Audiobooks by Irish Authors

Long Island

By: Colm Toibin
Narrated by: Jessie Buckley
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

“So this was lovely – full of Toíbín’s signature yearning and uncommunicated desire. There’s something to be said for writers who keep coming back to the same characters and settings – there’s a long list of them but Strout, Russo and Vonnegut immediately come to mind. It’s comforting and nostalgic and as a reader can make for an enriching... Read more

Evenings and Weekends

A Novel

By: Oisín McKenna
Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh-Young
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

“It's like the T.V. show Friends except the friends are queer and massively disjointed. This contemporary novel follows the lives of a group of people over the course of one weekend. Mothers face terminal illnesses, couples face insurmountable differences, relationship boundaries are challenged, and generational divides are flagrantly... Read more

Small Things Like These

By: Claire Keegan
Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

“A small moving book about generosity, history, family and religion. Perfect for the holiday season when gratitude is on our minds. Bill Furlong didn’t come from much, but he had a benefactor. As he learns what is really happening in the “laundry” where young women end up, his memories of kindness move him to action. A quiet read that shows the... Read more

Intermezzo

A Novel

By: Sally Rooney
Narrated by: Éanna Hardwicke
Length: 16 hours 29 minutes

“Two brothers, Ivan and Peter, navigate their relationships with each other and the women in their lives in the wake of their father's death. In their grief, the pair watch as the normal forms of their lives fall apart and they try their best to make sense of the wreckage. Sally Rooney does what she does best: sets up a wealth of interestingly... Read more

Learned by Heart

By: Emma Donoghue
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

“Immersive, heart wrenching, and meticulously researched, Learned by Heart is everything fans of historical fiction are looking for. Arserio's narration brought the text to life in an almost dreamlike way. I couldn't have loved it more. Read more

In the Woods

A Novel

Dublin Murder Squad: Book #1

By: Tana French
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 20 hours 26 minutes

The bestselling debut, with over a million copies sold, that launched Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Hunter and “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” (The Washington Post). 

“Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting.” —The New York Times

As... Read more

Angela's Ashes

By: Frank McCourt
Narrated by: Frank McCourt
Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

A Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland—now with a new introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe.

“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your... Read more

Disobedient Bodies

By: Emma Dabiri
Narrated by: Emma Dabiri
Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

An unmissable, radical essay from Emma Dabiri, bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next.

What part of your beautiful self were you taught to hate? We spend a lot of time trying to improve our 'defects', according to society's ideals of beauty. But these ideals that are often reductive, tyrannical and... Read more

Gulliver's Travels

By: Jonathan Swift
Narrated by: Ram Ranjini
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Embark on an extraordinary adventure with "Gulliver's Travels," the timeless satire by Jonathan Swift, brought to life by the engaging narration of Ram Ranjini. This classic tale follows Lemuel Gulliver, a ship’s surgeon who finds himself cast away on strange and fantastical lands, each with its own unique culture and peculiarities.From the... Read more

The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

“Dorian sells his soul so that his portrait will age instead of him. He embarks on a hedonistic self-indulgent lifestyle as his portrait becomes hideously unrecognizable. This was assigned reading for me in the 11th grade and now has a permanent home on my favorite bookshelf. Read more

Wild Geese

By: Soula Emmanuel
Narrated by: Clara Harte
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Phoebe Forde has a new home and new name and is newly thirty. An Irish transplant and PhD candidate, she’s overeducated and underpaid, but she's finally settling into her new life in Copenhagen. Almost three years into her gender transition, Phoebe has learned to move through the world carefully, savoring small moments of joy. After all, a woman... Read more

The Queen of Dirt Island

A Novel

By: Donal Ryan
Narrated by: Emma Lowe
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

“The lives of the Aylward women of Tipperary. A celebration of love and four generations. Superb writing, fast paced but scrumptious thoughts. I loved every very short chapter. Ah! those brooding Irishmen and their uplifting tales. Read more

Someone in the Attic

A Novel

By: Andrea Mara
Narrated by: Jessica Regan
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

“Andrea Mara killed it with this chilling novel that left me even more terrified of the attic than I already am! Someone in the Attic is a terrifying mystery-horror that literally had me sleeping with the bedroom door locked. Mara did an amazing job at casting probable doubt on many characters and stoking the flame of fear for someone who is... Read more

When We Were Silent

A Novel

By: Fiona McPhillips
Narrated by: India Mullen
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

This program is read by actor India Mullen, who plays Peggy in the Normal People miniseries.

“With her full-bodied voice and unhurried pace, [India] Mullen conveys an unsettled atmosphere and the intricate dynamics between all the players—villains and victims.”—BookPage

An outsider threatens to expose the secrets at an elite private school in this... Read more

The Coast Road

A Novel

By: Alan Murrin
Narrated by: Jessica Regan
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

“The Coast Road is a brilliantly observant novel about a small isolated community, the limits the community's expectations place on women's lives and the consequences of daring to step out of these boundaries. An addictive read with a sadly compelling final chapter. Read more

Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating

By: Adiba Jaigirdar
Narrated by: Reena Dutt & Shubhangi Karmakar
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

“All of Adiba Jaigirdar's books feel like being wrapped up in a soft blanket. I love how she embraces tropes but uses her queer and BIPOC identities to twist and reinvent them. While this is obviously a fake dating story, it's also opposites attract told in a way that challenges the stereotypes placed upon South Asian women. Hani and Ishu have... Read more

Glorious Exploits

A Novel

By: Ferdia Lennon
Narrated by: Ferdia Lennon
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

“A crazy, absurd tale about war, class and art set long ago (412 BCE) and far away (Syracuse, Sicily). The narrator, an unemployed potter with a bit of a habit of putting his foot in his mouth and a fondness for the tavern, agrees to help his friend stage Euripides’ play Medea by recruiting some of the Athenian prisoners left to die in the... Read more

The Heart in Winter

A Novel

By: Kevin Barry
Narrated by: Kevin Barry
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

“The moment Tom Rourke, an Irish immigrant living in Montana in the 1890s, peers through the camera lens at Polly Gillespie in her wedding dress, he unknowingly sets them both on a path of murder, mayhem, and (most dangerous of all) love. What follows is a story that's both achingly real and like an otherworldly fever dream, perfectly... Read more