We went into the house and closed the door behind us. He asked me to turn the heating on and said that he would go to bed for a while. Maybe, if he was well enough, I said, we could go back into the city in the evening and go to a movie. Maybe, he said, maybe we’ll do that. He asked me to wake him in an hour or two if he was still asleep.

Read more masterful books by acclaimed, Booker Prize-nominated author Colm Toibin

In this stunning collection of stories set in present-day Ireland, 1970s Spain and nineteenth-century England, he cements his status as 'his generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated, contradictory power.'"—Los Angeles Times

The Empty Family

“[A] stunning Irish novel, which seems to derive its clear and affecting style in part from the staunch personality of its protagonist . . .and in part from the chilly beauty of the south-east coast of Ireland.”—The New Yorker

The Heather Blazing

Colm Toibin's LA Times Book Prize-winning novel that ambitiously captures the mind and life of Henry James. "A marvel."—John Updike

The Master

Each of the nine stories in this beautifully written, intensely intimate collection centers on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balance of power between mother and son, or changes the way they perceive one another.

Mothers and Sons

"Mr. Toibin is such an adept and morally serious close reader that his criticism becomes nearly as galvanizing as his fiction. There really aren’t, it turns out, any new ways to kill your mother, at least not artistically. But all the old ways, in Mr. Toibin’s telling, still work rather beautifully.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times

New Ways to Kill Your Mother

"Fascinating. . . Revelatory. . . A masterful and unforgettable novel." —Betsy Burton, NPR

Nora Webster

“A strong and moving work of fiction about the hard truths of changing one’s life. A grand achievement.”—Don DeLillo

The South

“Tóibín is at his lyrical best in The Testament of Mary, a beautiful and daring work . . .It takes its power from the surprises of its language, its almost shocking characterization, its austere refusal of consolation.”—Mary Gordon, The New York Times Book Review

The Testament of Mary

"A classical coming-of-age story, pure, unsensationalized, quietly profound."—Pam Houston, O, the Oprah Magazine

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Colm Tóibín is the author of The South, The Heather Blazing, The Master, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2004, and The Blackwater Lightship, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999. His nonfiction includes Love in a Dark Time, Bad Blood, Homage to Barcelona, and The Sign of the Cross. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.