Beyond a Reasonable Donut

Mapping the changes that have occurred in Irish literature over the past fifty years, this volume includes twenty-one writers, poets, and playwrights from the North and South of Ireland, who tell their own stories. They are funny, tragic, angry, philosophical, but all are vivid accounts of their experiences as women writing.

A COSMOPOLITAN, BBC, STYLIST, DAILY MAIL and GUARDIAN BEST BOOK PICK FOR 2021! If your only experience of reading a novel about the care system was Tracy Beaker, you’re not alone. It’s not often that life in care is talked about, which is just one of the reasons we love this book about Bess, a teenager in a foster home in Shepperton who discovers she’s pregnant in less-than-ideal circumstances.

The spellbinding novel from the author of the Sunday Times bestselling The Doll Factory. Moving from the pleasure gardens of Victorian London to the battle-scarred plains of the Crimea, Circus of Wonders is an astonishing story about power and ownership, fame and the threat of invisibility.