Lilliput Press - Spring 2026 Titles

Though we’re not through the dark days of winter just yet, we thought readers could use a sneak preview at some of our upcoming 2026 titles – the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel so to speak. With two outstanding debuts, essays about videogames (Liam is very excited for this one), fiction in translation and a collection of interviews with some of the best Irish writers over the last thirty years, our 2026 spring titles have something for everyone. Have a read below for some info on this incredible group of books and authors. We hope you’re looking forward to them as much as we are!

Set across liminal landscapes, Four Night Seas is the debut collection from award-winning author Niamh Mac Cabe. Characters navigate emotional and existential thresholds – grieving, seeking meaning, reconciling with the past. Whether it is a reclusive sculptor haunted by guilt, a lost child drawing maps in the sand, or a greyhound silently shadowing a man to a mountain lake, Mac Cabe’s lyrical prose and inventive narrative structures evoke an eerie, tender intimacy. 

In the past few years, more and more Irish writers have tackled the topic of video games. CTRL, edited by Dean Fee, is a collection of essays which explore the idea of video games as an artform; the good and the bad, to use video games as a cypher, as a new way of looking at the world and the lives of the writer themselves. These are insightful, curious, and raw essays from some of the best names in contemporary Irish writing, including Sheila Armstrong, Brenda Romero, Stephen Sexton, Lisa McInerney, Roisin Kiberd, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan and Rob Doyle.

In Somewhere, Clodagh finds herself adrift after leaving her partner Seamus. Navigating addiction, the harsh realities of a housing crisis, and relationships pushed to the brink, this is a story of her attempts to reconnect with herself, and those closest to her, in a gritty, vividly rendered contemporary Dublin. Don’t miss this debut from award-winning writer Jessamine O’Connor.

Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, has been an arts journalist for almost 35 years and in that time has interviewed many of the most talented and successful Irish writers at different stages of their careers. Irish Writers and Writing 1991-2025 offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Irish literary world as it has evolved in the past four decades. Including interviews with Sally Rooney, Claire Keegan, Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, Claire Kilroy, Donal Ryan, Alice Taylor and  Paul Murray.

Selling nearly half a million copies in France alone, Sorj Chalandon’s novel Le Quatrième Mur was a literary sensation when published in 2013, and was adapted for film in 2024. Now appearing in English for the first time, The Fourth Wall is a stunning literary novel, set in Beirut, February 1982, at the outbreak of the second Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Georges and his old friend Samuel, a theatre director, prepare to stage a performance of Jean Anouilh’s Antigone, in the hope of achieving peace for a few brief hours. Translated by Cheney Crow.

The Lock-Keeper’s Wife is a profoundly moving novel told through the journal entries of Julie McDermot, a woman recently released from ‘The Mental’, a psychiatric institution in rural mid-century Ireland. Living in isolation with an unloving husband by the canal docks where he works, Julie reflects on a life shaped by grief, motherhood, and neglect. John MacKenna has crafted a poetic and poignant story, perfect for fans of Claire Keegan and Colm Tóibín.