'An absolute tour de force ... One of the most powerful writers at work today' COLIN WALSH'When the book burners knock on your door, this is one to hide in the flour barrel' ANNIE PROULX'I’ll read almost anything in sentences so finely made' SARAH MOSS'Songlike in its beauty ... A work of uncanny power and great depth' LOUISE KENNEDYFrom a rising star in literary fiction comes a story of two discoveries made deep in an Irish bogland, threading together four lives across time. When a dog finds a strange, alien antler in a restored bog, the owner’s first thought is to keep it for himself. But when he realises the value of his find, he is drawn back to the rich peat to keep searching. It is not one stag skeleton that is buried there, but dozens – an ancient dying ground of the Great Irish Elk.

Irish Times Best Fiction of 2026 'A painfully optimistic book that does the favour of making you laugh as it breaks your heart' Kenneth Branagh'A tender, elegant novel about the beauty and importance of friendship...One of the most moving books I've read in some time' John Boyne***A tender coming-of-age story about friendship, first love, loss, and facing the ultimate question: who am I going to be? For fans of Douglas Stuart, Michael Magee, David Nicholls and Andrew O'HaganBrendan's best friend, his only friend, is Ronan McCoy. He knows things about Brendan that no one else does: about his job washing the cars at Feeney's Funeral Home, about the loneliness he sometimes feels even when surrounded by hundreds of others at school. But Brendan never told Ronan about the dark feeling that sits at the bottom of his stomach, the feeling that tells him something bad is coming.

'Offbeat, ironic, humane and hilarious, Experts in a Dying Field is an earworm you ll be humming along to for a long time to come.' PAUL MURRAY 'A wonderfully evocative novel from a major storytelling talent. JOSEPH O'CONNOR Just pure joy and pure heartbreak and GENUINE LAUGHS all the way through. I cried a few times too. MARINA HYDE

THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NEW NOVEL FROM THE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE DUTCH HOUSE AND TOM LAKE 'Few writers are more adept than Patchett at delineating the collisions between present and past' Observer 'Whistler is top-shelf comfort food, the literary equivalent of pricey ice-cream' Guardian, Book of the Day __________

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025AN IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK'A warm, funny gem of a novel'LAURA HACKETT, THE TIMES'Masterful . . . I was delighted and moved'NEW YORK TIMES 'Immensely enjoyable'GUARDIAN'I can't praise it enough. It's an absolute triumph'CLARE CHAMBERS'What a novel! Tender, dry, sharp...devastating, but still feel good.'PANDORA SYKES 'Tremendous'FREDRIK BACKMAN'Shows us what a glorious thing growing older can be'FLORENCE KNAPP'The year's breakout novel no one saw coming'WALL STREET JOURNAL–Sybil Van Antwerp is seventy-three, slowly losing her sight and always writing letters . .