New Irish Fiction

Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese refugee. Together they form a band. Joined by cellist Sarah-Therese Sherlock and her twin brother Sean on drums, The Ships in the Night set out to chase fame. But the story of this makeshift family is haunted by ghosts from the past.

Part of the Open Door series of short books for emerging readers.

Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York's Lower East Side in the nineteenth century, from dark comedy to poignancy, from the wryly provocative to the quietly beautiful, this title includes stories that offer a gathering of dreamers and lost souls who contend with the confusions of living.

From the bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay, a thrilling novel about a father who takes the law into his own hands. 'Gripping and moving...a taut, expertly crafted plot' Guardian Dublin, June 1995: the hottest summer since records began.

From the bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay, 'a powerful, moving adventure of raw fate and betrayed love' (Independent on Sunday). Inspector Martin Aitken's life is a mess.

All alone, with only his electric guitar and his overactive ego for company, Eddie Virago, proud owner of the last mohican haircut in Dublin, leaves his home town to find fame in the wild world of the London rock scene.

A hitman DI Gavin Sexton is looking into a spate of teenage suicides when he encounters a young girl, paralyzed with locked-in syndrome. Unable to communicate in any other way, she blinks the words: 'I hired a hitman'. Was it suicide?

Love is the central force in Birdie, a collection of 16 flash fictions that sing with the voices of women loving, losing, learning. The characters here find strength, despite the sorrows of death & deceit: a ghost-child returns to Massachusetts to comfort her grieving mother; a Spanish orange tycoon's daughter regrets her mother's terrible choices.

*One Dublin One Book choice for 2022* *Shortlisted for an Irish Book Award 2021* In sensuous, resonant prose, Nuala O'Connor has conjured the definitive portrait of this strong, passionate and loyal Irishwoman. Nora is a tour de force, an earthy and authentic love letter to Irish literature's greatest muse.

Amazing new novel from Nuala O'Connor, life and adventures of non-conformist, neuro-diverse, legendary pirate and adventurer Anne Bonny, originally from Kinsale. Launching at Cuirt, and huge campaign expected

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.