Irish Fiction

Opens with a shipwreck, leaving a party of sightseers temporarily marooned on an island. The stranded castaways make their way towards the refuge of the isle's reclusive savant; but the big isolated house which is home to Professor Silas Kreutznaer and his laconic assistant, Licht, is also home to another, unnamed presence.

The darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer, shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize.

This is one of the most startling of the century's varied achievements in Irish writing' Seamus Deane

Volume Two of the Revolutions Trilogy

Volume One of the Revolutions Trilogy

From the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea.

A captivating, melancholy ghost story will captivate every discerning reader.

Winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize

The dazzling new novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea

From the revered Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison.

A chillingly beautiful novel by the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning The Sea.

Takes us into the hauntingly confused worlds of two ageing male protagonists - washed-up scientist Freddie Montgomery, desperate to explain why he is being held in an Irish prison for murder and recently widowed art historian Max Morden, who has returned to a sleepy seaside boarding house to relive the events of his first adolescent awakenings.