Irish Fiction

The disturbing and thought-provoking first novel from Ronan Bennett, which was shortlisted for the Irish Times Aer Lingus Prize

A devastating novel of love and desire and one man's search for his soul in a world of violence and political intrigue, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award 1998

St Petersburg, 1914. Dr Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in a murder. But he is preoccupied with Avrom Rozental, the brilliant chess master who is due to play the most important competition of his life but is on the verge of a breakdown.

Original novel by Ronan Bennett set in the London portrayed by Bennett within his celebrated and award-winning TV drama Top Boy

THE WITCHES ARE COMING! 'Glorious and vivid ... It swept me away...' - Christy Lefteri, author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo

TRANSLATED BY CLlONA Nl RlORDÁIN

In Maylis Besserie's exciting new novel, she turns her attention from Samuel Beckett to another iconic Irish writer, W. B. Yeats. The connection between France in Ireland is once again explored in the context of art, culture and the days at the end of life.

This novel by Maylis Besserie, the first of her Irish trilogy, shows us Samuel Beckett at the end of his life in 1989, living in Le Tiers-Temps retirement home. It is as if Beckett has come to live in one of his own stage productions, peopled with strange, unhinged individuals, waiting for the end of days.

Leabhar eisceachtúil atá ann ar go leor bealaí: scéal ar shaol dhrabhlásach Phaidí Pheadair ó cheann ceann na cruinne, scéal atá lán d’eachtraíocht, saol de chineál nach gcastar orainn de ghnáth i litríocht na Gaeilge agus é sin scríofa i gcanúint shaibhir Thoraí nach bhfuil ar bhéal na ndaoine níos mó.

The history of monasticism in early Ireland is dominated by its flourishing during the sixth and seventh centuries, a period dominated by Columba of Iona and Columbanus of Bobbio, and later by the ' reform' spearheaded by Malachy of Armagh during the twelfth century. But what of monasticism in Ireland during the intervening period?