LiteratureIreland Catalogue 2022

New from
Fiction | 1
Writing Ireland
Literature Ireland
Promoting and Translating Irish Writing
2 | Fiction
Contents
New Writing from Ireland 4

Literature Ireland 5
Fiction 6
Children’s & Young Adult Literature 42
Poetry 52
Non-fiction 60
Index of Authors 74
Index of Titles 76
4 | New Writing from Ireland
New Writing from Ireland
Literature Ireland is proud to present Keegan (Small Things Like These) winning
this exciting snapshot of contemporary the prestigious Orwell Prize.
Irish writing to the world at a time
when so many certainties are brought Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin’s novel Madame
into question, democratic values are Lazare received a special mention in the
threatened, and peace, health and European Prize for Literature – the very first
economic stability cannot be taken for time a novel in the Irish language has been
granted. Now, more than ever, writers nominated and recognised in this way. We
can provide inspiration and insight, look forward to seeing the book appear in
helping all of us to understand both translation, right across Europe.
ourselves and others.
We have also been delighted to see Irish
This year’s catalogue presents new writing continue to be adapted for film
writing from across the island of Ireland, and television, with, for example, Sally
including debuts and work by long- Rooney’s Conversations with Friends
established writers. produced by the BBC/HULU and Emma
Donoghue’s The Wonder, which is due to
In a radical departure from the past, appear on Netflix. Claire Keegan’s novella
almost two thirds of the fiction titles Foster has been adapted for the big screen
in this edition are by women. And as in an exquisite Irish-language feature film,
testimony to this significant change, no An Cailín Ciúin which has been selected as
fewer than two Irish writers, Claire Keegan Ireland’s entry to the Oscars.
and Audrey Magee, have been longlisted
for the Booker Prize, 2022. We hope you find this selection of titles
both useful and inspiring. We look forward
Other Irish writers have also been winning to working with translators and publishers
recognition recently, with, for example, right across the globe.
Colm Tóibín (The Magician) receiving the
Rathbones Folio Prize, Donal Ryan (From Sinéad Mac Aodha
a Low and Quiet Sea) being awarded the Director, Literature Ireland
Jean Monnet Prize for Literature and Claire August 2022
Literature Ireland | 5
Literature Ireland
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Ireland for the promotion of Irish literature of Irish authors at select international
abroad. The organisation works to build an literature festivals and fairs
international awareness and appreciation
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of contemporary Irish literature, primarily
to publishers, translators, authors,
in translation.
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interested parties.
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Ireland was established in 1994. It is funded
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Literature Ireland’s translation grant
To date, it has supported the translation
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of over 2,500 works of Irish literature into
to apply for a contribution towards the
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cost of the translator of a work of Irish
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literature* from English or Irish into
College Dublin’s Centre for Literary and
another language.
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literature, poetry and drama.
6 | Fiction Knopf / October 2022
John Banville
The Singularities
A man with a borrowed name steps
from a flashy red sports car – also
borrowed – onto the estate of his youth.
But all is not as it seems. There is a new
family living in the drafty old house: the
Godleys, descendants of the late, world-
famous scientist Adam Godley, whose
theory of existence threw the universe
into chaos. And this mystery man, who
has just completed a prison sentence,
feels as if time has stopped, or was torn,
or was opened in new and strange ways.
He must now vie with the idiosyncratic
Godley family, with their harried
housekeeper who becomes his landlady,
with the recently commissioned
biographer of Godley Sr, and with a
wealthy and beautiful woman from
320pp
his past who comes bearing an

unusual request.
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland. He
is the author of many novels, including The Book
With sparkling intelligence and
of Evidence, The Sea, which won the 2005 Man rapier wit, John Banville revisits some
Booker Prize, and the Quirke series of crime of his career’s most memorable figures,
novels under the pen name Benjamin Black. in a novel as mischievous as it is
Other major prizes he has won include the Franz brilliantly conceived.
Kafta Prize, the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding
Achievement in Irish Literature and the Prince of
Asturias Award. Contact for rights negotiations:
Luke Ingram
lingram@wylieagency.co.uk
The Wylie Agency
Doire Press / November 2022 Fiction | 7
Leland Bardwell
The Heart and the Arrow
The Heart and the Arrow is a
posthumous collection of an
unpublished novella and seven
short stories to mark Leland Bardwell’s
centenary year. The title story is a
weaving of a group of friends in their
twenties, heading out for a day’s
drinking. The novella, ‘All Those Men’,
is a tale of women surviving together
in a dystopian future. ‘Notes from the
Joy’ are the inner thoughts of a man
whose bipolar state has landed him
in Mountjoy prison. This short story
collection is a considerable addition
to the known prose works of Leland
Bardwell.
200pp
Leland Bardwell (1922-2016) published twelve

books, including poetry, novels, memoir and a
collection of short stories, as well as having nine
plays produced on stage or radio. Her work has
been translated into German, Polish, Spanish,
French and Turkish.
Contact for rights negotiations:

Leland Bardwell’s centenary will take John Walsh
place at The Model, Sligo in November johnmawalsh@gmail.com
2022. More information here. Doire Press
8 | Fiction Faber & Faber / March 2023
Sebastian Barry
Old God’s Time
Retired policeman Tom Kettle is enjoying
the quiet of his new home, a lean-to
annexed to a white Victorian Castle in
Dalkey overlooking the sea. For months
he has barely seen a soul, but his
peace is interrupted when two former
colleagues turn up at his door to ask
questions about a decades-old case – a
traumatic case which Tom never quite
came to terms with.
His peace is further disturbed by a

young mother and family who move in
next door, a woman on the run from her
own troubles. And what of Tom’s family,
his wife June and their two children?
A beautiful, haunting novel, in which
nothing is not quite what it seems,
Old God’s Time is about what we live
300pp
through, what we live with, and what

will survive of us.
Sebastian Barry was the Laureate for Irish
Fiction from 2018 to 2021. He had two
consecutive novels shortlisted for the Man
Booker Prize, A Long Long Way (2005) and the
bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008), and has
also won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize,
the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the
James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in Contact for rights negotiations:
County Wicklow. Laurence Laluyaux
l.laluyaux@rcwlitagency.com
RCW Literary Agency
Tramp Press / April 2022 Fiction | 9
Sara Baume
Seven Steeples
The mountain remained, unclimbed,
for the first year that they lived there.
Bell and Sigh, a couple in the infancy
of their relationship, cut themselves off
from friends and family. From the top of
the nearby mountain, they are told, you
can see seven standing stones, seven
schools, and seven steeples. All you have
to do is climb.
Taking place in a remote house in the

south-west of Ireland, this rich and vivid
novel spans seven years and speaks
to the times we live in, asking how we
may withdraw, how better to live in the
natural world, and how the choices we
make or avoid lead us home.
254pp
Sara Baume’s debut novel Spill Simmer Falter

Wither won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
She has also been awarded the Hennessy New
Irish Writing Award and the Rooney Prize for
Irish Literature. Seven Steeples was recently
shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. Baume lives
in Cork where she works as a visual artist as well
as a writer.
Read a review of Seven Steeples here. Contact for rights negotiations:

Lucy Luck
lucy.luck@cwagency.co.uk
C&W Agency UK
10 | Fiction Doubleday / September 2022
John Boyne
All The Broken Places
The sequel to the globally bestselling The
Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby

has lived in the same mansion block
in London for decades. She doesn’t
talk about her escape from Germany
seventy years before or her father,
the commandant of a notorious Nazi
concentration camp. When a young
family move into the apartment below,
Gretel begins a friendship with the little
boy, Henry, though his presence brings
back memories she would rather forget.
A devastating, beautiful story about

a woman who must confront the sins
of her past and a present in which it is
never too late for bravery.
400pp
John Boyne is the author of thirteen novels for

adults, six for younger readers and a collection
of short stories. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
sold over 11 million copies. His novels are
published in over fifty languages.

Laura Bonner
Lbonner@wmeagency.com
WME Agency
Weidenfeld & Nicolson / February 2022 Fiction | 11
Niamh Campbell
We Were Young
Cormac is a photographer. Approaching
forty and still single, he suddenly finds
himself ‘the leftover man’. Through
talent and charm, he has escaped
small town life and a haunted family.
Cormac is dating former students whilst
his peers are starting families. In the
last weeks of the year, Cormac meets
Caroline, an ambitious young dancer,
and embarks on a miniature odyssey of
intimacy. Simultaneously, he must take
responsibility for his married brother,
whose mid-life crisis forces them both
to reckon with a death in the family that
hangs over those left behind.
288pp
Niamh Campbell’s debut novel, This Happy

(2020), was shortlisted for the An Post Irish
Book Awards, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the
Year Award, the John McGahern Book Prize and
the Kate O’Brien Award. In 2020, she also won
the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award.
She lives in Dublin. Contact for rights negotiations:
Barney Duly
Read an interview with Niamh Barney.Duly@orionbooks.co.uk
Campbell in The Irish Times here. W&N, Orion Publishing Group
12 | Fiction Tramp Press / July 2022
Juanita Casey
The Horse of Selene
On a remote island off the west coast
of Ireland in the 1970s, a young farmer
befriends a girl and her travelling
companions. A world of possibility
opens up to Miceal – but where there’s
opportunity, there is also peril ...
Drawing on her own life and speaking

for her marginalised community, Casey
offers a feminist and class-conscious
story that explores the eternal choices of
youth, between the comfort of a stifling
domesticity and the promise and risk
of the unknown, characterised in the
incomparable wildness of the west.
Juanita Casey’s astounding first novel is

a cult classic ready to be rediscovered by
a new generation of readers.
224pp
Juanita Casey (1925–2012), bestselling novelist,

poet, horse trainer, and artist, was born to an
Irish Traveller mother and an English Romany
father. She was raised by English adoptive
parents with ties to the circus industry.

Sarah Davis-Goff
sarah@tramppress.com
Tramp Press
Bloomsbury Circus / June 2023 Fiction | 13
Luke Cassidy
Tooth & Nail
Before he was known as The Rat King,
© Megan Doherty
the infamous criminal kingpin of

Dundalk, he was simply Paul – a clever
but aimless man fresh out of university
who, after falling in with his capricious
girlfriend’s crew of squatting anarchists,
finds himself homeless and desperate.
To get by, Paul strikes a deal with a
shady man who offers him a roof over
his head and a regular supply of drugs
in return for spying on Blue Gattigan, a
dangerous man who radiates violence
and cruelty. And when tragedy strikes
close to home, Paul blames Blue and
swears revenge.
320pp
Luke Cassidy is a writer from the Irish border

town of Dundalk. His debut novel, Iron Annie,
was published by Bloomsbury in 2021 and
adapted into the Iron Annie Cabaret for the
stage. Tooth & Nail is his second novel.

Stephanie Purcell
stephanie.purcell@bloomsbury.com
Bloomsbury Publishing
14 | Fiction Doire Press / March 2023
Fergus Cronin
Night Music
Night Music is the debut collection of
short fiction from Fergus Cronin, winner
of the Maria Edgeworth Prize. The work
explores the fates of put upon people –
the cards they are dealt, their tricks and
devices, their escapes and the empathy
they have for others or that others might
have for them. There is some spice in the
tone of the language; some shards of
theatricality. Splintered mind, land and
soundscapes are used to illuminate what
really counts, what matters most.
160pp
Fergus Cronin is the winner of the 2022

Maria Edgeworth Short Story Prize. A native
Dubliner, his stories have been published in
The Manchester Review, The Lonely Crowd and
anthologised in The Old Art of Lying and Surge.

John Walsh
johnmawalsh@gmail.com
Doire Press
The Lilliput Press / May 2022 Fiction | 15
Martina Devlin
Edith
Edith by Martina Devlin is a captivating
novel based on the life of Edith
Somerville (1858–1949) of ‘Somerville
and Ross’ fame.
It is the early 1920s and Ireland is on

the cusp of radical change. Amid the
turbulence of the revolutionary period,
Irish R.M. writer Edith Somerville
struggles to find a place for herself.
Violent civil war erupts across the
country and a new state is born, with
people forced to weigh their loyalties.
In this dazzling portrayal of a

protofeminist who straddles two
cultures, we see a writer and artist in the
round, holding fast to hope, humour and
her steadfast spirit – even as her world
288pp
changes beyond recognition.
Martina Devlin is an author, playwright and

award-winning journalist. She has won a VS
Pritchett Prize from the RSL, a Hennessy Literary
Award, and is the first holder of a PhD in literary
practice from Trinity College Dublin. Martina
presents the City of Books podcast for Dublin
UNESCO City of Literature.
Listen to Martina Devlin’s City of Books Contact for rights negotiations:

podcast here. Ruth Hallinan
ruth@lilliputpress.ie
The Lilliput Press
16 | Fiction Doubleday / July 2022
Susannah Dickey
Common Decency
In an apartment building in Belfast, two
women wrestle with the sorrows and
spectres of love and loss.
Since her mother’s death, Lily has

withdrawn from the world, trapped
between grief and anger. Upstairs,
Siobhán is consumed by her affair with
a married man. She barely notices the
strange girl who lives below and dawdles
in the foyer.
But Lily is keeping a close eye on her

neighbour, whose life seems so much
better and more fulfilling than her
own. When resentment evolves into
something darker and more urgent, she
decides to teach Siobhán a lesson ...
320pp
Susannah Dickey grew up in Derry. In 2018 she

was shortlisted for The White Review short story
prize, and in 2017 she won the inaugural Verve
Poetry Festival competition. Her debut novel,
Tennis Lessons, was published in July 2020.
Click here to read a short excerpt from Contact for rights negotiations:
Common Decency. Lucy Beresford-Knox
lberesford-knox@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk
Penguin Random House UK
Picador / August 2022 Fiction | 17
Emma Donoghue
Haven
Three men vow to leave the world behind
them and start anew …
In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar

and priest called Artt has a dream
telling him to leave the sinful world
behind. Taking two monks – young Trian
and old Cormac – he travels down the
river Shannon in search of an isolated
spot on which to found a monastery.
Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three
men find an impossibly steep, bare
island inhabited by tens of thousands
of birds and claim it for God. Their
extraordinary landing spot is now known
as Skellig Michael. But in such a place,
far from all other humanity, what will
survival mean?
Haunting, moving and vividly told, Haven

272pp
displays Emma Donoghue’s trademark

world-building and psychological
Born in Dublin and now living in Canada, intensity – but this tale is like nothing she
Emma Donoghue writes fiction (novels and has ever written before …
short stories, contemporary and historical, most
recently The Pull of the Stars), as well as drama
for screen and stage. Room was a New York
Times Best Book of 2010 and a finalist for the
Man Booker, Commonwealth and Orange Prizes, Contact for rights negotiations:
selling between two and three million copies in Jon Mitchell
forty languages. jon.mitchell@macmillan.com
Pan Macmillan
18 | Fiction Cló Iar-Chonnacht / September 2022
Dave Duggan
Ór agus Mil
Ór agus Mil is a novel set in a hair salon
and the surrounding neighbourhood in
the city of Derry today. Fiona and Josie,
newly qualified hairdressers and friends
from the cradle, have been business
partners for the past six months.
The business is under pressure. Their
friendship is under pressure. Debt and
deception cripple them. Their landlord
won’t give them a break. Eileen, Fiona’s
mother, only complicates their lives.
Phelim is in love with Josie, but he is
impulsive and selfish. When the bank
threatens them, who can help? Can
they help themselves?
120pp
Dave Duggan is a novelist and dramatist, living

in Derry. Among his work for film and televison
is Dance Lexie Dance (Raw Nerve Productions,
1996) which was nominated for an Oscar. The
Irish Times listed his detective novel Oak and
Stone (Merdog Books, 2019) among the best
detective novels of the year.
Micheál Ó Conghaile
Click here to listen to Dave Duggan moccic22@outlook.com
speak about Ór agus Mil. Cló Iar-Chonnacht
The Lilliput Press / April 2022 Fiction | 19
Adrian Duncan
The Geometer Lobachevsky
In The Geometer Lobachevsky, Duncan
follows his interest in internationality
and materiality, leading to
unforeseeable connections between
people and places – his themes of
emigration, displacement and work
connect Ireland with the world stage.
Set in the early 1950s, the story follows

Soviet geometer (mathematician)
Nikolai Lobachevsky who is a Glav Torf
representative aiding Bord na Móna
with a land survey. In Ireland on this
state visit, he receives a letter from the
MGB ordering him back to Leningrad for
‘a special appointment’. Immediately
suspicious, he goes into hiding on a
small island in the Shannon Estuary
where he waits in the hope of someday
returning safely home.
208pp
Adrian Duncan is a Berlin-based writer,

visual artist and filmmaker. He won the John
McGahern Book Prize for his debut novel Love
Notes from a German Building Site. His other
fiction titles include A Sabbatical in Leipzig and
Midfield Dynamo.
Ruth Hallinan
The Lilliput Press
20 | Fiction The Stinging Fly Press / February 2022
Wendy Erskine
Dance Move
Meet Mrs Dallesandro, luxuriating in a
Belfast tanning salon on her wedding
anniversary, dreaming of a teenage
sexual encounter. Meet Drew Lord Haig,
hired to perform an obscure song from
his youth at a paramilitary group’s
centenary celebrations. And Sonya, who
is desperately scouring the city’s streets
for the missing posters of her lost son.
In Dance Move, Wendy Erskine’s brilliant

new collection of short stories – as in
real life – the funny, the tender and the
devastating go hand in hand. Full of
warmth, the familiar and the strange,
these stories are about what it means to
live in the world, how far we can end up
from where we came from, and what it
means to look back.
223pp
Wendy Erskine lives in Belfast. Dance Move is

her second collection of short stories, following
on from Sweet Home (2018), which won the
2020 Butler Literary Award and was shortlisted
for the Edge Hill Prize and the Republic of
Consciousness Prize.
Click here to read an excerpt from Contact for rights negotiations:

‘Gloria and Max’, one of the stories in Lucy Luck
Dance Move. Lucy.luck@cwagency.co.uk
C&W Agency UK
Harvill Secker / April 2023 Fiction | 21
Elaine Feeney
How to Build a Boat
There are two things Jamie O’Neill
© Julia Monard
wants in life: to build a Perpetual Motion

Machine, and to connect with his
mother Noelle, who died when he was
born. In his beautiful mind these things
are intimately linked. And at his new
school, where all else is disorientating
and overwhelming, he finds two people
who might just be able to help.
How to Build a Boat is the story of how

one boy and his mission transforms the
lives of his teachers and brings together
a community. Written with tenderness
and verve, it’s about family and
connection, the power of imagination
and how our greatest adventures never
happen alone.
256pp
Elaine Feeney is a writer from the West of

Ireland. Her 2020 debut novel, As You Were,
was shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year
Award, and won the Kate O’Brien Award, the
McKitterick Prize, and the Dalkey Festival
Emerging Writer Award.
To listen to Elaine Feeney read some of Contact for rights negotiations:

her previous work, click here. Lucie Deacon
LDeacon@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk
22 | Fiction Virago (Little, Brown Book Group) / April 2023
Aoife Fitzpatrick
The Red Bird Sings
A feminist gothic suspense based on
the true story of the first time a ghost
gave testimony in a murder trial in
West Virginia, 1897. After the sudden
death of young Zona Shue only a few
months after her impromptu wedding,
her mother Mary Jane has a vision – she
was killed. And by none other than her
new husband, Trout, the handsome
blacksmith beloved in their small
southern town. As the trial raises to
fever pitch and the men of Greenbrier
County stand aligned against Mary, it’s
Zona herself, from beyond the grave,
who still has one last revelation to make.
368pp
Aoife Fitzpatrick is a native of Dublin; she read

English at Trinity College Dublin and Creative
Writing at University College Dublin. She won
the Lucy Cavendish Prize and the inaugural
Books Ireland short story competition and has
been published in Southword and Books Ireland.

Rights Department
rights@littlebrown.co.uk
Little, Brown Book Group
Sandycove / June 2022 Fiction | 23
Aingeala Flannery
The Amusements
In the seaside town of Tramore, County
© Max Forsythe
Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with

the tourist season, reliving the best days
of their childhoods in its caravan parks,
chippers and amusement arcades.
Local teenager Helen Grant is indifferent

to the charm of her surroundings; she
dreams of escaping to art college with
her glamorous classmate Stella Swaine
and, from there, taking on the world.
But leaving Tramore is easier said than
done. Though they don’t yet know it,
Helen’s and Stella’s lives are pulled by
tides beyond their control.
Following the Grant and Swaine

families and their neighbours over three
decades, The Amusements is a luminous
and unforgettable story about roads
240pp
taken and not taken – and a brilliantly

observed portrait of a small town
Aingeala Flannery is an award-winning community.
journalist and broadcaster. She completed her
MFA in Creative Writing at University College
Dublin. Her short story ‘Visiting Hours’ was the
winner of the 2019 Harper’s Bazaar Short Story
Competition. The Amusements is her first book.
Claire Wilson
Watch Aingeala Flannery read from ClaireWilson@rcwlitagency.com
The Amusements here! RCW Literary Agency
24 | Fiction Bloomsbury Circus / March 2023
Nicole Flattery
Nothing Special
In the late 1960s, Pop artist Andy Warhol
set out to make an unconventional
novel by following a cast of his most
famous characters around New York,
recording their conversations with his
tape recorder. The twenty-four one-hour
tapes were transcribed by four women:
The Velvet Underground’s drummer
Maureen Tucker, a Barnard student
Susan Pile, and two young women.
In Nothing Special, Nicole Flattery

imagines the lives of those high school
students: precocious and wise beyond
their years but still only teenagers, living
with their mothers but working all day in
the surreal and increasingly dangerous
world of Andy Warhol’s Factory, and
learning to shape and reshape their
identities as they navigate between their
low-paid, gruelling jobs and their lives at
288pp
home, in a time of social change for girls

Nicole Flattery is the author of Show Them a and women in America.
Good Time. Her work has been published in
The Stinging Fly, The White Review, The Dublin
Review, The Irish Times and Winter Papers.
Nothing Special is her debut novel. She lives
in Galway.
Stephanie Purcell
Click here to read a short story by stephanie.purcell@bloomsbury.com
Nicole Flattery. Bloomsbury Publishing
John Murray Press / June 2022 Fiction | 25
Michelle Gallen
Factory Girls
Smart-mouthed and filthy-minded,
Maeve Murray hopes her exam results
will be her ticket to a new life in London,
out of the shitty wee town in Northern
Ireland she calls home. But first she’s
got to survive a tit-for-tat paramilitary
campaign as brutal as her relationship
with her mam, iron 800 shirts a day to
keep her summer job in the local factory,
and dodge the attentions of Handy Andy
Strawbridge, her dubious English boss.
But as marching season raises tensions

among the Catholic and Protestant
workforce, Maeve realises something
is going on behind the scenes at the
factory, forcing her to make a life-
changing decision.
304pp
Michelle Gallen was born in Tyrone in the 1970s

and grew up during the Troubles a few miles
from the border. She studied English literature at
Trinity College Dublin. Her first novel, Big Girl,
Small Town, was shortlisted for the Costa First
Novel Award, the Comedy Women in Print Prize,
Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards
and the Kate O’Brien Award.
Rebecca Folland
Rebecca.Folland@hachette.co.uk
John Murray Press
26 | Fiction Canongate Books / August 2022
Jess Kidd
The Night Ship
1628. Embarking on a journey in search
© Adam Laszczuck
of her father, a young girl called Mayken

boards the Batavia, the most impressive
sea vessel of the age. During the long
voyage, this curious and resourceful
child must find her place in the ship’s
busy world and she soon uncovers
shadowy secrets above and below deck.
1989. Gil, a boy mourning the death

of his mother, is placed in the care of
his irritable and reclusive grandfather.
His new home is no place for a child
struggling with a dark past and Gil’s
actions soon get him noticed by the
wrong people.
384pp
Jess Kidd is the author of three acclaimed novels

for adults: Himself, The Hoarder and Things in
Jars. Kidd won 2017 Costa Short Story Award
and was picked by The Times as one of the best
emerging Irish writers.

Rights Department
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C&W Agency UK
Faber & Faber / May 2023 Fiction | 27
Claire Kilroy
Soldier Sailor
‘Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you
and me in one another’s arms. The Earth
rotates beneath us and all is well, for
now…’
In her first novel for over a decade,

Claire Kilroy takes us deep into the
early days of motherhood. Visceral,
dangerous, emotional and life-
enhancing, the tumultuous emotions
of a new mother are revealed as the
narrator, Soldier’s, marriage strains
and an old friend re-appears offering a
lifeline to the woman she used to be.
Soldier Sailor beautifully explores the

clash of fierce love for a new life with a
seismic change in identity, autonomy
and creativity.
224 pp
Claire Kilroy’s debut novel, All Summer, won

the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Kilroy’s
second novel, Tenderwire, was shortlisted for
the 2007 Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel Award
as well as the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.
It was followed in 2009 by the highly acclaimed
novel, All Names Have Been Changed. Educated
at Trinity College, she lives in Dublin.
Louise Brice
louise.brice@faber.co.uk
Faber & Faber
28 | Fiction Hamish Hamilton / April 2023
Michael Magee
Close to Home
Anthony grew up brawling with the
headcases round the estate, torching
stolen cars, beaking school. His little
brother Sean was supposed to be
different. He was supposed to leave and
never come back.
But Sean does come back. Finished with

university, he finds Anthony’s drinking
spiralling out of control as the dark
shadow of his childhood catches up
on him. Meanwhile the jobs in Belfast
have vanished and no one will give Sean
the time of day. One night he loses it
and assaults a stranger at a party, and
everything is tipped into chaos.
Close to Home witnesses the aftermath

of this mistake, as Sean attempts to
make sense of who he has become, and
384pp
to find a way through the rubble. And it

maps, with great compassion, the forces
Michael Magee is the fiction editor of The which keep young working class men in
Tangerine and a graduate of the PhD Creative harm’s way, the silences that exist in the
Writing programme at Queen’s University, gaps between what is sayable, and the
Belfast. His writing has appeared in Winter formidable courage required to survive.
Papers, The Stinging Fly, The Lifeboat and in The
32: An Anthology of Working Class Writing. Close
to Home is his first novel. Contact for rights negotiations:
Mary Akpeki
MAkpeki@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk
Faber & Faber / March 2023 Fiction | 29
Una Mannion
Tell Me What I Am
Deena Garvey disappeared in 2004. She
left behind a daughter and a sister.
Deena’s daughter grows up in the

country. She learns how to hunt, when
to seed the garden, how to avoid making
her father angry. Never to ask about her
absent mother.
Deena’s sister stays stuck in the

city, getting desperate. She knows
the man responsible for her sister’s
disappearance, but she can’t prove
it. Not yet.
Over twenty years, four hundred miles

apart, these two women slowly begin
to unearth the secrets and lies at the
heart of their family, and the history
of power and control that has shaped
320pp
them both in such different ways. But

can they reach each other in time? And
Una Mannion was born in Philadelphia and will the truth finally answer the question
lives in County Sligo. Her debut novel, A of their lives: What really happened to
Crooked Tree, was published in 2021. She has Deena Garvey?
won numerous prizes for her work including
the Hennessy Emerging Poetry Award and the
Doolin, Cúirt, Allingham and Ambit short story
prizes. Her work has been published in The Irish
Times, The Lonely Crowd, Crannóg and Bare
Laurence Laluyaux RCW
Fiction. She edits The Cormorant, a broadsheet of
l.laluyaux@rcwlitagency.com
prose and poetry.
RCW Literary Agency
30 | Fiction No Alibis Press / June 2022
Bernie McGill
This Train Is For
Bernie McGill’s stories have been widely
praised for their emotional depth and
lyrical language. She is a writer of
profound sensitivity and observation.
Her masterful deployment of linguistic
precision and economy enables her to
plumb the depths of human experience
whilst neatly avoiding sentimentalism.
This new collection, her first since 2013,
contains unpublished stories along with
previously published stories from award-
winning anthologies.
174pp
Bernie McGill is the author of two novels,

The Watch House, (2017, Tinder Press), and
The Butterfly Cabinet, (2011, Headline). Her
work has been anthologised in award-winning
collections including The Long Gaze Back, The
Glass Shore, and Female Lines.

David Torrans
Read an interview with Bernie McGill david@noalibispress.com
here! No Alibis Press
New Island Books / September 2022 Fiction | 31
Andrew Meehan
Instant Fires
After fifteen years in a loveless
© Holly Ovenden
relationship, Ute Pfeiffer has returned

from Ireland to find her father in decline
and her mother more distant than ever.
The last thing she needs is to fall for
another Irishman. But when she sees
Seanie Donnellan driving over a hen in
her parents’ yard, something shifts in
her cautious heart. Ute has given up on
love and Seanie has never really known
it. But Seanie is a strange and charming
young man with emotional aches of his
own, confounding all of her expectations
and daring her to hope for the first time
in her life.
308pp
Andrew Meehan’s debut novel One Star Awake

was longlisted for the 2018 Desmond Elliott
Prize, the UK’s most prestigious award for debut
novelists. His second book, The Mystery of Love,
a reimagining of the relationship between Oscar
and Constance Wilde, was published in 2020.
Andrew was born in Dublin and lives in Glasgow.
Sarah Williams
sarah@sophiehicksagency.com
Sophie Hicks Agency
32 | Fiction Picador / June 2022
Niamh Mulvey
Hearts and Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth
Hearts and Bones is a book about
relationships. It explores what love does
to us, and how we survive it.
First time lovers make mistakes,

brothers and sisters try to forgive one
another, and parents struggle and fail
and struggle again. Teenage souls are
swayed by euphoric faith in a higher
power and then by devotion to desire,
trapped between different notions of
what might be true. Quiet revolutions
happen in living rooms, on river banks, in
packed pubs and empty churches, and
years later we wonder why we ever did
the things we did.
Set between Ireland and London in the

first two decades of this millennium,
Niamh Mulvey’s debut collection looks
176pp
at the changes that have torn through

Niamh Mulvey is from Kilkenny in Ireland and
these times and asks who we are now
is now based in south London. Her short fiction that we’ve brought the old gods down.
has been published in The Stinging Fly, Banshee Witty, sharply observed and deeply
and Southword and has been shortlisted for the moving, these ten stories announce an
Seán Ó Faoláin Prize for Short Fiction 2020. extraordinary new Irish literary talent.

Jon Mitchell
jon.mitchell@macmillan.com
Pan Macmillan
Tinder Press / August 2022 Fiction | 33
Maggie O’Farrell
The Marriage Portrait
Winter, 1561. Lucrezia, Duchess of
Ferrara, is taken on an unexpected
visit to a country villa by her husband,
Alfonso. As they sit down to dinner it
occurs to Lucrezia that Alfonso has a
sinister purpose in bringing her here. He
intends to kill her.
What is Lucrezia to do with this sudden

knowledge? What chance does she have
against Alfonso, ruler of a province and
a trained soldier? How can she ensure
her survival?
The Marriage Portrait is an unforgettable

reimagining of the life of a young
woman whose proximity to power places
her in mortal danger.
448pp
Maggie O’Farrell is the author of Hamnet and

the memoir I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes
with Death, both Sunday Times number one
bestsellers. Her novels include The Distance
Between Us, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox,
The Hand that First Held Mine, This Must Be the
Place and The Marriage Portrait.
Alexandra McNicoll
alexandra.mcnicoll@amheath.com
A M Heath Literary Agency
34 | Fiction Bloomsbury / May 2022
David Park
Spies in Canaan
Michael has travelled a long way
from his boyhood under the endless
skies of the Midwest. His retirement is
peaceful, if solitary. But one day there
is a visitation: a mysterious car on the
seafront, and a package delivered. From
its contents, Michael understands that
he has been commissioned to undertake
a final journey.
As Michael makes his way deep into a

distant desert – a strange and liminal
landscape that lies between hell and
redemption – he undertakes another
journey into long-suppressed memories:
of Vietnam and the dying days of war,
and to face a final accounting for what
was done.
208pp
David Park has written nine novels, including

Travelling in a Strange Land, which was
shortlisted for the An Post Irish Novel of the Year
and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year.
He lives in Northern Ireland.

Stephanie Purcell
stephanie.purcell@bloomsbury.com
Bloomsbury Publishing
Hamish Hamilton / May 2022 Fiction | 35
Emilie Pine
Ruth & Pen
Dublin, 7 October 2019
One day, one city, two women: Ruth

and Pen. Neither known to the other,
but both asking themselves the same
questions: how to be with others and
how, when the world doesn’t seem
willing to make space for them, to be
with themselves?
Ruth’s marriage to Aidan is in crisis.

Today she needs to make a choice
- to stay or not to stay, to take the
risk of reaching out, or to pull up the
drawbridge. For teenage Pen, today is
the day the words will flow, and she will
speak her truth to Alice, to ask for what
she so desperately wants.
256pp
Emilie Pine’s first collection of personal essays

Notes to Self won the Butler Literary Award,
the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year
Award, and Book of the Year 2018 at the Irish
Book Awards. Ruth & Pen is her first novel.
Listen to Emilie Pine read an excerpt Contact for rights negotiations:

from the first chapter of Ruth & Pen Mary Akpeki
here! MAkpeki@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk
36 | Fiction Head of Zeus (Apollo) / September 2022
Alice Ryan
There’s Been a Little Incident
Molly Black has disappeared and this
© Nina Elstad
‘Clever, funny and an utterly life-enhancing read.’ Christine Dwyer Hickey

time – or so says her hastily written note
– she’s
Molly gone for
Black has disappeared. good. That’s why the
She’s been
LITTLE INCIDENT
flighty since her parents died, but this time

Black clan is huddled together in the
– or so says her hastily written note – she’s
THERE’S BEEN A
gone for good.
Dublin suburbs, arguing over what to do.

That’s why the whole Black clan – from
Granny perched on the printer to Killian
Lady VDublin
presumes
suburbs, arguing Molly’s just off taking
on Zoom from Sydney – is huddled
together in the
over what to do.
drugs and
Former model Lady V presumes sleeping
Molly’s with strangers.
just off taking drugs and sleeping with
Cousin
strangers – which Anne,
is fine by her. tired
Cousin of living in Molly’s
Anne, tired of living in Molly’s shadow,
shadow, is keeping quiet and cousin
is keeping quiet, and cousin Bobby is
distracted by his own issues.
Bobby is distracted by his own issues.

But Molly’s disappearance is eerily familiar
to Uncle John. He is determined never to
But Molly’s disappearance is eerily

lose anyone again. Especially not his niece,
who is more like her mum than she realises.
familiar to Uncle John. He is determined

never to lose anyone again. Especially
RYAN
ALICE
not his niece, who is more like her mum

than she realises.
432pp
£18.99
Alice Ryan grew up in Dublin. After studying at

the LSE, she held roles in publishing, film and
TV. She now works at the Arts Council of Ireland
and lives in Dublin with her husband Brian and
their daughter Kate.

Katie McGowan
Katie.McGowan@curtisbrown.co.uk
Curtis Brown UK
Doubleday / August 2022 Fiction | 37
Donal Ryan
The Queen of Dirt Island
The Aylward women 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
– that their house is a place of peace, a
refuge from the cruelty of the world.
Their story begins at an end and ends at

a beginning. It’s a story of betrayals and
loyalties, of isolation and togetherness,
of transgression and forgiveness, of all
the things family can be and all the
things it sometimes isn’t. An uplifting
celebration of fierce, loyal love and the
powerful stories that last generations.
256pp
Donal Ryan is an award-winning and bestselling

author from Nenagh, County Tipperary, whose
work has been published in over twenty
languages to major critical acclaim, and who
lectures in Creative Writing at the University
of Limerick.
Lucy Beresford-Knox
lberesford-knox@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk
38 | Fiction New Island Books / February 2023
Declan Toohey
Perpetual Comedown
Doctoral student Darren Walton is trying
© Jack Smyth
to interpret an elaborate conspiracy

theory he stumbled across as an
undergraduate – the existence of a
third narrative dimension. In doing so,
however, he is not only plunged into an
alternative and dangerous world but
is also forced to acknowledge some
unpleasant truths about his personality,
privilege, mental health and general
worldview. Drawing on the author’s own
experience, Perpetual Comedown is an
experimental, trippy, dark, brave and
riotous reckoning with the definition
of the self.
224pp
Declan Toohey’s work has appeared in various

magazines including the Dublin Review of Books,
The Blue Nib, Idle Ink, and the anthology Queer
Love. Perpetual Comedown was a co-winner of
the 2021 Irish Writer’s Centre Novel Fair. Declan
is currently enrolled on an MFA in University
College Dublin.
Click here to read ‘Tenners’, a short Contact for rights negotiations:

story by Declan Toohey. Mariel Deegan
mariel.deegan@newisland.ie
New Island Books
Tramp Press / October 2022 Fiction | 39
Sophie White
Where I End
Teenage Aoileann has never left the
island. Her silent, bed-bound mother
is a wreckage, the survivor of a private
disaster no one will speak about.
Aoileann desperately wants a family,
and when Sarah moves to the island,
Aoileann finds a focus for her relentless
love. A horror story about being bound
by the blood knot of family, Ringu
meets Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love in
Sophie White’s thrilling literary fiction
horror crossover.
126pp
Sophie White is a bestselling author and

podcaster from Dublin. She created the TV mini-
series ‘Recipes for Actual Real Life’ and has been
nominated three times for Journalist of the Year.
Where I End is her fifth book and her literary
fiction debut.

Tanera Simons
Tanera@darleyanderson.com
Darley Anderson Literary Agency
40 | Fiction to Look Out for in 2023
Fiction to Look Out for in 2023
The Selected Stories

by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
Published by Blackstaff Press, March 2023
Falling Animals
by Sheila Armstrong
Published by Bloomsbury, May 2023
Ordinary Human Failings

by Megan Nolan
Published by Jonathan Cape, June 2023
The Paper Man

by Billy O’Callaghan
Published by Jonathan Cape, February 2023
Fiction to Look Out for in 2023 | 41
The Bee Sting

by Paul Murray
Published by Hamish Hamilton, June 2023
Cacophony of Bone
by Kerri ní Dochartaigh
Published by Canongate, May 2023
Kala
by Colin Walsh
Published by Atlantic Books, July 2023
42 | Children’s/Young Adult Fiction Little Island Books / May 2022
Helena Close
Things I Know
Saoirse can’t wait to leave school – but
© Anna Morrison
just before the Leaving Cert her ex-

boyfriend dies by suicide. Everyone
blames Saoirse and her rumbling
anxieties spiral out of control.
Saoirse feels herself flailing in swirling

waters that threaten to suck her into the
depths. No one can save her – not her
lovely nan; not the gorgeous boy who
tries hard to love her; not her fabulous
best friend; and certainly not her cheap-
wisdom counsellor.
Can Saoirse, against all odds, rescue the

self she used to know?
288pp
Helena Close is a native of Limerick City and has

been writing full-time for over 20 years. She has
written or co-written eight novels, including her
first Young Adult novel The Gone Book (2020).

Elizabeth Goldrick
Elizabeth.goldrick@littleisland.ie
Little Island Books
Futa Fata / November 2022 Children’s/Young Adult Fiction | 43
Sadhbh Devlin
Amuigh Faoin Spéir (The Great Outdoors)
Rua is delighted that the weekend is
© Brian Fitzgerald
here. He’s looking forward to lying on

the sofa and watching his favourite
cartoons all day. Mammy is happy that
it’s the weekend too, but she has a
completely different plan – a plan that,
according to Rua, means they’ll all get
cold, wet and dirty. He’d much prefer to
stay warm, dry and clean – but will he
get his way?
A joyful celebration of the beauty of

nature and the special sofa-snuggles
that follow a big adventure in the great
outdoors.
32pp
Sadhbh Devlin is an award-winning writer of

adorable Irish-language picture books. Sadhbh’s
book, Beag Bídeach (Futa Fata, 2018), was
shortlisted for four prestigious awards, including
the Irish-language children’s book of the year
award, Gradam Réics Carló. Her most recent
picture book, Geansaí Ottó (Futa Fata, 2020),
won the LAI Book of the Year Award (Age 0-5)
in 2021. She is the Dublin City University Irish
Language Writer in Residence for 2022.
Gemma Breathnach
foreignrights@futafata.ie
Futa Fata
44 | Children’s/Young Adult Fiction Macmillan Children’s Books / April 2022
Sue Divin
Truth Be Told
Tara, the Catholic daughter of a two-
generation single parent family, and
Faith, the daughter of strict Evangelical
Protestants from Armagh, come face
to face and discover they look almost
identical. A DNA test reveals they are
related, and that Faith’s father is not
who she thinks – while Tara has never
known hers. They set out to unravel
the mystery of their shared parentage,
setting in motion a series of revelations
about the pasts of both their families.
Meanwhile, Tara is angry and grieving
after the sudden death of her boyfriend
Oran, and Faith is hiding her true
sexuality from her family for fear of
being disowned.
304pp
Sue Divin is a Derry-based writer hailing

originally from Armagh. With a Masters in
Peace and Conflict studies and a ‘day job’ in
Community Relations/Peace Building for
over fifteen years, Sue’s writing often touches
on diversity and reconciliation in today’s
Northern Ireland.
Magdalena Morris
Click here to watch Sue Divin introduce magdalena.morris@macmillan.com
Truth Be Told. Macmillan Children’s Books
The O’Brien Press / September 2022 Children’s/Young Adult Fiction | 45
Paddy Donnelly
Fox & Son Tailers
FOX & SONS – Makers of the Finest
Traditional Tails for All Animals and Every
Occasion!
Rory’s dad, Fox, is a tailer. The BEST in

the business. Animals come from all over
to have their tails made by him. Rory
helps his dad in the shop and one of his
jobs is measuring the customers for the
tails – which isn’t always easy!
But Rory is bored of making the same

old tails. He has his own amazing idea …
‘A beautiful story with a heart-warming

ending ... and with foxes! I love it.’ –
32pp
Chris Haughton
Paddy Donnelly is an Irish author and illustrator

living in Belgium. He grew up on the north
coast of Ireland, surrounded by mythical stories
of giants, magical creatures and shape-shifting
animals – all set in a stunning landscape from
another time. All of this prompted his love for
nature, animals, the sea and storytelling.
Read a review of Fox & Son Tailers here. Contact for rights negotiations:
Kunak McGann
rights@obrien.ie
The O’Brien Press
46 | Children’s/Young Adult Fiction The O’Brien Press / September 2022
Alex Dunne
The Book of Secrets
For the first time in over fifty years, the
Trooping Fairies arrive in the small town
of Clonbridge for their annual revels.
Their arrival awakens other creatures,
who have mischief and chaos in mind.
Cat Donnelly and her friends spend their
final day of school before the Halloween
holidays swapping scary stories and
planning the ultimate trick-or-treating
strategy. But with the Fairies back in
town, Cat has to face real danger and
use all her wits and bravery to save
those she loves.
256pp
Alex Dunne is an Irish author living in Canada.

She has an MA in Literature & Publishing
from NUI Galway and is a co-founder of Silver
Apples Magazine, an online literary journal
dedicated to showcasing the best of Irish and
international writing. The Book of Secrets is her
first published novel.

Kunak McGann
rights@obrien.ie
The O’Brien Press
Cló Iar-Chonnacht / Spring 2022 Children’s/Young Adult Fiction | 47
Áine Ní Ghlinn
Daideo
A boy on the run from his parents. An old
man on the run from his children. They
meet on the train to Dublin and listen
to each other’s stories. They understand
each other. What will be the result of
this new friendship? This book won a
2013 Oireachtas prize.
75pp
Áine Ní Ghlinn is a children’s writer and poet.

She has written over thirty books, including
poetry collections and an array of books and
novels for children and teenagers. Áine was
announced in 2020 as the sixth Laureate na nÓg
in Ireland, a position created to celebrate and
support children’s literature and reading.

moccic22@outlook.com
Cló Iar-Chonnacht
48 | Children’s/Young Adult Fiction Walker Books / February 2023
Caroline O’Donoghue
Every Gift a Curse
A spellbinding supernatural teen drama
and final book in the Gifts series from a
New York Times bestselling author.
With the return of the Housekeeper

on the cards, Maeve must find out
everything she can about the vengeful
tarot spirit in order to finally defeat her.
Crossing over into a parallel dimension
inside an old school building, she
explores the history of the Housekeeper
– and spends too long in a world and a
mind not her own. With the Children of
Brigid closing in once more, and
Maeve’s friend group now fractured
across Ireland, can they hope to
ultimately save the town – and Maeve
– from the grip of a power greater than
they ever imagined?
400pp
Caroline O’Donoghue is the New York Times

bestselling author of the YA novels All Our
Hidden Gifts and The Gifts That Bind Us, as well
as two novels for adults. She also works as a
journalist and is host of the award-winning
podcast Sentimental Garbage. Originally from
Cork, she now lives in London.

Foreign Rights Department
rights@walker.co.uk
Walker Books
Little Island Books / October 2022 Children’s/Young Adult Fiction | 49
Aislinn O’Loughlin
Big Bad Me
Evie Wilder is living a very normal life
© Jai McFerran
– except for the fact that her mum has

gone missing, she’s just found out she’s
a werewolf, she and her sister have to
go into hiding from supernatural beings,
and there’s not a single helpful vampire
slayer to be found.
With the help of Kevin, the dorky-hot

teenage manager of the guesthouse
where Evie and Kate go to lie low, Evie
begins to learn to harness her wolfish
abilities. But there’s something a bit odd
about Kevin that Evie can’t quite put her
finger on.
Meanwhile, reports of animal attacks

are increasing, local teenagers have
started to go missing, and Evie is
320pp
about to find herself at the centre of a

supernatural showdown.
Aislinn O’Loughlin grew up in Dublin. After
publishing several books in her teens, Aislinn
worked as a storyteller and creative writing
teacher before moving to Toronto. These
days, she lives in Waterford with her scientist
husband, three brilliant children and two evil
genius cats.
Elizabeth Goldrick
Read a review of Big Bad Me here. Little Island Books
50 | Children’s/Young Adult Fiction Little Island Books / October 2022
Sam Thompson
The Fox’s Tower
When Willow witnesses her animal-
© Anna Tromop
loving father, Silas, get kidnapped by

a group of foxes and a huge wolf-like
creature, she pursues them into the
woods. There she meets wolves who tell
her they know her father. Together they
boldly enter the enormous tower the
foxes have built deep in the forest.
In the tower Willow discovers the dark

project of the chief fox, Reynard, to
create new life forms from magical
clay buried in the Deep Forest where
few can enter.
To rescue her dad Willow must brave

the Deep Forest and dig deep in herself
to foil Reynard’s evil scheme to remake
the world – but she also finds herself
siding with the foxes against their new
272pp
oppressor, the charismatic but wicked

lion Noble.
Sam Thompson lives in Belfast and teaches
English and creative writing at Queen’s
University. His first book Communion Town
was longlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize.
This is his second novel for children, after
Wolfstongue (2021).
Elizabeth Goldrick
Little Island Books
Futa Fata / September 2022 Children’s/Young Adult Fiction | 51
Máire Zepf
Míp agus Blípín (Meep and Bleepie)
When the scientists on Earth send a
© Paddy Donnelly
surprise birthday package to Míp on

Mars, she is very excited. It contains
Blípín – a tiny, shiny, cute little flying
robot – a companion for Míp and her
wish come true. So why then does Míp
feel so put out by this newcomer? (And
will they find aliens?)
This action-packed and warm-hearted

story about new arrivals is a sequel to
the award-winning picture book Míp.
32pp
Máire Zepf is an award-winning writer and

a leading voice in the recent renaissance of
Irish-language children’s publishing. She has
written fourteen books for children, from
picture books to a YA verse novel. Winner of
the KPMG Children’s Book of the Year, an IBBY
Honour Award, LAI Children’s Book Awards
and two White Ravens, her books appear in ten
languages worldwide.
Gemma Breathnach
Click here to hear Máire Zepf read from foreignrights@futafata.ie
Míp, the first books in the series. Futa Fata
52 | Poetry The Irish Pages Press / Cló An Mhíl Bhuí / July 2022
John F. Deane & James Harpur

Darkness Between Stars
John F. Deane and James Harpur have
Christ the Redeemer by Andrei Rublev, Tretyakov Gallery ©
devoted their lives to writing about the

mysteries of existence and the divine.
This selection of their poems displays
how each poet has probed and described
his journey in search of ultimate truth.
In setting the poets side by side, this
volume also highlights the two main
faith traditions of the West: Deane with
his Roman Catholic background, rooted
in the landscape of Mayo; and Harpur
with his Protestant (Church of Ireland
and Quaker) heritage, influenced by
myth, medieval history and mystics.
Their two approaches to everyday life
and ultimate reality – including nature,
saints and mystics, music, art, prayer,
and issues of faith and doubt – combine
140pp
to make a single volume full of lyrical

beauty and powerful witness.
John F. Deane was born in 1943 on Achill Island,
County Mayo. He is the author of two novels and
13 collections of poems. In 1979, he founded
Poetry Ireland, the national poetry organization,
and Poetry Ireland Review.
James Harpur was born in 1956 in England and

studied Classics and English at the University
of Cambridge. He is the author of six volumes Contact for rights negotiations:
of poetry, as well as a translation of Boethius’ Chris Agee
poetry and a work of non-fiction on Christian editor@irishpages.org
mysticism. He lives in County Cork. The Irish Pages Press / Cló An Mhíl Bhuí
Doire Press / June 2022 Poetry | 53
Nithy Kasa
Palm Wine Tapper and the Boy at Jericho
Palm Wine Tapper and the Boy at Jericho,
a Poetry Ireland commission, is the diary
of a woman’s journey from the nature-
rich countryside and the red-sanded
desert to a Lego-like city. Written in
the narrative folklore genre of her
native culture, it sketches the passage
from a child’s world, mystifying and
exploratory, to the inner complexities
of womanhood. The collection is a
painting, an open fire that invites you
into the circle to share an adventure
vividly portrayed in words.
80pp
Nithy Kasa was born in the Republic of the

Congo but moved to Galway at age thirteen. She
received a 2020 Poetry Ireland Commission and
was shortlisted for The Eavan Boland Emerging
Poet Award in 2021.
Click here to read some of Nithy Kasa’s Contact for rights negotiations:
work. John Walsh
johnmawalsh@gmail.com
Doire Press
54 | Poetry Picador / September 2022
James Conor Patterson

bandit country
bandit country is written in the very
particular dialect of the Irish border, as
Ulster Scots and Ulster Gaelic shade into
the language and culture of post-Celtic
Tiger Ireland. Spectres of characters
both mythic and real thread through
these poems, giving them a slippery,
ghostly quality. bandit country is a
haunting exploration of this place and
its people, looking back to the Troubles
and forward towards Brexit – and to the
ever-looming fences and boundaries
with which we must reckon, collectively
and urgently.
96pp
James Conor Patterson is from Newry, north

of Ireland. He won an Eric Gregory Award for
bandit country in 2019 and fragments and
versions of these poems have appeared in
such publications as Magma, The Moth, New
Statesman, Poetry Ireland Review, The Poetry
Review, The Stinging Fly, Poetry London and
The Tangerine. A selection of James’ poems
was recently shortlisted for The White Review
Poet’s Prize.
Jon Mitchell
Pan Macmillan
Banshee Press / May 2022 Poetry | 55
Rosamund Taylor
In Her Jaws
In her debut collection, Rosamund
© Anna Morrison
Taylor dares us across thresholds and

invites us to glimpse the world as we’ve
never seen it before. She boldly charts a
journey of survival and transformation
with poems on history reimagined,
astronomy, sorcery, wild landscapes,
talismanic creatures and queer love.
Taylor explores what it means to live in a
female body that is not defined by lack,
or want, or perpetual suffering, but is
possessed by a real and defined sense of
erotic autonomy. A landmark debut that
extends and deepens the Irish tradition
of writing the female perspective, while
also breaking new ground.
60pp
Rosamund Taylor is a recipient of the London

Magazine Poetry Prize and the Mairtín Crawford
Award for Poetry. Widely published, her work
has recently appeared in Butcher’s Dog, Magma,
Mslexia, The Stinging Fly, Poetry Ireland Review
and Queering the Green (The Lifeboat Press).
Laura Cassidy
bansheelit@gmail.com
Banshee Press
56 | Poetry Carcanet Press / March 2022
Colm Tóibín
Vinegar Hill
Colm Tóibín’s first collection of poetry
explores sexuality, religion and belonging
through a modern lens. Vinegar Hill
explores the liminal space between
private experiences and public events
as Tóibín examines a wide range of
subjects – politics, queer love, reflections
on literary and artistic greats, living
through COVID-19, memory and a fading
past, and facing mortality. Within this
rich collection of poems written over the
course of several decades, shot through
with keen observation, emotion and
humour, Tóibín offers us lines and verses
to provoke, ponder and cherish.
144pp
Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, County

Wexford in 1955. He is the author of ten
novels, including The Master, Brooklyn and The
Magician. His work has been translated into
more than thirty languages.

Alan Brenik
alan@carcanet.co.uk
Carcanet Press
The Gallery Press / May 2022 Poetry | 57
Molly Twomey
Raised Among Vultures
In Molly Twomey’s spectacular and
The Reader (2021) by Diarmuid Breen ©
frequently disturbing debut, seemingly

nonchalant expressions of hard
experience meld with vivid imaginings.
In this world of Tumblr, online group
therapy, NA and Touch ID, Molly
Twomey’s unflinching art chronicles a
history of eating disorders and inner
conflicts. These are frontline reports
from the outposts of youth – ‘nights /
spent drunk with boys we could barely
remember, / would never forget.’
Raised Among Vultures is also a book

about longing and lessons – ‘It took so
long to learn that I won’t die / if I sleep
in.’ Molly Twomey breathes new life into
Irish poetry.
80pp
Molly Twomey grew up in County Waterford

and graduated in 2019 with an MA in Creative
Writing from University College Cork. She has
been published in Poetry Ireland Review, The
Irish Times and The Stinging Fly and was chosen
for Poetry Ireland’s Introductions series. She
was recently awarded an Arts Council
Literature Bursary. Contact for rights negotiations:
Suella Holland
Watch a poetry film featuring Molly books@gallerypress.com
Twomey here. The Gallery Press
58 | Poetry Dedalus Press / October 2022
Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin
Let the Hare Sit / Lig don nGiorria Suí
Selected Poems / Rogha Dánta
Let the Hare Sit / Lig don nGiorria Suí is

the first extended selection of poems in
English by ‘one of the most innovative
and interesting voices in contemporary
Irish-language poetry’ (Doireann Ní
Ghríofa).
Ní Bheildiúin is the author of a rich,

myth-informed, yet entirely earthed
body of work in which the landscape
of her adopted home on the Dingle
peninsula is a significant presence.
Faithfully rendered in English by Paddy
Bushe, this bilingual volume is an
invitation to ‘stop dead still without
spilling a drop / From the jug of your
heart ...’ – the kind few can afford to
pass up on.
130pp
Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin is a poet, filmmaker and

visual artist. Born in Rush, County Dublin in
1958, she has lived on the Dingle peninsula in
Kerry since 2003, where she began to immerse
herself in Irish and write poetry. Awards include
the 2021 Michael Hartnett Award.
Listen to Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin read some Contact for rights negotiations:

of her work here. Raffaela Tranchino
manager@dedaluspress.com
Dedalus Press
Dedalus Press / May 2022 Poetry | 59
Grace Wells
The Church of the Love of the World
Grace Wells’ The Church of the Love
of the World explores our individual
roles – and the role of poetry itself – in
these troubling times. At once sure-
footed and curious, optimistic and on
the brink of despair, the poems range
from explorations of our dependence on
grasses to the evolution of the societies
that evolve around them. Memory,
myth and hands-on experience are
woven together in the search for ways
to rebalance our interactions with the
natural world.
98pp
Grace Wells was born in London in 1968 and

has lived in Ireland for more than 30 years. She
has published two previous collections of poems,
When God has been Called Away to Greater
Things (2010), winner of the Rupert and Eithne
Strong Award for Best First Collection, and
Fur (2015).
Raffaela Tranchino
manager@dedaluspress.com
Dedalus Press
60 | Non-Fiction Merrion Press / June 2022
Tadhg Coakley
The Game: A Journey into the Heart of Sport
The Game is a multifaceted reflection
on sport. It is part memoir, outlining
Tadhg Coakley’s time as a player and
fan, his love of sport, and how it has
shaped his life. But it also tackles sport
on a universal scale. Sport can be all-
consuming, but it also has a dark side
exhibiting corruption, sexism, and a raft
of toxic masculine behaviours. On the
other hand, sport builds all manner of
valuable connections and communities.
Written with warmth, openness and

keen insight, The Game is a thought-
provoking meditation on the uniquely
intense highs and lows of loving sport in
today’s world.
272pp
Tadhg Coakley is from Cork. His debut novel,

The First Sunday in September (2018), was
shortlisted for the Mercier Press Fiction prize.
Tadhg’s short stories, articles and essays have
been published in The Stinging Fly, Winter
Papers, and The Irish Times, and he writes about
sport for the Irish Examiner.

Conor Graham
conor.graham@iap.ie
Merrion Press
Gill Books / May 2022 Non-Fiction | 61
John Connell
The Stream of Everything
In May 2020 John Connell finds himself
confined to his local area. His attention
turns to the Camlin river – the site of
boyhood adventure, first love, family
history and local legend.
He decides to canoe its course with his

friend. As the world grows still around
them, the river continues to teem with
life – a symphony of buzzing mayfly
and jumping trout. As they meander
downstream, John reflects on his life
as well as on Irish folklore, geopolitics
and philosophy.
The Stream of Everything is a winding,

bucolic account of the summer we
discovered home.
272pp
John Connell is the author of The Running Book

and The Cow Book, a number-one bestseller and
winner of Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year
at the Irish Book Awards. His work has appeared
in Granta’s New Irish Writing. He lives on the
family farm in County Longford.

Linda Murphy
lmurphy@gill.ie
Gill Books
62 | Non-Fiction Tinder Press / August 2022
Kit de Waal
Without Warning & Only Sometimes
Kit de Waal grew up in a household of
Jack Smyth
opposites and extremes. Her haphazard

mother forbade Christmas and
birthdays, and believed the world would
end in 1975. Her father cooked elaborate
meals on a whim and splurged money
they didn’t have on cars, suits and shoes
fit for a prince. Both of her parents were
waiting for paradise. It never came.
Caught between three worlds, Irish,

Caribbean and British in 1960s
Birmingham, Kit and her siblings
braved hunger and hellfire until they
could all escape.
This is a story of an extraordinary

childhood and how a girl who had only
ever read the Bible discovered a love of
reading that inspires her to this day.
304pp
Kit de Waal is the author of the novels My Name

is Leon, which won the Kerry Group Irish Novel
of the Year, and The Trick to Time, which was
longlisted for the Women’s Prize, and a short
story collection, Supporting Cast.

Jo Unwin
jo@jounwin.co.uk
Jo Unwin Literary Agency
The Gallery Press / July 2022 Non-Fiction | 63
Brian Friel
Rehearsal Diary (Faith Healer, 1979)
Rehearsal Diary is Brian Friel’s riveting
account of the ill-fated attempt to
bring the text of Faith Healer from page
to Broadway for its world premiere.
Despite the commitment of celebrated
actor James Mason and director José
Quintero, rehearsals quickly collapse
into a series of tensions and irreparable
clashes.
Figures appearing ‘offstage’ include

Seamus Heaney, Stacy Keach and
Katharine Hepburn.
For anyone interested in the workings

of contemporary theatre or this play
that is now recognised as a masterpiece,
this is compulsive reading. Completely
64pp
candid, it is a story of all that might go

wrong and a self-portrait of a distinctly
Plays by Brian Friel (1929-2015) include valiant writer.
Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Translations and
Dancing at Lughnasa (1990) which won the
1992 Tony Award for Best Play in New York. He
was elected a Saoi of Aosdána in 2006.

Suella Holland
books@gallerypress.com
The Gallery Press
64 | Non-Fiction Jonathan Cape / July 2022
Seán Hewitt
All Down Darkness Wide
When Seán meets Elias, the two fall
headlong into a love story. But as Elias
struggles with severe depression, the
couple comes face-to-face with crisis.
Wrestling with this, Seán Hewitt delves
deep into his own history, enlisting
the ghosts of queer figures and poets
before him. From a nineteenth-century
cemetery in Liverpool to the pine forests
of Gothenburg, Hewitt plumbs the
darkness in search of solace and hope.
All Down Darkness Wide is an unflinching

meditation on the burden of living in
a world that too often sets happiness
and queer life at odds, and a tender
portrayal of what it’s like to be caught in
the undertow of a loved one’s suffering.
By turns devastating and soaring, it
is a mesmerising story of heartache
240pp
and renewal, and a work of rare and

transcendent beauty.
Seán Hewitt is the author of the poetry
collection Tongues of Fire, which was awarded
the Laurel Prize, and was shortlisted for the
Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award,
the John Pollard Foundation International
Poetry Prize and a Dalkey Literary Award. He is
the recipient of a Northern Writers’ Award, the Contact for rights negotiations:
Resurgence Prize, and an Eric Gregory Award. Matthew Marland
MatthewM@rcwlitagency.com
RCW Literary Agency
Picador / March 2023 Non-Fiction | 65
Alice Kinsella
Milk: On Motherhood and Madness
A map of motherhood, Milk is at once
a gentle and meditative story of one
woman’s experience of her first year of
motherhood as well as a confronting
and often painful examination of
the experience of having children in
contemporary Ireland. Alice Kinsella
describes herself as a young mother,
giving birth to her son in her mid-
twenties, adrift in a new town and
navigating her newly accompanied life.
A powerful and yet delicate mix of

the personal and political, Milk is an
unflinching and unique look at the
experience of motherhood against
the backdrop of a seemingly
changed Ireland.
192pp
Born in Dublin and raised in County Mayo,

Alice Kinsella’s work has been published in The
Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, RTÉ, Banshee,
and The North, among others. Alice won the
inaugural AIS Alumni Creative Writing award for
her first piece of creative non-fiction. She lives
on the west coast of Ireland. Contact for rights negotiations:
Jon Mitchell
Click here to read a short story by Alice
Pan Macmillan
Kinsella.
66 | Non-Fiction Merrion Press / May 2022
Cristín Leach
Negative Space
This searingly intimate literary
debut from top Irish art critic Cristín
Leach weaves words and art with an
unravelling of self that comes when
a marriage breaks. In a multi-layered
and incisive narrative, Leach writes
about the gaps between reality and
perception, about writing and anxiety,
body and brain, breaking and making,
succeeding and failing, conventionality
and independence.
Negative Space is a memoir about

writing and the expression of art as a
salve and a means of escape, marriage
as a refuge and a trap, the nature
of home, and what happens when
everything falls apart.
160pp
Cristín Leach is Ireland’s leading art critic. She is

a writer and broadcaster, whose short fiction and
personal essays have been published in Winter
Papers and on RTÉ Radio 1. She has been art
critic for The Sunday Times since 2003.
Check out Cristín Leach’s articles here. Contact for rights negotiations:
Conor Graham
conor.graham@iap.ie
Merrion Press
Gill Books / October 2022 Non-Fiction | 67
Manchán Magan
Listen to the Land Speak
In this illuminating new book, roaming
through bogs, rivers, mountains and
shorelines, Manchán Magan sets out
on a journey to uncover the ancient
stories that shape Ireland’s national
identity – revealed by the gnarled,
layered strata of land that has endured
through millennia.
Here, the River Shannon is a goddess;

trees and their root systems are
hallowed; and ancient assembly points,
such as the Hill of Ward and Tlachtga,
are connections to the cosmic frontier,
where the sacred and the physical meet.
See the world in a new light in this
joyous exploration into the wisdom of
what lies beneath us.
352pp
Manchán Magan is the author of the bestselling

Thirty-Two Words for Field and Tree Dogs,
Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature,
with illustrator Steve Doogan. Manchán writes
for The Irish Times and presents The Almanac of
Ireland, a podcast about Ireland’s heritage and
culture, for RTÉ Radio One. Contact for rights negotiations:
Linda Murphy
Listen to Manchán Magan’s podcast, lmurphy@gill.ie
The Almanac of Ireland, here. Gill Books
68 | Non-Fiction Cló Iar-Chonnacht / October 2022
Conchúr Mag Eacháin

Ó Cheann Ceann na Bliana:
Nósanna an Fhéilire in Éirinn
This book describes Irish traditions that

were observed at holy wells around
Ireland on specific days of the year as
well as a collection of folklore gathered
by schoolchildren in Ireland during the
1930s. From St Brigid’s Day to Christmas
Eve, there isn’t a tradition or superstition
that’s not covered here.
400pp
Conchúr Mag Eacháin was born near the city

of Armagh. He studied Irish and Celtic Studies
at Queen’s University Belfast, where he earned
his BA, MA and PhD. His first book Téarmaíocht
Ghaeilge na hAthbheochana was published in
2014. His main areas of study are the Revival,
linguistics, Irish lexicography and folklore.

Cló Iar-Chonnacht
Scribe / November 2022 Non-Fiction | 69
Gavin McCrea
Cells: Memories for My Mother
Gavin is spending the quarantine in
a small flat in south Dublin with his
eighty-year-old mother, whose mind is
slowly slipping away. He has lived most
of his adult life abroad and has returned
home to care for her and to write a
novel. But he finds that all he can write
about is her.
Moving through a sequence of

remembered rooms – the ‘cells’ – Gavin
unspools an intimate story of his
upbringing and early adulthood: feeling
out of place in the insular suburb in
which he grew up, the homophobic
bullying he suffered at school, his
brother’s mental illness and drug
addiction, his father’s sudden death,
his own devastating diagnosis, his life
as a writer, and above all, always, his
336pp
relationship with his mother.

Gavin McCrea is the author of two critically
acclaimed novels, Mrs Engels (2015) and The
Sisters Mao (2021), both published by Scribe. His
articles have appeared in The Paris Review, The
Guardian, The Irish Times, Catapult, and LitHub.

Rebecca Carter
queries@janklow.co.uk
Janklow & Nesbit Associates
70 | Non-Fiction Cló Iar-Chonnacht / November 2022
Seán Ó Ríordáin edited by Pádraig Ó Liatháin

Dialanna Sheáin Uí Ríordáin: Imleabhar 1
In 1984 University College Dublin bought
the poet Seán Ó Ríordáin’s papers.
Included in this collection was his diary
in which regular entries were made
between 1940 and 1977, the year of his
death. Those diaries are contained in
49 notebooks. These diaries compose
the longest unbroken writings that we
have in Ireland in the twentieth century.
Although some excerpts from these
diaries have been published previously,
this major work being undertaken by Ó
Liatháin will bring the full body of work
to the reading public.
352pp
Seán Ó Ríordáin was one of the great Irish

poets of the twentieth century. He was born in
Ballyvourney in the Muskerry Gaeltacht on the
3rd of December, 1916 and it was there that
he spent the early days of his youth. Later, he
moved to Cork City to attend school, where he
then lived for most of his life. He worked as a
journalist and wrote regular columns for The
Irish Times. He died in 1977.
Cló Iar-Chonnacht
The Lilliput Press / May 2022 Non-Fiction | 71
Kevin Power
The Written World: Essays and Reviews
Since 2008, acclaimed novelist Kevin
Power has reviewed almost three
hundred and fifty books. These selected
pieces, ranging from reviews of Susan
Sontag to the meaning of Greta
Thunberg, apocalyptic politics, and
literary theory, represent a decade’s
worth of thinking about books; a record
of the author’s attempts to honour art,
and through art, the world.
In The Written World, Power explains how

he became a critic and what he thinks
criticism is. This is a book about writing,
seen from various positions, and about
growth as an artist and a critic.
256pp
Kevin Power is a writer, reviewer, lecturer and

academic. His debut novel Bad Day in Blackrock
was adapted to a film by Lenny Abahamson,
entitled What Richard Did, picking up five
awards at the IFTAs. In 2009, Power received the
Hennessy XO Emerging Fiction Award and won
the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
Check out Kevin Power’s articles here. Contact for rights negotiations:
Ruth Hallinan
The Lilliput Press
72 | Non-Fiction Skein Press / September 2022
Jayne A. Quan
All This Happened, More or Less
In this stunning debut collection, Jayne
A. Quan writes with raw honesty and
humour about key moments in their
life and transition. With lyric insight
and quiet clarity, Quan navigates the
intersection of loss, grief, memory
and the power of love and healing
through the lens of a body in motion.
Courageous and poignant, these essays
deftly explore what it takes to live your
own truth and carve a place for yourself
in a world that offers no blueprint.
112pp
Jayne A. Quan is, in no particular order, a queer,

transmasculine, non-binary Asian American who
received their Master of Arts from University
College Dublin. Their work has been featured
in Banshee, Call & Response, First Person PBS,
and Advice for and from the Future. They were
shortlisted for the 2019 Cosmonauts Avenue
Non-Fiction Prize. Contact for rights negotiations:
Fionnuala Cloke
Read some of Jayne A. Quan’s work fionnuala@skeinpress.com
here. Skein Press
Banshee Press / September 2022 Non-Fiction | 73
David Toms
Pacemaker
In Pacemaker, acclaimed poet David
Anna Morrison
Toms confronts what it means to live

life while walking in tandem with a
rare heart condition. In this hybrid
memoir, he invites us into the most
intimate of struggles; to be keenly
aware, with every step, that one day
your heart may give out. Toms climbs
mountains for leisure and in his
personal life, explores heartbreak both
metaphorical and literal.
Written with beauty and economy,

Pacemaker speaks to all of us in its
exploration of what it means to live in a
fragile yet resilient body, and to find a
way to keep moving.
176pp
David Toms is a writer from Waterford, now

living and working in Norway. His poetry
collections include Northly and Soma | Sema.
Toms’ work has appeared in magazines and
anthologies across Ireland and internationally,
including in several issues of Banshee.
Click here to listen to a playlist of Contact for rights negotiations:

songs that inspired David Toms during Laura Cassidy
the writing of Pacemaker! bansheelit@gmail.com
Banshee Press
74 | Index of Authors
INDEX OF AUTHORS
Banville, John 6 Duncan, Adrian 19

Bardwell, Leland 7 Dunne, Alex 46
Barry, Sebastian 8 Erskine, Wendy 20
Baume, Sara 9 Feeney, Elaine 21
Boyne, John 10 Fitzpatrick, Aoife 22
Campbell, Niamh 11 Flannery, Aingeala 23
Casey, Juanita 12 Flattery, Nicole 24
Cassidy, Luke 13 Friel, Brian 63
Close, Helena 42 Gallen, Michelle 25
Coakley, Tadhg 60 Hewitt, Seán 64
Connell, John 61 Kasa, Nithy 53
Cronin, Fergus 14 Kidd, Jess 26
Deane, John F. & James Harpur 52 Kilroy, Claire 27
Devlin, Martina 15 Kinsella, Alice 65
Devlin, Sadhbh 43 Leach, Cristín 66
de Waal, Kit 62 Magan, Manchán 67
Dickey, Susannah 16 Mag Eacháin, Conchúr 68
Divin, Sue 44 Magee, Michael 28
Donnelly, Paddy 45 Mannion, Una 29
Donoghue, Emma 17 McCrea, Gavin 69
Duggan, Dave 18 McGill, Bernie 30
Index of Authors | 75
Meehan, Andrew 31 Wells, Grace 59

Mulvey, Niamh 32 White, Sophie 39
Ní Bheildiúin, Ceaití 58 Zepf, Máire 51
Ní Ghlinn, Áine 47
O’Donoghue, Caroline 48
O’Farrell, Maggie 33
O’Loughlin, Aislinn 49
Ó Ríordáin, Seán 70
Park, David 34
Patterson, James Conor 54
Pine, Emilie 35
Power, Kevin 71
Quan, Jayne A. 72
Ryan, Alice 36
Ryan, Donal 37
Taylor, Rosamund 55
Tóibín, Colm 56
Thompson, Sam 50
Toms, David 73
Toohey, Declan 38
Twomey, Molly 57
76 | Index of Titles
INDEX OF TITLES
All Down Darkness Wide 64 Game, The: A Journey into the Heart
of Sport 60
All The Broken Places 10
Geometer Lobachevsky, The 19
All This Happened, More or Less 72
Haven 17
Amuigh Faoin Spéir 43
Heart and the Arrow, The 7
Amusements, The 23
Hearts and Bones: Love Songs for
bandit country 54
Late Youth 32
Big Bad Me 49
Horse of Selene, The 12
Book of Secrets, The 46
How to Build a Boat 21
Cells: Memories for My Mother 69
Instant Fires 31
Church of the Love of the World, The 59
In Her Jaws 55
Close to Home 28
Let the Hare Sit / Lig don nGiorria Suí 58
Common Decency 16
Listen to the Land Speak 67
Daideo 47
Marriage Portrait, The 33
Dance Move 20
Milk: On Motherhood and Madness 65
Darkness Between Stars 52
Míp agus Blípín 51
Dialanna Sheáin Uí Ríordáin:
Negative Space 66
Imleabhar 1 70
Night Music 14
Edith 15
Night Ship, The 26
Every Gift a Curse 48
Nothing Special 24
Factory Girls 25
Ó Cheann Ceann na Bliana: Nósanna
Fox & Son Tailers 45
an Fhéilire in Éirinn 68
Fox’s Tower, The 50
Old God’s Time 8
Index of Titles | 77
Ór agus Mil 18 We Were Young 11

Pacemaker 73 Where I End 39
Palm Wine Tapper and the Boy Without Warning & Only Sometimes 62
at Jericho 53
Written World, The: Essays and Reviews 71
Perpetual Comedown 38
Queen of Dirt Island, The 37
Raised Among Vultures 57
Red Bird Sings, The 22
Rehearsal Diary (Faith Healer, 1979) 63
Ruth & Pen 35
Seven Steeples 9
Singularities, The 6
Soldier Sailor 27
Spies in Canaan 34
Stream of Everything, The 61
Tell Me What I Am 29
There’s Been a Little Incident 36
Things I Know 42
This Train Is For 30
Tooth & Nail 13
Truth Be Told 44
Vinegar Hill 56
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his past who comes bearing an

Leland Bardwell (1922-2016) published twelve

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His peace is further disturbed by a

through, what we live with, and what

Taking place in a remote house in the

Sara Baume’s debut novel Spill Simmer Falter

Read a review of Seven Steeples here. Contact for rights negotiations:

Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby

A devastating, beautiful story about

John Boyne is the author of thirteen novels for

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Niamh Campbell’s debut novel, This Happy

Drawing on her own life and speaking

Juanita Casey’s astounding first novel is

Juanita Casey (1925–2012), bestselling novelist,

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the infamous criminal kingpin of

Luke Cassidy is a writer from the Irish border

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Fergus Cronin is the winner of the 2022

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It is the early 1920s and Ireland is on

In this dazzling portrayal of a

changes beyond recognition.

Martina Devlin is an author, playwright and

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Since her mother’s death, Lily has

But Lily is keeping a close eye on her

Susannah Dickey grew up in Derry. In 2018 she

In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar

Haunting, moving and vividly told, Haven

displays Emma Donoghue’s trademark

Dave Duggan is a novelist and dramatist, living

Set in the early 1950s, the story follows

Adrian Duncan is a Berlin-based writer,

In Dance Move, Wendy Erskine’s brilliant

Wendy Erskine lives in Belfast. Dance Move is

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wants in life: to build a Perpetual Motion

How to Build a Boat is the story of how

Elaine Feeney is a writer from the West of

To listen to Elaine Feeney read some of Contact for rights negotiations:

Aoife Fitzpatrick is a native of Dublin; she read

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Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with

Local teenager Helen Grant is indifferent

Following the Grant and Swaine

taken and not taken – and a brilliantly

In Nothing Special, Nicole Flattery

home, in a time of social change for girls

But as marching season raises tensions

Michelle Gallen was born in Tyrone in the 1970s

of her father, a young girl called Mayken

1989. Gil, a boy mourning the death

Jess Kidd is the author of three acclaimed novels

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In her first novel for over a decade,

Soldier Sailor beautifully explores the