Literary Fiction

The Trees was first published in 2021 and subsequently shortlisted for 2022’s Booker Prize as well as winning the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize that same year. So, depth and humour. Everett’s 22nd novel is set in the modern day during the first Trump administration, in Money, Mississippi. Whilst the outer world is circa 2016-2020, Money, […]

Published in 2024, The List of Suspicious Things is the wonderful debut novel from Jennie Godfrey. It’s a story uncovering a mystery, filled with heartwarming characters, but also violence against women; hearing the story through Miv, a teenage girl, allows you to follow the story through innocent yet inquisitive eyes.   The story is set

Fundamentally is Younis’ debut, published in February this year. The work is already attracting a heap of positive attention: Younis has been selected as part of this year’s line-up of debut authors to watch by the Guardian and Fundamentally is currently shortlisted for 2025’s Women’s Prize. A brilliantly sharp and moving work, Fundamentally follows Nadia,

Black butterflies is a truly gripping turmoiled tale of hope, love and heart-wrenching grief. Based in 1992, the book is set during the first year Sarajevo (a city in then Yugoslavia, now Bosnia and Herzegovina) was under siege and closed off from the world. The story is told through Zora, a landscape artist and university

The Boy from the Sea is a debut of sorts from Carr. This is his first outing in adult fiction, having already published across non-fiction (The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland’s Border (Faber)) and children’s (The Badness of Ballydog, Lost Dogs, Deep Deep Down (Simon & Schuster)).   We find ourselves in Killybegs, County