Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, Ireland in 1955. His many novels include The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, and The Magician. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, and won the Costa Novel Award, the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Impac Award. He has also published two collections of stories, many works of non-fiction and is the current Laureate for Irish fiction (2022-2024).

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Long Island

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A novel of enormous wit and profound emotional resonance from one of the world's finest writers.

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Brooklyn

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Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis' gifts are of a more practical nature: she has…

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The Blackwater Lightship

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Set in Ireland in the 1990s, Colm Tóibín’s The Blackwater Lightship tells the story of the Devereux family.

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The Heather Blazing

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Colm Tóibín’s The Heather Blazing details the life of Eamon Redmond, a judge in Ireland’s high court, a man remote from his wife, his son and daughter and, at least…

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The Master

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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a remarkable novel about Henry James, the American-born novelist and a connoisseur of exile.

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The South

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A classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity.

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The Story of the Night

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Set in Argentina in a time of great change, The Story of the Night is a powerful and moving novel about a man who, as the Falklands War is fought…

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Brooklyn

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Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village. The parish priest, Father Flood, arranges for her to travel to America, where a job opportunity has…

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The Magician

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In The Magician, Colm Toibin captures the profound personal conflict of a very public life, and through this life creates an intimate portrait of the twentieth century.

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The Magician

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In The Magician, Colm Toibin captures the profound personal conflict of a very public life, and through this life creates an intimate portrait of the twentieth century.

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A Guest at the Feast

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A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.

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The Testament of Mary

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All my life I have loved the Sabbath. So begins Colm Toibin’s devastating novella The Testament of Mary

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Mothers and Sons

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Sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Each of the nine stories focuses on a moment in which an unspoken balance shifts, in…

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Nora Webster

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It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her…

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