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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books
  • First Book:
    February 2014
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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Book List in Order: 8 titles



  • Winner of the Irish Book Award Finalist for the Booker Prize This “affecting” debut is “reminiscent of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying” as it paints a vivid portrait of a working-class community in contemporary rural Ireland (New York T...



  • While the Celtic Tiger rages, and greed becomes the norm, Johnsey Cunliffe desperately tries to hold on to the familiar, even as he loses those who all his life have protected him from a harsh world. Following the deaths first of his father and then ...



  • Donal Ryan's short stories pick up where his acclaimed novels The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December left off, dealing with dramas set in motion by loneliness and displacement and revealing stories of passion and desire where less astute obs...



  • Donal Ryan's short stories pick up where his acclaimed novels The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December left off, dealing with dramas set in motion by loneliness and displacement and revealing stories of passion and desire where less astute obs...



  • Melody Shee is alone and in trouble. At 33 years-old, she finds herself pregnant with the child of a 17 year-old Traveller boy, Martin Toppy, and not by her husband Pat. Melody was teaching Martin to read, but now he’s gone, and Pat leaves too, ful...



  • A new moving novel of three men, each searching for something they have lost, from the award-winning and Man Booker nominated author Donal Ryan. For Farouk, family is all. He has protected his wife and daughter as best he can from the war and hatr...



  • AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARD NOVEL OF THE YEAR

    “Mr. Ryan writes conspicuously beautiful prose… The fleeting happiness and abiding melancholy of the asymmetry, heightened by the intimately rendered surroundings, brings out Mr. Ryan&rsq...



  • “From its opening pages, this book exerts a quiet, propulsive hold over its reader. The three generations of Aylward women will break your heart and then put it back together again.” �"Maggie O'Farrell"This is a generous mosaic of a novel a...




Award-Winning Books by Donal Ryan

The Spinning Heart
2013 Guardian First Book Award -- First Book


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Donal Ryan has published 8 books.

Donal Ryan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Queen of Dirt Island, was published in March 2023.

The first book by Donal Ryan, The Spinning Heart, was published in February 2014.

No. Donal Ryan does not write books in series.