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One of Ireland's best-loved novelists returns with a haunting novella of love, loss and memoryFlora's father has been killed in the Battle of El Alamein, one of the many victims of the Second World War. For Flora and her mother, life will never be the same again.Now,...
A moving and poignant story of old age, friendship and loss from a prize-winning Irish writerFlora's father has been killed in the Battle of El Alamein, one of the many victims of the Second World War. For Flora and her mother, life will never be the same again. At...
Jennifer Johnston has been described as 'the best writer in Ireland' by Roddy Doyle, 'one of our most impressive novelists' (Sunday Express) and 'a brilliant storyteller' (Literary Review). Tinder Press is very proud to be her publisher and we firmly believe that such...
'With masterful control, Johnston excavates a well of memory and hurt, quietly demonstrating the damage that can be done by families' The TimesA beautifully crafted Irish novel of loss and yearning...Johnny, an outstanding young swimmer, went missing nearly thirty...
When a daughter returns, the past is revisited...In a house overlooking Dublin Bay, Mimi and her daughter Grace are disturbed by the unexpected arrival of Grace's daughter Polly, and her striking new boyfriend. Over the next few days, events lead them to reassess the...
All families are complicated, but some are more complicated than others. And Christmas can only make matters worse. After Ciara's estranged father is nearly killed by his second wife in a car accident - or was it an accident? - Ciara begins, gingerly, to re-enter his...
'A quietly incisive book that opens wounds where none were known' Irish IndependentSally, a successful actress, returns to her house in Goatstown from a European tour, just wanting to rest and to see her husband, Charlie, again. When Charlie announces that he's leaving...
A quietly devastating novel of love, marriage and the complexity of relationships...When Stella first meets Martyn, he's just a stranger on a train. She knows nothing at all about him. But very quickly she is won over by his charm and breathtaking illusions, and when he...
A beautifully paced novel of solitude, healing and hope...On a rainy afternoon on Killiney Hill a young man out walking, without his overcoat, happens upon a woman gazing out over Dublin bay, standing perilously close to the edge. From their first chance encounter...
An exquisite, poignant story of an Irish boyhood in the 1970sDerry in the 1970s: teenager Joe Logan is growing up in the teeth of the Troubles, having to cope with embittered parents, a brother who's been away and come back with money and a gun in his pocket, and the...
'A very nearly perfect novel of broad, regretful vision, and magical intimacy' Sunday TelegraphHelen has retreated to the remote north-west coast of Ireland to paint the sea and the shore, and to be alone with her past. English war hero Roger Hawthorne has settled in...
'Jennifer Johnston is masterly at creating atmosphere and evoking period and place' Daily ExpressIt starts with a funeral. The great and the good have assembled: the President has sent a representative, and dignitaries are there in force. And Laura remembers those two...
Mr Prendergast, an elderly Anglo-Irishman, is living out his last years in the decaying splendour of his family mansion. As his mind wanders through the gloom he finds it peopled with memories of his neglected wife, his pale shadow of a father, his icily glamorous...
A brilliant story of the secrets we keep. Desmond Fitzmaurice is a mysterious literary giant of the thirties whom no one has seen for years. Caroline is a London journalist, and hasn't the faintest interest in going to Dublin to interview him. That his life story will...
The Great War is over; but the war in Ireland is only just beginning, as the IRA and the Black and Tans move on to the attack. It all seems very remote to Miranda Martin, during that miraculous Indian summer. Her father, hoping to forget his dead wife, thinks of nothing...
'It is difficult to convey the marvellous quality of this book' Daily TelegraphConstance Keating has lived a life of internal exile, alienated from her family and from Ireland.Now she has returned to her family home to die. While that painful, messy process takes place...
'Assured, skilful, delicately comic and mutedly sad... a very good writer' The Sunday TimesOnce, the villagers would tip their hats respectfully when the McMahons drove out through the ornate iron gates at the end of the drive. But that was back in the days when the...
Not every death is a tragedy.Not every silver lining is intact. Annie's father is dead. She isn't sorry. A rich and domineering man, he was always more passionate about money than the happiness of his wife and child. And when his lovely, fragile wife Jude died in...
A compelling novel of complicated love, from one of Ireland's greatest living writers. It is the Second World War, and tragedy strikes many families in Ireland. But it is also a thrilling time in which to be a child and Polly, spending months at her grandparents'...
As a child Alec, heir to the big house and only son of a bitter marriage, formed a close friendship with Jerry, a village boy who shared his passion for horses. In 1914 both enlisted in the British Army – Alec goaded by his beautiful, cold mother to fight for King and...
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