[ About Happy, Thank You. More, Please.] When I was twenty-one, a woman introduced me to five magic words that changed my life: Happy, thank you. More, please.Kyla Cobbler’s path to self-love hasn’t run smoothly. From making questionable dating decisions, to using booze to quell her constant Irish state of mortification, to getting arrested for…
[ About Make Strange ] It begins on an orange afternoon, cool but ruminant, close to Halloween. Sunny, only four years old, looks up from the tub of toys in the living room and asks, ‘Mama, do you remember when I died?’ Over the strange, strained year that follows, Sunny will refer repeatedly to her…
[ About Clara and Christina ] Two women meet in an unassuming coffee shop in Belfast; they seem an unlikely pair. Clara is young, inquisitive, optimistic for what the meeting holds. Christina is older, in her seventies, still glamorous, still quick. She is working on her fifth novel but no one yet knows of its…
[ About the Book ] In the city of Cork, a derelict Victorian mental hospital is being converted into modern apartments. One passerby has always flinched as she passes the place. Had her birth occurred in another decade, she too might have lived within those walls. Now, she notices a sign: FOR SALE. It is…
[ About Our London Lives ] 1979. In the vast and often unforgiving city of London, two Irish outsiders seeking refuge find one another: Milly, a teenage runaway, and Pip, a young boxer full of anger and potential who is beginning to drink it all away. Over the decades their lives follow different paths, interweaving…
[ About A Fatal Love ] It is Easter Sunday in 1955 and a young man lies face-down on the ground covered in blood. A woman, blonde and petite, stands over him with a gun in her hand. This is the story of Ruth Ellis as never told before… As Ruth awaits her trial in…
[ About The Taken ] Fourteen years ago, one hot Dublin summer, a little boy was snatched from his garden. Six weeks later, a girl was abducted from her mother’s car. The case of these stolen children has haunted DS Lucy Golden ever since. But now, a breakthrough… DNA recovered from a recent robbery is…
[ About Apeirogon ] How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live? Rami and Bassam live in the city of Jerusalem – but exist worlds apart, divided by an age-old conflict. And yet they have one thing in common. Both are fathers; both are fathers of daughters – and both…
[ About The Wrath ] You will not know the day, or the hour, but I am coming for you… When DS Lucy Golden discovers an abandoned car showing signs of a recent and bloody escape, the race is on to find the injured occupant, who must be somewhere close by on the Irish island of Achill.…
[ About The City in Year Zero ] Nothing thrived here, but something grew… Germany, 1945. Year Zero. The war is at an end. When Ireland’s ambassador to the Third Reich finally leaves the war-torn country, Garda detective Stefan Gillespie makes his way home under the watchful eye of British Intelligence, who are searching for some…