A true original, this stunning prose debut by Doireann Ní Ghríofa weaves two stories together. In the 1700s, an Irish noblewoman, on discovering her husband has been murdered, drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary poem that reaches...

From Graham Norton, the BAFTA Award-winning Irish television host and author of the ';charming debut novel' (New York Journal of Books) Holding a masterly and haunting tale of secrets and ill-fated love follows a young woman as she returns to Ireland...

Some stories are universal. They play out across human history. And time is the river which will flow through them.It starts with a family, a family which will mutate. For now, it is a father, mother and two sons. One with his father's violence in his...

Celebrate Irish culture with this literary collection, which includes traditional ballads; poems by Thomas Moore, James Clarence Mangan, William Allingham, William Butler Yeats, and others; short stories by Wilde, Le Fanu, and Carleton; the novels Castle...

Nessa Crowley's murderer has been protected by silence for ten years.Until a team of documentary makers decide to find out the truth.On the day of Henry and Keelin Kinsella's wild party at their big house a violent storm engulfed the island of Inisrun,...

Nessa Crowley's murderer has been protected by silence for ten years. Until a team of documentary makers decide to find out the truth. On the day of Henry and Keelin Kinsella's wild party at their big house a violent storm engulfed the island of Inisrun,...

Just once, Ann Devine would like life to be straightforward. But there's just too much drama knocking about for that to happen. Ann's family is proving a handful at the moment.Her mother moves in after having a fall, her sister Ger is off 'finding...

Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin live near one another yet they exist worlds apart. Rami is Israeli.Bassam is Palestinian. Rami s license plate is yellow. Bassam s license plate is green.It takes Rami fifteen minutes to drive to the West Bank. The same...

When she was young Mary Rattigan wanted to fly. She was going to take off like an angel from heaven and leave the muck and madness of troubled Northern Ireland behind. Nothing but the Land of Happy Ever After would do for her.But as a Catholic girl with...

Boulevard Wren and Other Stories is the stunning follow-up to the bestselling Gospel According to Blindboy, and a warped mirror held up to the Irish psyche. Provocative and unsettling, the stories rove through the centuries, from the barren fields of...

'Absolutely dazzling' Marian Keyes  'On every page there are little shimmering bombs' Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women Being Tommy s mother is too much for Sonya. Too much love, too much fear, too much longing for the cool wine she gulps from the...

Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa,...

When you leave Ireland aged 22 to spend your parents' money, it's called a gap year. When Ava leaves Ireland aged 22 to make her own money, she's not sure what to call it, but it involves:- a badly-paid job in Hong Kong, teaching English grammar to rich...

Two Irish migrants on the cusp of new lives in post-war Britain. Two young people who dare to dream of a better life, and dance the music of survival in their adopted homeland. Afraid that his wife and children will arrive over any day, Trevor is in a...

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 ceremony a group of young friends, including bride and groom,...

A complete collection of much loved Irish fairy tales, myths and legends, bound into a beautiful new edition. Enjoy the rich mythical history of Ireland from the arrival of the Tuatha De Danann on the island and their great battles with the Fomorians...

The unforgettable tale of love, abandonment, hunger and redemption, from the Irish writer who 'grips from the opening page' BERNARD MACLAVERTY Life Sentences is the sweeping and immersive story of one ordinary family in Ireland, and their extraordinary...

One summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant.Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy, and Davy, a grief he wants to keep from Joe. Both...

There once was ... a woman who loved her husband's cock so much that she began taking it to work in her lunchbox. a man who made films without a camera, which transfixed his estranged daughter.a couple who administered electric shocks to each other, to...

Mary grew up longing for information about the mother she never knew. Her brother could barely remember her, and their father numbed his pain with drink. Now aged thirty-seven, Mary has lived in the same house her whole life. She's never left Belfast...