Adults - Irish Fiction

Updated March 21, 2026
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Foster
Keegan, Claire.
Paper Book
A heartbreaking, haunting story of childhood, loss and love by one of Ireland's most acclaimed writers.
The hunter
French, Tana
Paper Book
'A richly told tale of tangled loyalties. French ratchets up the tension in increments . . . By the end, these characters have taken on such solidity that, long after finishing it, I often catch myself wondering how they're doing - a testament to the author's mastery of her craft'...
The Rachel incident
O'Donoghue, Caroline
Paper Book
The international bestseller: a hilarious, heartfelt story of all-consuming and unexpected love 'I loved it' COCO MELLORS 'If you've ever been young, you will love The Rachel Incident like I did' GABRIELLE ZEVIN 'Funny, nostalgic, sexy'...
Milkman : a novel
Burns, Anna
Paper Book
THERE WERE 'OUR SHOPS' AND 'THEIR SHOPS'. PLACENAMES. WHAT SCHOOL YOU WENT TO. WHAT PRAYERS YOU SAID...YOU CREATED A POLITICAL STATEMENT EVERYWHERE YOU WENT, AND WITH EVERYTHING YOU DID, EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T WANT TO... In Northern Ireland, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist...
Intermezzo : a novel
Rooney, Sally
Paper Book
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.
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
  WINNER OF THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION, THE WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING 2018 & FRANCE'S PRIX LITTÉRATURE MONDE (2019)
This is happiness
Williams, Niall
Paper Book
'A beautiful writer' HOZIERLonglisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionThe most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the RainChange is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a...
The story collector
Woods, Evie
Paper Book
From the million-copy Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop! In a quiet village in Ireland, a mysterious local myth is about to change everything... One hundred years ago, Anna, a young farm girl, volunteers to help an intriguing American visitor...
A portrait of the artist as a young man
Joyce, James
Paper Book
'Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo 'So begins one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century, and one of the most innovative....
The bee sting
Murray, Paul
Paper Book
The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car dealership is going under, and while his wife is frantically selling off her jewellery on eBay, he's busy building an apocalypse-proof bunker in the woods. Meanwhile their teenage daughter is veering off the rails, in thrall to a toxic...
Long Island : a novel
Tóibín, Colm
Paper Book
Long Island is Colm Tóibín's masterpiece: a stunning novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and reignite a love once thought lost forever. The sequel to the beloved bestseller, Brooklyn. A Book of the Year in The Times, Irish...
The scholar
McTiernan, Dervla
Paper Book
Murder at an Irish bakery
O'Connor, Carlene
Paper Book
The green road
Enright, Anne
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016 Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize Winner of the Irish Novel of the Year 2015 Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the...
Evenings and weekends
McKenna, Oisín
Paper Book
'I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN' SHON FAYE 'A MASTERPIECE. THIS SEARING TALE OF LOVE, SEX AND CLASS WILL RESONATE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME' OWEN JONES 'I WAS DEEPLY MOVED BY ITS BEAUTY AND HUMANITY' COCO MELLORS 'Electric and intimate' Guardian 'Impossibly,...
We are the Brennans
Lange, Tracey
Paper Book
'An astonishingly accomplished debut - the Brennans leap fully formed onto the page in this brilliantly judged novel of the intricacies of family life . . . Wholly engrossing.' Cathy KellySome secrets you keep from your family. And some secrets you keep for your family. When twenty-nine-year-old...
The girl in the castle : a novel
Montefiore, Santa
Paper Book
FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Their lives were mapped out ahead of them. But love and war will change everything... West Cork, Ireland, 1900. The year marks the start of a new century, and the birth of three very different women: Kitty Deverill, the flame...

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