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Marian Keyes
Ireland (b.1963)
Marian Keyes lives in Dublin. She has published six novels, which have all been international bestsellers, garnering great reviews and selling more than 2.5 million copies: Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, Last Chance Saloon and Sushi for Beginners and Angels.
Awards: Nibbies (2022) see all
Genres: General Fiction, Romance, Literary Fiction
Series
Walsh Family
1. Watermelon (1995)
2. Rachel's Holiday (1997)
3. Angels (2002)
4. Anybody Out There? (2006)
5. The Mystery of Mercy Close (2012)
5.5. Mammy Walsh's A-Z of the Walsh Family (2012)
6. Again, Rachel (2022)
7. My Favourite Mistake (2024)
aka My Favorite Mistake
1. Watermelon (1995)
2. Rachel's Holiday (1997)
3. Angels (2002)
4. Anybody Out There? (2006)
5. The Mystery of Mercy Close (2012)
5.5. Mammy Walsh's A-Z of the Walsh Family (2012)
6. Again, Rachel (2022)
7. My Favourite Mistake (2024)
aka My Favorite Mistake
Novels
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married (1996)
Last Chance Saloon (1999)
Sushi for Beginners (2000)
Yeats is Dead! (2001) (with others)
The Other Side Of The Story (2004)
This Charming Man (2008)
The Brightest Star in the Sky (2009)
The Woman Who Stole My Life (2014)
The Break (2017)
Grown-Ups (2020)
Last Chance Saloon (1999)
Sushi for Beginners (2000)
Yeats is Dead! (2001) (with others)
The Other Side Of The Story (2004)
This Charming Man (2008)
The Brightest Star in the Sky (2009)
The Woman Who Stole My Life (2014)
The Break (2017)
Grown-Ups (2020)
Collections
Girls' Night in (2000) (with others)
Irish Girls about Town (2002) (with Maeve Binchy and Cathy Kelly)
Big Night Out (2002) (with others)
Nothing Bad Ever Happens in Tiffany's (2005)
Cracks in My Foundation (2005)
The Worst Noel (2005) (with Mike Albo and Stanley Bing)
Irish Girls about Town (2002) (with Maeve Binchy and Cathy Kelly)
Big Night Out (2002) (with others)
Nothing Bad Ever Happens in Tiffany's (2005)
Cracks in My Foundation (2005)
The Worst Noel (2005) (with Mike Albo and Stanley Bing)
Non fiction show
Under the Duvet (2001)
Further Under the Duvet (2005)
Saved By Cake (2012)
Making It Up As I Go Along (2016)
Further Under the Duvet (2005)
Saved By Cake (2012)
Making It Up As I Go Along (2016)
Omnibus editions show
Books containing stories by Marian Keyes
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Marian Keyes recommends
So Thrilled For You (2025)
Holly Bourne
"I enjoyed it so, SO MUCH. I was utterly GRIPPED. So many unexpected but wholly believable twists and turns. I think it will resonate for all women. Yet it's so much fun."
Here One Moment (2024)
Liane Moriarty
"Liane Moriarty is a genuine GENIUS. Here One Moment is off-the-scale brilliant."
Pity Party (2024)
Daisy Buchanan
"What a read! What a tear jerker! But very funny, and written with such breezy wit, and characters I ADORED. Daisy is EXCELLENT."
You Belong with Me (2024)
(Edie Thompson, book 2)
Mhairi McFarlane
"14/10 on the QWJ scale (queasy with jealousy scale)! I WISH I'd written it. I loved this book so much."
Welcome to Glorious Tuga (2024)
(Tuga Trilogy, book 1)
Francesca Segal
"A magical novel, so uplifting, heartwarming, funny. . . I cannot TELL you how much I adored it! This feels as if it was written specifically to give comfort - the perfect antidote to current climes."
Under Your Spell (2024)
Laura Wood
"I absolutely adored Under Your Spell, the sweetest, sexiest, funniest romance. It was such a treat!"
You Are Here (2024)
David Nicholls
"A witty, touching love story. The writing is magnificent: taut and vivid. I was so happy while I was reading it and now I'm bereft. Gorgeous."
The Husbands (2024)
Holly Gramazio
"WONDERFUL: fresh, original, hugely entertaining and oddly comforting . . . I laughed out loud countless times . . . the most fun I've had reading in the longest time. It is an utter delight."
Dominoes (2024)
Phoebe McIntosh
"A great book! A warm, fun, sweet love story - which is also about the British slave trade and its legacy. I found it humbling and hopeful and I really CARED about the characters."
Sisterhood (2024)
Cathy Kelly
"I really, really loved it. I think it's her best book so far, written with maturity and great compassion. The characters are very relatable, Lou was my favourite - I enjoyed this book so much."
The Other Side of Mrs. Wood (2023)
Lucy Barker
"I absolutely ADORED it. Such a juicy read and written so beautifully. Charming, gorgeous, an utter delight."
Tell Me What I Am (2023)
Una Mannion
"Tell Me What I Am by Una Mannion is very VERY good. About the impact on her family when a woman disappears, it's vividly real. The writing is beautiful, the emotions are conveyed exquisitely. There's love here as well as pain."
My Hot Friend (2023)
Sophie White
"EXTREMELY funny and refreshingly honest about the unacknowledged complexity of female friendship."
The Happy Couple (2023)
Naoise Dolan
"I pure LOVED The Happy Couple. So witty, observant, wise and funny. Nihilistic about heteronormative relationships but so charmingly done I barely noticed. I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed it."
Strange Sally Diamond (2023)
Liz Nugent
"Vivid, pacy, taut but so very moving . . . This novel feels *different* . . . it defies categorisation."
The Close (2023)
(Maeve Kerrigan, book 10)
Jane Casey
"I loved, loved LOVED The Close. If you haven't read Jane Casey, start immediately - excellent police procedurals with DELICIOUS sexual tension."
Demon Copperhead (2022)
Barbara Kingsolver
"It's EPIC. Righteously angry, DEEPLY moving, wholly immersive, totally convincing and exquisetly written. She is so GIFTED."
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone (2022)
(Ernest Cunningham, book 1)
Benjamin Stevenson
"I absolutely LOVED it. It's so engaging, entertaining and charming. I don't think I've ever read anything like it. It was SUCH a fun read."
Meredith, Alone (2022)
Claire Alexander
"Gorgeous. I shed tears. Very, very touching, sad, sweet and hopeful."
Just Got Real (2022)
Jane Fallon
"I've read - and loved - ALL of Jane Fallon's books, but Just Got Real is her best yet! The plotting is as ingenious and entertaining as ever but this book has a lot of WARMTH and HEART. It's especially gorgeous on female friendship."
Thrown (2022)
Sara Cox
"Oh my GOD, it's GORGEOUS. Funny, warm, all about people. Has the same generosity-of-spirit she does. You'll LOVE it!"
London, With Love (2022)
Sarra Manning
"This is already one of my books of the year! . . . A VERY special book - a decades-long 'near miss' love story, it gave me One Day vibes. It's GORGEOUS, real, believable and BEAUTIFUL."
Idol (2022)
Louise O'Neill
"Fresh, glamorous, and suprising. Dazzles us before revealling the darkness at its heart."
Trespasses (2022)
Louise Kennedy
"[Louise Kennedy's] debut novel is incredible. Intense, unflinchingly honest, it broke my heart a million times, I was consumed by it."
These Days (2022)
Lucy Caldwell
"Elegant and precise, I loved it. The vivid interiority Caldwell brings to the characters, particularly the three main women, is so impressive. I cared passionately about all of them. These Days is a gem of a novel."
The Exhibitionist (2022)
Charlotte Mendelson
"A delicious, heartbreaking family snapshot about thwarted ambition, misplaced loyalty and good and bad love. Secrets abound. Fabulously written and utterly compelling."
Chasing Marian (2022)
Amy Heydenrych, Qarnita Loxton, Pamela Power and Gail Schimmel
"Warm, funny and moving - I LOVED it!"
Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? (2022)
Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
"Warm and fun and sweet, great on female friendships and extended families."
Breaking Point (2022)
Edel Coffey
"A gripping, compulsive pageturner about what we expect from women, especially mothers. It's going to be a massive hit."
The Impossible Truths of Love (2021)
Hannah Beckerman
"WONDERFUL. I read The Impossible Truths of Love by Hannah Beckerman in one gulp. The intrigue at this book’s heart genuinely ‘got’ me."
Aisling And The City (2021)
(Aisling, book 4)
Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght
"Aisling is one of the finest comic creations of all time."
Magpie (2021)
Elizabeth Day
"A dark, sleek, ever-tightening spiral …Completely, terrifyingly BRILLIANT."
1979 (2021)
(Allie Burns, book 1)
Val McDermid
"Val McDermid is the absolute QUEEN. Allie is a fabulous character, I'll go wherever she takes me and I'm dying to see what she does next."
The Paper Palace (2021)
Miranda Cowley Heller
"It's glorious and gorgeous. I was absolutely immersed and gripped and I'm devastated to have finished it."
The Island of Missing Trees (2021)
Elif Shafak
"A writer of important, beautiful, painful, truthful novels."
Everyone is Still Alive (2021)
Cathy Rentzenbrink
"Incredibly tender and astonishingly insightful. I cared so deeply for the characters and read in genuine awe. An utter gem."
Before You Knew My Name (2021)
Jacqueline Bublitz
"The most wonderful book. Unusual, beautiful, feminist, gripping, deserves to win prizes. I loved it so much."
Bright Burning Things (2021)
Lisa Harding
"Absolutely dazzling . . . While the subject matter is dear to my heart, I'd have loved it even if I knew nothing about addiction. It's instantly engrossing. Sonya's emotional interiority is fascinating and compelling. I really cared about her and Tommy - they felt very real to me."
The Searcher (2020)
(Cal Hooper, book 1)
Tana French
"Completely, indescribably magnificent. Tana French is a pure genius."
Home Stretch (2020)
Graham Norton
"Graham Norton's new novel has me in floods... His gift for characterisation is positively Binchy-esque! Such nuance and warmth! It's GORGEOUS."
Ghosts (2020)
Dolly Alderton
"I loved it so much, I wanted it to go on forever, Dolly Alderton is so gifted at making people care. A rare talent."
The Thursday Murder Club (2020)
(Thursday Murder Club, book 1)
Richard Osman
"Smart, compassionate, warm, moving and so VERY funny. I smiled a million times. This book will make a lot of people very, very happy."
Imperfect Women (2020)
Perfect Strangers
Araminta Hall
"Rare and very refreshing ... a novel where middle-aged women are represented in all their wise, sensual, flawed complexity. I enjoyed it SO much."
Olive (2020)
Emma Gannon
"It'll give a voice to countless women . . . a profound issue wrapped inside an accessible, highly engaging novel."
Black Widows (2020)
Cate Quinn
"Oh my God, THIS BOOK! Mormon man - three wives, living survivalist lives - is murdered. Each wife is a suspect. I could NOT put it down!!! Utterly compelling, nuanced characterisation, such atmosphere. I LOVED it!"
Below the Big Blue Sky (2020)
Anna McPartlin
"Well, that was a tearjerker! Anna McPartlin's Below the Big Blue Sky is a MORE than worthy follow-up to The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes."
Growing Up for Beginners (2020)
Claire Calman
"A beautiful book, so compassionate...and ultimately very hopeful."
Remain Silent (2020)
(DS Manon Bradshaw, book 3)
Susie Steiner
"Manon Bradshaw is SUCH a great creation. [Remain Silent] is so spot-on about love, relationships, middle-age, being a woman. The plot … broke my heart. So MOVING."
A Tidy Ending (2020)
Joanna Cannon
"Original, macabre and the reveal of the twist made me laugh with shock and delight. Never less than intriguing, it had me holding my breath!"
A Theatre for Dreamers (2020)
Polly Samson
"Oh my god, this book! I don't have words to convey its brilliance."
Hamnet (2020)
Maggie O'Farrell
"Stunning. The writing is exquisite, immersive and compelling... deserves to win prizes."
It Started with a Secret (2020)
Jill Mansell
"It Started with a Secret by beloved Jill Mansell is gripping and incredibly comforting."
The Museum of Broken Promises (2019)
Elizabeth Buchan
"I ADORE cold-war novels and I live for love stories - The Museum of Broken Promises is a perfect combination of both. It's a gem of a book... beautiful, elegant."
How It Was (2019)
Janet Ellis
"You will love this - immersive, amazing, remarkable, I could barely breathe. I cried - and I never cry."
Inheritance (2019)
Jenny Eclair
"Oh my God, this book! I DEVOURED it! By comedian Jenny Eclair . . . It is SO immersive, atmospheric and compelling. I loved Jenny's last book Moving but this is in another league . . . I recommend it HIGHLY."
The Carer (2019)
Deborah Moggach
"Unputdownable, fun and tender with characters that jump off the page. Perfection."
Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss (2019)
Rajeev Balasubramanyam
"I loved this beautiful book. It's tender and compassionate, written with exquisite care and verve, and so so SO funny."
A Winter Kiss on Rochester Mews (2018)
(Lonely Hearts Bookshop, book 4)
Annie Darling
"Sweet, funny and lovely."
Melmoth (2018)
Sarah Perry
"This is a beautiful, devastating, brilliant book. It affected me so much I was shaking after I read it. The exquisite, immersive writing compelled me to keep reading even through the horrors described."
One Day in December (2018)
Josie Silver
"One Day in December is the SWEETEST love story. It's gorgeous, absolutely lovely. Readers are going to love it."
The Storm Keeper's Island (2018)
(Storm Keeper Quartet, book 1)
Catherine Doyle
"Magical ... An enchanting book. It's beautifully written."
The Ruin (2018)
(Cormac Reilly, book 1)
Dervla McTiernan
"Excellently written and at times, heartcatchingly sad."
Trying (2018)
Emily Phillips
"Funny, bittersweet and touching. Will resonate with anyone who is trying."
Seven Days of Us (2017)
Francesca Hornak
"LOVED it! Warm and humane, funny and sad, with a great, twisty plot, Seven Days of Us is absolute pleasure reading from beginning to end. Francesca Hornak is a true talent. Just gorgeous!"
The Early Birds (2017)
(Future Homemakers of America, book 2)
Laurie Graham
"Why is Laurie Graham not carried on people's shoulders through cheering crowds? Her books are brilliant!"
The Gingerbread House (2017)
Kate Beaufoy
"Moving, honest, and darkly comic, confronts an issue that has been taboo for too long."
The Summer Seaside Kitchen (2017)
The Cafe by the Sea
(Mure, book 1)
Jenny Colgan
"The sweetest, loveliest book. Gorgeous, glorious, uplifting."
The One That Got Away (2016)
Melissa Pimentel
"HUGELY enjoyable! Great fun, a gripping read, and very touching."
Summer Secrets (2015)
Jane Green
"I'm in AWE of Jane Green's talent. Summer Secrets is a gripping read, filled with twists."
The Flower Arrangement (2015)
Ella Griffin
"Ella Griffin can make you laugh and then cry in the turn of a page."
The Rosie Project (2013)
(Don Tillman, book 1)
Graeme Simsion
"Charming, funny, and heartwarming, a gem of a book."
Driving Sideways (2008)
Jess Riley
"Driving Sideways is a gorgeous novel . . . hugely entertaining and very touching. Jess Riley's voice is irreverent and wonderful, and her writing is genius."
Frenemies (2007)
Megan Crane
"Frenemies is a hugely enjoyable...It's romantic, funny, intelligent, believable and gripping. I couldn't put it down."
Cherries in the Snow (2005)
Emma Forrest
"A perfect balance of dark and light, edginess and color. Cherries in the Snow is smart, sassy, as sharp as a paper cut, and a massive pleasure to read."
Something Borrowed (2004)
(Adventures of Darcy, book 1)
Emily Giffin
"I absolutely loved it... I could not put it down."
A Perfect Life (2003)
Kate Thompson
"Kate Thompson's novels are sublimely addictive - insightful, stylish, romantic and funny."
The Lost Souls' Reunion (2002)
Suzanne Power
"A haunting book, a magical odyssey that takes you to another plane, that stays with you long after you have finished it."
Friends Indeed (2001)
Rose Doyle
"Beautifully written... enjoyable, entertaining, interesting, full of drama and unexpected twists."
To Be Someone (2001)
Louise Voss
"Beautifully written...by turns comic and poignant, about friendship, love and redemption. I loved it!"
Nice Girls Finish Last (1996)
(Robin Hudson, book 2)
Sparkle Hayter
"Sparkle Hater is a marvellous writer."
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