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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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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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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…
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A story of resolution, compassion and love, The Blackwater Lightship reveals the intense connection between grandmother, mother and daughter.
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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.
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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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…
Set in Ireland in the 1990s, Colm Tóibín’s The Blackwater Lightship tells the story of the Devereux family.
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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…
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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub and The Millions! From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a "not to be missed"…
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A love story full of honesty and truth: Colm Toibin portrays a difficult relationship during dark times
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…
Colm Toibin's debut novel, The South is a classic story of art, sacrifice, and courage
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…
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004, a remarkable novel about Henry James, the American-born novelist and a connoisseur of exile.
A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2024, the sequel to the beloved bestseller, Brooklyn
In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences–the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across…
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A stunning collection of nine stories that teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons.
Colm Toibin's personal account of encountering James Baldwin's work, published in Baldwin's centenary year.
Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Toibin first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed…
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of Eilis Lacey, the complex and…
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long…
Follow Colm Toibin’s lone religious pilgrimage along the Irish border during the tumultuous summer of 1987.
Michael Peppiatt
A new selection of letters, statements, and interviews reveals the preoccupations, thoughts, and ideas of Francis Bacon, one of the twentieth century's most influential and important artists.
James Joyce
Joyce’s brilliantly vivid portrait of Dublin, introduced by Colm Toibin.
James Baldwin
After Rufus Scott, an embittered and unemployed black jazz-musician commits suicide, his sister Ida and old friend Vivaldo become lovers. Yet their feelings for each other are complicated by Rufus’s…
Amit Chaudhuri
Writer and musician Amit Chaudhuri's elegant debut novel, in which an Indian ten-year-old experiences the entirely distinct experiences of life in Bombay, where his family lives, and Calcutta, where he…
Oscar Wilde
An account of Oscar Wilde’s spiritual journey while in prison, and describes his new, shocking conviction that ‘the supreme vice is shallowness’. It also includes further letters to his wife…
Barnaby Wright, Colm Toibin
Accompanying an exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, London, Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads presents a remarkable series of hauntingly beautiful largescale drawings by the artist.
Written with deep knowledge and affection, Homage to Barcelona is a sensuous and beguiling portrait of a great Mediterranean city.
When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend’s return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to…
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OUR LITERARY LEGEND
Lambda-Award-winning author and editor Tom Cardamone brings together a diverse collection of queer writers and their supporters to celebrate the rich, innovative works of Edmund White, the…
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Virginia Lee
The unique selling point applying to all Insight Text Guides is the fact that Insight is the only publisher in Australia that takes the time and has the in -…
From…
Part travelogue, part autobiography, part historical document, this is Colm Toibin at his finest and most insightful.
A retelling of the story of Clytemnestra–spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling–and her children –Amazon.com.
A collection of linked essays about homosexual literature considers its most influential writers of the past two centuries–including Oscar Wilde, Thomas Mann, James Baldwin, Elizabeth Bishop, Mark Doty, and Thom…
In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland’s greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce, and their earliest influences: their…
From one of the greatest writers of our time comes a collection of brilliant essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change and about cancer, priests, popes, and homosexuality…
Tells about writers and their families. This book explores the often tense relationship between writers and their families.
From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality…
This sharp and stylish biography redefines the woman George Bernard Shaw once described as ‘the greatest living Irishwoman’ - Augusta Gregory.
