Irish Fiction

A young girl spends her days on a double-decker bus. A bride-to-be prays to St Valentine’s bones. Flowers are found, left in bouquets, all over a museum. Teenagers gather to dissect the human body. Teeming with compassion and thru…

Are you ready to play? Have you ever found yourself doom-scrolling, worrying about that weird pain in your leg, only to have your plans for the day completely trashed by the appearance of a literal axe-wielding troll? What about t…

January 1965. The orphaned O'Leary siblings - Tom, Jack, Anna and Peggy - arrive in the village of Ballycrea, tight-lipped about their troubled past and desperate for a fresh start. After being met with suspicion from most of the …

A ground-breaking Irish lesbian love story, set across the decades from the 1980s AIDS crisis to the 2015 marriage referendum. Ro McCarthy, single in her fifties and working a quiet job, is sustained by her love of books and her d…

Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him becoming soldiers of a different kind, it proves to be the defining decision of his life when, havin…

When Cork academic Seán kills an annoying fly and examines it under his flatmate's microscope, he makes a discovery that will shatter everything he believes about reality. What he sees in that tiny specimen launches him into a lab…

Ireland has long been a nation of story-tellers. What began as a lively form of entertainment has grown into an unrivalled literary genre. Although Ireland may mourn the loss of the seanchaí, the old hearthside story-teller, the I…

In this wonderful collection of stories by some of Ireland’s finest writers, including Carleton, Yeats and Lady Wilde, a legion of fairy folk – leprechauns, giants, witches and mermaids – help, hinder, charm and terrify their mort…

Abigail’s brother Benjamin is dead, and her world has literally been split in two. In one reality Abigail finds herself back at work, navigating the frustrations of well-wishers and busybodies, desperately wondering why her brothe…

Five women. Twenty-two years of friendship. One annual holiday that promises escape, connection and chaos in equal measure.No matter how hectic their careers, relationships or family lives become, they keep their tradition alive: …

A young Belfast theatre troupe brings its experimental production of Hamlet to New York. On a night-flight, travelling with a violin older than the United States, a professional musician slips through time. A man who loses all he …

Sophie and her five children, still raw from tragedy, relocate from Canada to her partner Derek's childhood home. There they attempt to forge a new life together - but their new family is shadowed by grief, myth, and a lingering s…

Joan, a public servant in her fifties, is in the habit of living alone. Orrather, she's in the habit of living with the many rituals and routines-some ordinary, some less so-that allow her to navigate her days. It'sa system that w…

The first in a mystery series from the much-loved Irish actor, writer and comedian, for readers who enjoy the warmth of Graham Norton and the mystery of Death in Paradise, all wrapped up in one small Irish town.When beloved celebr…

Misty thought of them as friends, the three local boys from wealthy homes. Until upstairs at a house party an act of violence takes place, with lines drawn and repercussions for them all. On her side, Misty has her devoted father …

Connemara and Other Countries is a selection of poems written between 2015 and 2025. They have been gleaned and garnered from several generations of obsolete laptops; recopied from the backs of envelopes; found deep in the bags an…

Debbie's brain isn't perfect. Debbie's thoughts aren't unique. Debbie's dreams are all too real.Debbie White lives on a dairy farm with her mother, Maeve, and her uncle, Billy. Billy sleeps out in a caravan in the garden with a bo…

If my sister hadn't been beautiful, none of it would have happened.Ruby Cooper and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston. But when Ruby is sixteen, she is involved in an incident tha…

For Niamh Ryan, the Foleys are family.Her childhood flew by on their farm, playing with her best friend Peter and his sister Kate - all the while being doted on by their mother Helen and coached by their father Liam, a legendary f…

2002.Twin sisters Madeline and Chelsea Stone are joint stars of the AtomicKids sitcom Double Trouble, but everyone knows it s Maddie who shines most brightly. Until Chelsea beats her sister out for the role of a lifetime and is ca…

Ireland, 1988. Storm Cordelia rages through the village of Kilcraven. Still reeling from a devastating love affair and the collapse of a promising career in the Gardaí, Emma Daly is stuck.She’s moved back in with her dad and taken…

This is the story of one man's weekend, a weekend in which everything could change. These lines could change everything /He sips more of his tinny / Imagines a new life. Aidy's just punched a co-worker, but he hasn't got time to d…

At the close of the eighteenth century, Angel Kelly, an Irishman, sets sail from Liverpool aboard the Atlas with the intention of creating a Utopian commune in Brazil. But when a mutiny takes place on the ship, he finds himself st…

This family lived a life before me. And now I wonder if it was what happened in that life – all those secrets – that tore this family apart . . . not me. The warring Brown sisters. Lucy. Susannah. Tara. Each is haunted – by disgra…

It's summer 2017 and the last few residents of the Lough Neagh Archipelago are facing imminent eviction. The flood planned to combat a devastating algae outbreak will submerge their homes, forcing them back to the Mainland for the…

So, all would be grand then, as far as the eye could see. Which it was, for a while.Up until the city, remembering its knives and forks, invited itself in to dine. It's 1995. Outside their grimy window, the city rushes by.But in t…

How do you survive the unsurvivable? Rachel lives with her husband Tom and their two children: it's the ordinary family life she always thought she'd have. All of that changes in an instant - when Tom runs the family car off the r…

In The News from Dublin, a beautiful collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island, Colm Toibin delves into the days and nights of those living far from home: lives of great longing, at a grea…

Renting is a nightmare... Áine should be feeling happy with her life. She’s just moved in with Elliot.Their new flat is in an affluent neighbourhood, surrounded by bakeries, yoga studios and organic vegetable shops. They even have…