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The Secret Footballer: What Goes on Tour FICTION……………1-21 NON FICTION……22-44 BACKLIST…………45-48 Fiction 1 FROM A LOW AND QUIET SEA Donal Ryan PublicaƟon: March 2018 Format/extent: Hbk, 224 pp OpƟon publishers: Kniha Zlin (Czech); Jensen & Dalgaard (Danish); Kopernik (Dutch); Albin Michel (French); Diogenes Verlag (German); Penguin Books (US) TheeagerlyanƟcipatednewnovelfromawardͲwinningliterarysensaƟon, DonalRyan Set across Syria and Ireland, FromaLowandQuietSea is Donal’s most ambiƟous, sweeping story yet Ͳ a drama of the interwoven lives of three men, each searching for something they have lost. Farouk has protected his wife and daughter as best he can from the war that has torn Syria apart. But if they Ňee, they will lose all they have known of home, all for an intangible dream of refuge in some faraway land across the sea. For Lampy, that faraway land is home, but he wishes it wasn’t. He has the city girl for a bit of fun, but she’s not Chloe, and Chloe took his heart away when she leŌ him. John’s heart has always beaten to the thrill of manipulaƟng people. But it was never enough. And now it’s cold Ͳ so very cold Ͳ and that heart is slowing down, and he’s not sure if God will listen to his pleas for forgiveness. Three men, searching for some version of home, their lives moving inexorably towards a reckoning that will draw them all together. DonalRyan’snovels have all published to major acclaim. He has won the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature, and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Desmond EllioƩ Prize. 2 Praise for Donal Ryan All We Shall Know *** Shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2016 ‘An extraordinary portrait of adultery, loneliness and betrayal . One of the finest writers working in Ireland today . worthy of Greek drama . in the great tradition of tragic fiction, his lonely adulteress coming to grief in the same shadowy spaces as Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina’ - The Guardian ‘In a word, this book is stunning’ - The Bookseller ‘A consummate artist . The denouement offers a satisfying element of redemption . a great writer whose steady maturation proceeds apace’ - The Sunday Times ‘A gem of a novel. With a sure sense of place, and a convincing portrayal of life lived at the edgy margins, it vividly plots the landscape of the heart en route to a gripping and ultimately redemptive finale’ - Daily Mail A Slanting of the Sun *** Winner of the Short Story of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2015 ‘Donal Ryan is among the great contemporary chroniclers of grief, loss and bewilderment. those voices are brought to life with precision, resonance and particularity of cadence.’ - The Independent ‘Donal Ryan is a heartbreaker, his quicksilver prose laced with . wistful rhythms’ - Daily Mail 3 TURNING FOR HOME Barney Norris PublicaƟon: January 2018 Format/extent: Hbk, 320 pp OpƟon publishers: Dumont (German); Le Seuil (French); Algoritam (Croat) ThesecondnovelbycriƟcallyacclaimedauthorBarneyNorristacklesfamily relaƟonshipsandcomingtotermswiththepast Isn’tthelifeofanypersonmadeupofthetellingoftwotales,aŌerall?...The wholeworldmakesmoresenseifyourememberthateveryonehastwolives,the reallifeandthedream,bothstoriesonlyatape’sbreadthapartfromeachother, impossiblydivided,indivisiblyclose. Once a year, every year, Robert's family come together at a rambling old house in the country to celebrate his birthday. Aunts, uncles, grandchildren, distant cousins Ͳ it is a milestone in their lives and has been for decades. But this year Robert doesn't want to be reminded of what has happened since they last met Ͳ and neither, for quite diīerent reasons, does his granddaughter Kate. Robert is determined that this will be the Įnal party. But for both him and Kate, it may also become the most important gathering of all. As lyrical and true to life as Norris's criƟcally acclaimed debut FiveRiversMetonaWoodedPlain, this is a compelling, emoƟonal story of family, human frailty, and the marks that love leaves on us. BarneyNorrisis an acclaimed playwright and novelist. His debut novel, FiveRiversMetonaWoodedPlain was shortlisted for Debut of the Year 2017 at the BriƟsh Book Awards and the RSL Ondaatje Prize. 4 Praise for FIVE RIVERS MET ON A WOODED PLAIN British Book Awards Debut of the Year 2017 shortlist *** RSL Ondaatje prize shortlist *** Waterstones Book of the Month ‘Remember the name Barney Norris. He’s a new writer in his twenties, but already outstanding’ - The Times ‘deeply affecting…..a tolerant and insightful debut’ - The Guardian ‘Norris writes beautifully, unearthing extraordinary depths in the everyday...a memorable writer, mature beyond his years’ - The Sunday Times ‘Barney has the real novelist’s ability to inhabit different characters, and to make the texture of life tangible and compelling. It’s the real stuff’ Michael Frayn ‘Barney Norris is a rare and precious talent...a writer-chronicler to be cherished’ - The Evening Standard ‘Barney Norris’ first novel has the deep emotional power and accuracy of his admired plays, and more’ - David Hare ‘Outstanding...a moving, strangely uplifting novel that grapples with the coarse substance of everyday existence and poetically celebrates its passage. Superb.’ - The Mail on Sunday ‘Norris has a gift for tapping in to ordinary lives and finding the extraordinary in them...emotional, compelling and thought-provoking’ - The Daily Mail ‘Remarkable...makes you thrill to be alive’ - The Financial Times 5 SILENCE UNDER A STONE Norma McMaster PublicaƟon: February 2018 Format/extent: Tpbk, 240 pp AnachinglybeauƟfulnovelaboutfamily,faithandthepainofanirreconcilable heart ‘Iekeoutmydaysherewithcare;spendthemcarefully,oneataƟme,like penniesinthisoneliƩleroomwhereallthestragglesandstraysofmylifeare gatheredupneatasaballofwool;theeightyͲthreeyearsofthemdrawntautto asinglehardknotthatweighsmedownlikeastone.’ From her bed in a Dublin nursing home, Harriet Campbell reŇects on the Ɵme, long ago, when the second greatest joy in her life was her newborn son James; only her God had a greater claim to her love. It is the 1920s in the shadowlands south of the border. Harriet and her husband Thomas are respected members of their strict Presbyterian CongregaƟon. But this is a changing Ireland, where the sway of the Roman Catholic Church is at its height, and the community is becoming increasingly isolated. LiƩle does Harriet realise that, as James grows up, she will be forced to choose between faith and family. WriƩen in startling beauƟful prose, SilenceUnderaStone is an inƟmate, deeply moving human story, where someƟmes the price of an unyielding faith is too great to bear. NormaMacMasterstudied in Derry, Dublin, Belfast and Montreal. She was a secondary school teacher and counsellor in Ireland and Canada, and is an ordained minister in the Church of Ireland. 6 A BORDER STATION / MARRIED QUARTERS Shane Connaughton PublicaƟon: April / May 2017 Format/extent: Pbk, 240 pp / Tpbk, 336 pp ‘ThisisexperienceĮnelyandskilfullydisƟlled’– IrishTimes ‘WellͲwriƩenandengrossing’– SundayIndependent Shane Connaughton’s debut novel ABorderStaƟonwas widely acclaimed when Įrst published by Penguin in 1989 and Transworld Ireland is delighted to be publishing a reͲissue, followed by a sequel, MarriedQuarters.The books tell the beauƟful story of a local sergeant's son coming of age in an isolated police staƟon on the Irish border, the last resort of eccentric, downͲandͲout oĸcers from across the country. In MarriedQuarters, the oĸcers’ lives play out like theatre—all of them the leŌovers from other more important staƟons in more important towns, and each with their own lessons for the sergeant's son, now on the cusp of manhood. Taking up where his acclaimed ABorderStaƟonleŌ oī, MarriedQuartersis brilliant, funny and beauƟfully observed, and marks the return of Shane Connaughton, one of Ireland’s most cherished writers. ShaneConnaughtonis an acclaimed novelist, screenwriter and actor. His screenplay for My LeŌ Foot was shortlisted for an Academy Award and the Įlm won two Oscars. His novel A BorderStaƟonwas a bestseller when Įrst published in 1989. 7 SLOW MOTION GHOSTS Jeff Noon PublicaƟon: June 2018 Format/extent: Hbk, 384 pp Material: November 2017 AdarkandlabyrinthinethrillerfromaboldnewvoiceincrimeĮcƟon It is 1981, London is bruised by austerity, social unrest and racial tension, and the police are at war. Anger has erupted in the Brixton Riots and is Įnding expression in protest, anarchy and punk. For DetecƟve Inspector Hobbes, the baƩle lines are being redrawn within his own ranks as right and wrong are clouded by prejudice. Into this mess comes a murder. A promising young singer has been maimed and killed and the arƟstry of the crime is disturbing. On the hunt for the killer, Hobbes begins an invesƟgaƟon that will lead him deep into a subculture hidden beneath the everyday. A cult of personality that hides from the problems of the city and escapes to a world of its own, a world that is at once seducƟve and devastaƟng. How far will Hobbes have to go to learn the truth? And how many more must die before he does? Bringing the trademark imaginaƟon of his acclaimed early novels, Jeī Noon has delivered a police procedural with a diīerence Ͳ an intricate, twisƟng crime novel that pulls you in and doesn’t let go. JeīNoonis the author of six acclaimed novels, Vurt, Pollen, AutomatedAlice, NymphomaƟon, NeedleintheGroove and FallingOutofCars, as well as two collecƟons of short ĮcƟons, and is also the crime ĮcƟon reviewer for The Spectator. He lives in Brighton. 8
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