After being adopted by the Turner's in 1913, Darien finds himself obsessed with the one person he is forbidden to have - his best friend's sister.Falling down a sinful path, Darien confesses his feelings only to find that Roxanna has eyes for someone else. Still, he is determined to try and win her heart by getting her the perfect birthday present.Darien's efforts fall short when vampire attacks start to spread around town, eventually finding their happy little home. Their ...

Full Tilt is the inspiring true story of Dervla Murphy’s 1963 journey from Ireland to India on an Armstrong Cadet bicycle, and the trials, landscapes and cultures she encountered along the way. The route takes her through the valleys and snowy mountain passes of Europe and India to the scorching deserts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the metal of her bicycle, Rozinante (named after Don Quixote’s steed), becomes too hot to touch. She travels alone, without luxuries, sleeping on the floo...

Growing up on the rough streets of Western Sydney, Helena Callahan has always been a fighter. Her philosophy was simple: be sly, agile, and never get caught doing something illegal. And that's what her world was all about—breaking the law.Broke and alone, Helena was forced to sell her body to make a living. It wasn't ideal, but it was how she survived. Still, she longed for change that never seemed to come. It was always the same dauntless routine. At least, that was until she was ...

Three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. The Pull of the Stars is the Sunday Times Bestseller from the acclaimed author of The Wonder and Room.'An immersive, unforgettable fever-dream of a novel' – The TimesThe old world dying on its feet, a new one struggling to be born . . .Dublin, 1918. In a country doubly ravaged by war ...

I LOVED The Girl from Donegal. The storylines are so captivating and the sense of the secret that travels around the world is magical . . . unputdownable’ CATHY KELLY Can you ever forget your first love?Donegal, Ireland, 1939As the world teeters on the brink of WWII, Eliza Lavery is alone in the world after her fiancé, Davey, was lost following the Irish War of Independence. But a fateful meeting on the wild beauty of Ball...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Mary Lavin is the great unsung voice of Irish fiction. Here are her very best, most electric stories: illuminating, moving, arrows in flight.**SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY COLM TÓIBÍNMary Lavin’s stories feature ordinary people in the tight confines of ordinary life. From rural Ireland and the streets of Dublin they charm, irritate and intrigue in complicated brilliance, appearing to us with unique freshness. Good friendshi...

Brought to you by Penguin.From the multi-award-winning author of the number one bestseller, STRANGE FLOWERS, a searing**, jubilant story about four generations of women and fierce love.**The Aylward women of Nenagh, Tipperary, are mad about each other, but you wouldn't always think it. You'd have to know them to know - in spite of what the neighbours might say about raised voices and dramatic scenes - that their house is a ...

'Nobody wants you, so we have to put up with you. We'll soon knock the disobedience out of you...'Frances Reilly and her sisters were abandoned by their mother outside Nazareth House Convent - a Belfast orphanage run by nuns. Little did they know the unimaginable cruelty they'd endure within its walls.Frances suffered horrifically at the hands of the Sisters: brutally beaten, worked like a slave, abused and molested, the convent regime stripped her...

'I loved it - another hugely satisfying read from Roisin' Sheila O'Flanagan, author of The Honeymoon AffairThree great loves. Two very different countries. One step closer to finding her way home...As a new decade begins, hopeless romantic and big dreamer Ellen is finally moving on from her hometown.In Galway she takes a job in a bookshop, and somewhere between the dusty bookshelves and the quiet afternoons, a bookseller na...

One of the great overlooked voices of modern Irish literature, once hailed as “magnificent” by The New York Times, Mary Lavin’s fiction is now being revived for a new generation of readers in this definitive volume, selected and introduced by Colm Tóibín.During her lifetime, Irish American writer Mary Lavin was a prominent literary figure. Throughout the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, her stories were frequently featured in The New Yorker, compar...

Sheila O'Flanagan's bestseller ANYONE BUT HIM is a touching and page-turning read about love, heartache and the unbreakable bond between sisters, not to be missed by readers of Kerry Lonsdale and Jamie Beck. 'A must-read' Woman's OwnAndie and her sister Jin have never seen eye to eye. Andie doesn't envy Jin her marriage to a wealthy businessman, while Jin can't believe Andie's happy with her man-free existence (if only she knew!). But when their widowed mo...

**“From its opening pages, this book exerts a quiet, propulsive hold over its reader. The three generations of Aylward women will break your heart and then put it back together again.” *–*Maggie O'Farrell"This is a generous mosaic of a novel about the staying power of love and pride and history and family." –Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon and Let The Great World SpinFrom the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author Donal Ryan,...