Home ⋅ Published Books ⋅ About Sisterland

About Sisterland
Share by Email Share on Messenger Share on Whatsapp Share on Whatsapp

By: Martina Devlin
Publisher: Poolbeg Press Ltd
Published: March 2016
Pages: 390
Categories: Fiction
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
On sale at:
ISBN-13: 9781781999196
ASIN: 1781999198

Welcome to Sisterland. A world ruled by women. A world designed to be perfect Here, women and men are kept separate. Women lead highly controlled and suffocating lives, while men are subordinate used for labour and breeding.Sisterland s leaders have been watching Constance and recognise that she s special. Selected to reproduce, she finds herself alone with a man for the first time. But the mate chosen for her isn t what she expected and she begins to see a darker side to Sisterland. Constance s misgivings about the regime mount. Is she the only one who questions this unequal society, or are there other doubters? Set in the near future, About Sisterland is a searing, original novel which explores the devastating effects of extremism.

Other Books From this Category

View More From This Category

Other Books From this Author

  • 3 Oct 2025 - The Lilliput Press Ltd

    Charlotte: A Novel

    By Martina Devlin

    Charlotte Brontë dazzled the world with some of literature’s most vital, richly-drawn characters. She spent her brief but extraordinary life in search of love – and eventually found it with Arthu...

  • 12 Sep 2024 - The Lilliput Press Ltd

    Charlotte: A Novel

    By Martina Devlin

    Charlotte Brontë dazzled the world with some of literature’s most vital, richly-drawn characters. She spent her brief but extraordinary life in search of love – and eventually found it with Arthu...

  • 12 May 2022 - The Lilliput Press Ltd

    Edith

    By Martina Devlin

  • 5 May 2022 - The Lilliput Press Ltd

    Edith

    By Martina Devlin

    Martina Devlin, an award-winning columnist for the Irish Independent and podcaster for Dublin City of Literature City of Books, has delivered a new novel based on the life of Edith Somerville of 'Some...

  • 1 Oct 2018 - Poolbeg Press Ltd

    'Truth and Dare: Stories About Women Who Shaped Ireland'

    By Martina Devlin

    Leaders. Rebels. Pioneers. Short stories about some of Ireland's trailblazing women by award-winning writer Martina Devlin. In this collection we encounter Countess Markievicz back from the dead to...

  • 20 Sep 2017 - New Island Books

    'Dogs Enjoy the Morning'

    By Martina Devlin, Benedict Kiely

    Dogs Enjoy the Morning is an uproarious novel full of weird and wonderful characters set in Cosmona, a fictitious village somewhere in Ireland . . . The doctor and his loving wife are secretly watc...

  • 9 Sep 2015 - Ward River Press

    About Sisterland

    By Martina Devlin

    Welcome to Sisterland. A world ruled by women. A world designed to be perfect Here, women and men are kept separate. Women lead highly controlled and suffocating lives, while men are subordinate used ...

  • 27 May 2015 - Poolbeg

    The House Where it Happened

    By Martina Devlin

    It is 1711, and the Ulster-Scots community in a remote corner of Ireland is in turmoil. A pretty young newcomer is accusing one woman after another of witchcraft. But Ellen, the serving girl in the ho...

  • 27 Oct 2014 - eBookPartnership.com

    The Hollow Heart: The true story of one woman's desire to give life and how it almost destroyed her

    By Martina Devlin

    In three attempts at in-vitro fertilization Martina Devlin lost nine embryos. Or nine 'maybe babies' as she thought of them. But she also lost her marriage and her dreams of being a mother. The Ho...

  • 30 Jan 2014 - Harper

    Be Careful What You Wish For

    By Martina Devlin

    From the author of THREE WISE MEN, a wise, funny and uplifiting novel of women, men, love and friendship. Have you ever had a secret you couldn't even tell your very best friend? Molly and Helen...

  • 9 Sep 2010 - Hodder Headline Ireland

    Banksters

    By David Murphy (MA, MSc), Martina Devlin

    How A Powerful Elite Destroyed Ireland's Wealth 1929...On Wall Street, during the worst financial crisis the world had ever seen, the word "Banksters" was coined to describe those ruthless individuals...

  • 2 Jul 2010 - Harper Collins

    Three Wise Men

    By Martina Devlin

    A warm, witty and wise novel about love, friendship and being in your thirties. Gloria, Eimear and Kate have been friends since they were a trio of six-year-olds cast as the Three Wise Men in the n...

  • 22 May 2009 - Hachette Ireland

    Banksters

    By Martina Devlin, David Murphy (MA, MSc)

    1929... On Wall Street, during the worst financial crisis the world had ever seen, the word "Banksters" was coined to describe those ruthless individuals who had gambled away the country's wealth. ...

  • 25 Mar 2008 - Poolbeg

    Ship of Dreams

    By Martina Devlin

    A group of people meet on one of the Titanic's lifeboats, saved from death by random chance. These survivors, from different nationalities and walks of life, have only one factor in common: all have s...

  • 14 May 2004 - Poolbeg

    Temptation

    By Martina Devlin

    One thing Kitty Kennedy learnt from her two marriages was that not all men and women were meant to live together..forever. Alone again on New Year's Day Kitty is inspired with the ideal New Year's re...

  • 15 Jul 2003 - Poolbeg

    Venus Reborn

    By Martina Devlin

    "There is no shame in being adopted. It means you were wanted. And chosen." Venus Macken is back in Ireland after more than a decade in London, but she has mixed feelings about the move. Except ... h...

View More From This Author

About Us

Irish Interest in based on one very simple idea: to bring the contents of any Irish bookshop to people everywhere, especially those outside Ireland who do not have the possibility of keeping abreast of new books published in Ireland. The Irish Interest web platform is purely a provider of information about new publications. The aim of the site is to have every publishing house in Ireland adding their latest titles as they become available. Hyperlinks to each title bring users of the site directly to the publisher's web area or to a sales site where books can be purchased.

Privacy Policy

Irishinterest.ie and its owners strive at all times to preserver the privacy of all personal information stored on its website and servers. Information deemed to be private and confidential will not be communicated to any parties or divulged in any way. Cookies and similar technologies Irishinterest.ie and its owners are not responsible for external data collection entities. Third party sites with access to Irishinterest.ie may be able to acquire or assimilate data. Cookies and similar technologies can be utilized by third parties accessing our site without our knowledge.

Terms & Conditions

Irishinterest.ie, Irishinterest.com, and its owners take no responsibility for information issued on its site that is posted by third parties. It is the sole responsibility of the third parties who utilize the site for publication of any information to ensure that such information is correct and does not infringe laws and the rights of others who may be affected by publication of such information. Disputed material will be removed pending clarification.