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Irish Historic Fiction
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Patrick McCabe : Breakfast on Pluto (Picador Collection)Special Price €11.99 Regular Price €13.99
From internationally acclaimed author Patrick McCabe, the Booker Prize-nominated novel that tracks the chaotic life of an abandoned orphan who escapes her hometown, braving the combustible streets of London in the 1970s. . .
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Patrick McCabe : Goldengrove (Picador Collection)Special Price €11.99 Regular Price €13.99
Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.
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The Professor in ErinSpecial Price €14.00 Regular Price €17.00
Originally serialised in the early twentieth century and first published in 1918, The Professor in Erin is the very first alternate history book by a woman author; a pioneer work within the history of world literature that deserves attention far beyond Ireland.
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Irish Gothic Dark Tales from Le Fanu to Stoker (Hardback)Special Price €13.99 Regular Price €16.99
This classic collection of Irish Gothic stories, edited and introduced by Helen Carr, includes works by Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Katharine Tynan, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and more. . .
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John Boyne : The Weight of Angels (Hardback)Special Price €19.99 Regular Price €24.99
Like Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet and Percival Everett's James, John Boyne explores one of the great what-if stories of modern literature, giving the great Anglo-Irish playwright an opportunity to take an entirely different path. . .
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John Boyne : The Weight of Angels (Paperback)Special Price €16.99 Regular Price €19.99
Like Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet and Percival Everett's James, John Boyne explores one of the great what-if stories of modern literature, giving the great Anglo-Irish playwright an opportunity to take an entirely different path. . .
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Emily Hourican : A House in Winter (Large Paperback)Special Price €15.99 Regular Price €19.99
A glamorous princess and a restless young woman, both longing for escape. Both Margaret and Cait are trapped by their circumstances in this gripping novel, based on fact, that reads as a marriage of The Crown and Maeve Binchy.
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Emily Hourican : A House in Winter (Hardback)Special Price €16.99 Regular Price €20.99
A glamorous princess and a restless young woman, both longing for escape. Both Margaret and Cait are trapped by their circumstances in this gripping novel, based on fact, that reads as a marriage of The Crown and Maeve Binchy.
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J.P Donleavy : The Unexpurgated Code€15.99Republishing on the centenary of Donleavy’s birth, and hailed as ‘Possibly the funniest book ever written’, The Unexpurgated Code is a satirical guide to etiquette for social climbers.
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The Nun of Ravensbruck : The Irish Nun Who Defied the Nazis€19.99Based on the Incredible True Story of Sr Kate McCarthy. The Nun of Ravensbrück is a powerful debut novel based on real events, bringing to life the untold story of an extraordinary woman who lit a beacon of hope in humanity's darkest hour.
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Maggie O'Farrell : Land€20.99Land is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away.
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Maggie O'Farrell : Land (Hardback)€29.99Land is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away.
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John Broderick : The Pilgrimage€14.99Darkly comic, unsettling and steeped in the atmosphere of 1950s Ireland, The Pilgrimage offers a daring exploration of sexuality, power and self‑deception. It stands as a vivid, transgressive classic that feels as provocative, and as essential, as ever.
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John Broderick : The Waking of Willie Ryan (Irish Historic Fiction)€14.99A pioneering exploration of queer Irish experience and a devastating critique of provincial cruelty, The Waking of Willie Ryan stands alongside the great modern Irish novels for its moral clarity, elegance, and emotional force.
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John Broderick : An Apology For Roses€14.99Broderick exposes the hypocrisies of Irish Catholic life with wit, psychological acuity and a fearless eye for the erotic and the grotesque. A novel banned in its own time for its frankness, An Apology for Roses stands now as a darkly glittering masterpiece, bold, unsettling, and unforgettably alive.
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Neil Tully : The Visit (Irish Historical Fiction)€20.99AN IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER. 'People don't care what's true. Just whatever story suits them best...'
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Banshee : Mythological Irish Women Retold (Hardback)€26.99In this spellbinding anthology, Ireland's most electrifying female writers breathe new life into ancient Irish myths, reclaiming the stories of women who have too long stood in the shadows of warriors and kings. This is a celebration of womanhood - and an homage to the ancient stories that still shape us. . .
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Garrett Carr : The Boy from the Sea€12.99The Boy from the Sea is Garrett Carr's brilliantly moving tale of an abandoned baby who rocks a small Irish town, bringing together a community - and igniting lifelong rivalries.
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Edna O'Brien : The Light of Evening€12.99This is a late novel by O'Brien at the height of her powers, in which she delves deep into the beautiful but intense relationship that exists between mothers and daughters.
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Edna O'Brien : House of Splendid Isolation€11.99Based on interviews with the IRA leader Dominic McGlinchy in Portlaoise Prison and published four years before the Good Friday Agreement, this thrilling, political, poetic novel is a portrait of the state of the Irish nation at the height of the Troubles.
