Irish Fiction

When Alice's husband Ben dies suddenly, her world falls apart. They shared twenty years and two daughters and life without him is unimaginable. Having lost her parents while young, Alice understands her girls' pain. At fifteen, Jools is at that awkward age and only Ben could get through to her.

'It's GREAT! Thought-provoking, gripping and moving' Marian Keyes 'It will crawl under your skin, refusing to let go. A heart-breaking read' Sunday Independent Sarah loves being a mother - it defines her.

" ... fifteen contemporary Irish authors 'covering' the fifteen original stories of Dubliners to mark the collection's centenary."-- Page viii.

From a piano abandoned on the strife-torn streets of Dublin in Easter 1916, Mary Morissy spins the reader backwards through the life of one-time enigmatic beauty Bella Casey, sister to the famed playwright Sean O'Casey. An ambitious novel about love, history and literature.

Trieste, 1904. James Joyce - not yet famous - arrives in the city by train with Norah Barnacle. Penniless, he goes to seek out a loan, leaving Norah sitting on a suitcase outside the train station for almost an entire day and night. In reality, Norah waited for him; they were reunited, and the rest is history. But what if she hadn't?

Doug Kelly is mentally and emotionally drained. Grieving and desperate, he accidentally overdoses in a cheap hotel room in Boston. As he lies on the bed, naked and slowly drying, he is visited by a dark entity that forces him to evaluate his time on earth.

Ireland in the days of giants and saints, fantastic adventures at the frontier of present and past, wild scenes in bars and a profusion of wild metaphors.

The discovery of the Great French Whore's bed, and on it a man from Africa, afloat in Barra Bay initiates this Festival of Fools. A blend of farce, fantasy and satire

A new pandemic, an idiot in the White House and a tyrant in the Kremlin, a vaccine in the water turning white people black, and way too many spies for one small Irish town...