A brand new comedy for the Abbey Theatre by the writer of About Adam and Ordinary Decent Criminal Irish builder and paid up Golden Circle member Noel and his wife May throw a dinner party for their dodgy but plausible English colleagues Julian and June in Dublin. The dinner party is unforgettable - for all the wrong reasons. Years later Julian and June are forced to return the compliment in London. A lot has changed - for better or worse?

A taut, stylish thriller set over the course of twenty-four hours in Paris—perfect for fans of Chris Pavone's The Expats and Olen Steinhauer's The Tourist. The storied Hotel Chevalier on Paris’ ritzy Right Bank hosts celebrities, dignitaries, and—for one night—Lana Gibson, an American woman who’s escaped the monotony of her staid married life for a cultural jaunt to the City of Light. As long as she takes her meds, she promises herself, her heightened curiosity and manic elation will stay under control. But when that curiosity leads her to the hotel’s private elevator which serves only the ultra-elite penthouse Suite Imperial, she spies much more than plush carpets and gilt chandeliers: a young woman caught in the clutches of a threatening-looking older man. Unable to erase the image of the girl in danger from her mind, Lana alerts the police, plunging herself into a firestorm of intrigue and becoming a target. As she engages in a cat-and-mouse game that plays out across the streets of Paris, it emerges that the older man is a prominent public figure, and the murky situation only offers more questions: Is he being set up? Who stands to gain the most from his downfall? Not knowing who has her best interests at heart, Lana will need to use every ounce of strength and guile as she races to discover the relationship between the truth and what she saw. Set against the glittering city of Paris, What She Saw is a hypnotic, thoroughly compelling thriller that will leave readers guessing until the final pages.

The extraordinary adventures of Lynch, who robs from the rich but lives with the poor. He challenges authority at every turn, dreaming up robberies with his hallmark panache which seldom fails to endear him to the crowd. And when he pulls off the ultimate theft from Dublin's most prestigious art gallery, he outwits the police, Interpol and even the rest of the criminal fraternity.

'Counting Down' is a story about a man out of sorts with the world who decides to live life on his own - lethal - terms.

Mags Perry, a journalist, flees her marriage in England to create a new life in what she hopes is a different Ireland.Francis Strong, a teenager obsessed with literature, leaves his family for the dizzying freedoms of the capital.CJ, a disgraced politician in search of a way back to power, meets a woman who may change the direction of his life.In his breathtaking new novel, Gerard Stembridge weaves together a cast of unforgettable voices to tell the story of a whole society in flux. As his characters struggle towards happiness and freedom, he asks where true change comes from: the individual or her political masters.

At thirty, Luke Reid seems to have an enviable life. He is a child of the leafy suburbs, attractive -- in an understated way, tolerant and erudite, socially assured, professionally successful, romantically settled. In short, a textbook example of upper middle class contentment. But in his thirty-first year, Luke feels a strange new emotion -- shame -- when his father, Frank, a leading barrister, is implicated in decades of political sleaze. Unlike his mother, older sister and teenage brother, who try to ignore the whole sordid business, and unlike his younger sister, made helpless by the thought that her Daddy could do wrong, Luke decides to tackle the cancer of corruption head-on. He becomes a self-appointed campaigner for restorative justice, trying to make good the damage his father has done. His actions are unpredictable, shocking and life-altering - not just for himself, but for all those close to him. According to Luke is a scintillating novel that gets under the skin of contemporary Ireland, a darkly comic moral tale, sizzling with ironic implications, about the abuse of privilege and the folly of human nature.

'Unspoken' charts the interlocking stories of a very different group of characters through the tumultuous decade of the 1960s in Ireland. It is an ambitious novel, rich in characterisation, which depicts a period integral to the story of modern Ireland.

Set in Dublin, The Gay Detective is both an explosive thriller and tender love story. When a Garda superintendent discovers his talented sergeant, Pat, is homosexual, he persuades him to make use of this fact in his work. Tracking down a queer-basher, Pat also discovers Ginger, his first real lover, but as his investigation turns to the murder of a gay TD, the moral path becomes an impenetrable maze, and what seemed a simple agreement with his Garda superior suddenly appears more like a Faustian pact.