Irish Fiction

In September 1871, a train leaves Manchester bound for London. On board is Lizzie Burns, a poor worker from the Irish slums, who is embarking on the journey that will change her forever. Sitting in the first-class carriage beside her lover, the wealthy mill-owner Frederick Engels, the vision of a life of peace and...

The next heart-pounding Tony Hill and Carol Jordan thriller from number one bestseller and queen of crime, Val McDermid.

Long-buried family secrets fight their way to the surface in this compelling mystery

A fast-paced and action-packed thriller, full of twists and turns you won’t see coming. It is the most gripping suspense mystery you’ll read this year. They said it was an accident. Her mother knows they’re lying. But the truth comes with a price…

'Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.' Faust / Goethe At turns shocking and heart-breaking, with razor-sharp language and a turbo-charged plot, Two Souls is a singular 'Troubles' novel like no other, tragically exposing human nature's futile efforts to make the right decisions and to choose a life worth living. Think Martin Amis meets Irving Welsh against a febrile and gritty sectarian backdrop.

Charlie and Mary Jane had a mixed marriage in a sectarian city, a city which was divided by religion and politics and eventually led to the division of a country. Theirs is not a story of rebellion and heroism, of freedom fighters or socialists; their story is not even a love story. This is just an ordinary tale of ordinary people trying to live their lives in extraordinary times.

A dark world of lies and subterfuge and a race to uncover the truth...