Books set in Northern Ireland (not about the Troubles)

[GreenBlueLover]

Can anyone suggest any novels set in Northern Ireland that are not about the Troubles? I'm sure there must be some, thanks.

Claire Allan's thrillers.

Thanks for that suggestion, I like a thriller. Do you have any recommendations on which one to start with?

Claire McGowan thrillers.
Adrian McKinty, my all time favourite series is the Duffy novels. While they are set in the 80s they aren't about the troubles but are crime novels with humour.

Bernard maclaverty I read one called midwinter break

The first is called My Name is Rose. They aren't a series so it doesn't really matter what order you read them in but some characters do reoccur.

Sorry - Her Name Was Rose!

Another good crime/thriller series is Claire McGowan's Paula Maguire series. They aren't set during the troubles, but they do reference them quite a bit so maybe not what you are after. Also if women's fiction is your thing, the comedian Serena Terry's two books are good fun (set in Derry).

The raptures by Jan carson

Lucy Caldwell, These Days is set in Belfast during WWII, at a time of many air-raids, and is very good (though I appreciate that may not be what you have in mind). She's also written other novels and three collections of short stories. Intimacies is a collection about pregnancy and motherhood.

Jan Carson is another Northern Irish novelist and short story writer of about the same age as Lucy Caldwell (now mid 40s), and I have one of her novels, The Raptures TBR but I enjoyed The Last Resort, linked short stories set on a caravan site.

Sinead Gleeson has edited several short story anthologies including The Glass Shore, women writers from the north of Ireland, past and contemporary.

Some really great suggestions, thanks

YY to Bernard McLaverty

Claire Allan also writes under the name Freya Kennedy

Do you mean ‘about’ or ‘set during’? Yes to Bernard McLaverty, Jan Carson, and Lucy Caldwell. Louise Kennedy’s Trespasses is set during the Troubles, but her short story collection The End of the World is a Cul de Sac mostly isn’t. Deirdre Madden’s One by One in the Darkness is about three sisters set in rural NI — some Troubles content, inevitably, but it’s not the main focus. Glenn Patterson’s Fat Lad and The International. A classic, set in the early 20thc and rather Hardyesque, Sam Hanna Bell’s December Bride.

One of my favourite NI novels ever is Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson.

Currently listening to The Saint of Lost Things by Tish Delaney on audible, set in rural NI, but also flashbacks to time in London. Its really good so far, and the narrator brilliant.

@grinchsourcream I've borrowed The Saint of Lost Things from the library - I borrowed her other novel and then discovered I had a copy on my Kindle (still TBR).

And I've just started reading another novel set in NI, Roisin Maguire's Night Swimmers - a library ebook - then discovered when adding it to my current reads collection on Librarything.com - a competitor to Goodreads but smaller and much better in my opinion, that again, I bought it on Kindle last year.

The file on Fräulein Berg by Joan Lingard

Set in Belfast in WW2 - very funny but also disconcertingly sad.

I guess Milkman by Anna Burns doesn't count? It is set during, and has aspects which are about the Troubles. But more to it than that.