‘Retired internet slang interspersed with earnest remarks about how the light falls on my face.Compared to the inscrutable advances of younger men, it is a relief’– Luster [ About the Book ] Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, is sleeping with all the…
‘They don’t know this is the beginning, before everything else, and no one imagines death on their doorstep’– In The Dark [ About the Book ] Teruel, north-east Spain, winter, 1937. The civil war is raging, pitting neighbour against neighbour, tearing families apart. Franco’s Nationalist rebels have surrounded the devastated, Republican-held city. The people are…
She thought their life was perfect But it was all built onTHE PERFECT LIE [ About the Book ] He jumped to his death in front of witnesses. Now his wife is charged with murder. Five years ago, Erin Kennedy moved to New York following a family tragedy. She now lives happily with her detective…
‘A sinister story of fear and isolation told with imaginative flair. Mesmerising.’ -Michael RidpathSILENCED [ About the Book ] As a police team is called in to investigate a woman’s suicide at the Hólmsheiði prison outside Reykjavík, to detective Guðgeir Fransson it looks like a tragic but straightforward case. It’s only afterwards that the pieces…
‘Some bonds can never be broken’– The Promise [ About the Book ] One terrible moment changes everything for Irish teenagersKate and David. Brought together during the darkest of times, a spark of hope is ignitedbetween them – a handheld in the darkness, a promise whispered. Neither of them will everforget those moments. It’s another…
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION AND A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK– Because Of You [ About the Book ] Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock . . . midnight. As the old millennium turns into the new, two very different women give birth to two very similar daughters. Hope leaves with a beautiful baby girl.Anna leaves…
‘What happens when a virus is gender specific and 90% of the male population has died?’– The End of Men [ About the Book ] Glasgow 2025Dr Amanda Maclean is called to treat a young man with a mild fever. Within three hours he dies. This is how it begins.The mysterious illness sweeps through the…
‘A young woman can hear the dead – a talent which is both a gift and a curse’– Listening Still [ About The Book ] Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family…
‘My story would not be one of death and suffering and sacrifice. I would take my place in the songs that would be sung about Theseus: the princess who saved him and ended the monstrosity that blighted Crete’– Ariadne [ About the Book ] As Princesses of Crete and daughters of the fearsome King Minos,…
REUNIONSRECRIMINATIONSRECKONINGS– The Rules of Revelation [ About the Book ] Ireland. Great nationalists, bad mothers and a whole lot of secrets. And Ryan Cusack is ready to deliver its soundtrack. Former sex-worker Georgie wants the truth about Ryan’s past out there but the journalist has her own agenda. Mel returns from Brexit Britain, ill-equipped to…