When Patricia O'Connor's novel, The Mill in the North, was first published in 1938, by Dublin's prestigious Talbot Press, the Irish Times heralded it as 'a very human drama' presenting a realistic picture of life in a northern mill village'.
In February 1959, Switzerland held a referendum on women's suffrage. The men voted 'no'. In this powerful novella, Clare O'Dea explores that moment in history through the eyes of four very different Swiss women, whose paths intersect on a day that will leave its mark on all their lives.
When Michael Connelly was a child in the 1970’s, his mother Elaine told him about all the things that happened to her in that place. All that the nuns had done. FALLEN is a stark and beautifully written account of the impact on one family of a shameful chapter in modern Irish history. Roddy Doyle – FALLEN is a powerful, engrossing, deeply moving novel. I loved it.’
In 1980s Boston, Ro McCarthy was in her twenties, Irish, undocumented, queer and falling in love for the first time. Then, one by one, her new, fun, beautiful friends began to die...
Set in a turbulent British empire, these historical stories brim with energy and emotion, taking readers to the remote reaches of early twentieth century Burma to an Ireland in flux. These interconnected stories are filled with humour, insight, and unexpected moments of revelation.
A sharp, poignant and beautifully told story of losing yourself, finding yourself and the lengths we will go to for those we love from the New York Times bestselling author of Promising Young Women and Scenes of a Graphic Nature.