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The Good Mother

The Good Mother
  • Author(s): Sinead Moriarty
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Kate has been through the fire with her three children … Having been left devastated and homeless after her husband’s affair and the break-up of their family, somehow she has pulled through. Though times are still tough, she’s beginning...

The Truth About Ruby Cooper

The Truth About Ruby Cooper
  • Author(s): Liz Nugent
  • Location(s): Dublin, Boston
  • Genre(s): Drama, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century to present day

If my sister hadn’t been beautiful, none of it would have happened. Ruby Cooper and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston. But when Ruby is sixteen, she is involved in an...

At Swim-two-birds

At Swim-two-birds
  • Author(s): Flann O'Brien
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

Flann O’Brien’s innovative metafictional work, whose unruly characters strike out their own paths in life to the frustration of their author, At Swim-Two-Birds is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas, mythology and nonsense published in Penguin Modern Classics. Flann O’Brien’s first...

Broken Harbour

Broken Harbour
  • Author(s): Tana French
  • Location(s): Dublin, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin – half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned – two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the...

city-pick Dublin

city-pick Dublin
  • Author(s): Heather Reyes (Editor)
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

A potpourri of collected fiction, that brings the city to vibrant life – Esther Gilmore –

Dublin Noir

Dublin Noir
  • Author(s): Ken Bruen
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

An anthology of stories, erring toward the noir set in Dublin, under the editorship of Ken Bruen

Last Train from Liguria

Last Train from Liguria
  • Author(s): Christine Dwyer Hickey
  • Location(s): Dublin, Liguria, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s and 1990s

From the bestselling Irish novelist, here comes a sweeping tale of consequences that spans from the 1930s to the 1990s. “Last Train from Liguria” takes us on a journey from claustrophobic Dublin and the tense formality of London, to...

Little Criminals

Little Criminals
  • Author(s): Gene Kerrigan
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Justin and Angela Kennedy have money, love, children and a limitless future. Jo-Jo Mackendrick is a pillar of Dublin gangland society: a man determined that nothing will endanger his hard-earned supremacy. Into their lives come Frankie Crowe, an ambitious...

Reckoning

Reckoning
  • Author(s): Keith Baker
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Tom Gallagher is traumatized by the past, an FBI agent in control of a disastrous operation, haunted by the guilt of innocent deaths. Back in Ireland, hoping for a fresh start and a chance to re-establish his relationship with...

Red Ribbons

Red Ribbons
  • Author(s): Louise Phillips
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

THE SERIAL KILLER A missing schoolgirl is found buried in the Dublin Mountains, hands clasped together in prayer, two red ribbons in her hair. Twenty-four hours later, a second schoolgirl is found in a shallow grave – her body...

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