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Rothko Taylor has washed up with the tide, back in their hometown, Edgecliff. Fifteen years since they left it behind.The past is accelerating towards them: the skateboard kids on the high street that remind them of their teenage …

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: …

Following independence in 1922, Ireland began to chase a dream: to become the perfect Catholic nation. But purity had a price.Throughout the twentieth century, thousands of women and girls who did not conform the wayward, the poor…

Follow the Rites...Nothing less than the survival of humanity is at stake.From Marcus Kliewer, a new titan of the macabre and unsettling, comes a supernatural horror about a young woman who accepts a caretaking job from Craigslist…

In March 2017, Tina Satchwell vanished from her home in Youghal, County Cork. For six and a half years, her disappearance remained one of Ireland’s most haunting mysteries. Her husband Richard Satchwell claimed she had left with t…

Adora Hazzard has it all figured out.A contented divorcee, she relishes her teenage daughter, her job as a moral tutor for an old-money family and the bliss of finally being solo.Alone but far from lonely, she's also quietly assem…

Katriona O'Sullivan has come a long way from the poverty, chaos and abuse she knew growing up. A respected academic and bestselling author, she defied every expectation placed on the teenage mother she once was.Yet even as the acc…

In 1960s Paris, the high-life and the low-life go hand in hand. It is a time of glamour, sports cars, casinos and night clubs with a cast of actresses, petty criminals, high-level gangsters and compromised politicians. And with Fr…

This anthology of personal essays explore how video games have shaped our lives, our cultural imagination and contemporary storytelling. From novelists and critics to game designers themselves, the writers in this collection ask t…

Dublin, summer 1970. Nicoletta Sarto is juggling work as the women’s editor at the Irish Sentinel with twin baby girls at home. When she’s approached by a barrister, Louise Leonard, whose aunt has just died, she’…

Q: If your house was burning down, what would you take with you? A: I'd take the fire. This is the story of two sisters, Mia and Inés. Two girls enveloped in love, trapped by the social conventions of Casablanca at the dawn of the…

Lesley Bond and her partner Gordon were the first couple to embark on the six-month caretaking residency on the Great Blasket Island, one of Ireland’s most remote and historically rich locations. With no electricity, hot wat…

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 …

 Welcome to the New Alliance – a reimagined world after a war and a flood. Taryn Beck and her family don’t have much, and her younger brother needs vital medication to survive. Medication they …

Dell Danvers is barely keeping it together. She’s behind on rent for her bathroom-less studio apartment (formerly a walk-in closet), she’s being plagued by perpetual, spiking stomach pain, and her younger sister, Daisy…

Sometimes we need to look inward to better understand life outside. Deep within us, forces are at work that protect, heal and keep us alive day after day - mostly without us even noticing. In Organ Speak, Giulia Enders guides us t…

How do you mourn someone you never really knew? Three siblings – Anna, Gemma and Matthew – will have to work that out quickly. Monday is the day of their gentle, but distant, father’s funeral, and for the first time in a long whil…

A landmark centenary publication that brings the newly released 1926 census to life through vivid storytelling, expert insight, and stunning visual material.

From the outside, Irish dancing seems like a wholesome world of dazzling costumes, intricate footwork and groomed hair. The sport and art form, made world-famous by the smash hit Riverdance, is an instantly recognisable part of Ir…

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…

Calcutta, September 1969Varsha Gupta wants fish for her lunch. Her family can't understand it; the three-year-old has never tasted fish in her life.The Guptas are strict vegetarians and don't allow it inside their Calcutta mansion…

The deep sea is one of humanity's last frontiers. For most of our history it has been a remote realm, invoking awe and terror as it lays shrouded in darkness. But here, where the light cannot reach, lies a strange, wonderful and b…

A BRIGHTER PAST. A DARKER FUTURE.The year is 2035. It's been twenty years since World War Three wiped out humankind.The only survivors were those who made it through the gates of the Metro, the subway system of Moscow city. It's t…

The majority of the world now lives in some form of urban environment. But as the human footprint of brick, concrete and metal expands, our proximity to nature decreases. This is a problem; nature isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity.…

The Word is Murder, the first book in the Hawthorne series, is being made into a major feature film.The actors have been cast, the script written, and filming has already started in Hastings.But when Hawthorne and Anthony visit th…

Anyone can write a bestseller. Here’s how. GO GAY. It’s been seven years since Mallory shot to fame as a literary sensation. But after years of struggling with writer’s block, she’s desperate to resurrect her career before it spir…

Professor Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv and served in the Israel Defence Forces during the Yom Kippur War. He went on to become an expert on the German army and the Holocaust, before turning his attention …

Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for more than 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. This s…