Award-winning Dublin novelist

Fiction closeto the nerve.

Gavin Duff is the author of Ghosts and Gods and the forthcoming novel The Distance Between Homes.

Enter the work

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Two novels. Two very different worlds.— One body of work

01Published work

Debut novel · Published 2026

Ghosts and Gods

London, 2040. Marcus Cole is forty-seven, unemployed and increasingly isolated from his family.

Living in a freezing flat and surviving on gig work, Marcus finds companionship in an AI called Tom. As he is drawn towards a group of other men who feel abandoned, loneliness and grievance begin to harden into something more dangerous.

Ghosts and Gods explores isolation, radicalisation, artificial intelligence and the institutions that fail to notice people falling through the cracks.

PublisherWoodbridge Publishers

FormatPaperback · 394 pages

ISBN978-1-80704-573-9

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“The best speculative fiction does that. It takes a future and makes it feel like pressure on the chest.”

02Coming soon

A new novel by Gavin Duff

The DistanceBetween Homes

A contemporary literary novel about a fatal stabbing on a Dublin street and the invisible distances it opens between strangers, families and communities.

Told in a gritty, intimate Dublin voice, the novel explores grief, prejudice, housing, asylum, memory and the ways ordinary people are recruited into stories larger than themselves.

It asks whether truth can survive once a private human tragedy has been claimed by the media, the courts, politics and the crowd.

03About the author

About Gavin Duff.

Gavin Duff is an award-winning novelist based in Dublin. His debut novel, Ghosts and Gods, was published by Woodbridge Publishers in 2026.

His forthcoming novel, The Distance Between Homes, moves from near-future London to contemporary Dublin, exploring the consequences of a fatal stabbing for strangers, families and communities.

Dublin, Ireland

Award-winning fiction