looking forward to telling his...

John McGahern / Amongst Women

  Michael Moran is an old Irish Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the Irish War of Independence. Moran is still fighting — with...

Louise Nealon / Snowflake (Large Paperback)

 WINNER OF SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2021, AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS'Wonderful' Roddy Doyle'Sparks with tender charm and humour . . . Fresh, bleakly funny' Sunday Times'Sharp,...

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...

John Boyne / All The Broken Places (Large Paperback)

   1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame, and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to...

Louise O'Neill / Asking for it (Large Paperback)

A soul-shattering novel that will leave your emotions raw. This story will haunt me forever. Everyone should read it' Guardian In a small town where everyone knows everyone, Emma O'Donovan is...

John Boyne / The Echo Chamber (Large Paperback)

 What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon...

Louise O'Neill / Idol (Large Paperback)

 'IDOL is fresh, glamorous, and surprising, taking an issue we all care about and with a deft twist, recalibrating our position. It dazzles us before revealing the darkness at its heart. Louise...

Eimear McBride / A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing

Winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Kerry Group Irish Novel of the year award. It is the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize. Eimear McBride's debut tells, with astonishing insight and in...

John McGahern / Memoir

'As wise and compelling a book as any of his elegiac and graceful novels.' David Mitchell This is the story of John McGahern's childhood; of his mother's death, his father's anger and bafflement,...

John Banville / April in Spain

 THE LOCK-UP - A THRILLING NEW STRAFFORD AND QUIRKE MYSTERY - IS AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDER The sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, from the Booker Prize...

John Banville / Snow (Large Paperback)

 'An outstanding novel and an absolute page-turner.' Irish Independent'A typically elegant country house mystery.' Guardian, Biggest books of the AutumnA CrimeReads Most Anticipated Book of...

Alice Ryan / There's Been a Little Incident (Large Paperback)

 NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2022 Molly Black has disappeared. She's been running away since her parents died.But this time, or so says her note, she's gone for good.There's...

Marita Conlon-McKenna / The Hungry Road (Large Paperback)

 In its brilliant recreation of the Great Irish Famine, the children's historical novel Under the Hawthorn Tree is beloved by millions and is considered a classic.Now, the Number One Irish...

Roddy Doyle / The Van

  The Van is the story of Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr., and his best friend Bimbo, who buy an old fish-and-chip van and go into business in the Dublin of the 1990s.       To view...

Maeve Binchy / Whitethorn Woods

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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...

Kevin Barry / Night Boat to Tangier (Hardback)

 LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR EASON NOVEL OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDSIRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERBOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TIMES LITERARY...

Niall Williams / Four Letters Of Love

With an introduction by John HurtA classic love story and a seminal work of Irish literature that is a testament to romance, magic and the power of true love.In love everything changes, and continues...

John Banville / April in Spain (Large Paperback)

 When Dublin pathologist Quirke glimpses a familiar face while on holiday with his wife, it's hard, at first, to tell whether his imagination is just running away with him. Could she really be...

John Banville / the Book of Evidence

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Louise Nealon / Snowflake

 'Wonderful and mad' Roddy Doyle'Sparks with tender charm and humour . . . Fresh, bleakly funny' Sunday Times'Tender, laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving' Louise O'Neill'GAS and beautiful and...

Naoise Dolan / Exciting Times

   'The book of the summer ... Kept me rapt until the final page' THE TIMES 'A sharp, smart, witty modern love story. I loved it' David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY'More than lives up to...

Paul Murray / Skippy Dies

Paul Murray's Skippy Dies is a tragicomic masterpiece about a Dublin boarding school Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010 Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very...

Ronan Hession / Leonard and Hungry Paul

LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL is the story of two friends who ordinarily would remain uncelebrated. It finds a value and specialness in them that is not immediately apparent and prompts the idea that maybe...

Sebastian Barry / A Long Long Way

  Barely eighteen years old, Willie Dunne leaves Dublin in 1914 to fight for the Allied cause, largely unaware of the growing political and religious tensions festering back home.   A Long...

Fiona Scarlett / Boys Don't Cry

 'I can't remember ever reading anything so moving . . . It's so beautiful.' MARIAN KEYES They say boys don't cry.But Finn's seen his Da do it when he thinks no one's looking, so that's not...

Lisa Mcinerney / The Glorious Heresies

  WINNER OF THE BAILEYS' WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2016 We all do stupid things when we're kids.Ryan Cusack's grown up faster than most - being the oldest...

John Boyne / A Ladder to the Sky (Large Paperback)

   'A deliciously dark tale of ambition, seduction and literary theft . . . an ingeniously conceived novel that confirms Boyne as one of the most assured writers of his generation.' Hannah...

Maeve Binchy / This Year it Will Be Different

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Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry

Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own...

Naoise Dolan / Exciting Times (Large Paperback)

 'The book of the summer ... Kept me rapt until the final page' THE TIMES'A sharp, smart, witty modern love story. I loved it' David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY'More than lives up to the hype .....

John Banville / Snow

 'Outstanding.' Irish Independent'Exquisite.' Daily Mail'Hypnotic.' Financial Times'This is crime fiction for the connoisseur.' The Times'The body is in the library,' Colonel Osborne said. 'Come...

Roddy Doyle / Love (Large Paperback)

 'A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality' John BoyneOne summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant.Old friends, now married and with grown-up...

Roddy Doyle / The Snapper

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John Banville / The Lock-Up

'The ultimate page-turner.'IRISH INDEPENDENT'Like drinking Bollinger when your usual tipple is Babycham.'THE TIMESThe Sunday Times bestselling author of Snow and April in...