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** SOLDIER SAILOR - THE NEW NOVEL BY CLAIRE KILROY - IS AVAILABLE NOW** 'Compelling.' The Times 'Written with such verve and confidence . . . impossible not to enjoy.' 5* reader review 'This is my favourite book.' 5* reader review Anna Hunt has lost her memory and is on the run. From who and what she is unsure, but trapped in the present she seems certain of only one thing - she is somehow linked to the stolen painting currently being restored in the National Gallery. In a wonderfully unsettling first novel, Claire Kilroy manages to combine beautiful, poetic prose with the menacing atmosphere of a thriller as she explores themes of memory, violence, art and escape. PRAISE FOR SOLDIER SAILOR: 'Intense, furious, moving and often extremely funny.' DAVID NICHOLLS 'Astonishing.' Observer 'So powerful.' MONICA ALI 'Exceptionally good [it] sizzles and crackles with life.' The Times 'A huge, small book.' ANNE ENRIGHT 'I lived and breathed beside her narrator. A furious, muffled shout of a book.' DAISY JOHNSON
An urgent, memorable, gut-wrenching novel about motherhood, creativity and identity which is sure to get people talking.
In exile after being ousted from the family castle, recovering alcoholic Tristram St. Lawrence finds himself back in Dublin when an old acquaintance pitches a development project that his sponsor, a mysterious businessman, supports.
** SOLDIER SAILOR - THE NEW NOVEL BY CLAIRE KILROY - IS AVAILABLE NOW** 'Captivating ' Irish Times 'Revealing and elegant' Financial Times 'Masterful.' Sunday Tribune Eva Tyne, an Irish violinist living and working in New York, collapses after her solo debut and is rushed to hospital. Still dazed after the incident, she finds herself embarked on a chaotic and dangerous odyssey. Leaving her steady partner, she quickly falls in love with a mysterious man, and shortly thereafter comes across a rare violin of dubious provenance, for which she must raise the required payment in cash in less than a week. But, haunted by the ghost of her father, racked with jealousy, and unsure whom she can trust a...
Set in the Dublin of the mid 1980s - gripped by a heroin epidemic and light years from the post EU economic boom of today - All Names Have Been Changed tells the story of a small group of mature students on a writing course at Trinity, who become dangerously obsessed with their tutor, a notorious writer. Brilliantly exploring the shifting group dynamic, as events spiral ever further out of control, this is a novel of considerable verve and ambition. Following earlier forays into the worlds of art restoration and classical music, it is further evidence of a writer with a natural gift for narrative and atmosphere.
Eva Tyne, an Irish violinist, collapses after her solo debut and is rushed to hospital. Still dazed after the incident, she finds herself embarked on a quest for a new violin. But, haunted by the ghost of her father, and unsure about whom she can trust around her, Eva soon finds herself playing a desperate psychological game.
WINNER OF THE ROONEY PRIZE 2018 A modern Irish literary gem for anyone who has felt like the odd one out. ‘Inventive, funny and, ultimately, moving’ GUARDIAN ‘Wildly funny’ THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ‘Beguiling’ THE IRISH TIMES ‘Delightfully quirky’ THE IRISH INDEPENDENT
** Pre-order Sally Rooney's new novel Intermezzo now ** 'A nuanced, page-turning portrait.' Zadie Smith 'Brilliant.' Marian Keyes 'A sharp, darkly funny comment on modern relationships.' Sunday Telegraph The critically-acclaimed debut novel from the globally bestselling author of Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You. Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. At night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and holidays in Provence, beginning a complex ménage-à-quatre. But when Frances and Nick get unexpectedly closer, Frances is forced to honestly confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time.
An expat photographer returns to Australia to make sense of his traumatic childhood and the disappearance of his former girlfriend. 'Shirm is a writer of deft skill. Her prose is gentle, uncluttered, and suffused with a compassionate, clear-eyed intelligence. Delicate, restrained and sensitive, Where the Light Falls is nonetheless steadfast in its examination of our responsibilities as artists, and as people'. Peggy Frew, author of Hope Farm 'In lean, elegant prose Shirm explores the silences and mysteries that shape the artist's mind and work. The novel's landscapes are vivid and charged - the mystical Lake George, the frozen streets of a scarred Berlin. Against these atmospheric backdrops ...
Molly and Beth are best friends and love spending time together. But when their two families move in together, maybe they are a little too close for comfort! Out shopping one day they need to avoid the most embarrassing encounter ever with Molly's mum, and hide in a shop they had never noticed before. When they leave by the side door, they realise immediately that something is not right! Transported back to the past, where mobile phones don't work and the world feels very different, they realise that they have a chance to see the world through their parents' eyes. Before finding their way home, can they see what their own pasts looked like?