Secondhand Irish Fiction Books

Forty-two-year-old Vinnie knows lots of things.He knows new books and school shoes are expensive. He knows his teenage daughter keeps getting into trouble and he knows his seven-year-old has wet...

Hope and Larry marry on a whim. They are twenty-two, crazy for each other and penniless. What Larry doesn't know is that behind her bohemian spirit and adorably off-beat humour,...

These deftly told, amusing but disturbing stories vividly capture an Ireland in flux and crisis where the coping classes, "the squeezed middle", increasingly face the threat of economic and emotional...

Lynda Graham has been fortunate in life. She is happily married, with two wonderful children, Ciaran and Katie. She has a beautiful home and garden in one of the most...

Born in the slums of Dublin in 1902, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can...

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. At home we started with...

In Ireland in the second half of the twentieth century, a corrupt circle of politicians and shadowy business figures control the levers of power.Lucrative property deals involving the sale of...

The Phelans have owned Mossgrove for generations. The small, rural Irish farm has been the pride of them all until Ned's wife, Martha, arrives and begins to undermine generations of...

It is the mid-80s in post-industrial America. Men no longer produce things with their hands but Pac-man consumer culture has yet to lift the recession. In a small town graced...

SHORTLISTED FOR NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S SEVEN DEBUTS THAT WILL MAKE A SPLASH IN 2014 Ghost Moth will transport you to...

Issy Brodsky is back with a vengeance - albeit not her own. Agent provocateur and lone parent of Max, Issy is a woman on a mission - this time to...

Unsure of his parentage and beytrayed in love, Theo Shortcourse is on the run, but saved from despair by his unquenchable spirit. Theo Shortcourse has always been overshadowed by his...

A fiction interweaving three characters: Jack Johnson, who punched his way out of the dockyards of Galveston to become the first black heavyweight champion of the world; the English modernist...

At thirty, Luke Reid seems to have an enviable life. He is a child of the leafy suburbs, attractive - in an understated way, tolerant and erudite, socially assured, professionally...

June Cusack is refusing to attend her husband Lorcan's funeral and everyone around her is wondering why: what kind of wife won't say goodbye to her husband of seven years?Her...

Tender, magical and captivating - a story of family, friends, and the unlikeliest of romances from the No. 1 bestselling author, Cecelia Ahern. What if love was right there in...

What do you do when the love of your life turns out to be a good-for-nothing love rat? a) Pour your heart out to him in private letters that he'll...

An unforgettable story of two women linked by their roles in a tragedy at the end of the Victorian era, THE BUTTERFLY CABINET by Bernie McGill will appeal to fans...

Honor Brady falls in love with wine merchant Hugo Lancaster and moves to Astignac, a village in the French wine region Entre Deux Mers. Hugo sells rare wines to connoisseurs....

An assured, memorable debut novel from a prize-winning poet. Hannie Bennet is a survivor. No jobs or careers for her. Her route through life is marriages. As her fifth husband,...

'The thinking man's John Grisham' New Statesman The body of a small girl, dressed as an angel, is discovered late one night in a pile of autumn leaves at the...

The frozen wastes of North America are Michael Collins's heart of darkness, a territory he maps with infinite precision in this novel of murder and menace. Twenty years ago, when...