Praise for Girl in the Making ‘Devastating’ Anne Enright ‘Beautiful’ Louise Nealon ‘Magnificent‘ Aingeala Flannery ‘Masterful‘ Kathleen MacMahon [ About Girl in the Making ] Jean Kennedy is a gentle, perceptive girl growing up in a very strange world: suburban Dublin in the 1970s and ’80s. In the company of her mother, her Aunty Ida,…
‘Ravelling’s diverse, captivating cast of characters, rendered in pin-sharp dialogue reminiscent of Roddy Doyle, leaves the reader with an immersive sense of multi-cultural Ireland.’ (Publisher Quote) [ About Ravelling ] SET IN DUBLIN’S LIBERTIES, Estelle Birdy’s explosively original debut Ravelling channels the energies and agonies of young men let loose in the city, their city, navigating the tumultuous…
‘I had written just one word – there was not space for more. I had written only ‘hope’‘– Hope Never Knew Horizon [ About Hope Never Knew Horizon] Wexford County, 1891. The unlikely discovery of a beached blue whale sets in motion a series of events leading to the present-day re-installation of a fundamental piece…
‘I straighten the apron wrapped around my waist and swipe the key card in the guest room door. As I place the cleaning bucket by my feet, I see the woman lying unmoving on the plush carpet, her eyes frozen.‘– The Hotel Maid [ About The Hotel Maid ] Each morning, I arrive at the…
‘The Second World War may well be drawing to a close, but there is still espionage work for Stefan to do amid the chaos…’– The Dead City [ About The Dead City ] In this dead city, the vultures are circling… Berlin 1944. The beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. And the beginning of…
‘Is it possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever…’– Long Island [ About Long Island ] A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello’s door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since…
‘Edith Sloan returns to her beloved bookstore on Harvard Square and establishes a press for publishing poetry.’– The Hedgerow The Hedgerow by Anne Leigh Parrish published July 9th with Unsolicited Press and has been described as ‘an elegant, character-driven novel of paradoxes, revealing universal human truths‘. It is the sequel to An Open Door (October 2022),…
‘With a taste for the magical in everyday life, Evie Woods’s latest novel is full of ordinary characters with extraordinary tales to tell.‘– The Story Collector (Publisher Quote) [ About The Story Collector ] Thornwood Village, 1910 Anna, a young farm girl, volunteers to help an intriguing American visitor, Harold Griffin-Krauss, translate ‘fairy stories’ from…
‘A startling diasporic debut fiction for 2024 from a brilliant young Belfast voice‘– Exile (Publisher Quote) [ About Exile ] Endless nights out in Belfast pass by for Fiadh and her friends in an exhilarating blur of cheap vodka and crowded dancefloors as they celebrate the end of exams and start of university. But when…
‘In late 17th Century London rich young women are being kidnapped, then murdered. Harry Hunt, formerly of the Royal Society but now a rich gentleman, is falsely accused. To clear his name, he must rely on his abandoned scientific expertise and battle the full force of the British aristocracy’– The Bedlam Cadaver [ About Bedlam…