
Colm Tóibín
Author · 32 books
Colm Tóibín FRSL, is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and poet. Tóibín is currently Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University in Manhattan and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester.
Series
Books

Bad Blood
A Walk Along the Irish Border
1988

The Shortest Day
2020

Nora Webster
2014

The Magician
2021

Love in a Dark Time
And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature
2002

A Very Irish Christmas
The Greatest Irish Holiday Stories of All Time
2021

Vinegar Hill
Poems
2022

The Empty Family
2010

All a Novelist Needs
Colm Tóibín on Henry James
2010

The South
1990

New Ways to Kill Your Mother
Writers and Their Families
2012

The Sign of the Cross
Travels in Catholic Europe
1994

A Guest at the Feast
2022

House of Names
2017

On Elizabeth Bishop
2015

On James Baldwin
2024

The Master
2004

The Story of the Night
1996

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
2018

The Blackwater Lightship
1999

The Modern Library
1999

Brooklyn
2009

Lady Gregory's Toothbrush
2002

The Heather Blazing
1992

Beauty in a Broken Place
2004

The Irish Famine
1999

Homage to Barcelona
1990

Mothers and Sons
2006

Long Island
2024

Summer of '38
2013

Pale Sister
2019

The Testament of Mary
2012