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'Tara spends many hours of her life on her phone.' (Pic: Getty)

Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn - read an extract

Teeming with compassion and thrumming with energy, the stories in Every One Still Here are scrupulous in their attention to detail, epic in their scope.

Books • 28 Jul

Oddbody by Rose Keating - read an extract

Oddbody is a collection of ten bold and unsettling short stories that confront themes of desire, fear and shame

Books • 23 Jul

Show Me Where It Hurts by Clare Gleeson - read an extract

Rachel lives with her husband Tom and their two children: it's the ordinary family life she always thought she'd have. All of that changes in an instant...

Books • 21 Jul

The Language of Remembering by Patrick Holloway - read an extract

Returning from Brazil with his wife and daughter, Oisìn is looking to rebuild a life in Ireland and reconnect with his mother, Brigid, who has early onset Alzheimer's.

Books • 18 Jul

Crowfield House by Monica Mc Guinness -read an extract

Crowfield, Nora's ancestral home, a falling-down mausoleum, eerie, empty, waiting for a new family...

Books • 10 Jul

The Brightest Star by Meg Grehan - read an extract

Stevie, Chloe and Andrew are starting secondary school, and everything is new and scary...

Books • 01 Jul

Our Song by Anna Carey - read an extract

Tadhg and Laura used to be in a band together.They used to be a lot of things.

Books • 11 Jun

Ordinary Saints - author Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin (Pic: Julie Broadfoot)

Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin - read an extract

Brought up in a devout household in Ireland, Jay is now living in London with her girlfriend, determined to live day to day and not think too much about either the future or the past...

Books • 24 Apr

A Brief Inhalation by Daragh Fleming - read an extract

A Brief Inhalation offers readers a candid exploration of the everyday and the extraordinary...

Books • 01 Apr

Sacrifice for The Master - author Nicola Onwordi

Sacrifice for The Master by Nicola Onwordi - read an extract

We present an extract from the debut novel by Dublin-born, London-based Nicola Onwordi...

Books • 20 Jan

Nesting author Roisin O'Donnell (Pic: Ruth Medjber)

Nesting by Roisin O'Donnell - read an extract

On a bright spring afternoon in Dublin, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything.

Books • 19 Jan

Girl in the Making by Anna Fitzgerald - read an extract

Jean Kennedy is a gentle, perceptive girl growing up in a very strange world: suburban Dublin in the 1970s and '80s...

Books • 05 Dec 24

Blue Diagonals by Lucy Holme - read an extract

Blue Diagonals is an intimate and powerful exploration of love, loss, and healing. Holme's evocative prose draws on personal history and memory to illuminate the fragility and resilience of the human spirit.

Books • 10 Dec 24

W/w by Sarah Long - read an extract

W/w follows the trials and triumphs of Mary, an aspiring artist and writer, in conflict with the world around her. Confined to the porch of her family home, Mary's consciousness searches for a new form, a larger space, to occupy.

Books • 24 Nov 24