Irish Fiction

Eliza's playwright husband Richard Sheridan has accepted the career opportunity of a lifetime: running a prestigious theatre in Dublin. Eliza plays the role of the supportive wife - uprooting their daughter Mara, relocating from E…

Ghost Mountain is a mountain that appeared yesterday, changing the lives of the local people: the town drunk, a retired teacher and her dog, a young soul and his wife, an old soul. It is a story about all that is unmistakably pres…

A stunning debut novel following a teenage boy as he comes of age on the west coast of Ireland, from the author of the acclaimed story collection Pure Gold. Seventeen-year-old John Masterson has no idea what he wants. It's his las…

He was ready to die for love. He just needed to find the right girl. October, 1891. Tom Rourke is a poet struggling to make a life amongst the Irish migrant workers in Butte, Montana. He is a doper and a drinker and a fearsome de…

In these masterful stories, Mary O’Donnell captures characters caught between certainties and change — from urban encounters to sun-drenched beaches, lockdown anxieties to nightclub tensions. Her walking ghosts navigate the limina…

TWO BOYS MEET. EVERYTHING CHANGES. On the cusp of adulthood, James dreams of another life far away from his small village.As he contends with the expectations of his family, his burgeoning desire - an ache for autonomy, tenderness…

Leaving home was hard. Returning is impossible.Fiadh's life is turned completely upside down on a night out in Belfast. Pretty soon everyone has heard about what happened; it is impossible to keep the rumours from spreading, the g…

Mothers are not supposed to go on road trips...But one winter morning in Dublin, an ordinary woman wakes up in her ordinary home, her husband next to her in bed, her teenage children sleeping nearby. And - without thinking much ab…

From the writer Anthony Doerr calls 'a massive talent', The Alternatives is the story of four brilliant sisters, orphaned in childhood, who scramble to reconnect when the eldest disappears into the Irish countryside. OLWEN. NELL. …

The bestselling Irish debut novel – a multigenerational portrait of small-town life bursting with caustic wit – for fans of Jon McGregor, Elizabeth Strout and Paul Murray. Welcome to Ballyrowan: a village built out of stories. Sto…

The affair is over - so what does she have to lose? Juliet never planned to be the other woman, but Rory was the only man she'd ever loved. Then he went and died.At his funeral, Juliet hides shamefully at the back, while his wife …

An arresting, unmissable debut novel shortlisted for the Women's Prize Discoveries award - an exploration of family, grief, queer identity, and the legacy of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Can you imagine it? I'd say to them. Ca…

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 s…

Everyone is talking about the disappearance of Emma Harte. How could yet another promising young woman vanish without a trace? Have the police tracked down her boyfriend yet? And why are women still not safe on our streets?Archivi…

A story about identity and place, about finding out who you are, who your people are, and what it means to be a family.Maeve Gaffney arrives in a small West Cork town in pursuit of a dream: to be reunited with Tim, the lad she fel…

Fighting off the boredom of lockdown, acclaimed author Jim Winter decides to share his skills by setting up an anonymous online writing workshop – but his generosity will cost him more than he knows. Right away, the work of a tale…

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

This is a murder mystery.This is a story about love.Or is it? . . .Fair Play is the puzzle-box story of two competing tales that brilliantly lay bare the real truth of life - the terrifying mystery of grief.Abigail and her brother…

Hanging beside the door is a painting of a wedding feast. The light is centred on the bride; the guests are banished to the shade.That is how it is when he looks at her: all others fade away. Geertje, an impoverished widow from Ed…

Lorraine would say afterwards that she was smitten straight off with Paddy Farrell. You could tell that he was occupying the room in a different way, he found the spaces that fitted him. She was the kind of girl the papers called …

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 …

It is 1895, and turn-of-the-century Paris is as chaotic as it is glamorous. Industry and invention have created ever greater wealth and terrible poverty. One autumn morning, an anarchist boards the Granville to Paris express train…

THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER. A marriage unravels in a Spanish hotel room as a young wife is haunted by a past love. A father travels to Paris to meet his scientist son and is exposed to his son's true nature. A woman attends a read…

A collection of delightful short stories from one of Ireland's greatest ever writers, Brian Friel Stories of Ireland is a brilliant, colourful compendium of mid-century Irish experience from one of Ireland’s greatest ever writers,…

Christine Beckett is faced with some home truths when her best friend, suffering from dementia, decides after a lifetime to be honest with her; Olivia Fletcher has an epiphany at a vaccination centre about a man who has loved her …

Pretty soon everyone has heard about what happened; it is impossible to keep the rumours from spreading, the gossip from spiralling out of control. And just as she was beginning to finally figure everything out: she was feeling po…

As her mother lies dying, journalist Cara Joyce happens upon a shocking piece of information about her origins. It connects her to the powerful Casey family and the tragic death of a young woman thirty years ago, whose body was fo…

The Amendments is the debut novel from Niamh Mulvey, author of Hearts and Bones, and was selected by the Irish Independent, the Irish Times, the Irish Journal and VIP as one of the most anticipated novels of the year. Tender and p…

More than anything, young alchemist Peter Woulfe wants to turn lead into gold. Until he meets the elusive and alluring Sukie one hot summer night and his life changes forever. Streetwise Sukie wants to sell a mysterious stolen boo…

When parts of a human skeleton are discovered, building work on a derelict site in Cork grinds to a halt. An archaeological excavation soon unearths seven bodies. Six are men who died centuries ago.The seventh body is different: f…