blog

Marking 100 years since the publication of her iconic novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, we are inviting readers to rediscover the Queen of Crime this summer. Our library staff have selected their favourites from across her remarkable backlist, whether you’re a long-time fan or discovering her for the first time, there’s a perfect mystery waiting to be solved.

Rita Bullwinkel’s debut novel is an intimate glimpse into the lives of eight of the best teenage girl boxers in the United States.

Here are some Climate Fiction suggestions to read for Dublin Climate Action Week

For readers who love seeing stories leap from page to screen, these titles offer a perfect reading list before (or after!) the ceremony.

As part of the Dublin One Book 2026 celebrations, our Reader Services team have put the spotlight on four standout titles from John Banville’s thirty-one novels. There are plenty of delights to be found in the Banville backlist. We’ve set aside his best-known works, The Book of Evidence and The Sea, but, if you want to explore further, then the following are highly recommended.

Flesh is an unflinching (and often unflattering) look at the life of a young man. It is an absorbing novel written in a spare, unobtrusive style about loneliness, disappointment and suffering and what they can do to a person.