Secondhand Irish Fiction Books

Marcella and Teresa - niece and aunt. Two sides of the same coin: smart, funny, feisty - and on a collision course. Fifteen-year-old Marcella is determined not to make the...

Set in Carriglas, County Cork, this book tells of Sarah Pollexfen, who becomes a governess to the Rolleston family at the beginning of this century. Two wars later, she dies...

In 1920s' rural Ireland, Pearl Somers lives happily with her parents, her sisters Opal and Ruby, and her little brother Willie, in the gate lodge of Kilnashone Castle, where her...

In this slim, attractive collection of short stories, Harry Crosbie colourfully describes life in Dublin in the 1960s. These funny and poignant pieces are told from the perspective of a...

When Orla is handed an envelope by her father, she is perplexed by what she finds - a photograph of her parents, taken the summer she was born. Her heavily...

Harry Fielding has had enough. He's had enough of his adopted city, and he's tired of his flat, which smells of gas and longing. Most of all though he's finished...

'Gorgeous, immersive... both epic and intimate, funny and wise' Roisin O'Donnell'Moving, thought-provoking, and utterly delightful' Elif BatumanYou could probably run cities on the energy generated between directors like him and...

AN IRISH TIMES DEBUT AUTHOR TO LOOK OUT FOR 2025'Beautifully written' LOUISE KENNEDY'Full of verve and wit and humanity' MARY COSTELLO'Clever and original' TLS'A tremendous new talent' KEVIN BARRY Mairead...

From London to Los Angeles, Berlin and Tokyo, Nothing Good Happens After 2 a.m. is a story of friendship, ambition, passion - and something more. London, 2005 Behind the unmarked...

It is 1944. Honor Cusack is a first-year medical student at University College Dublin. She becomes involved with a young German doctor, Oscar Raeder, who has been studying in Dublin...

An Irish Independent Book of the Year. As the great John McGahern used to say, there's verse, and there's prose, and then there's poetry; William Wall is a poet in...

'I found myself taking screenshots to send to friends because MacMahon nails it over and over again' Claire Kilroy'Incisive, witty and tender, there's not a woman in the country who...

Spanning the years between the Wars,this is a novel about betrayal & a troubled Ireland.But most of all it speaks of the women who unite against the violence that is...

An island community faces its final struggle for survival. The herring shoals move beyond the reach of the islanders' small boats. Hughie Duffy, who spent time in prison and developed...

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK AN OBSERVER...