Irish Fiction

In these urgent, humane stories of ill-advised couplings, loneliness and burgeoning hope, we find O'Connor's trademark humour and sensuality, and the quest for longed-for truths.

Pat O'Connor is from Castleconnell Co. Limerick, Ireland. He has won the Sean O Faoláin International Short Story Prize, the Glimmertrain Best Start short story prize (joint), and been shortlisted for the Francis McManus, Fish, Hennessy and other prizes. His stories and articles have been published in journals, newspapers and anthologies in Ireland and abroad. Southword, Revival, Crannog, The Penny Dreadful, Irish Independent, Irish Times, China Writers Association, Pure Slush (Australia), and broadcast on RTE. He has been anthologized by Munster Literature Centre, Limerick Writers Centre, and in Hennessy New Irish Writing 2005-2015 amongst others. His radio play This Time It's Different was broadcast on 95FM in December 2014.

A dark and intense debut about the overwhelming nature of first love from a brilliant new voice in Irish fiction

When Michael Connelly was a child in the 1970’s, his mother Elaine told him about all the things that happened to her in that place. All that the nuns had done. FALLEN is a stark and beautifully written account of the impact on one family of a shameful chapter in modern Irish history. Roddy Doyle – FALLEN is a powerful, engrossing, deeply moving novel. I loved it.’

In 1980s Boston, Ro McCarthy was in her twenties, Irish, undocumented, queer and falling in love for the first time. Then, one by one, her new, fun, beautiful friends began to die...

Set in a turbulent British empire, these historical stories brim with energy and emotion, taking readers to the remote reaches of early twentieth century Burma to an Ireland in flux. These interconnected stories are filled with humour, insight, and unexpected moments of revelation.

**Shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year at the BGE Irish Book Awards 2016**

A breathtaking collection of short stories from one of Ireland's most exciting new voices.

A darkly comic and searingly honest novel about going back to your roots by the acclaimed author of Promising Young Women

A darkly funny, surprising, smart novel about sex, power, work and being a young woman in a man's world, by Irish journalist Caroline O'Donoghue, which has had terrific reviews ('So brilliant' - Dolly Alderton, 'I loved it' - Marian Keyes).