*SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2024*

'Vivid, sensuous ... A subtle tale of loss, loneliness and disconnection'

PAUL LYNCH, IRISH INDEPENDENT

'Lush, lyrical and cleverly-constructed. A beautiful book'

LOUISE KENNEDY

'Beautifully written ... An unchained sea-melody of outsiders, pilgrims and castaways'

ANNE ENRIGHT

The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the last day of his life, Sheila Armstrong's debut novel is haunting, lyrical and...

'The best book you'll read this year' KILEY REID

'So beautiful' SARAH JESSICA PARKER

'One of those books I will read again and again' JOJO MOYES

'Moving, absorbing, evocative' SARA COLLINS

A crackling, comical, tender, and highly original novel about mental health, the certainties of medicine, buried trauma, love, death and time lost in the crushing – and comical – hopes of modern life

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Vita Woods is on the brink. She has a good job a...

A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, and an unforgettable dystopian vision of a familiar world in flames.

A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, and an unforgettable dystopian vision of a familiar world in flames

'Instantly immersive, beautifully imagined, this is an unflinching but inspiring story about some things we're going to lose, and other things we must never lose' Lee Child

'Left me breathless: it is a stunning, poetic, impelling story of love and surv...

This book will break your heart and help you piece it back together again; it is the next great love story for the ages.

Joseph and Evelyn's New England beach homes have been side by side for generations. And in the summer of 1941, on the shores where they were raised, these two childhood friends fell in love.

Now, more than sixty years later, with a lifetime between them, Joseph and Evelyn gather their three grown children to share the staggering news: She has received a t...

'A phenomenal new voice in historical fiction' Lizzie Pook

Deep in the woods, something is stirring.

When Miss Catherine Symonds arrives to take up a position as governess at remote Locksley Abbey in the foothills of the Black Mountains, where England bleeds into Wales, she is apprehensive.

It is not the echoing, near empty house with its skeleton staff that frightens her, nor the ancient woods that surround the Abbey or even the dogs that the owner, Sir Rowland, encourages to stalk the groun...

A dazzling historical debut set in eighteenth-century Venice, about the woman written out of the story of one of history's greatest musical masterpieces

'Enthralling, passionate, vivid. The Instrumentalist is a marvel' Kiran Millwood Hargrave

'I was swept away by this searing portrait of ambition and betrayal' Elizabeth Macneal

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Venice. 1704. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and desti...

A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul music - perfect for fans of Nick Hornby, David Nicholls and Jonathan Coe

Dinah has always lived in Scarborough. Trapped with her feckless husband and useless son, her one release comes at her town's Northern Soul nights, where she gets to put on her best and lose herself in the classics.

Dinah has an especial hero: Bucky Bronco, who recorded a string of soul gems in the late Six...

Based on two decades of original research and exclusive access to unpublished material, a ground-breaking biography from one of the world's most prominent James Baldwin scholars that uncovers the literary icon through the great loves of his life

'Ford's Frank Bascombe series stands as one of the finest achievements of modern American fiction. A fittingly mordant and brilliant conclusion' INDEPENDENT

In the run up to Christmas, we meet Frank Bascombe in the twilight of his days. He is a man who has occupied many colourful lives - sportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent - but now Frank finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all: caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter's odyss...

A brilliantly observed debut novel about two women in a small Irish community in 1994 - the year before divorce was made legal

'I loved this novel ... An addictive read' GILLIAN ANDERSON

'Moves between rage, forgiveness and hope ... A stonkingly good novel' SARAH WINMAN

'A beautiful, accomplished debut' LOUISE KENNEDY

It's 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colette Crowley - the writer, the bohemian, the woman who left her husband and sons to pursue a relationship ...