New Island Books

Painted Ladies is the second adult novel by Siobhan Parkinson, Ireland's first children's laureate and winner of multiple awards for her children's books.

Winner of the Crime Fiction category in the BGE Irish Book Awards 2017

A pair of novellas, set over two pivotal summers in the lives of two young men from Belfast, recall the constraints of the place where they were born and the times in which they are living.

The New Frontier is a landmark publication of writing from the Irish Border, a chorus of voices from some of the island's greatest writers, that conveys in its multiplicity the true meaning of our border, and of borders in general.

Paul Perry’s first solo novel tells of smothering power, loyalty and agency thwarted by the tragic patterns of memory and behaviour. The Garden is a modern fable, and a warning against trespassing upon nature in the name of profit.

An inspiring chronological timeline of personal stories of migration, New to the Parish takes Irish readers on a journey across the globe.