Top 30 Books This Week

by Maggie O'Farrell

€16.99

'You will never understand how the land remembers, how deep the roots grow' A spellbinding story of separation, longing, recovery and survival as a family makes a new home in the aftermath of tragedy. 'A heart-bursting story of resilience and love' Louise Kennedy 'Haunting and elemental' Ferdia Lennon 'Wondrous and magisterial' Kamila Shamsie 'Breathtaking' Daniel Mason 'A work of towering imagination and empathy' Roisìn O'Donnell 'As visceral as a novel can get' Yael van der Wouden On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. Tomás, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster. The British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomás is sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse. His life, and those of his family, will never be the same again. Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his taciturn father. What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tomás and how is Liam, aged only ten, going to finish the mapping, and get them both home? Land is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away. Ideal for readers who… Loved Hamnet and have been waiting for whatever Maggie O'Farrell wrote next — Land is her tenth novel, and early reviews suggest it proves Hamnet's success was no fluke. The same gift for finding the emotional truth inside a historical moment is here, applied to a new story and a new century. Are drawn to Irish historical fiction set around the Great Famine — Land is set in 1865, in the aftermath of the Great Hunger, following a father and son working on Ireland's Ordnance Survey as they map a peninsula in the west of Ireland — and uncover something the land itself has been holding onto. Want fiction that explores how trauma passes through families and across generations — O'Farrell has said the novel draws on her own family's history with Ireland's famine. The result is a multi-generational story about how loss, displacement and survival shape the people who come after — themes that will resonate with anyone interested in their own family's history of emigration or hardship. Are interested in maps, surveying, and how places hold their histories — the novel's central device is mapping: a father and son hired to chart land that carries memories the official record was never meant to capture. For readers fascinated by landscape, cartography, or the hidden histories beneath familiar places, this is a novel built entirely around that idea. Watched the Hamnet film and want to read more from the author behind it — O'Farrell co-wrote the screenplay for the Oscar-nominated Hamnet adaptation, and the producer behind that film has already optioned Land for the screen. If the film sent you looking for more of O'Farrell's writing, this is where to go. Want one of 2026's most anticipated literary novels before everyone else has read it — Land has been named among the year's most anticipated books, and O'Farrell herself has said she feels "more than a little nervous" about its publication. For readers who like to be ahead of the conversation, this is the one to read now.

by Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen

€16.99

They said they’d never let a man get in the way of their friendship... Laura and Dee haven’t spoken since the day they buried a body together. It was supposed to be the best summer of their lives. A break from university, from parents, from wasting their time on Irish boys with farmer’s tans. They’d imagined flirting with Ryan Phillippe on a New York rooftop. Instead, with summer jobs waitressing at a country club on Long Island, pickings are slim. Mikey is a bully. Marco is off limits. Jose is angry. Mr Haight is a sleaze. Josh is too keen. And Other Josh… he’s something else entirely. It’s a miracle only one of them ends up dead. Dee is pretty sure she didn’t mean to kill him. Laura, to her credit, never asked. Not until she sends an email, out of the blue, more than twenty years later. It’s finally time to mend the biggest heartbreak of that summer; Laura wants her best friend back. A hilarious and heartfelt story about friendship, young women and bad men. Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght bring their trademark Aisling humour in this completely new direction. Noughties nostalgia and a dead body, it’s the novel you didn’t know you needed. Ideal for Readers Who… Loved the Aisling series — Our Deadly Summer is McLysaght and Breen's first novel outside the Aisling universe, and while the tone is darker and the setting is New York rather than Ballygobbard, the warmth, wit, and fierce female friendship that made Aisling a national treasure are entirely intact. Enjoy darkly comic Irish fiction with real emotional stakes — this isn't a cosy mystery. It's funny in the way that only Irish writers can be funny about serious things: sharply, affectionately, and with a body count. Feel a complicated nostalgia for the early noughties — dial-up internet, flip phones, impossibly low-cut jeans, and the particular madness of an Irish J1 summer in America. If you wore a velour tracksuit unironically, this book is for you. Love Marian Keyes, Holly Bourne, or Monica Heisey — fans of Really Good, Actually and So Happy for You will find the same blend of comedy and emotional honesty here, grounded in the specific texture of Irish women's lives. Are drawn to stories where female friendship is the beating heart — Laura and Dee's relationship is the real mystery at the centre of the novel. How two best friends end up standing over a body together, and what that does to them, is the story Our Deadly Summer is actually telling. Want a thriller that moves — set across Dublin, Long Island, and New York, with a plot that opens on a buried body and never fully lets you breathe, this is the rare book that earns its "unputdownable" without having to say it on the cover.

by Andrea Mara

€14.99

‘The thing is, we always believe the best of our own kids. What mother thinks her own daughter will do something terrible? But every bad deed is carried out by a person who was once someone’s child.’ Get ready for your new obsession – it will make you question everything. Pre-order the gripping new thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Andrea Mara. Everyone has secrets. Even your daughter… The morning after a glamorous, luxury wedding, you and your best friend go to wake your twenty-four-year-old daughters. You open the door to their shared room in the pool-house and find a lamp smashed on the floor, a blood stain on the carpet, a ringing phone – and both girls are nowhere to be seen. The police come and you discover something shocking. Something inexplicable. Is one of your daughters trying to kill the other? And that’s when you and your best friend begin to unravel what's really going on between the girls. You need to work together to find your daughters, testing your friendship to its limits. And you can’t help but wonder: which girl is the killer and which is the victim? Ideal for readers who: Want a domestic thriller that begins with missing daughters after a luxury wedding. Enjoy parent-nightmare plots where friendship, fear and suspicion collide. Like twisty Irish suspense built around the question of victim versus killer. Appreciate thrillers that make family loyalty feel unstable from page one.

by Michael Connelly

€16.99

Sworn to protect a scenic island meant to be far from the evils of the mainland, Detective Sergeant Stilwell can feel danger closing in. Detective Sergeant Stilwell knows that his posting on Catalina Island is no paradise, but to most residents, it seems blissfully separated-by twenty-two miles of ocean-from the troubles of Los Angeles County. But now a threat is coming to his safe haven. Acting on a tip from a confidential informant, Stilwell and his deputies watch a plane land in the middle of the night at the Airport in the Sky, a remote airstrip in the mountains. A duffel bag of drugs is dropped and the deputies move in, but things quickly go sideways. While Stilwell chases the fleeing pickup man into the mountainside brush, shots are fired on the runway and the plane flies off. An internal inquiry follows, putting Stilwell on the bench until he is cleared of responsibility for the disastrous operation. But he is determined to find out who brought deadly violence to his island, and begins his own secret investigation into the drug deal gone wrong. While under orders to remain in the sheriff's substation, he finds in the lost and found a valuable backpack that was never claimed. He traces it to a woman who disappeared while hiking on the island four years ago. But then why was the pack only turned in two months back? Now thoroughly intrigued, he follows the mystery all the way to the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit and Detective Renée Ballard. Stilwell and Ballard work the case from both sides of the channel, and soon realize they are on the trail of a criminal who revels in taunting the authorities. Meanwhile, frustrated at being shut out of an investigation on his own island, Stilwell risks his already shaky standing in the department to pursue a case whose reach is wider than he ever imagine. Ideal for readers who: Respond to police thrillers where paradise is only a thin cover over violence. Need Catalina Island’s isolation to tighten the drug-drop and cold-case pressure. Trust Michael Connelly for procedural detail, momentum and moral strain. Follow detectives pushed beyond the safe-haven myth.

by Freida McFadden

€9.49

""Take the propulsive darkness of Gone Girl, the prolific output of Colleen Hoover, and the addictive twists of Harlan Coben, and you have something close to Freida McFadden."" - The Independent ""Intimidatingly prolific"" - The Sunday Times #1 Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author Freida McFadden delivers a deadly, subversive thriller where lines blur between vengeance and survival in a game where only one woman can win… What is a happily ever after really worth? Naomi was living the quintessential love story. Boy meets girl. They fall in love, get married, buy a dream house, start a family… Then, he kicks her out, hires the city's best divorce lawyers, drains their accounts, and takes up with a 20-something. It's a brutal end to the story. Naomi should accept defeat: move into a dingy apartment, get back into the workforce, and piece together the shattered remains of her life. Except, why should she? Instead, Naomi fixates on her husband's new girlfriend. What begins as cynical curiosity soon twists into obsession-and then into something far darker. As Naomi uncovers secrets she never imagined, she realises her own life may be in danger. But if it keeps her perfect family intact, isn't it worth it? A razor-sharp thriller in which love curdles into vengeance, The Divorce deftly and chillingly portrays how the human mind can fray when survival becomes the most dangerous game of all. Tropes Domestic Thriller Mystery Suspense Psychological Obsession Also by Freida McFadden: Dear Debbie The Intruder The Tenant The Crash The Boyfriend The Teacher The Coworker Ward D Never Lie The Inmate The Housemaid The Housemaid's Secret The Housemaid is Watching Do You Remember? Do Not Disturb The Locked Door Want to Know a Secret? One by One The Wife Upstairs The Perfect Son The Ex The Surrogate Mother Brain Damage Dead Med Ideal for readers who: Reach for domestic thrillers where marriage becomes a dangerous game. Keep turning pages through fast twists, slippery motives and unstable emotional ground. Prefer households where secrets make intimate spaces feel threatening. Pick up briskly paced thrillers with sharp reveals.

by Caro Claire Burke

€15.99

'My name is Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive…' Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle - and has the social media accounts to prove it. Her charming farmhouse on her working ranch is artfully cluttered, her husband is a handsome cowboy, her homemade sourdough boules are each more beautiful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers and industrial-grade ovens behind the scenes? What Natalie's followers don't know won't hurt them. Then, one morning, Natalie wakes up in a strange, horrible version of reality. Her home, her husband, her children-they're all familiar, but something's off. Is this a hoax? A reality show? A test from God? Natalie knows just two things for sure: this isn't her perfect life, and she must escape, by any means possible. NOW BEING ADAPTED INTO A MAJOR FILM STARRING ANNE HATHAWAY Ideal for readers who… love dark, satirical thrillers about curated perfection, influencer culture, and what’s hidden behind the “aesthetic” enjoy high-concept psychological suspense where reality tilts—and the rules keep changing want a sharp, wickedly funny read that’s also nightmarish and propulsive are drawn to stories that mash up domestic unease, social commentary, and escalating survival stakes can’t resist “Stepford” vibes with a modern, addictive twist

by Virginia Evans

€10.00

Discover the word-of-mouth bestselling phenomenon that thousands of readers are calling their favourite book of the year! THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOODREADS READERS' CHOICE AWARDS 'A warm, funny gem of a novel' LAURA HACKETT, THE TIMES 'Masterful . . . I was delighted and moved' NEW YORK TIMES 'I can't praise it enough. It's an absolute triumph' CLARE CHAMBERS 'Tremendous' FREDRIK BACKMAN 'Shows us what a glorious thing growing older can be' FLORENCE KNAPP 'The year's breakout novel no one saw coming' WALL STREET JOURNAL Every morning, Sybil Van Antwerp sits down to write letters - to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to attend a class she desperately wants to take, to her favourite authors to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter. Because at seventy-three, Sybil has used her correspondence - witty and wise - to make sense of the world. But beyond the page, she has spent the last thirty years keeping the people who love her at arms' length... Until letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life. Now, Sybil must send the letter she has been writing for all these years - and find forgiveness within herself in order to move on. Sybil Van Antwerp's life of letters might be 'a very small thing', but she also might be one of the most memorable characters you will ever read. *Over 90,000 five-star reviews on Goodreads* Ideal for readers who: Gravitate towards literary fiction beautifully shaped by letters, personal memory and long-awaited forgiveness. Connect deeply with older protagonists reckoning with their past while slowly reconnecting with the world. Enjoy noticing how elegant correspondence, classic books and late-life transformations reshape a character's universe. Prefer warm, intelligent, character-led novels that deliver plenty of wit alongside gentle emotional weight.

by John Connolly

€16.99

The players call it the Game, and its aim is simple: to abduct and kill a stranger without getting caught. They're very good at it. They've been playing it for a long time. And they can keep playing so long as everyone stick to the rules: No Killing Close to Home and No Killing Outside the Game. But those rules have been broken. When the drowned body of a troubled teenager is recovered from a river in Maine's Kennebec Valley, and a young woman disappears from a small rural town, they draw the attention of the private investigator named Charlie Parker. Now Parker will be forced to confront a band of men without morality and without loyalty, not even to one another, in a place where the very darkness is alive. Because something has emerged from the shadows, something very bad. And it wants revenge. Ideal for readers who: Follow Charlie Parker and want another dark Maine investigation with a supernatural edge. Enjoy crime fiction built around ritualised murder, broken rules and moral rot. Like private investigators facing villains who feel almost mythic in their cruelty. Appreciate thrillers where darkness is both literal atmosphere and spiritual threat.

by Lucy Kennedy

€14.99

Five old friends catch up on a sun holiday together - what could possibly go right? Five girls met on the first day of secondary school and have been very best friends ever since. They vowed to always find time for each other. For the last twenty-two years, no matter what and despite leading very different lives, they go on a week's holiday together to relax and exchange gossip. This year the girls are going to Portugal. But what dramas await? As they open up about their relationships, careers and "women's issues", will there be scandals, sexy shenanigans and shocking revelations? Because anything is possible for the middle-aged, perimenopausal and thirsty messers that are the Mini Breakers. Ideal for readers who: Want sunny comic fiction about long-term female friendship and midlife mess. Enjoy holiday stories where gossip, secrets and perimenopause all come along for the trip. Like Irish humour with warmth, scandal and a little chaos by the pool. Appreciate books about friends who know each other well, but not quite well enough.

by Catherine Fleming

€16.99

In the cold winter of 1944, Sr Kate McCarthy - Irish nun and French Resistance leader - arrives at the gates of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for women. She has endured four years of horrendous suffering in various prisons, still having the courage to resist the Nazi regime, a journey that began at the outbreak of World War II when she joined the resistance movement. Her actions have saved hundreds of lives and brought her to the edge of existence. Together with her friends Sylvette and Angèle, they have survived against the odds. But nothing can prepare her for what awaits beyond the Ravensbrück gates. And soon, Kate will face her biggest test yet... The Nun of Ravensbrück is the gripping account of a remarkable woman whose deep faith and untold courage would shine a light in the darkest of places. It is a tale of horrendous tragedies and small mercies, of the bonds of women in a world of war, and of how one nun's courage changed the course of history.

by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

€14.99

From the author of A Ghost in the Throat , an unforgettable book - both history and ghost story - that will leave you gasping by its final page. In the city of Cork, a derelict Victorian mental hospital is being converted into modern apartments. One passerby has always flinched as she passes the place. Had her birth occurred in another decade, she too might have lived within those walls. Now, she notices a sign: FOR SALE. It is the first of many signs. Following them, she finds herself drawn into an irresistible river of forgotten voices, those of the women who knew this place best: insistent, vivid and true. They murmur from archives and old records; they whisper from stairwells and walls. Among them – and in one figure in particular -- she may find meaning, solace, rage; her own salvation, perhaps, or her own vanishing? A work of sublime intensity and tenderness, Said the Dead breaks the boundaries between worlds -- past and present, imagined and real -- to make something lasting and new: an experience full of danger, full of love and full of truth. Praise for Said the Dead : There’s magic in this one - a hauntingly beautiful and vivid and necessary book. Kevin Barry                         A haunting, visionary act of witness; this book will be read for decades to come. Anne Enright Said the Dead is one of those rare books where a reader encounters the writer and her characters at a dazzling and bewitching height, at a place where essence meets essence. A piercingly beautiful book that is wounding sometimes and consoling at others, the work, in the end, is life confirming: encompassed in the volume is the unparalleled expansiveness and depth of human minds and hearts. Yiyun Li Doireann ní Ghríofa goes to a place where the veil thins and the worlds meet, and crosses over, and returns, again and again, with living stories of the dead. You can feel the bravery of these acts of psychic trespass, and their sincerity makes for a mysterious and beautiful and thoroughly absorbing book, which continues to reverberate long after you finish it. Lucy Caldwell Doireann Ní Ghríofa is one of the finest writers of non-fiction I know. Said the Dead is an entrancing book -- lyrical and propulsive, it sounds out the echoes of history and finds voices and images that are moving and indelible. Reading this book is like being put under a spell Seán Hewitt Ideal for Readers Who… Loved A Ghost in the Throat — Said the Dead is Doireann Ní Ghríofa's return to the form-dissolving, time-traversing prose that made her debut unlike anything published before it. The same extraordinary attention is here, turned now towards Cork's Victorian asylum and the women the walls remember. Are drawn to Irish women's history that refuses to stay buried — this is a book about the women who were locked away, misdiagnosed, and forgotten. It recovers their voices from archives and casebooks and gives them back to us, vivid and insistent, across more than a century of silence. Want a ghost story that is also something else entirely — Said the Dead is haunted without being horror, historical without being academic, and personal without being memoir. If you find genre labels insufficient, this book was written for you. Read and loved Maggie O'Farrell, Carmen Maria Machado, or Hilary Mantel — readers who respond to prose that holds historical research and personal obsession in the same sentence, and who want their fiction to feel like an act of recovery, will find exactly that here. Have a connection to Cork — or to any place whose walls remember more than people say — the derelict Victorian asylum at the heart of this book is a real place, and Ní Ghríofa writes about it as someone who has walked past it and felt what many people feel: that certain buildings hold their histories differently, and that some of those histories are not finished yet. Believe that reading is its own form of haunting — the narrator of Said the Dead is a reader, pursuing forgotten women through archives and old records. As she reads their lives, we read hers. The experience of reading this book becomes part of its subject matter — which is either the most disorienting thing you can do to a reader, or the most generous.

by Liz Nugent

€14.99

Ideal for readers who: Read family dramas shaped by secrets and long-buried damage Are drawn to the fallout of one early incident between two sisters Enjoy stories moving between Boston and Dublin across the years Want an emotionally intense novel with tension and depth If my sister hadn’t been beautiful, none of it would have happened. Ruby Cooper and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston. But when Ruby is sixteen, she is involved in an incident that causes her family’s world to implode. Across decades, the fallout leaves a wake of destruction behind Ruby in Dublin and Erin in Boston. Not that Ruby wants to think the past. But it can’t stay a secret forever. Ideal for readers who... enjoy character-driven literary fiction shaped by secrets, guilt and long-term consequences like stories that move across decades and between Boston and Dublin are interested in the pressures and tensions of close-knit religious communities want emotionally intense family drama centred on sisters and fractured loyalty prefer novels where an early incident reverberates through lives, relationships and identity

by James Hawes

€14.99

James Hawes’s The Shortest History of Ireland is based at every step on the latest scholarship, but it’s all brought together, for once, as a fluent story, as captivating as a novel, galloping from the Ice Age to the present, using language, graphics and images accessible to all. It will change the way people see the Irish past, flipping usual practice on its head and placing Ireland at the centre not just of Irish but British and at times even European history. Hawes concludes by arguing that if Ireland can now sidestep the last, toxic wreckage of the British Empire, its eventful past will flow into a bright future. From the bestselling author of The Shortest History of Germany and The Shortest History of England, this is popular history at its thrilling best. Ideal for readers who: Seek a fast, highly accessible journey through Irish history from the deep past right up to the modern era. Appreciate rigorous academic scholarship translated into a fluent narrative rather than a dense textbook. Want to see Ireland's historical trajectory recontextualised in relation to Britain, Europe and global empires. Value engaging popular history that combines breakneck pace, strong arguments and clear visual support.

by Elizabeth Strout

€18.99

Artie Dam is a man with a secret. He spends his days teaching history to high schoolers, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual cruelties, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. He goes to holiday parties with his wife of three decades, makes small talk with neighbours, and, on weekends, takes his sailboat out on the beautiful Massachusetts Bay. He is, by all appearances, present and alive. But inside, Artie is plagued by feelings of isolation. He looks out at a world gone mad—at himself and the people around him—and turns a question over and over in his mind: how is it that we know so little about one another, even those closest to us? And then, one day, Artie learns that life has been keeping a secret from him, one that threatens to upend his entire world. Once he learns it, he is forced to chart a new course, to reconsider the relationships he holds most dear—and to make peace with the mysteries at the heart of our existence. With exquisite prose and profound insight, Elizabeth Strout captures the way grief reverberates through decades, the comfort found in deep friendships and the freedom that comes when we break free of our secrets. The Things We Never Say is a stunning new novel from one of our most acclaimed observers of the human heart. Ideal for readers who… Enjoy literary fiction about ordinary lives, private loneliness and emotional turning points. Read Elizabeth Strout for her close attention to marriage, grief and friendship. Want a thoughtful hardback novel centred on secrets and late-life reckoning. Prefer quiet, character-led fiction with moral complexity and emotional depth. Are buying for readers of contemporary American literary fiction

by Chloe Walsh

€10.99

He fights for every dream. She fights for every breath. Johnny Kavanagh has everything going for him: looks, popularity, and talent. Shannon Lynch, on the other hand, has spent years trying to survive. When she transfers to his elite school, their worlds collide in ways neither expected. As Johnny battles pressure on and off the pitch, Shannon faces the demons of her past and the cruel realities of bullying and trauma. Together, they find strength, love, and the will to heal – but first they must face the challenges that threaten to tear them apart. Binding 13 is the unforgettable first book in the Boys of Tommen series – a raw, emotional story about resilience, young love and finding light in the darkest places. Ideal for readers who: Devour gripping Irish new-adult romance centered around rugby, school pressures and trauma. Are eager to watch Johnny Kavanagh and Shannon Lynch navigate protection and intimacy. Expect raw portrayals of bullying, family conflict and class divides behind the romance. Look forward to intense, slow-burn emotional arcs with fierce loyalty and high stakes.

by Matt Haig

€16.99

When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop? No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there. The chance to re-live the moments that meant most. To see what kind of person you really were. For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon in Venice. Before he gave it all away. He wishes he could go back and live differently. But to do so risks everything... A magical, time-travelling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library. Ideal for readers who: Gravitate toward time-travel stories where regret matters more than spectacle. Need a love story that revisits Venice, memory and the cost of second chances. Gravitate toward speculative fiction with a tender emotional question at its centre. Have ever wondered which moment they would return to if time briefly opened.

by Patrick Radden Keefe

€16.99

In 2019, teenager Zac Brettler mysteriously fell to his death from a luxury apartment balcony into the Thames. As his grieving parents began to investigate his final days, they were shocked to learn that he’d been leading a double life, in which he was posing as the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch. This unsolved case is at the heart of London Falling – at once a family tragedy, a psychological portrait of a young fabulist, and an indictment of the greed for extreme wealth that has transformed one of the world’s great cities: London. Hiding in the shadows of its great architecture and imperial history are the malignant, mercenary forces that have come to influence us all – whether we realise it or not. In his inimitably gripping and forensic style, Baillie Gifford winner and New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe explores what brought Zac Brettler (the grandson of famous rabbi Hugo Gryn) to the balcony that night – and how he became involved with some of London’s most notorious gangsters. Following Zac’s parents on a dark journey of investigation, London Falling unearths the unsettling truths they discovered – both about the sinister underworld on their doorstep, and about their son’s secret world. Ideal for readers who: Read true stories where family tragedy opens into a larger investigation. Are interested in hidden wealth, reinvention and London’s darker networks. Appreciate mysteries rooted in privilege, deception and unanswered questions. Value forensic narrative non-fiction with emotional pull and momentum.

by Katriona O'Sullivan

€16.99

Hungry is the powerful new memoir from Number One bestselling author Katriona O'Sullivan - a raw, courageous exploration of survival, identity and the lifelong search for self-acceptance. Raised in a home marked by poverty, addiction and abuse, Katriona defied the odds: from teenage motherhood struggling with her own addictions to becoming a university professor and successful author. But beneath the achievements lay a more private struggle - with her body, her worth, and the unrelenting drive to be enough. In this fiercely honest memoir, she interrogates how trauma, class and gender shape the way women see themselves - and how society teaches them to measure their value. Told with stunning courage and vulnerability, Hungry is both a personal reckoning and a powerful reclaiming of body, voice and self. It is one woman's story - and a rallying cry for every woman who has ever felt she had to shrink to survive.   Ideal for readers who: Seek memoirs that confront trauma, class and self-worth with real honesty. Are interested in the lifelong relationship between identity and the body. Want contemporary Irish life, survival and reinvention explored without flinching. Prefer emotionally direct nonfiction that is brave, searching and humane.

by Andy Weir

€9.49

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL A BARACK OBAMA READING PICK SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING RYAN GOSLING A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. 'The most enjoyable hard SF I have read in years' GUARDIAN 'Weir's finest work to date. . . This is the one book I read last year that I am certain I can recommend to anyone, no matter who, and know they'll love it.' BRANDON SANDERSON 'If you like a lot of science in your science fiction, Andy Weir is the writer for you. . . This one has everything fans of old school SF (like me) love.' GEORGE R.R. MARTIN 'Brilliantly funny and enjoyable. One of the most plausible science fiction books I've ever read' TIM PEAKE, astronaut ________________________________________ Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it's up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery-and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he's got to do it all alone. Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could imagine it, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian -- while taking us to places it never dreamed of going. ________________________________________ 'One of the most original, compelling, and fun voyages I've ever taken.' ERNEST CLINE, author of Ready Player One and Ready Player Two 'Undisputedly the best book I've read in a very, very long time. Mark my words: Project Hail Mary is destined to become a classic.' BLAKE CROUCH 'Andy Weir's brilliant Project Hail Mary...is one of those stirring sci-fi novels about every government on Earth banding together, through science, to save civilisation from collapse. I loved it.' THE TIMES 'A suspenseful portrait of human ingenuity and resilience [that] builds to an unexpectedly moving ending. A winner.' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'Weir returns with gusto . . . his writing flows naturally, and his characters and dialogue crackle with energy. With this novel, he takes his place as a genuine star in the mainstream SF world.' BOOKLIST Ideal for readers who: Choose intelligent hard sci-fi adventures where human survival rests entirely on scientific ingenuity. Follow a lone, vulnerable astronaut attempting to decode an extinction-level mystery light-years from Earth. Love immersive interstellar missions shaped by profound isolation, cosmic discovery and an unexpected ally. Appreciate Andy Weir’s signature blend of laugh-out-loud humour, plausible physics and page-turning stakes.

by Florence Knapp

€9.49

A once-in-a-generation debut from a major new talent, The Names is the story of three names, three versions of a life, and the infinite possibilities that a single decision can spark. THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I've just been blown away by the best debut novel in years . . . A genius idea for a book' Sunday Times 'Wildly original and emotionally profound' Observer 'An unadulterated success: moving, evocative and utterly convincing' The Times OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD It is 1987, and in the wake of a great storm, Cora sets out with her young daughter to register the birth of her son. Her husband expects her to follow tradition and call the baby after him - but is it right for her child to inherit his name from generations of domineering men? Her choice will shape the course of their lives. Seven years later, her son is Bear, a name chosen by his sister, hoping he will grow up to be brave and big-hearted. Or he is Julian, the name his mother set her heart on, keen for him to become his own person. Or he is Gordon, named after his father and raised in his cruel image - but is there still a chance to break the mould? Powerfully moving and full of hope, this is the story of three names, three versions of a life, and the infinite possibilities that a single decision can spark. A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY, COSMOPOLITAN AND MANY MORE A READ WITH JENNA AND HAPPY PLACE BOOKCLUB PICK 'The viral literary hit' Grazia 'A beautiful, heartwrenching, utterly original novel' Miranda Cowley Heller 'One of those rare books that makes you glad to be alive' Stylist 'Magnificent . . . Read it. It's very special' Chris Whitaker 'Beautifully written, and wise and tender . . . An utter original' Jojo Moyes 'Exceptional . . . will stay with me for a very long time' Anita Rani, Woman's Hour 'Heart-shattering . . . a sucker punch of a novel' Pandora Sykes 'A modern classic' Jenna Bush Hager 'Heartbreaking and yet brimful of hope . . . Exceptional' Mail on Sunday 'Brilliant . . . one of those books that will make you irritable with anyone who interrupts you, but which you'll finish wanting to press into the hands of a friend' The Times 'Astonishing, unique and incredibly moving, The Names is a beautiful novel about the courage of a mother in the moment she names her child . . . I know it will stay with me for a long time' Jeanine Cummins Ideal for readers who: Are drawn to sliding-doors fiction where one name reshapes an entire life. Appreciate family novels built around fate, identity and inheritance. Value ambitious structures that still feel emotionally direct. Prefer debuts with a big concept and a strong human centre.

by Alan Shipnuck

€16.99

The definitive biography of Rory McIlroy, the most important, popular and confounding player of the post-Tiger era, Rory McIlroy contains multitudes. He can overwhelm a golf course with his transcendent talent and then, at the next tournament, look utterly lost. McIlroy is golf's most eloquent ambassador and a trash-talking troll, sometimes in the same press conference. The child of a working-class family from a small town in a war-torn homeland now commutes to work in his own private jet and counts billionaires as confidants. A dozen years ago, McIlroy asked Alan Shipnuck a question about the player he had modeled himself after, Tiger Woods: 'What's he really like?' As McIlroy enters the last act of his highly eventful career, this book is a chance to redirect that old question and try to understand a man of deep complexity and contradictions. McIlroy's victory at the 2025 Masters packed such an emotional punch because he is golf's most vulnerable superstar. Across two decades as a pro he has been the anti-Tiger, letting fans into his heart and into his world. When McIlroy collapsed onto the final green at Augusta National, having at last completed the career Grand Slam, golf fans cried along with him because so many saw themselves in his struggles. But there is much that the public does not know about McIlroy. With reporting chops honed across thirty years on the golf beat, Shipnuck traces McIlroy's evolution from a young phenom in Northern Ireland to a game-changing force on and off the golf course. Shipnuck has shadowed McIlroy throughout his career, and he brings to life all the heartbreaks and triumphs with thrilling immediacy and unparalleled access. Tabloid romance, bitter business disputes, divisive politicking - it is all part of this portrait of a man in full. Shipnuck has long been known as the most fearless writer on the golf beat, and he goes deep into McIlroy's personal history at a time when the spotlight on Rory has never been brighter. Ideal for readers who: Follow elite sports biographies that look beyond trophies into the realities of pressure, form and character. Wish to explore Rory McIlroy’s rapid rise, fascinating contradictions and long chase for the career Grand Slam. Connect modern golf history with Northern Ireland, Augusta National and the competitive post-Tiger era. Appreciate high-quality sports writing offering insider access, emotional vulnerability and intense match detail.

by Chloe Walsh

€10.99

Ideal for readers who: Are already invested in the Boys of Tommen and its bruising love story. Want first love pushed through trauma, loyalty and impossible pressure. Care about school life, family damage and the ache of trying to hold on. Prefer emotional romance that is intense, messy and all-consuming. An epic and unforgettable love story continues in Keeping 13, the second book in the international bestselling and TikTok-phenomenon The Boys of Tommen series, from Chloe Walsh. The power and pain of first love has never been more deeply felt than in Chloe Walsh's extraordinary stories about the irresistible Boys of Tommen, which will give you the ultimate book hangover. The reader reaction to The Boys of Tommen says it all! 'The chemistry, the love, everything about this book was so good it gave me all the feels . . . Beautiful book, beautiful words. Chloe Walsh you're my home' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Chloe Walsh has surpassed herself again, from the get-go you will be hooked, you will be sad, angry, elated, hysterical and you will absolutely love it!' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'This was absolutely EVERYTHING. I find it difficult to even put into words just how much this book made me laugh, cry and swoon' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'There aren't enough stars for this book. It has everything, I laughed, I cried, I fumed and I despaired . . . This is a rare book, one that evokes every emotion' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ......................... Falling in love was the easy part. What comes next is the test . . . Following a devastating injury that has left him sidelined and stripped of his beloved number 13 jersey, Johnny Kavanagh is struggling to hold onto his dreams. Lost, insecure, and desperately seeking comfort, he sets his sights on unravelling the mystery of the girl with the midnight-blue eyes, who haunts his every waking hour. Keeping secrets has never been a problem for Shannon Lynch. The life she was born into demands nothing less. She knows that demons and evil men don't just exist in fairytales. They exist in her world, too. Traumatized beyond repair after her return from Dublin, and desperate to protect her little brothers, Shannon finds herself falling into the same old cover-up, barely keeping her head above water, as her future unravels before her eyes. Beaten and broken, her walls are up and her trust is shaken. Only one boy has the ability to climb those walls. The boy who owns her heart. But secrets are about to be exposed and lives could be changed forever - can Johnny and Shannon's love survive? ......................... Want more of Johnny, Shannon and the rest of The Boys of Tommen? Read the rest of the series so far: Binding 13 Keeping 13 Saving 6 Redeeming 6 Taming 7 - preorder Claire and Gibsie's story now!

by Dara Waldron

€12.99

The New York Times bestseller After the sudden death of his father, Dara Waldron became disoriented in a world that had once filled him with wonder. A year later, he meets an abandoned border collie called Oscar hiding on a derelict farm in County Clare. When Dara brings him home, he believes he's committing an act of rescue. Oscar's submissive behaviour hints at a difficult upbringing and, determined to earn his trust, Dara cares for him, walks with him and learns all he can about one of Ireland's most beloved working breeds. As their unexpected companionship brings comfort to their troubled lives, Dara realises that Oscar might be the one doing the rescuing. Set against the beauty of rural Ireland, A Sheepdog Named Oscar is a moving memoir about grief, healing and the incredible bond between humans and dogs. Beautifully written and rich with Waldron's experience, Dara blends nature writing with a deeply personal story of recovery, revealing how small acts of loyalty can lead us back from darkness into life. 'This book will do great good, and bring light to many lives' Donal Ryan, author of The Spinning HeartDara Waldron, New York Times bestseller, September 2025 Ideal for readers who: Find comfort in memoirs where grief softens through animal companionship. Are moved by the bond between Dara Waldron and an abandoned sheepdog. Care about Irish landscapes, working dogs and emotional recovery. Appreciate gentle non-fiction where tenderness and trust slowly rebuild.

by Kathryn Stockett

€13.49

Smart, funny, and driven by unforgettable characters... a must-read' Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry You give a girl a taste of fresh air and then you take it away - she 'll grow fierce and wild to get it back. Oxford, Mississippi, 1933. Eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Ever since her beloved mother failed to come home last Christmas Eve, she's been one of the 'unadoptable' girls at the town's orphanage, where she fights each day to keep her wits sharp and her spirit unbowed. When she meets Birdie, a young woman who has come to Oxford determined to remind her socialite sister of the impoverished family she left behind, for the first time in a long while it seems someone else might care about Meg's future. But as the Depression tightens its grip, Birdie begins to suspect her sister's charmed life may be founded on a tapestry of lies. Then, Birdie encounters Charlie, a woman haunted by loss who has been pushed to the brink with nothing left to lose. Drawn together by circumstance, they find unexpected kinship among a disreputable, determined band of women. But in a town steeped in hypocrisy, even the smallest act of defiance can have dangerous consequences... Bold, heartwarming, and riotously funny, The Calamity Club is an unforgettable story of resilience and friendship, and a sisterhood of underestimated women who risk everything to take back control of their fates. 'With exquisite storytelling and unforgettable characters, The Calamity Club is a joyful, heartbreaking, heartwarming read. I loved it so much' Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things 'As witty, bold, and transportive as it is heartbreaking and compassionate, The Calamity Club is storytelling at its finest. Stockett's masterfully drawn characters are simply unforgettable' Shelley Read, author of the international bestseller Go as a River PRAISE FOR THE HELP 'Daring, vitally important and very courageous, I loved and admired The Help. Fantastic' MARIAN KEYES 'Outstanding, immensely funny, very compelling, brilliant' Daily Telegraph 'A laugh-out-loud, vociferously angry must-read' Marie Claire 'Touching, disgraceful, funny. Highly recommended' Daily Mail Ideal for readers who: Explore immersive historical fiction built around female solidarity, lifelong friendship and quiet defiance. Follow compelling young outsiders and found families navigating rigid social hypocrisy. Want to step into Depression-era Mississippi, exploring sharp class divides and orphanage life. Appreciate warm, witty and sometimes riotously funny storytelling balanced with genuine emotional grit.

by Shane Ross

€16.99

Since it arrived on the airwaves in 1961, RTÉ has been buffeted in different directions, eventually slipping into a steady decline which accelerated over the past decade into a catastrophe. The 2023 revelations regarding secret payments to star presenter Ryan Tubridy weren't the first time Ireland's national broadcaster has found itself caught up in scandal. Shane Ross, author of #1 bestsellers The Bankers and Mary Lou McDonald , winds back the clock to examine RTÉ's history of broadcasting excellence alongside the accusations of corruption, waste and ineptitude it has faced along the way. With clarity and wit, Ross rakes over RTÉ's colourful past while also considering what the future might hold for this once beloved institution. Ideal for readers who… Follow Irish current affairs and want context on RTÉ’s recent public scandals. Are interested in media studies, broadcasting history and Irish public institutions. Read Shane Ross for sharp political and institutional non-fiction. Want a timely paperback on corruption, waste and accountability in public life. Are buying for readers of Irish politics, journalism and contemporary history.

by Sheila O'Flanagan

€15.99

The extraordinary new contemporary novel, set in Ireland, Italy and France, from the bestselling author of The Honeymoon Affair and The Missing Wife. Ailie, Sybil and Rua can take care of themselves. But when they form an unexpected friendship, they discover new perspectives on old problems. Ailie is recently widowed, and struggling. At least she can cut ties with her toxic Italian in-laws. Except her teenage daughter is joining them in Trieste. Should Ailie follow, and confront the family who can't forgive her? Sybil has learned to be happy alone. But her younger sister, Tansy, thinks Sybil needs to find a man before it's too late. And she has the perfect candidate. Can Sybil cope with Tansy interfering - again? Twice Rua has faced the worst, and twice she's started over. All that matters now is protecting her daughter. Yet she's kept the full story from her. Is it time to trust Brontë with the truth? An intriguing and sparkling story about women discovering their strength - and loving life. Love for Secrets Between Friends: 'A warm, sensitive story about the power of female friendship, finding hope amidst the toughest times and the joy of second chances' LUCY DIAMOND 'A poignant, heartwarming read of women supporting and empowering each other through difficult times' PATRICIA SCANLAN 'A heartfelt, well-paced story, full of love and hope and wisdom' NORRIE CLARK Ideal for readers who: Look for warm women’s fiction about friendship, secrets and the courage to change. Love stories where travel opens the door to second chances. Gravitate towards contemporary novels that move between Ireland, Italy and France. Enjoy a comforting read with plenty of heart, conversation and life-stage reflection.

by Faith Hogan

€13.99

From the bestselling author of The Bookshop Ladies , Faith Hogan, comes a wonderfully gripping and poignant story of two sisters and their family hotel on peaceful Pin Hill Island, once a thriving family business now struggling to survive. All Blythe Carney ever wanted was to become a hotelier and run her family’s business, the Hope Square Hotel. But fate, and her grandfather, intervened and it fell into her younger sister Rae’s lap, taking her dreams with it. Now Blythe owns Still Water House, the most exclusive guest house on Pin Hill Island, but she can’t help but feel she’s still not living the life she was meant to. Rae Johnson had no interest in taking over the hotel, her dreams lay elsewhere, but when she ended up with the family business her sister had set her heart on, her sense of duty to continue their family legacy with her husband was too strong to ignore. Now, fifteen years later, newly widowed Rae is struggling to keep the hotel afloat and she knows that selling it could be the final straw in her already fragile relationship with her sister. What do you do when your sister lives the life that you’d set your heart on? And when the perfect storm is brewing, surely, it’s time to put aside the jealousy and disappointment that can tear a family apart, and fight for the future you have always dreamed of? Ideal for readers who: Have a real soft spot for heart-warming Irish fiction centred on sisters, inheritance and complex family bonds. Are drawn to atmospheric novels set around hotels, guest houses and close-knit island communities. Respond to emotional, multi-layered stories about second chances, jealousy, grief and reconciliation. Look for engaging book club reads packed with compelling family drama and genuine warmth.

by Freida McFadden

€9.49

Ideal for readers who: Read psychological thrillers where wealthy homes hide the worst truths. Are drawn to locked-room premises, forbidden spaces and heroines with something to hide. Would be hooked by an upstairs room no one is meant to enter. Prefer sharp, fast suspense about power, survival and deception. Wilhelmina “Millie” Calloway, a woman with a hidden past, takes a job with the affluent Garrick family to rebuild her life. She believes she’s finally found stability – until she’s forbidden from entering the upstairs room where Mrs. Garrick lies ill. Strange sounds, justified suspicion, and a husband with a perfect smile – Millie begins to realise this job is no fresh start at all. It might be a trap. The Housemaid’s Secret sweeps through power, abuse, betrayal and survival in an opulent house where the truth is locked away. And Millie holds the key.

by Douglas Stuart

€15.99

The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo. Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella, who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for decades. While Cal wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, John is dismayed by his son's long hair and how he seems unwilling to be Saved. As the seasons pass, everything is poised to change as the threads holding together the fragile community become increasingly entangled. John of John is the heartbreaking story of a young man's return home and how the bonds of family life are torn by the weight of expectation. It confirms Douglas Stuart as one of the great British writers at work today. Ideal for readers who: Follow Douglas Stuart for tender, exact writing about class, family and longing. Like literary fiction rooted in place, memory and the pull of home. Want a character study shaped by art, faith, masculinity and island life. Appreciate slow-burn emotional tension between generations who cannot quite understand each other.

by Ardal O'Hanlon

€13.99

The first in a mystery series from the much-loved Irish actor, writer and comedian, for readers who enjoy the warmth of Graham Norton and the mystery of Death in Paradise, all wrapped up in one small Irish town. When beloved celebrity gardener Finn O’Leary returns to his hometown of Abbeyford in Ireland to care for his aging mother, he is naturally roped into the Tidy Towns committee. The Tidy Towns is a competition fanatically fought over by every town and village in the land. And for his best friend’s sister, Aoife, it’s a competition she’s determined to win. With everyone’s favourite gardener on board, she is sure that this year Abbeyford will take home the prize. But Finn’s only been back a week when an alto-baritone at his mother’s choir practice drops dead during a rendition of ‘What the World Needs Now’. With more at stake than just winning Tidy Towns, Finn soon finds himself trying to solve a murder – or two. For one of his many qualities is that people tend to confide in him… With his mother, her Nigerian carer and Aoife in tow, Finn sets out to discover just who has brought murder to Abbeyford. Ideal for readers who: Love settling into cosy Irish crime filled with humour, gossip and village rivalry. Are amused by murder mysteries tangled up in Tidy Towns politics and local pride. Keenly follow amateur sleuths, tight-knit communities and secrets buried close to home. Prefer warm whodunnits where wit and danger sit comfortably side by side.