Internationally acclaimed Irish novelist Sally Rooney has announced that she is being forced to withdraw her books from sale in the United Kingdom. This is due to her support for the direct action protest group Palestine Action, which the British government proscribed as a terrorist organisation in June 2025.
Rooney is one of the most visible and exciting literary novelists of the past decade. Her novels have largely focused on nuanced, psychologically acute portrayals of young adult relationships. She uses these often fraught and ambiguous romantic entanglements as a lens for exploring the complexities and cultural anxieties of life in the 21st century.
