‘Marcus Conway is dead. But sometimes, on All Souls’ Day, the dead return to us. Set in the West of Ireland as the recession is about to strike, Solar Bones tells the story of one man’s experience as his world falls apart. A beautiful and haunting elegy, this novel of order and chaos, love and […]
.Acclaimed on publication as a contemporary classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphans growing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America. Abandoned by a succession of relatives, the sisters find themselves in the care of Sylvie, the remote and enigmatic sister of their dead mother. […]
‘Once upon a time there was a crow who wanted nothing more than to care for a pair of motherless children… In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother’s sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In […]
‘It’s late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost; a daughter has gone missing; their world has come asunder. Can it be put together again? Night Boat to Tangier is a novel drenched in sex and death […]
‘Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation – awkward but electrifying – something life-changing begins. Normal People is a story of mutual […]