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Strange Flowers
The Number One Bestseller
2020
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Winner of the An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2020Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award'You have to truly love people to write like this' RACHEL JOYCE'One of the greatest novels of this century' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT'Gorgeously wrought' GUARDIANIn 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears.Bewildere...
The Queen of Dirt Island
The uplifting number 1 bestseller about the roots that bind family, from the prize-winning author of Strange Flowers
2022
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From the Booker longlisted author, and an Irish Times No.1 bestseller - a searing**, jubilant novel about four generations of women and the stories that bind them.**'Beautiful, compassionate ... Donal Ryan at his inimitable best.' MAGGIE O'FARRELL'One of the finest novelists writing today... a haunting, exquisite masterpiece.' RACHEL JOYCE___________This is a story about fam...
Heart, Be at Peace
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2025 and the Irish Book of the Year
2024
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**WINNER OF THE IRISH BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO NOVEL OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEARTHE No.1 IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER'My book of the year...full of love and hope, more needed in these days than ever'** Kit de Waal'Donal Ryan’s writing has earned him a place among the greatest names in Irish literature' Maria Dickenson, Chair of...
The Spinning Heart
The award-winning bestseller, the ‘Irish Book of the Decade’
Unabridged
4 hours 44 min
2024
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Brought to you by Penguin.Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2013Shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award 2014Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013Winner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2012In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battl...
From a Low and Quiet Sea
From the Number 1 bestselling author of STRANGE FLOWERS
- Narrated by
- Stephen HoganGerry O'BrienRamon Tikaram
Unabridged
5 hours 10 min
2018
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan, read by Stephen Hogan, Gerry O'Brien and Ramon Tikaram.Farouk’s country has been torn apart by war.Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe.John’s past torments him as he nears his end.The refugee. The dreamer. The penitent. From war-torn Syria to small-town Ireland, three men, scarred by all they have loved and lost, are search...
Strange Flowers
The Number One Bestseller
- Narrated by
- Donna Anita Nikolaisen
Unabridged
5 hours 58 min
2020
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In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears.Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again.Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will change the course of her family’s life forever.Beautiful and devastating, this exploration of loss, alienation and the redemptive power of love reaffirms Donal R...
2015
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From the twice Man Booker longlisted author of From a Low and Quiet Sea'Donal Ryan, one of our most remarkable writers, has produced a book of short stories of such visceral power that they hit you in the solar plexus. He deals with the dark side of modern Irish life and produces sentences of titanic impact.' IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAYAn old man looks into the fearful eyes of a burglar left to guard him while hi...
Where Are the Kings
The stunning Irish Times Number 1 bestseller from the winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction
2026
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Tender, moving, full of warmth, crackling with humour and the love of family, the exquisite new novel from the author of HEART BE AT PEACE.A RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB BOOK‘Beautiful, hilarious and completely gripping**’** Rachel Joyce, bestselling author of The Handmade God**'**I loved it from the first word to the last' Kit de Waal, author of The Best of Everything'A beaut...
Heart, Be at Peace
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2025 and the Irish Book of the Year
Unabridged
5 hours 40 min
2024
EN
Brought to you by Penguin.‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’Some things can send a heart spinning; others will crack it in two.In a small town in rural Ireland, the local people have weathered the storms of economic collapse and are looking towards the future. The jobs are back, the dramas of the past seemingly lulled, and although the town bears the marks of it...
The Queen of Dirt Island
The uplifting number 1 bestseller about the roots that bind family, from the prize-winning author of Strange Flowers
- Narrated by
- Emma Lowe
Unabridged
6 hours 46 min
2022
EN
Brought to you by Penguin.From the multi-award-winning author of the number one bestseller, STRANGE FLOWERS, a searing**, jubilant story about four generations of women and fierce love.**The Aylward women of Nenagh, Tipperary, are mad about each other, but you wouldn't always think it. You'd have to know them to know - in spite of what the neighbours might say about raised voices and dramatic scenes - that their house is a ...
Where Are the Kings
The stunning Irish Times Number 1 bestseller from the winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction
- Narrated by
- Donal Ryan
Unabridged
5 hours 40 min
2026
EN
Tender, moving, full of warmth and crackling with humour and the love of family, the exquisite new novel from the winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction and the Irish Book of the Year...Something terrible has happened to Jack but no one seems to want to talk about it.His uncles can tell him about everything from quantum physics to how to hunt for deer, but they can’t seem to tell him anything about their own sister or why Jack doesn’t feel sad for her in th...
- Narrated by
- Donal Ryan
Unabridged
6 hours 22 min
2020
EN
Brought to you by Penguin.‘He heard Daddy one time saying he was a grand quiet boy to Mother when he thought Johnsey couldn’t hear them talking. Mother must have been giving out about him being a gom and Daddy was defending him. He heard the fondness in Daddy’s voice. But you’d have fondness for an auld eejit of a crossbred pup that should have been drowned at birth.’While the Celtic Tiger rages, and greed becomes the norm, Johnsey Cunliffe despera...











