‘From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Days Without End and The Secret Scripture, and one of our most soulful living writers, Old God’s Time is an extraordinary novel about memory, love, mystery and reckoning.’ [ About Old God’s Time ] Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a…
‘She enjoyed answering questions when she felt she had the right answer, an approved answer. I understood that when I was very small, and could provide the prompts accordingly. Then talking to her was like a game, or a rhyme we were saying together.’– My Phantoms [ About the Book ] Helen Grant is a…
The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster– Small Things Like These [ About the Book ] It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to…
Russell Banks’ first new novel in a decade– FOREGONE [ About the Book ] At the center of Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Fife, now in his late seventies, is dying of cancer in Montreal…
“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.…
London 1858, John Ruskin is an eccentric genius famed cross Britain.An obsession with a young student changes the course of his life forever– Unto This Last [ About the Book ] “Men ought to be severely exercised and disciplined in daily life, they should learn to lie on stone beds and eat black soup, but…
In a world of what-ifs…..a connection has been made.– Eleven Lines to Somewhere [ About the Book ] When Ryan spots a young woman on the tube on his commute, he can’t take his eyes off her. Instantly attracted and intrigued, he’s keen to find out more about his mysterious fellow passenger. The woman he…
‘Three women in their 70s – bruised by life, discarded by society, bursting with anger – reunite for one last, life changing weekend’– The Weekend [ Book Description ] Sylvie, Jude, Wendy and Adele have a lifelong friendship of the best kind: loving, practical, frank and steadfast. But when Sylvie dies, the ground shifts dangerously…
“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…
‘Accessible, acerbic, smart, fun and full of wit.Poised to be the hottest debut of 2020′– Exciting Times [ Book Description ] When you leave Ireland aged 22 to spend your parents’ money, it’s called a gap year. When Ava leaves Ireland aged 22 to make her own money, she’s not sure what to call it,…