A modern classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity.This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn. This was 1950, late September. I had left my husband. I had left my home.Katherine...

From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side...

In a voice that is both tender and filled with rage, The Testament of Mary tells the story of a cataclysmic event which led to an overpowering grief. For Mary, her son has been lost to the world, and now, living in exile and...

In Blackwater in the early 1990s, three women - Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen - have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helen's adored brother Declan is dying. Two friends join him and the women...

It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize'A triumph' -and The Observer'A masterly achievement' -and The IndependentIn January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play,and Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The...

The sequel to the prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn .A novel of enormous wit and profound emotional resonance from one of the world's finest writers.In Colm Tóibín's masterful new novel, we are reunited with Eilis Lacey, the heroine of Brooklyn , twenty years on, in...

They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her muffled screams.'On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice.His daughter...