Irish Book Week

The Rachel Incident

A novel

By: Caroline O'Donoghue
Narrated by: Tara Flynn
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

“As soon as I finished this book, I went back and re-read the first chapter, just to stay with Rachel and James a little longer. O'Donoghue deftly captures all the messy-wonderful intensity of young adulthood and the haven of friendship during turbulent times. Loved it! Read more

Rememberings

By: Sinéad O'Connor
Narrated by: Sinéad O'Connor
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

From the acclaimed, controversial singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor comes a revelatory memoir of her fraught childhood, musical triumphs, fearless activism, and of the enduring power of song.
 
Blessed with a singular voice and a fiery temperament, Sinéad O’Connor rose to massive fame in the late 1980s and 1990s with a string of gold records. By... Read more

Dirty Laundry: A GMA Book Club Pick

A Novel

By: Disha Bose
Narrated by: Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • “A twisty tale of murder and love gone wrong, rife with bone-chilling revelations . . . This is a riveting debut, and Disha Bose is a writer to watch.”—Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Mother May I

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, CrimeReads

She was the perfect wife, with... Read more

Intermezzo

A Novel

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

“Here is a fascinatingly cerebral read with a highly unpredictable plot! Two brothers, (one an extrovert that things come to easily and the younger one who is a smart, chess playing "on the spectrum" introvert) face parallel challenges with women and their family. Filled with the exceptionally moody inner thoughts of both brothers and the very... Read more

The Happy Couple

A Novel

By: Naoise Dolan
Narrated by: Ayoola Smart & Bert Seymour
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

“Celine and Luke are supposed to be a happy couple - it's why they're engaged. However, this portrait of their engagement is rendered by many hands, including family members and exes, who all want to have their say on the coupling. Humor, romance, secrets, and doubts persist as the wedding day looms closer. A thoughtful and clever picture of a... Read more

What Happened to Nina?

A Novel

By: Dervla McTiernan
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh, Stacey Glemboski, Lisa Flanagan, Robert Petkoff, George Newbern, Jenna Lamia & Preston Butler III
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

“One of McTeirnan’s best to date. You know it is great writing when you can’t wait to see what happens next even though you know what happened to Nina from the beginning. It is a great character study, a serious look at family dynamics and what one would do for their kids. Also, a very realistic look at social media and wealth and influence and... 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

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

Boys Don't Cry

'I can't remember ever reading something so moving.' Marian Keyes

By: Fíona Scarlett
Narrated by: Ronan Raftery
Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Joe is 17, a gifted artist and a brilliant older brother to 12-year-old Finn. They live with their Ma and Da in a Dublin tower block called Bojaxhiu or 'the Jax'. It's not an easy place to be a kid, especially when your father, Frank, is the muscle for the notorious gang leader Dessie 'The Badger' Murphy. But whether it's daytrips to the beach... Read more

How to Gut a Fish

LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL PRIZE 2022

By: Sheila Armstrong
Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Bloomsbury presents How to Gut a Fish by Sheila Armstrong, read by Aoife McMahon.

LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL PRIZE 2022
SHORTLISTED FOR SHORT STORY OF THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2022
SHORTLISTED FOR ALCS TOM-GALLON TRUST AWARD

'Unsettling, unpredictable, and brilliant' Roddy Doyle

'In sumptuous and evocative prose, Sheila Armstrong writes... Read more

From a Low and Quiet Sea

By: Donal Ryan
Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins, Gerard Doyle, Alan Smyth, Vikas Adam, Tim Gerard Reynolds & various narrators
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

A new moving novel of three men, each searching for something they have lost.For Farouk, family is all. He has protected his wife and daughter as best he can from the war and hatred that has torn Syria apart. If they stay, they will lose their freedom, will become lesser persons. If they flee, they will lose all they have known of home, for some... Read more

The Glorious Heresies

A Novel

By: Lisa McInerney
Narrated by: Shelley Atkinson
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Winner of the 2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Desmond Elliott Prize
Shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the Irish Book Awards
Longlisted for the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize
The Irish Times March Book of the Month

From Lisa McInerney, hailed by The Irish Times as “arguably the most talented writer at work in Ireland today,” comes... Read more

Big Girl, Small Town

By: Michelle Gallen
Narrated by: Nicola Coughlan
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

“You might fall in love with this rough, bawdy, funny, and heart-wrenching novel because of the skill with which Michelle Gallen gives you the cadences and nuances of English as spoken in small-town Northern Ireland. You might fall in love because Gallen is showing you a working-class setting seldom depicted on either side of the pond, an... 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

The Heart's Invisible Furies

A Novel

By: John Boyne
Narrated by: Stephen Hogan
Length: 21 hours 9 minutes

“This is the novel John Boyne was born to write: A brilliant book of identity and redemption, both heartbreaking and humorous, intimate and expansive. Cyril Avery has been constantly reminded he doesn't belong, first by his adopted parents, then by the church and his country. As we follow him on his journey to acceptance, we are shown the cruelty... Read more

The Lesser Bohemians

A Novel

By: Eimear McBride
Narrated by: Eimear McBride
Length: 11 hours

A breathtaking award-winning novel about an extraordinary, all-consuming love affair
 
One night an eighteen-year-old Irish girl, recently arrived in London to attend drama school, meets an older man—a well-regarded actor in his own right. While she is naive and thrilled by life in the big city, he is haunted by more than a few demons, and the... Read more

Too Close to Breathe

A Novel

By: Olivia Kiernan
Narrated by: Brona C. Titley
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Olivia Kiernan’s tautly written debut novel immerses readers in a chilling murder case...and the tantalizing, enigmatic victim at the center of it all.

In a quiet Dublin suburb, within her pristine home, Eleanor Costello is found hanging from a rope.

Detective Chief Superintendent Frankie Sheehan would be more than happy to declare it a suicide.... Read more

Apeirogon: A Novel

By: Colum McCann
Narrated by: Colum McCann
Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

“This is a towering, breathtaking, sweeping work of poetic and technical brilliance. Although much of Apeirogon resides in the current and past state of Israeli-Palestinian relations, the novel demonstrates how each person, each story, in this ultimately small section of the world represents but one point of an infinitely sided shape — how... Read more

The Marriage Portrait: Reese's Book Club

A novel

By: Maggie O'Farrell
Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt & Maggie O'Farrell
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

“If you love historical fiction you will love the vibrant and stunning sense of place that Maggie O’Farrell creates in The Marriage Portrait. This is the fictionalized tale of the life of Lucrezia de Medici who was born and raised in 1550s Renaissance Florence, Italy. Read more

A Week in Winter

By: Maeve Binchy
Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Stoneybridge is a small town on the west coast of Ireland where all the families know one another. When Chicky Starr decides to take an old, decaying mansion set high on the cliffs overlooking the windswept Atlantic Ocean and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, everyone thinks she is crazy. Helped by Rigger (a bad boy turned... Read more