
Donal Ryan
Author · 12 books
Donal Ryan is the author of the novels The Spinning Heart, The Thing About December, the short-story collection A Slanting of the Sun, and the forthcoming novel All We Shall Know. He holds a degree in Law from the University of Limerick, and worked for the National Employment Rights Authority before the success of his first two novels allowed him to pursue writing as a full-time career.
Books

Strange Flowers
2020

All We Shall Know
2016

How Much the Heart Can Hold
Seven Stories on Love
2016

La regina dell'Isola di fango
2025

The Spinning Heart
2012

The Queen of Dirt Island
2023

The Thing About December
2013

A Slanting of the Sun
2015

Heart, Be at Peace
2024

Heart, Be at Peace
A Novel
2026

From a Low and Quiet Sea
2018
The Spinning Heart
A Novel
2026