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Colm Tóibín
A novel of enormous wit and profound emotional resonance from one of the world's finest writers.
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Colm Toibin
Colm Tóibín's personal account of encountering James Baldwin's work, published in Baldwin's centenary year.
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A wide variety of poems, ranging in setting and topic, Vinegar Hill deals with gay experience and with the experience of loss, with memory and a fading past as well…
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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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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…
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 classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity.
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…
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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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…
Set in Ireland in the 1990s, Colm Tóibín’s The Blackwater Lightship tells the story of the Devereux family.
A stunning collection of nine stories that teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons.
All my life I have loved the Sabbath. So begins Colm Toibin’s devastating novella The Testament of Mary
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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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a remarkable novel about Henry James, the American-born novelist and a connoisseur of exile.
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…
In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across…
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A New York Times Notable Book, Critic’s Top Pick, and Top Ten Book of Historical Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, The…
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A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2024, the sequel to the beloved bestseller, Brooklyn
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Mary McCarthy
Mary McCarthy, one of the leading American intellectuals of the twentieth century, skewers her strict Catholic upbringing in this witty and compelling memoir, one of her major works.
Samuel Beckett
The first of Samuel Beckett's three great novels, reissued for a new generation.
Graham Greene
‘Graham Greene’s beautiful and disturbing novel is filled with tenderness, humour, excitement and doubt’ The Times A leak is traced to a small sub-section of the secret service, sparking off…
Oscar Wilde
An account of Oscar Wilde’s spiritual journey while in prison, and describes his new, shocking conviction that ‘the supreme vice is shallowness’. It also includes further letters to his wife…
James Baldwin
After Rufus Scott, an embittered and unemployed black jazz-musician commits suicide, his sister Ida and old friend Vivaldo become lovers. Yet their feelings for each other are complicated by Rufus’s…
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Jane DeLynn
'Dear Miss Maxfield ... what I'm really afraid of is that I am a homosexual human being. I wish you were one too but I don't think it's possible there…
James Joyce
Joyce’s brilliantly vivid portrait of Dublin, introduced by Colm Toibin.
Jane Delynn
A touchstone novel of lesbian adolescence, set years before gay liberation.
"Dear Miss Maxfield ... what I'm really afraid of is that I am a homosexual human being. I wish…
Michael Peppiatt
A new selection of letters, statements, and interviews reveals the preoccupations, thoughts, and ideas of Francis Bacon, one of the twentieth century's most influential and important artists.
Eibhear Walshe
Colm Toibin published his first book in 1985 and, in the three decades since, has been a central voice within popular Irish cultural and intellectual discourse. Toibin is one of…
When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend’s return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to…
Miguel Delibes
A shattering tale of oppression and resistance during Franco's dictatorship, by a beloved Spanish novelist
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A collection of linked essays about homosexual literature considers its most influential writers of the past two centuries–including Oscar Wilde, Thomas Mann, James Baldwin, Elizabeth Bishop, Mark Doty, and Thom…
From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality…
In this perceptive and rich collection of essays, Colm Toibin investigates the lives as well as the work of homosexual writers and artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Tells about writers and their families. This book explores the often tense relationship between writers and their families.
The award-winning author of The Master returns with this psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive collection of stories that tease out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons.
Last year when Garry Hynes asked me to edit a book on Synge, I realised that a great seachange had taken place in relation to his work. Once, he would…
A retelling of the story of Clytemnestra–spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling–and her children –Amazon.com.
In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland’s greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce, and their earliest influences: their…
Hardcover edition published by Scribner in 2017.
