Donal Ryan Books
All We Shall Know
By Donal Ryan
A breathtaking and redemptive novel from the award-winning and Booker Prize nominated author Donal Ryan Melody Shee is alone and in trouble. At 33 years-old, she finds herself pregnant with the chi...
Read MoreFrom a Low and Quiet Sea
By Donal Ryan
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE"Beautiful and affecting" -- David Nicholls, author of One DayA moving novel of three men, each searching for something they have...
Read MoreThe spinning heart
By Donal Ryan
In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. The collapse of Pokey Burke's construction company and subsequent disappearance of its boss, leaving e...
Read MoreThe thing about December
By Donal Ryan
Johnsey is not quite like other people. He finds it hard to fit in, especially in a small Irish community. Regularly bullied, without friends, struggling to make sense of the world around him, he i...
Read MoreThe Spinning Heart
By Donal Ryan
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 portra...
Read MoreA slanting of the sun
By Donal Ryan
An old man looks into the fearful eyes of a burglar left to guard him while his brother is beaten; an Irish priest in a war-torn Syrian town teaches its young men the art of hurling; the driver of...
Read MoreA slanting of the sun
By Donal Ryan
An old man looks into the fearful eyes of a burglar left to guard him while his brother is beaten; an Irish priest in a war-torn Syrian town teaches its young men the art of hurling; the driver of...
Read MoreAll we shall know
By Donal Ryan
'Martin Toppy is the son of a famous Traveller and the father of my unborn child. He's seventeen, I'm thirty-three. I was his teacher. I'd have killed myself by now if I was brave enough. I don't t...
Read MoreA slanting of the sun
By Donal Ryan
An old man looks into the fearful eyes of a burglar left to guard him while his brother is beaten; an Irish priest in a war-torn Syrian town teaches its young men the art of hurling; the driver of...
Read MoreAll we shall know
By Donal Ryan
'Martin Toppy is the son of a famous Traveller and the father of my unborn child. He's seventeen, I'm thirty-three. I was his teacher. I'd have killed myself by now if I was brave enough. I don't t...
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