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The News from Dublin
- Author
- Colm Tóibín
- Narrator
- Derbhle Crotty, Darragh Shannon
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 26 March 2026
- Run Time
- 8 hours 29 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
The instant Sunday Times besteller
'The work of a writer who has once again demonstrated complete command of his craft' - The Irish Times
'Short stories to astonish and delight' Financial Times
'Tales of quiet power' The Guardian
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 empathetically describes characters in extreme moments, and the narrators bring their experiences eloquently to life.' – Kirkus Reviews
'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
Critics Review
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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
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After this, I’m going to have to read every damn thing he’s ever written. He really is that good
The Oldie
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Lives lived far from home unfold with Tóibín’s trademark spare, piercing prose. As in his bestsellers such as Brooklyn and Long Island, this collection traces longing, exile and the ache of unfinished lives
The i
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Grief, betrayal and moral complications are explored across nine tales of quiet power that take us from Argentina to County Wexford
The Guardian
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I loved them for the exquisite writing, and for the skillful structure; I loved the insights and open endings - you get the sense that Colm Tóibín totally trusts you as a reader rather than spoon feeding you the details
The Irish Examiner
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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
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A master of understated emotions
Mail on Sunday
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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
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Tóibín [is] a master of his art . . . exquisite
Los Angeles Times
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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
The Independent
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Tóibín is a class act and his eye for the absurdities of Irish life keeps the pages turning
Mail on Sunday
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A writer evidently at the height of his powers
Sunday Independent
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Tóibín writes prose of a heart-breaking beauty
Daily Telegraph
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Tóibín is a subtle, intelligent and deeply felt writer
The Guardian
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It is in his emotional choreography that Tóibín shows himself to be an exceptional writer
Sunday Telegraph
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It’s truly remarkable that a writer of Tóibín’s great felicity, immense seriousness and general large awareness – a writer so naturally gifted as a novelist – can deliver short stories of such subtle empathy and brilliance. He’s dazzling
Richard Ford
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The work of a writer who has once again demonstrated complete command of his craft
The Irish Times
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Elegant and economical, these understated stories delve into the hearts of Toibin’s characters as they face grief and sadness, loss and loneliness
Eithne Farry, Daily Mail
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Grief, betrayal and moral complications are explored across nine tales of quiet power that take us from Argentina to County Wexford
Sarah Crown, The Guardian
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The quiet intensity brings deep satisfaction. As always, Toibin conjures up turbulent microcosms beneath the still, calm surface of the lake of life
Leyla Sanai, The Spectator
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Tóibín is exceptional at diverting and compelling us with individual drama while allowing a hinterland to roll out in our peripheral vision
Observer
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In the nine stories that comprise this excellent new collection, the Irish master once again does what he's best at: he draws out entire worlds from his characters' inner lives
The Daily Telegraph , '75 books for your summer reading list'
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Details
- Author
- Colm Tóibín
- Narrator
- Derbhle Crotty, Darragh Shannon
- Duration
- 8 hours 29 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 March 2026
- ISBN
- 9781035030774
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Short stories, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Historical fiction, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: sense of place, Narrative theme: journeys and voyages
Synopsis
The instant Sunday Times besteller'The work of a writer who has once again demonstrated complete command of his craft' - The Irish Times 'Short stories to astonish and delight' Financial Times'Tales of quiet power' The GuardianIn 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 empathetically describes characters in extreme moments, and the narrators bring their experiences eloquently to life.' – Kirkus Reviews'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
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