Donal Ryan

• Feb-2014
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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...

• Sep-2014
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Set during the Celtic Tiger, this “fierce” novel “[strikes] at the heart of what it has meant to be Irish in recent times” -- from the critically acclaimed author of The Spinning Heart (John Boyne, author of The Heart’s Invisible Furies). ...

• Sep-2015
• / General Fiction
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Winner of the European Prize for Literature An Indie Next Selection   Short stories that capture the brutal beauty of the human heart in all its failings, hopes, and quiet triumphs -- from one of “the most exciting voices in contemporary Irish...

• Oct-2015
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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...

• Jul-2017
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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...

• Jul-2018
• / General Fiction
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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...

• Sep-2020
• / General Fiction
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AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARD NOVEL OF THE YEARLonglisted for the Dublin Literary Awards“Mr. Ryan writes conspicuously beautiful prose… The fleeting happiness and abiding melancholy of the asymmetry, heightened by the intimately rendered surroundings,...

• Mar-2023
• / Women's Fiction
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“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...

• May-2025
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Winner of the Irish Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Nero Novel of the YearFrom one of the most acclaimed Irish writers today, a new novel about smalltown Ireland that explores a community on the mend and the power of love and trauma to both brin...