**An Irish Sunday Independent Book of the Year Pick for 2025!**Shortlisted for The New Adult Book Prize 2026!'Caragh Maxwell is a writer to watch.' Irish Examiner'Unsparing and affectionate.' Anne Enright, author of The Wren, The Wren'Utterly compelling, authentic and raw.' Una Mannion, author of A Crooked TreeFor fans of Sally Rooney and Megan Nolan comes a remarkable new Irish debut about growing ...

For fans of Sally Rooney and Megan Nolan comes a remarkable debut about a young woman who returns to her Irish hometown to find that nothing has changed, except herselfSaoirse’s life has lost what little direction it once had. Forced to move back in with her mother after a bad breakup, she finds herself living alongside three younger sisters she barely knows. Worse still, the brittle, distant woman who raised her is gone, replaced by a doting mother who showers her younger children...

How far would you go for a year off work . . . ?‘I raced through it’ – Daily Mail‘Brilliantly original and hilariously executed’ – Rosie Walsh, author of The Love of My LifeMeet Barri Brown. Respected teacher. Upstanding citizen of Guernsey. Down for a bit of law-breaking . . .At thirty-five, Barri spends her time slaving away as a teacher, getting passed over for promotion...

An exhilarating debut novel about a life-changing romance in the long shadow of European history, inspired by the author's real discovery‘Stunningly good’ Julia Boyd‘You won’t be able to put it down’ Samantha Rose Hill‘Worthy of reading and rereading’ BookpageHarvard, 1996. Anna is about to graduate when she falls in love with Christoph, a German student visiting campus. As she visits...

The funny, propulsive new novel about hating your friends, hating what they bring out in you, hating how you pander to them, the perfect satirical summer read for fans of Emma Cline, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Ottessa Moshfegh.Longlisted for the 2026 Brooklyn Public Library Book PrizeA LitHub most anticipated book of 2025‘Exceptionally funny and entertaining’ Katy Hessel, bestselling author of The Story of A...

The Global Bestseller from the International Booker Prize-shortlisted Author of Fever DreamA young mother steps into the water, determined to end her life. What will bring her back?For a single moment, a baby is left unattended in a room of everyday dangers.In a high-rise apartment block, in a city far from home, a ghost appears.When a lonely woman acts on a kind impulse the consequences will be dark, bold and revelatory.**F...

When 73-year-old matriarch Magnolia Chen sweeps into the family Chinese New Year celebration with a woman on her arm that she introduces as her girlfriend, shockwaves ripple through the room. But her 16-year-old granddaughter Izzy, black sheep of the clan, is far more intrigued than angry.Later that evening Magnolia begins to tell Izzy her story: sent from Indonesia to Los Angeles in her teens, she met Ellery O'Shea, her best friend, her safe space, the love of her life. What unfol...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 'Spellbinding' THE TIMES 'An exquisite, languorous novel' OBSERVER 'Heartstoppingly vivid' OISÍN MCKENNAA radiant novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer – about family, desire, and what we inherit – from celebrated author Tash Aw.When his grandfather dies, a boy named Jay travels south with his family to the prope...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NEW ADULT BOOK PRIZE 2026'[A] clever and provocative debut ... smart and engaging – like Nineteen Eighty-Four crossed with Never Let Me Go.' Daily Mail'A compelling and disturbing story of love and sacrifice, control and resistance.' GuardianOnce the process begins, ther...

When two quiet men form a tentative connection neither knows where it might lead. M has inherited his family's ironmongery business and B is younger by eleven years and can see no future in the place where he has grown up, but when M offers him a job and lodgings, he accepts. As the two men work side by side in the shop, they also begin a life together in their one shared room above - the kind of life they never imagined possible and that risks everything if their public performance were t...

**Tender and profoundly moving, The Amendments is the story of three Irish women over four decades, a love story, and a family drama that will break your heart.‘An extraordinary achievement. The Amendments is about a lot of things - love, family, girlhood, growing up, sex, legacy, compassion - all blended into a moving plot’** - Jessie Burton, author of The MiniaturistNell and her partner Adrienne are about to have a baby. For Adrienne, parenthood...

**THE SMASH-HIT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, PERFECT FOR FANS OF DEMON COPPERHEAD'Bloody awful? Bloody brilliant, more like' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Pure joyous storytelling on every page … A little treasure of a book' FREDRIK BACKMAN'A delight from start to finish' JENNIE GODFREY'Flawless ... So sharp, so beguiling, so acutely observed' GUARDIAN**WINNER OF THE AUGUST PRIZE FOR FICTIONChristmas, 1983. In the afte...