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Colm Toibin
A novel of enormous wit and profound emotional resonance from one of the world's finest writers.
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Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis' gifts are of a more practical nature: she has…
Set in Ireland in the 1990s, Colm Tóibín’s The Blackwater Lightship tells the story of the Devereux family.
Colm Tóibín’s The Heather Blazing details the life of Eamon Redmond, a judge in Ireland’s high court, a man remote from his wife, his son and daughter and, at least…
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a remarkable novel about Henry James, the American-born novelist and a connoisseur of exile.
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A classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity.
Set in Argentina in a time of great change, The Story of the Night is a powerful and moving novel about a man who, as the Falklands War is fought…
Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village. The parish priest, Father Flood, arranges for her to travel to America, where a job opportunity has…
In The Magician, Colm Toibin captures the profound personal conflict of a very public life, and through this life creates an intimate portrait of the twentieth century.
A story of resolution, compassion and love, The Blackwater Lightship reveals the intense connection between grandmother, mother and daughter.
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A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.
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All my life I have loved the Sabbath. So begins Colm Toibin’s devastating novella The Testament of Mary
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Sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Each of the nine stories focuses on a moment in which an unspoken balance shifts, in…
It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her…