‘Mountains are at once unmistakably present yet never truly fathomable.‘– Ghost Mountain [ About Ghost Mountain ] Ghost Mountain, is a simple fable-like novel about a mountain that appears suddenly, and the way in which its manifestation ripples through the lives of characters in the surrounding community. It looks at the uncertain fragile sense of…
‘Where the skin of the earth shudders into the foothills of the Shunhua mountains, in a clearing above the mist and fringed with frangipani, Mo Moore set up a factory which, to this day, makes happiness’– The Happiness Factory [ About the Book ] Mo Moore, estranged daughter of a sex-aid entrepreneur, regards her father…
‘She picketed Mass with a sign that read: “They killed my baby in Bessborough”’– Fallen [ About Fallen] When Michael Connolly was a child in the 1970s, his mother told him about all the things that happened to her in that place. All that the nuns had done. The doctors encouraged her to talk, and…
“His name was Joseph, but for years they had called him Panenka, a name that was his sadness and his story” [ About the Book ] Panenka has spent 25 years living with the disastrous mistakes of his past, which have made him an exile in his home town and cost him his dearest relationships.…
“I was the eldest, I should have stopped it. It wasn’t my idea but I still feel like it was my fault. There’s a difference and the difference is guilt”– Captain Jesus Well folks we are almost to the end of a year that has been like no other in recent times, a year when…
‘Those who are confined have the very best imaginations’– Saving Lucia [ About the Book ] How would it be if four silenced women went on a tremendous adventure, reshaping their pasts and futures as they went? What if one of those people were a fascinating, forgotten aristocratic assassin and another a fellow patient of…
“Anyone can say something beautiful in the moment. Anyone can deliver the right line. But that’s not real. That doesn’t prove anything. What matters is what a person is really like. What matters is what a person is prepared to reveal to you in real time in the real world, when there is no soundtrack…