Penguin Ireland
The Herbalist
Niamh Boyce
A debut novel set in a small Irish community, where family ties, local memory, and women’s lives slowly come into focus. Its atmosphere is quiet and rooted in place.
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Small Beer Press
North American Lake Monsters: Stories
Nathan Ballingrud
The basis for the original series, Monsterland, on Hulu. Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous experience not to be missed by those who love to explore the darker parts of the human psyche. Monsters, real and imagined, external and internal, are the subject. They are us and we are them and Ballingrud's intense focus makes these stories incredibly intense and irresistible. These are love stories. And also monster stories. Sometimes these are monsters in their traditional guises, sometimes they wear the faces of parents, lovers, or ourselves. The often working-class people in these stories are driven to extremes by love. Sometimes, they are ruined; sometimes redeemed. All are faced with the loneliest corners of themselves and strive to find an escape. Nathan Ballingrud was born in Massachusetts but has spent most of his life in the South. He worked as a bartender in New Orleans and New York City and a cook on offshore oil rigs. His story "The Monsters of Heaven" won the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his daughter.
Small Beer Pr
North American Lake Monsters: Stories
Nathan Ballingrud
Nathan Ballingrud's Shirley Jackson Award winning debut collection is a shattering and luminous experience not to be missed by those who love to explore the darker parts of the human psyche. Monsters, real and imagined, external and internal, are the subject. They are us and we are them and Ballingrud's intense focus makes these stories incredibly intense and irresistible. These are love stories. And also monster stories. Sometimes these are monsters in their traditional guises, sometimes they wear the faces of parents, lovers, or ourselves. The often working-class people in these stories are driven to extremes by love. Sometimes, they are ruined; sometimes redeemed. All are faced with the loneliest corners of themselves and strive to find an escape. Nathan Ballingrud was born in Massachusetts but has spent most of his life in the South. He worked as a bartender in New Orleans and New York City and a cook on offshore oil rigs. His story "The Monsters of Heaven" won the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his daughter.
Quirk Books
Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II (The Last Policeman Trilogy)
Ben H. Winters
In a world moving toward catastrophe, former detective Hank Palace follows a missing-person case that forces him to rethink collapse, duty, and what people owe one another.
Lilliput Pr Ltd
Return to Killybegs
Sorj Chalandon, Ursula Meany Scott
Tyrone Meehan, damned as an informer, ekes out his days in Donegal, awaiting his killers. Now that everything is out in the open, they will all speak in my place the IRA, the British, my family, my close friends, journalists Ive never even met. Some of them will go so far as to explain how and why I ended up a traitor Do not trust my enemies, and even less my friends. Ignore those who will say they knew me. Nobody has ever walked in my shoes, nobody. The only reason Im talking today is because I am the only one who can tell the truth. After Im gone, I hope for silence. Return to Killybegs is the story of a traitor to Belfasts Catholic community, emerging from the white heat of a prolonged war during the 1970s and 1980s in Northern Ireland. This powerful work, lauded by critics, shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt and awarded the Grand Prix de Roman de lAcadémie Française, deals with a subject that touches a nerve for most Irish people: the all-too-human circumstances of betrayal and survival. It is an extraordinary and affecting read.
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Ancient Light (Vintage International)
John Banville
A mature novel about memory, guilt, and atonement. Through an aging actor’s recollections, it explores the passing of time and the hidden weight of family and desire.
Hardpress Publishing
Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835-1902) a Memoir Volume 1
Jones Henry Festing 1851-1928
Henry Festing Jones's memoir traces the life and work of his close friend Samuel Butler. It offers an insider's account of Butler's ideas, friendships, and writing career, especially the background to Erewhon, and the original work was issued in two volumes.
Random House Books for Young Readers
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
Chris Grabenstein
A children’s adventure in which a group of kids invited to a new town library must solve hidden puzzles to escape. Friendship and curiosity about books drive the story forward.
Jonathan Cape
All the Birds, Singing
Evie Wyld
Jake Whyte lives alone on a remote island, where sheep are being killed and a buried past begins to surface. The novel braids isolation, trauma, and the hard edge of survival into a bleak but luminous story.
William Morrow
The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel
Neil Gaiman
A narrator returning to childhood memory re-encounters old powers near his family and the strange events surrounding the “ocean” at the end of the lane. Fairy-tale texture and buried fear coexist throughout.
Fantagraphics Books
Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life
Ulli Lust, Kim Thompson
An autobiographical graphic memoir tracing a young woman's experiences across Europe.
Marshall Cavendish International
Kampong Spirit - Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955 to 1965
Josephine Chia
A memoir and social history of Potong Pasir from 1955 to 1965, telling the story of kampong life and communal memory.