FICTION……………2-19 NON FICTION……20-42 BACKLIST…………43-46 1 Fiction 2 TURNING FOR HOME Barney Norris Publicaon: January 2018 Format/extent: Hbk, 320pp Material: May 2017 Opon publishers: Dumont (Germany); Le Seuil (France); Algoritam (Croaa) The second novel by crically acclaimed author Barney Norris tackles family relaonships and coming to terms with the past 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 ‐ 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 ‐ and neither, for quite different reasons, does his granddaughter Kate. Robert is determined that this will be the final 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 crically acclaimed debut Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain, this is a compelling, emoonal story of family, human frailty, and the marks that love leaves on us. Reviews for Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain ‘Norris writes beaufully, unearthing extraordinary depths in the everyday...a memorable writer, mature beyond his years’ ‐ Sunday Times 'One of our most excing young writers' ‐ The Times Barney Norris is the founder of the theatre company Up In Arms, and has won an award for Most Promising Playwright for his play Visitors. 3 HOW I LOSE YOU Kate McNaughton Publicaon: January 2018 Format/extent: Hbk, 304 pp Rights sold: Les escales (France) Beaufully wrien and announcing a bold new literary talent, How I Lose You, offers a tender and heart‐breaking perspecve on the queson of how much we can ever really know the person we love When Eva wakes up one morning to discover that her husband has died in his sleep, she is overwhelmed: with anger, with disbelief, with fear. For Adam was only thirty‐one, a brilliant doctor with no health issues. They were supposed to grow old together. In the aermath, once the endless cups of tea and visits from family and friends have begun to thin out, Eva’s life begins to fracture. In aempng to confront the agony of her loss, Eva starts to uncover the story of her marriage, delving into those parts of her husband’s life to which she never before had access. What she finds is like nothing she could ever have expected. How I Lose You is a novel about loss and love, about the irreducibility of otherness and about breaking points: those moments when everything changes from one second to the next and how we deal with the consequences. Kate McNaughton was born and raised in Paris to English parents. She read English at Cambridge and filmmaking at the European Film College in Denmark. She currently works as a documentary filmmaker and translator and lives in Berlin. 4 THE THINGS WE THOUGHT WE KNEW Mahsuda Snaith Publicaon: June 2017 Format/extent: Hbk, 304 pp Rights sold: Piper (Germany); Garzan (Italy) A moving, insighul novel with an underlying mystery, for fans of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and Elizabeth is Missing Ravine Roy has been lying in a bed in a council flat for the last ten years. And she doesn't plan on going anywhere anyme soon. Badly burnt at the age of eight, she was le in chronic pain that won’t ease. And at the same me, her best friend le her and her world fell apart. As she reaches her eighteenth birthday Ravine’s eccentric mother decides it’s me for her to leave the flat and move on. But Ravine has memories she’s been trying to forget and when suddenly her past and present collide, is forced to make a decision: to stay in the safety of her bed or step out into the Big World Outside. Seducve, heart‐breaking and charming, The Things We Thought We Knew is a warm, clever novel about the things we remember and the things we wish we could forget. Mahsuda Snaith is a writer of novels, short stories and plays, and is the winner of the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2014, Bristol Short Story Prize 2014 as well as a finalist for the Mslexia Novel Compeon 2013. Mahsuda leads creave wring workshops at De Monort University and was picked as one of The Observer’s New Faces for 2017. 5 WHAT ALICE KNEW T.A. Cotterell Publicaon: May 2017 Format/extent: Pbk, 480 pp Rights sold: Euromedia (Czech); Goldmann (Germany); Amber (Poland) An addicve debut for fans of tense, thought‐provoking novels such as Liane Moriarty’s The Husband’s Secret and Clare Macintosh’s I Let You Go Alice is a portrait painter obsessed with capturing the ‘truth’ of her siers. She has always trusted her insncts and she knows that she married a good man. But when a woman dies following a party her husband aended things don’t add up. In a weak moment Alice promises to support her husband and cover up suspicious details regarding his whereabouts at the night of the murder. But as the net closes in, Alice unravels psychologically and her capacity to keep her husband’s secret – and liberty – falls into doubt. What consequences will it have on her relaonship with her children, and what happens if they find out one day? Will it mark their lives in the same way that Alice’s own mother’s lies marked hers? What would you do? T.A. Coerell read History of Art at Cambridge University. He worked in the City before leaving to become a freelance writer. He has wrien for The Telegraph, The Spectator and assorted magazines and is now a writer and editor at the research house, Redburn. He is married with three children and lives in Bristol. 6 SILENCE UNDER A STONE Norma McMaster Publicaon: February 2018 Format/extent: Tpbk, 240 pp An achingly beauful novel about family, faith and the pain of an irreconcilable heart. ‘I eke out my days here with care; spend them carefully, one at a me, like pennies in this one lile room where all the straggles and strays of my life are gathered up neat as a ball of wool; the eighty‐three years of them drawn taut to a single hard knot that weighs me down like a stone.’ From her bed in a Dublin nursing home, Harriet Campbell reflects on the me, 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 Congregaon. 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. Lile does Harriet realise that, as James grows up, she will be forced to choose between faith and family. Wrien in startling beauful prose, Silence Under a Stone is an inmate, deeply moving human story, where somemes the price of an unyielding faith is too great to bear. Norma MacMaster studied 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. 7 ALL WE SHALL KNOW Donal Ryan Publicaon: September 2016 Format/extent: Hbk, 224 pp Rights sold: Kniha Zlin (Czech); Jensen & Dal‐ gaard (Danish); Kopernik (Dutch); Albin Michel (French); Diogenes Verlag (German); Penguin Books (US) ‘[As] All We Shall Know progresses, we watch with growing fascinaon as he expands, not only his emoonal range, but also his social sphere. The book builds on those earlier works to establish Ryan beyond dispute as one of the finest writers working in Ireland today’ ‐ The Guardian ‘Marn Toppy is the son of a famous Traveller and the father of my unborn child. He’s seventeen, I'm thirty‐three. I was his teacher. I’d have killed myself by now if I was brave enough. I don’t think it would hurt the baby. His lile heart would stop with mine. He wouldn't feel himself leaving one world of darkness for another, his spirit untangling itself from me.’ Melody Shee is alone and in trouble. Her husband doesn't take her news too well. She doesn't want to tell her father yet because he’s a good man and this could break him. She’s trying to stay in the moment, but the future is looming – larger by the day – while the past won’t let her go. Donal Ryan’s new novel is breath‐taking, vivid, moving and redempve. Donal Ryan’s novels 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 Ellio Prize. 8 A BORDER STATION / MARRIED QUARTERS Shane Connaughton Publicaon: April / May 2017 Format/extent: Pbk, 192pp / Hbk, 336 pp Material: January 2017 ‘This is experience finely and skilfully dislled’ – Irish Times ‘Well‐wrien and engrossing’ – Sunday Independent Shane Connaughton’s debut novel A Border Staon was widely acclaimed when first published by Penguin in 1989 and Transworld Ireland is delighted to be publishing a re‐issue, followed by a sequel, Married Quarters. The books tell the beauful story of a local sergeant's son coming of age in an isolated police staon on the Irish border, the last resort of eccentric, down‐and‐out officers from across the country.