Donal Ryan Books
The Thing About December
By Donal Ryan
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...
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 MoreStrange Flowers
By Donal Ryan
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...
Read MoreThe Queen of Dirt Island
By Donal Ryan
“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.” &n...
Read MoreAll 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 th...
Read MoreThe Queen of Dirt Island
By Donal Ryan
“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.” &n...
Read MoreHeart, Be at Peace
By Donal Ryan
From 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 bring people together and divi...
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