Still functioning. Quietly breaking.From the outside, Alice looks fine.She's managing work, family, and responsibility - the person everyone depends on.Inside, she's exhausted.Caught in a cycle of anxiety, alcohol, and a relentless inner voice telling her she's not enough, Alice keeps promising herself she'll change... from Monday.There's no dramatic collapse. Just a slow erosion hidden behind competence, routines, and coping.

'A phenomenal book. It is going to be the biggest sports book of the year' Tommy Bowe'White Lines ... might just be the sporting autobiography of the year. It's a gripping read, full of sobering insights into professional rugby and life' The GuardianFrom the roar of packed stadiums to the silence of a prison cell, White Lines is the blazing true story of Ryan Caldwell - former Ulster, Ireland and Premiership rugby...

Brought to you by Penguin.**WINNER of the EU Prize for Literature**Dr Jonathan Murray fears his new-born daughter is not as harmless as she seems.Sammy Agnew is wrestling with his dark past, and fears the violence in his blood lurks in his son, too.The city is in flames and the authorities are losing control. As matters fall into frenzy, and as the lines between fantasy and truth, right and wrong, begin to blur, who will the...

Brought to you by Penguin.A thrilling and perplexing investigation of a true Victorian crime at Dublin railway station.Dublin, November 1856: George Little, the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus, is found dead, lying in a pool of blood beneath his desk.He has been savagely beaten, his head almost severed; there is no sign of a murder weapon, and the office door is locked, apparently from the inside. T...

Brought to you by Penguin.When several children from the same village start succumbing to a mysterious illness, the quest to discover the cause has devastating and extraordinary consequences.It is late June in Ballylack. Hannah Adger anticipates eight long weeks' reprieve from school, but when her classmate Ross succumbs to a violent and mysterious illness, it marks the beginning of a summer like no other.As others fall ill, questions about what - o...

A vivid and brutal reimagining of Homer's Iliad, set in the Troubles of the late twentieth-century.That was the start of it. A terrible business altogether. Oh, it was all kept off the news, for the sake of the talks and the ceasefire. But them that were around that part of the country remember every bit.Wait now till you hear the rest.Northern Ireland, 1996.After twenty-five years of conflict, the IRA and the Briti...

Tourists arrive all summer, by boat or seaplane, at Stu and Maureen Jenkins's Lavender Island Wilderness Lodge in the Kodiak Archipelago, expecting adventure. But the spontaneity of their authentic Alaskan wilderness experience is meticulously scripted, except when real danger rears its head. Stu and Maureen's lodge is failing, as is their marriage. Mira has been hired for the season as the lodge's baker and housekeeper. But she's also busy gleefully nursing twin obsessions: building a wor...

Brought to you by Penguin.**AN IMMERSIVE AND HEARTFELT EXPLORATION OF FAMILY AND LOVE'A beautiful bittersweet story of love, loss and families all set in the most irresistible of locations. Tears were shed!'** Graham Norton'A moving and powerful novel from one of Ireland's finest new writers' John Boyne****On an island off the west coast of Ireland, the Moone family are shattered by tragedy.

Brought to you by Penguin.'Haunting, mesmerising, and so deeply intelligent about the interwoven strengths and frailties of the human heart.' Kamila ShamsieHeartbroken after a long, painful love affair, a man takes a job driving a haulage lorry through France. Travelling with him is a secret passenger - his daughter. Twenty-something, unkempt, off the rails.With a week on the road together, man and girl must attempt to restore thems...

‘I invite you to be courageous and get comfortable with being uncomfortable, because any discomfort you feel is temporary and pales in comparison to what black and brown people often have to experience on a daily basis. Are you ready? Let’s get started, we have work to do.’The Good Ally is an urgent call to arms to become better allies against racism and provides a thoughtful approach, centering collective healing, to do so....

A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of the masters of the Golden Age – thrills, spills and chills perfect for Halloween.It is said that books are written to bring sunshine into our dull, grey lives – to show us places we want to escape to, lives we want to live, people we want to love. But there are also stories that can only be found in the deepest, darkest corners of the library. Stories about the unexpla...

THE FUNNY, INSPIRATIONAL MEMOIR THAT SHOWS YOU HOW TO STOP DRINKING AND START LIVING - BY THE AUTHOR OF THE AUTHENTICITY PROJECT'The best 'quit-lit' on the market' - Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'An excellent book. It will help a lot of people' - Lorraine KellyWith a highly successful career in advertising, Clare Pooley never expected to find herself an overweight, depressed, middle-aged mother of t...