New Island Books

Allen Foster returns with some of Ireland’s most infamous and lesser-known murders in history. From Bridget Cleary and Patrick Dunphy (the oldest man to be executed in Britain or Ireland), to the Sherlock Holmes-like investigation into the death of WWII veteran James McParland, the tragic case of Lily Dotie, and many more! Foster’s Book of Irish Murder is full of victims and monsters, heroic detectives and false leads, killers escaping justice and mysterious unsolved cases.

A magnificent collection of short stories by one of Ireland's greatest living writers.

London, Summer, 1964. The Beatles have just released A Hard Days Night and the swinging sixties are fast approaching. Ralph, twelve years old, waves his mother goodbye as she disappears to the U.S. to work for a year, leaving him in the care of Doreen, an Irish housekeeper, and her husband Tom, a labourer.

‘The world’s favourite fables retold for our turbulent times’

The Wing Orderly's Tales is about damnation and redemption, humour and darkness, and the slivers of humanity that survive in even the harshest environments.

Carlo Gebler has re-imagined twenty-eight of the original stories of the Decameron, drawing out the essence of the tales in order to let their true genius and wit shine. This is a text for troubled times, which will continue to resonate and provide solace for years, if not decades to come.

A new retelling of the life and pre-life of Oedipus Rex, written by his daughter, Antigone.

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

Part of the Open Door series of short books for emerging readers, now translated for the first time into Irish with the support of An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscoilaiochta, and ideal for learners of the Irish language.

Latest novel from popular Dublin-based literary figure and reviewer, poignant book of discovering Irish-American roots. Endorsements from Joseph O’Connor and Dermot Bolger

The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland, compiled by Sinead Gleeson, provides an intimate and illuminating insight into an underappreciated literary canon. Twenty-four female luminaries from the north of Ireland capture experiences that are both vivid and varied, despite their shared geographical heritage.

The Long Gaze Back, edited by Sinéad Gleeson, is an exhilarating anthology of thirty short stories by some of the most gifted women writers this island has ever produced