A sequence of nine short works by the award-winning author of The Master explores the intricate bonds between mothers and sons as reflected at pivotal junctures that shift the way each sees and understands the other, from a famous singer's performance for an audience that includes her son to a son's[...]

From the award-winning author of "The Master," a hauntingly compelling novel--by far Toibin's most accessible book--set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s about a young woman torn between her family in Ireland and the american who wins her heart.
Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town[...]

"One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature" ("Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go, leaving her [...]

Meryl Streep's performance of Colm Toibin's acclaimed portrait of Mary is hailed by the "New York Times Book Review" as "an ideal audiobook," presenting the three-time Academy Award-winner in "yet another great role."
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Colm Toibin's "The Testament of Mary "pr[...]

Novelist and critic Colm Toibin explores the relationships of writers with their families and their work in the brilliant, nuanced, and wholly original "New Ways to Kill Your Mother."
Toibin--celebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his provocative book reviews and essays--traces the in[...]

No book since Mrs Shelley's "Frankenstein", or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror - Poe is nowhere..."

Charlotte Stoker (Mother of Bram Stoker).

Originally published in 1897, Bram Stoker's "Dracula" has spawned countless new editions, inspir[...]

For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil, there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, and compelling. In their selection of the best 200 novels written since 1950, the editors make a case for the best and the best-loved works and[...]

Nuori Eilis Lacey joutuu monien irlantilaistyttöjen tavoin jättämään kotinsa ja muuttamaan Amerikkaan, koska Irlannissa ei ole tarjolla töitä.Uudessa maassa Eilis potee aluksi koti-ikävää ja vierauden tunnetta. Hänellä on kuitenkin töitä tavaratalon myyjättärenä, ja hän asuu irlant[...]

"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 Toibin. At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was the toast of London, widely feted for his most recent stage success, "An Ideal Husband". But by Ma[...]

Here is an American mind contemplating contemporary society and culture with wit, imagination, and a brave intelligence. Tillman upends expectations, shifts tone, introduces characters, breaches limits of genre and category, reconfiguring the world with the turn of a sentence. Like other unique thin[...]