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** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 **Meet Jamie and his community on the west coast of Ireland in the most uplifting and tender book of the year'A gorgeous gift of a novel'Douglas Stuart, no.1 bestselling author of Shuggie Bain'Heart-rending and delightful'Louise Kennedy, no.1 bestselling author of TrespassesJamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, bo...

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A deeply moving novel about a boy and his dream, from the prize-winning author of As You Were Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers and Edgar Allan Poe. At age 13 there are two things he especially wants in life: to build a Perpetual Motion Machine, and to connect with his mother Noelle, who died when he was born. I...

A deeply moving novel about a boy and his dream, from the prize-winning author of As You WereJamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers and Edgar Allan Poe. At age 13 there are two things he especially wants in life: to build a Perpetual Motion Machine, and to connect with his mother Noelle, who died when he was born. In...

Sinead Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret. Noone knows it: not her fellow patients in a failing hospital, and certainly not her family. She has confided only in Google and a shiny magpie. But she can't go on like this, tirelessly trying to outstrip her past and in mortal fear of her future. Across the ward, Margaret Rose is running her chaotic family from her rose-gold Nokia. In the neighbouring b...

It is about seizing the moment to be free. Wildly funny, desperately tragic, inventive and irrepressible, As You Were introduces a brilliant voice in Irish fiction with a book that is absolutely of our times. 'An absolute tour de force: raw, sharp and wild' Lisa McInerney

Sinéad Hynes is a tough, driven, funny, clever young property developer with a terrifying secret. No-one knows it: not her fellow patients in a failing hospital, and certainly not her family. She has confided only in Google and a shiny magpie.But she can't go on like this, tirelessly trying to outstrip her past and in mortal fear of her future. Across the ward, rosary in hand, Margaret Rose is running her chaotic family from her rose-gold Noki...

The Irish fiction debut of 2020'An absolute tour de force: raw, sharp and wild' Lisa McInerneySinéad Hynes is a tough, driven, funny, clever young property developer with a terrifying secret. No-one knows it: not her fellow patients in a failing hospital, and certainly not her family. She has confided only in Google and a shiny magpie.But she can't go on like this, tirelessly trying to outstrip her past and in mortal fear of her future. Across...

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Elaine Feeney's poems report back to us from the front line of her own experiences, and they successfully bear the emotional weight and power of those experiences, whether they be poems of a messy divorce, of the thankless frustrations of special-needs teaching, or of her heroic and Amazonian one-woman assault on a lap-dancing club. The traumas and ruptures have not been tamed or sublimated or bound over. The hurt continues to hurt. The anger ...

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