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Death in Spring
'Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing... A masterpiece.' Colm Tóibín, from the introduction'Dark and beautiful and brilliant' Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall Death in …
De Profundis and Other Prison Writings
De Profundis and Other Prison Writings is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in Penguin Classics, edited and introduced by Colm Tóibín.At the start of 1895, …
Persuasion (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Written during Jane Austen's race against failing health, Persuasion tells the story of Anne Elliot, a woman who - at twenty-seven - is no longer young and has few romantic …
The Hour of the Star
Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabea, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a …
The Modern Library
For Colm Toíbín and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their …
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices 'A father...is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses In Mad, Bad, …
The Human Factor
Maurice Castle is a high-level operative in the British secret service during the Cold War. He is deeply in love with his African wife, who escaped apartheid South Africa with the …
Homage to Barcelona
Colm Tóibín's Homage to Barcelona celebrates one of Europe’s greatest cities – a cosmopolitan hub of vibrant architecture, art, culture and nightlife. It moves from the story of …
Namnens hus
Myten om Agamemnon och Klytaimnestra står i fokus i Colm Tóibíns nya kritikerhyllade roman. Samma dag som hans dotter ska gifta sig beordrar Agamemnon hennes död. Hon förs till …
Nora Webster
Platsen är Wexford, Irland, i slutet av sextiotalet. Nora Webster är fyrtio år och gift med Maurice, sin stora kärlek som en gång räddade henne från de knappa omständigheter under …