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‘Truly a book for our time’ PAUL LYNCHFROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE SPECKLED PEOPLEFleeing his failed marriage in Berlin, Lukas Dorn revisits the West of Ireland, the place of his honeymoon two decades earlier. While his former wife is being cancelled at work and his daughter is arrested at a street protest, he tries to make sense of his broken life with a journal as his sole companion. His inherited memory of the Nazi Holocaust comes face to face with the present when he meets a refugee from a recent warzone.
As Lukas communes with the elements in this wild coastal place, he is forced into a confrontation with the past that will carry him to the edge of existence. Conversation with the Sea speaks with heart-rending tenderness to the present moment, as it explores truth, illusion and the deadly silencing of war in a captivating tale of love in a time of displacement. ‘Told with Hamilton’s signature purity of tone, an epic story about how love and history intersect.’ ANNE ENRIGHT’I don’t think I’ve ever read a book as wise, or as moving.
I will treasure it forever.’ DONAL RYAN’Hypnotic, passionate, urgent … Hamilton cuts a clean line to the truth of our mindless moment.’ PAUL LYNCH
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Sara and Marcus hide in forests and abandoned houses, fighting to survive extreme weather events and the violent gangs that hunt for people and resources. Both are parents but only Sara has hope that her children are still alive.
When she realises she needs Marcus’ help to find her family, their journey becomes fraught with complication. A brief encounter with a pregnant woman changes everything as she grapples with the complex nature of risk and the reliability of her own instincts.
As she moves through the shadows, Sara discovers that fear can deliver freedom, love transcends loss and to kill means to live another day.
“Wrenchingly brutal and infused with hope, this novel is a timely, visceral reminder to take nothing that is dear to us for granted.”
~ Kate Winter
“Suspenseful and tense, Charleton narrates a story of loss and survival and the persistence of community. Urgent, tender and terrifyingly close to home, it is impossible to put down.”
~ Una Mannion
“The suspense had me on edge from the start. Absolutely gripping, had me hooked”
~ Patience Dube
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She left to find freedom, only to discover everything she needed was waiting at home.
At seventeen, Colette Keogh wants nothing more than to escape. Escape the family farm in the west of Ireland. Escape her mother’s criticism. Escape a future that feels like it’s already been written. But when her father suffers a stroke, her plans turn to dust. School is over. The city must wait. The farm – and her family – need her now.
Then Robbie enters her life. Kind, steady and nothing like the boys she’s known before, Robbie makes Colette feels seen for the first time. But one tragic decision and a wave of grief upend everything. Robbie is gone, and Colette is left to navigate a life she no longer recognises.
A move to Dublin promises the glamour Colette longs for, but the reality is far from what she imagined. And when a new friendship reignites her connection to the land, Colette begins to wonder if the life she ran from was the one she was meant to build all along.
Hiding from the Heart is a tender, emotionally rich story of first love, family duty and the quiet power of coming home.
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It is 1895, and turn-of-the-century Paris is as chaotic as it is glamorous. Industry and invention have created ever greater wealth and terrible poverty. One autumn morning, an anarchist boards the Granville to Paris express train, determined to make her mark on history.
Aboard the train are others from across the globe: the railway crew who have built a life together away from their wives, a little boy travelling alone for the first time, an artist far from home, a wealthy statesman and his invalid wife, and a young woman with a secret hidden under her dress.
All their fates are bound together as the train speeds towards the City of Light …
Inspired by a famous rail disaster, The Paris Express is a thrilling ride and a literary masterpiece that evokes an era not so different from our own.
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Fennell, a journalist, is in pursuit of a story buried at the bottom of the sea: the network of tiny fibre-optic tubes that carry the world’s information across the ocean floor – and what happens when they break. So he has travelled to Cape Town to board the George Lecointe, a cable repair vessel captained by Chief of Mission John Conway. Conway is a talented engineer and fearless freediver – and Fennell is quickly captivated by this mysterious, unnerving man and his beautiful partner, Zanele.
As the boat embarks along the west coast of Africa, Fennell learns the rhythms of life at sea, and finds his place among the band of drifters who make up the crew. But as the mission falters, tensions simmer – and Conway is thrown into crisis. A terrible, violent tragedy is unfolding in the life he has left behind on land; and, trapped out at sea, it seems as if the vast expanse of the ocean is closing in.
Then Conway disappears; and Fennell must set out to find him. As taut and propulsive as a thriller, and a timeless exploration of narrative and truth, Twist is the work of a master storyteller at the height of his powers.
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I’m just not sure how toWhat?Manage all this. All what? Well you and her. It’s 1995.
Outside the filthy window, the city rushes by. But up in the flat, there is only Eily and Stephen, 19 and 40. Only their bodies, the churning bedsheets.
Pagodas of takeaway boxes. The total obsession of new love. 18 months later, and the flat feels different.
Their world is merging with the common place. The scars of the past are intruding. Stray emotions you’ve neglected to secure.
Ambitions and secrets still to confess. And now Gracie, Stephen’s 17-year-old daughter, is about to arrive. The city changes its face.
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A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST DEBUT OF 2025
Mairead works all hours in a run-down West End theatre’s wardrobe department, her whole existence made up of threads and needles, running errands to mend shoes, fixing broken zips and handwashing underwear. She must also do her best to avoid groping hands backstage and the terrible bullying of the show’s producer.
But, despite her skill and growing experience, half of Mairead remains in her windy, hedge-filled home in Ireland, and the life she abandoned there. In noughties London, she has the potential to be somebody completely new – why, then, does she feel so stuck? Between the bustling side streets of Soho, and the wet grass of Leitrim and Donegal, Mairead is caught, running from the girl she was but unable to reveal the woman she’d hoped to become.
Told with rare honesty and equal measures of warmth and bite, The Wardrobe Department is a story about reckoning with the past, finding the courage to change the present – and asking what comes next.
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‘Domestic noir at its finest.’ I PAPER
‘The Cleaner is a masterclass in tension.‘ – JENNIE GODFREY, Sunday Times bestselling author of The List of Suspicious Things
‘Beautiful, dark, visceral, truly spellbinding.‘ – ANDREA MARA, Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author
‘Taut, twisty and beautifully atmospheric.‘ – KIA ABDULLAH, author of Waterstones Thriller of the Month Those People Next Door
It’s not dust she’s looking for.
It’s dirt.
Esmie is supposed to be invisible. Just a cleaner with a foreign accent that no one quite has time to place.
Her uniform of leggings and a duster allows her to explore the homes of the wealthy, unseen; an outsider creeping around the edges of privilege.
But as she sweeps through the exclusive Woodlands gated neighbourhood, cleaning is the last thing on her mind. Treading silently over the polished wooden floorboards and cloud-soft carpets, Esmie gathers up the mess of broken marriages, quiet deceptions and careless failures. She tucks away their fragments, keeping them safe.
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‘Compulsive reading. Compassionate, lyrical and full of devilment’ Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses
1973. In a close-knit community on Ireland’s west coast, a baby is found abandoned on the beach.
Named Brendan Bonnar by Ambrose, the fisherman who adopts him, Brendan will become a source of fascination and hope for a town caught in the storm of a rapidly changing world.
Ambrose, a man more comfortable at sea than on land, brings Brendan into his home out of love. But it’s a decision that will fracture his family and force him to try to understand himself and those he cares for.
Bookended by the arrival and departure of a single mesmerizing boy, Garrett Carr’s The Boy From the Sea is an exploration of the ties that make us and bind us, as a family and community move irresistibly towards the future.
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After years of moving from place to place, a young family finds shelter in an isolated house in the Irish countryside. Their father is missing, Mum is a healer and B a formidable big sister. In his strange new territory, a wild little boy gives voice to his experience.
Jerry Drain, a local famer, is stealing hay from the barn, someone is making nasty phone calls to the house at night and darkness is gathering at the edges of their lives. With his ferocious imagination the boy will do everything in his power to protect his family. But Jerry will not go away and Mum seems to be falling under his spell.
It will be a year of major wins and baffling defeats for the boy, as Jerry’s true nature insists on revealing itself. Dark, funny, tender and raw, Frogs for Watchdogs thrums with the intensity of childhood. Above all, it is an ode to the blended family: the bewildering joy, wary safety and profound new bonds of love.
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The brand-new novel from million-copy bestseller and national treasure Graham Norton – a dazzling, decades-sweeping story about love, bravery and what it means to live a significant life.
Always on the periphery, looking on, young Frankie Howe was never quite sure enough of herself to take centre stage – after all, life had already judged her harshly. Now old, Frankie finds it easier to forget the life that came before. Then Damian, a young Irish carer, arrives at her London flat, there to keep an eye on her as she recovers from a fall.
A memory is sparked, and the past crackles into life as Damian listens to the story Frankie has kept stored away all these years. Travelling from post-war Ireland to 1960s New York – a city full of art, larger than life characters and turmoil – Frankie shares a world in which friendship and chance encounters collide. A place where, for a while, life blazes with an intensity that can’t last but will perhaps live on in other ways and in other people.
But as Frankie’s past slowly emerges, her spirit and endurance are revealed as undeniable . . .
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From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties – successful, competent and apparently unassailable.
But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women – his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother.
Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude – a period of desire, despair and possibility – a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
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Before dawn on a cold, miserably wet Irish morning, Arthur Cummins arrives absurdly early for his wedding to rich girl, Hilary Fenton. He virtually breaks into the church to get out of the rain and falls
over a murdered corpse in the apse.
Arthur is desperate for the wedding to go ahead. He has borrowed money from the sinister Gizzard Man and is counting on a large cash wedding gift from Hilary’s daddy to clear the debt. But a body in the body of the church is certain to end the happy day before it begins.
Arthur makes a spur-of-the-moment decision and hides the body in
the basement, to be discovered some time in the future.
Then everything spirals rapidly downwards, and Arthur finds himself the main suspect for the murder. And developing an unbefitting crush on investigating detective Francine Bluett only complicates matters.
Enlisting the help of his offbeat friend Tom Farrington, and his now ex-fiancée Hilary, Arthur unwittingly wades deeper into a world of violence and betrayal.
A dark and humorous tale of murder, a spoiled wedding and an almost love affair
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‘A glitzy, glamorous rollercoaster of a romance – hugely entertaining and so satisfying . . .
Sheila O’Flanagan at her sparkling best’ Veronica HenryThe irresistible, utterly satisfying new contemporary novel from No. 1 bestselling Sheila O’FlanaganIzzy is in the Caribbean on the honeymoon-that-isn’t after her fiancé broke her heart. She’s not looking for someone new.
But when she meets Charles Miller, a successful writer holidaying alone, the electricity is undeniable. And what does she have to lose? In Ireland, Charles’s ex-wife and agent Ariel flits from party to party, glamorous and poised. She’s in constant contact with Charles.
They’re very close. Ariel wonders if they should get back together. She’s an independent woman, but she liked being part of a power couple.
And she’s sure she only has to say, and they’ll pick up where they left off. No matter how in control of life you think you are, it can shock and surprise you. As Izzy, Ariel and Charles are about to find out .
. . Sheila O’Flanagan’s new novel tells a compelling and thought-provoking story about two strong women, one complicated man, and the secrets and dreams that draw them together – with explosive consequences .
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How do you rebuild a world that seems to be falling apart? Nealon returns to his family home in Ireland after a long time away, only to be greeted by a completely empty house. No heat or light, no sign of his wife or child anywhere. It seems the world has forgotten that he even existed.
The one exception is a persistent caller on the telephone, someone who seems to know everything about Nealon’s life, his recent bother with the law and, more importantly, what has happened to his family. All Nealon needs to do is talk with him. But the more he talks the closer Nealon gets to the same trouble he was in years ago, tangled in the very crimes of which he claims to be innocent.
Part roman noir, part metaphysical thriller, This Plague of Souls is a story for these fractured times, dealing with how we might mend the world, and the story of a man who would let the world go to hell if he could keep his family together.
