Books by Colm Toibin

Colm Toibin's "Brooklyn" is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. It is Ireland in the ... More

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In a voice that is both tender and filled with rage, "The Testament of Mary" tells the story of a cataclysmic event which led to an overpowering ... More

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Helen's brother is dying, and with two of his friends she waits for the end in her grandmother's crumbling old house. Her mother and grandmother, ... More

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Set in Argentina in the 1980s, this novel follows the progress of a lonely young man trying to live openly with his homosexuality. His coming out ... More

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Colm Toibin is a master storyteller, renowned for his keen, spare style and the understated emotional charge of his novels. Eamon Redmond, a High ... More

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The award-winning author of "The Master" returns with this psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive collection of stories that tease out ... More

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A fictionalized study based on many biographical materials and family accounts of Henry James's life, this volume ranges seamlessly from his memories ... More

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This book celebrates one of Europe's greatest cities -- a cosmopolitan hub of vibrant architecture, art, culture and nightlife. It moves from the ... More

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From Colm Toibin comes "New Ways to Kill Your Mother", a fabulously entertaining book about writers and their families. In this wonderfully ... More

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In the captivating stories that make up "The Empty Family" Colm Toibin delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or ... More

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Silence -- The empty family -- Two women -- One minus one -- The pearl fishers -- Barcelona, 1975 -- The new Spain -- The colour of shadows -- The ... More

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The first novel from the 1991 "Irish Times"/Aer Lingus Literature prizewinner. In 1950s fascist Spain, Katherine is living in self-exile from her ... More

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Colm Toibin writes brilliantly about successive Holy Weeks spent in Poland, Seville, Bavaria, Rome, and the Balkans; forays into post-Communist ... More

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Colm Toibin knows the languages of the outsider, the secret keeper, the gay man or woman. He knows the covert and overt language of homosexuality in ... More

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"Mothers and Sons" is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Psychologically ... More

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So wrote Augusta Gregory to W.B. Yeats; she was referring to the riots at the Abbey Theatre over The Playboy of the Western World, and she knew which ... More

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An award-winning writer examines the life and work of some of the greatest authors of the past two centuries, figures whose homosexuality remained ... More

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In the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, when tension was high in Northern Ireland, Colm Toibin walked along the border from Derry to Newry. ... More

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In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Toibin looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth ... More

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