Adults - Irish Fiction

Updated March 21, 2026
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Foster
Keegan, Claire
Paper Book
An international bestseller and one of The Times' "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US ...
The hunter
French, Tana
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book of 2024 * A New York Times Best Crime and Best Thriller Novel of 2024 * A Washington Post Best Thriller of 2024 * An NPR, New York Post, Chicago Sun-Times, and Globe and Mail Best...
Eat the ones you love
Griffin, Sarah Maria
Paper Book
"Do you mind me asking--what kind of help do you need?" After losing her job and her fiancé and moving back from the city to live with her parents, Shell Pine needs some help. And according to the sign in the window, the florist shop in the mall does too. Shell gets the...
The Rachel incident
O'Donoghue, Caroline
Paper Book
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A USA TODAY BESTSELLER * A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three * "O'Donoghue deepens the familiar coming-of-age premise with riveting moral complications."...
Milkman
Burns, Anna
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorWinner of the Man Booker PrizeIn an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary known as the milkman begins pursuing her, she...
Intermezzo
Rooney, Sally
Paper Book
It should have been you
Mara, Andrea
Paper Book
Get ready for your new obsession - the unputdownable new thriller from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of ALL HER FAULT, now a break-out TV show starring Sarah Snook. Your neighbours have secrets. How far would they go to keep them? *WINNER Crime...
Grace : a novel
Lynch, Paul
Paper Book
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Prophet Song, a sweeping, Dickensian story of a young girl on a life-changing journey across nineteenth-century Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine. Early one October morning, Grace's mother snatches her from...
This is happiness
Williams, Niall
Paper Book
The November 2025 Late Show Book Club Pick! "I am such a fan of Niall Williams." -Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake A profound and enchanting novel set in the rural Irish village of Faha, from bestselling Time...
A portrait of the artist as a young man
Joyce, James
Paper Book
A beautiful Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of James Joyce's first and still most widely read novel, with an introduction by Richard Brown. In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce makes a strange peace with the traditional narrative of a...
The bee sting
Murray, Paul
Paper Book
The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His exasperated wife Imelda is selling off her jewellery on eBay and half...
Long Island
Tóibín, Colm
Paper Book
A novel of enormous wit and profound emotional resonance from one of the world's finest writers. Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighbouring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives...
An Irish country welcome
Taylor, Patrick
Paper Book
An Irish Country Welcome is a charming entry in Patrick Taylor's internationally bestselling Irish Country series. In the close-knit Northern Irish village of Ballybucklebo, it's said that a new baby brings its own welcome. Young doctor Barry Laverty and his wife Sue...
The scholar
McTiernan, Dervla
Paper Book
From the author of the critically acclaimed bestseller The Ruin comes a compulsive new crime thriller featuring DS Cormac Reilly. Being brilliant has never been this dangerous ... When Dr Emma Sweeney stumbles across the victim of a hit and run outside Galway University late one evening, she calls...
Murder at an Irish bakery
O'Connor, Carlene
Paper Book
In a book perfect for fans of Sheila Connolly and Donna Leon, the USA Today bestselling author returns readers to County Cork in Ireland's lush countryside, where locals are simmering with excitement over the reality TV baking contest coming to town --until someone serves up a show...
The Green Road
Enright, Anne
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize A darkly glinting novel set on Irelandâe(tm)s Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion âe" a book about the gaps in the human...
Evenings and weekends
McKenna, Oisín
Paper Book
"This is such a love story to cities & people & heartbreaks, death & loss. It's not at all corny, it's smart. But I just finished it & it made me cry." -- Eileen Myles "Signals the arrival of a novelist sure to resonate with young people who endeavor to make intimate connections....
We are the Brennans
Lange, Tracey
Paper Book
**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** In the vein of Mary Beth Keane's Ask Again, Yes and Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's The Nest, Tracey Lange's We Are the Brennans explores the staying power of shame--and the redemptive power of love--in an...
The girl in the castle
Montefiore, Santa
Paper Book

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