Ghost Wedding
In this masterful portrait of love and betrayal, David Park reveals the many ways the past seeps into the present: destructive, formidable, but also hopeful, in the many moments of fragile beauty that remain. A poignant story of love and regret, from a master of contemporary Irish fiction
David Park
Published: May /
2025
Oneworld Publications
9780861549740
288 Pages
£16.99
Hardback
United Kingdom
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
This Interim Time
This Interim Time is Oona Frawley's deeply personal memoir that intertwines reflections on the deaths and births that have shaped her life, exploring themes of grief, love, and the complex interplay between loss and gratitude.
Oona Frawley
Published: May /
2025
The Lilliput Press Ltd
9781843519225
216 Pages
€16.95
Paperback
Ireland
Memoirs
The Brightest Star
A joyful exploration of identity and new beginningsby the critically-acclaimed Meg Grehan.
Megan Grehan
Published: May /
2025
Little Island
9781915071804
200 Pages
€10.99
Paperback
Ireland
General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Spring Seaweed: Feamainn Bhealtaine
Spring Seaweed stands as both a vital record of Irish island life and a timeless collection of essays from a master stylist – one that rewards both first-time readers and those returning to discover new depths in Ó Direáin’s writing.
Mairtin O Direain; Micheal O hAodha
Published: May /
2025
The Mercier Press
9781917453042
288 Pages
€19.99
Paperback
Ireland
Literary essays
Ripeness
From the bestselling author of Summerwater comes a story of love, loss and belonging that moves between 1960s Italy and modern day Ireland.
Sarah Moss
Published: May /
2025
Picador
9781529035490
304 Pages
£20
Hardback
United Kingdom
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Quality Control at the Miracle Factory
The fourth full-length collection of poems by Irish poet Patrick Cotter,Quality Control at the Miracle Factory reflects the dark times of its writing, moving with unease through the world.
Patrick Cotter
Published: May /
2025
Dedalus Press
9781915629418
102 Pages
1€2.99
Paperback
Ireland
Poetry by individual poets
Laganside Lights
Following on from her Edge Hill Award shortlisting for Love in the Time of Chaos, Jenkinson returns with Laganside Lights, a bold new collection of short stories brimming with peacemakers and warmongers, lovemakers and lawyers, artists and influencers – all human life is here colliding with kinetic verve. Jenkinson employs her legendary wit to peel back the layers of contemporary Belfast, illuminating the feverish desires, loneliness and pyrrhic triumphs of everyday existence.
Rosemary Jenkinson
Published: May /
2025
Arlen House
9781851323357
200 Pages
€25
Paperback
Ireland
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Infinity Pool
Infinity Pool is Vona Groarke’s ninth poetry collection. In language precise, luminous and spry these poems test the limits of spaces poems make for themselves. Just as an infinity pool gives the illusion of one invisible edge, the dividing line between poems and the world they process can be magically tricky to discern.
Vona Groarke
Published: May /
2025
Gallery Press
9781917371094
64 Pages
€18.50
Hardback
Ireland
Poetry by individual poets
Girl With A Fork In A World Of Soup
In this disarmingly candid portrayal of her turbulent upbringing and a marriage marked by abuse and frequent infidelity, Rosita Sweetman refuses to succumb to the least self-pity but tells her story with a dispassion and a piercing humour that readers will find irresistible.
Rosita Sweetman
Published: May /
2025
Menma Books
9781739570545
208 Pages
£15
Paperback
Ireland
Memoirs
Gatsby: Death of an Irishman: F. Scott Fitzgerald and his search for identity
Gatsby: Death of an Irishman delivers a compelling and new insight into the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the genesis of The Great Gatsby.Fitzgerald once told a friend that ‘Gatsby started as one man I knew and then changed into myself.’ Jay Gatsby’s story is one of aspiration and reinvention, so was Fitzgerald’s. The book shows how Fitzgerald dramatised the most powerful emotional experiences of his own life in the novel; from his childhood in the Midwest, Ivy League education at Princeton, literary success in New York, partying on Long Island, and marital struggles on the French Riviera.
Patrick O'Sullivan Greene
Published: May /
2025
Wordwell
9781916742659
240 Pages
€17.99
Paperback
Ireland
Biography: literary
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