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FROM THE GLOBAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR '[Kingsolver] reminds us that a novel can be wildly entertaining and still have a social conscience' NEW YORK TIMES, '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' (on Demon Copperhead) You've taken Demon to your hearts, prepare for another 'emotionally raw, riotously...

Introduced by Sinéad Gleeson, John McGahern's Booker Prize-shortlisted Irish 'masterpiece' (Colm Tóibín) is essential reading for admirers of Claire Keegan. As he weakened, Moran became afraid of his daughters. Moran's life is defined by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the Irish...

With a new foreword by Kevin Barry, McGahern's 'timeless' (Sinéad Gleeson) novel of rural Irish life is perfect for admirers of Claire Keegan. When the bells rang out for Mass, the strokes trembling on the water, they had the entire world to themselves. Joe Ruttledge has returned to his native...

With a new foreword by Colin Walsh, this is 'one of the most volatile, vital and unsafe novels in Irish literature', banned by the censor for obscenity in 1965 - and just as explosive today. He was coming and there was nothing to do but wait and grow hard as stone and lie. Mahoney grows up in...

THE BOOK EVENT OF THE YEAR: An unprecedented blockbuster collaboration between MrBeast, the world's #1 creator with more than a billion followers, and James Patterson, the world's #1 bestselling author. In a world on the brink of collapse, one hundred players face off in a ruthless...

This beloved memoir of an Irish childhood by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of classics like Amongst Women is a 'healing book' (Sebastian Barry) 'McGahern is about as close as we get to Proust.' Guardian I am sure it is from those days that I take the belief that the best of life is life...

'A joyful and generative novel about running away to make a new home for a new self.' Sarah Moss 'An outstanding sense of place and inner space: unsettling as well as memorable.' Margaret Drabble 'Beneath the radical disquiet is a beautiful hymn to the hearts and minds of women.' Sarah Hall I...