'Short stories to astonish and delight' Financial Times

In The News from Dublin, a beautiful collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island, Colm Tóibín delves into the days and nights of those living far from home: lives of great longing, at a great distance from past lives and past selves.

A woman in Galway hears of the death of her son in the First World War. An Irishman seeks anonymity in Barcelona, haunted by crimes he has committed. A man goes to Dublin from Enniscorthy to implore the Minister for Health for a special favour. A young woman is pregnant during the Spanish Civil War. An undocumented worker finds himself living an illegal life and must leave San Francisco, and his child, after thirty years in America. Three sisters who have been living in Argentina decide to return to Catalonia.

'Tóibín is the consummate cartographer of the private self, summoning with restrained acuity (and a delicious streak of sly humour) the thoughts his characters struggle to find words for' – Clare Clark, Guardian

"Readers who have enjoyed Tóibín’s novels will find much to admire in this collection, especially in those stories that are rooted in these imagined and half-submerged pasts. It’s the drama of what isn’t said, what doesn’t occur – but what might" - The Telegraph

"After this, I’m going to have to read every damn thing he’s ever writ­ten. He really is that good" - The Oldie

"The News from Dublin by Colm Tóibín — short stories to astonish and delight. Nine masterful tales chart unbreakable family connections — and complications — from Ireland to South America and Spain" - Financial Times

"Tóibín is the consummate cartographer of the private self, summoning with restrained acuity (and a delicious streak of sly humour) the thoughts his characters struggle to find words for" - Guardian

"There are few authors more attuned to human yearning" - The i

"Tóibín is a subtle, intelligent and deeply felt writer" - Guardian

"A master of understated emotions" - Mail on Sunday

"Tóibín [is] a master of his art . . . exquisite" - Los Angeles Times

"Tóibín has conducted an exhilarating masterclass in extract the maximum effect from the minimum of prose, with the leanest and cleanest narrative line . . . His gifts are so remarkable" - Independent

"Tóibín is a class act and his eye for the absurdities of Irish life keeps the pages turning" - Mail on Sunday

"A writer evidently at the height of his powers" - Sunday Independent

"Tóibín writes prose of a heart-breaking beauty" - Daily Telegraph

"Colm Tóibín is a writer of extraordinary emotional clarity . . . Tóibín perfectly understands the instantaneous nature of the ideal short story; the sense that the pen is going straight into a major vein" - Literary Review

"It is in his emotional choreography that Tóibín shows himself to be an exceptional writer" - Sunday Telegraph

"Lives lived far from home unfold with Tóibín’s trademark spare, piercing prose" - i News ???????