‘Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth – all as a decade of […]
‘“Holy Mother who knows so much. Help me for I’m destroyed in the heart. Tell me is it love to be like this. That measures me on my days like the shadow on the mountain.” On a remote island off the West coast of Ireland in the 1970s, young farmer Miceal catches sight of a […]
‘Naïma has always known that her family came from Algeria – but up until now, that meant very little to her. Born and raised in France, her knowledge of that foreign country is limited to what she’s learned from her grandparents’ tiny flat in a crumbling French sink estate: the food cooked for her, the […]
‘Betrayal. Magic. Murder. A tale of three siblings and three deadly sins. King Cador’s children inherit a land abandoned by the Romans, torn by warring tribes. Riva can cure others, but can’t heal her own scars. Keyne battles to be seen as the king’s son, although born a daughter. And Sinne dreams of love, longing […]
‘Jack Boughton – prodigal son – has been gone twenty years. He returns home seeking refuge and to make peace with the past. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold down a job, Jack is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton’s most beloved child. […]
‘Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West, felling the trees that feed the railways. It is the start of the twentieth century, and the world is changing at a rapid pace. Life is fragile in the wilds of the frontier; disease and forest fires are rife. Buffeted by the loss of his […]
‘These sixteen stories follow a cast of characters destined to navigate a world that is by turns perplexing, intriguing, threatening. What to Put in a Suitcase evokes a rich variety of people and situations: a suburban dinner party whose hosts harbour a troubling secret; a childhood prank in 1940s Dublin with tragic consequences that reverberate […]
‘Cormac is a photographer. Approaching forty and still single, he suddenly finds himself “the leftover man”. Through talent and charm, he has escaped small town life and a haunted family. But now his peers are all getting divorced, dying or buying trampolines in the suburbs. Cormac is dating former students, staying out all night and […]
‘Selin is the luckiest person in her family: the only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it’s her second year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: she has to figure out the meaning of everything that happened over the […]
‘Here is Samuel Beckett in the last stage of life in 1989, living in Le Tiers-Temps retirement home in Paris. He has become part of his own drama productions, waiting for the end with strange, unhinged individuals. Yell, Sam, If You Still Can is richly people with phantoms and spectres. Diary notes, clinical reports, daily […]