'Sparkling with heartache and wit. I'm in love with every character in this novel' CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE

'Prestige Drama is bristlingly funny, richly humane . . . Séamas O'Reilly is a writer with a rare and vital comic gift' MARK O'CONNELL

Derry is already abuzz with news that famous American actor, Monica Logue, has flown to the city and will be starring in a new series set during the Troubles. And then she goes missing . . .

All eyes are on Diarmuid, the flaky scriptwriter who was the last to see Monica alive. From budding young actors hoping for a role to grieving parent whose story forms the backbone of the narrative; newspaper editors covering the mystery to taxi drivers hearing all the news from their clients, Prestige Drama follows the city's cast as they all try to locate themselves in Monica's disappearance.

Séamas O'Reilly's debut novel is a comedy about dramatising tragedy, and the responsibilities of a teller to a tale. It brings to life the voices of a city, the people, families and communities who find themselves obsessed with, and terrified of, interrogating their past.

'I howled with laughter . . . Séamas is a natural storyteller' ANNIE MAC

'Séamas is one of my favourite living writers. Honestly – there is nobody else who could write a book like this about tragedy, loss and who gets to tell a story, with such deft and moving wit' EVA WISEMAN

'Prestige Drama is a hilarious and profound novel. Seamas O'Reilly has an acute ear for the rhythms of real speech, and for the lies we tell ourselves' ED CAESAR

‘Momentous, kaleidoscopic . . . A wild ride from start to finish’ HANAKO FOOTMAN, author of MONGREL

‘Stunningly accomplished’ NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS, author of FUNDAMENTALLY

‘Shocking . . . darkly funny’ OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE, author of MY SISTER THE SERIAL KILLER

‘It’s a ride you don’t want to end’ COSMOPOLITAN
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Can you climb inside a stranger’s life and make him love you?

Alice knows every detail of Tom’s life. She has taken a side hustle as a cleaner just to feel close to him, to wipe every smudge from his coffee cups, smooth every crease of his bed, read every email in his inbox. She is in love. And Tom will love her too – once he has met her.

While Alice masterminds the bone-shattering romance she knows they will have, she tries to morph into the woman Tom will want. And when this happens, no one – not her mother, not her sister, not her sneering co-workers – will be able to look down on her anymore.
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‘Obsessive, delusional, disastrous – but so intricately woven with heart, warmth and empathy’ ALICE SLATER, author of DEATH OF A BOOKSELLER

‘Original, darkly funny and addictive with twists that will leave you reeling’ GLAMOUR

‘An evocative story that deserves immediate cult status’ DAZED

‘If this doesn’t make you cancel your cleaner, nothing will’ THE TIMES

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What makes a person want to be a tree?

Bren and his partner Caelyn are feeling at a standstill in their lives. One day they come across a video of people in the forest who believe that if they stand still for long enough they will transform into trees. The idea is absurd. But it’s spreading. Soon, people start to go missing and trees appear in unlikely places.

As cities decay and the world becomes greener, Caelyn becomes more and more convinced that arborescence is exactly what will save the planet from human destruction. Bren isn’t so sure. Drifting apart, Bren and Caelyn are forced to question what it really means to be human – and if they are ready to stand still.

‘You will not be able to stop thinking about this extraordinary book’ SOPHIE WARD

‘A great and beautiful book that is profound and profoundly moving’ JENNIFER CROFT

‘Thrilling, thought-provoking and incredibly tender’ CHIOMA OKEREKE

‘Reads like a thriller but has the tenderness and insight of poetry’ BEN RAWLENCE

‘A dazzling blend of cosmic eco-horror and arthouse sci-fi’ CHRIS FLYNN

‘Brilliant… a book about us, a book about now’ SHAUN TAN

Virgin: one little six letter word that holds such incredible power. The power to pressure, to judge, to harm, to praise, to profit, to punish. But virginity is also just a concept, a label that has been pressed upon people for centuries in numerous cultures worldwide.

In this highly anticipated collection of poetry, Hollie McNish unpicks the role this word has played in her own life, as well as others, with her trademark mix of humour, fury and compassion. Whether considering if Mary was a fan of her own nick-name, to rejoicing her annual excitement in ice cream vans, to looking back on how ridiculously she ate creamy mashed potato with her family after apparently ‘losing’ her own virginity, she examines in her own inimitable way the tracks this concept makes throughout so many minds, and the possibilities of freedom.

At times hilarious, at times harrowing, always hopeful – a poetic love letter against the more nefarious effects of purity culture packed with stacks of honeycomb, hand holds and early morning light.

‘A debut of enormous ambition that succeeds on every level. .. a page-turning, rollicking novel’ Nathan Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The Sweetness of Water

The Devil first visits Yetunde aboard a slave ship heading to America. Her home burned to ash, she lies shackled in the belly of the ship with only her dead sister’s spirit for company. Worse, she has a caught the eye of a white man. To survive the hell that awaits her, the Devil offers his protection and a piece of his supernatural power. In return, Yetunde makes an incredible sacrifice.

Their bargain extends far beyond Yetunde’s mortal lifespan. Over the next 175 years, the Devil visits all her descendants in their darkest hour of need. There’s Lucille, a conjure woman; Asa, the white-passing son of a slave; Louis and Virgil, a twentieth-century Cain and Abel; Cassandra, a girl who speaks to the dead; James, a father struggling to keep his family together; and many others. The Devil offers each of them his own version of salvation, all the while wondering: can he save himself, too?

Steeped in the spiritual traditions and oral history of the Black diaspora, The Devil Three Times is a baptism by fire and water, heralding a new voice in fiction.

‘An epic family odyssey’ Guardian, Book of the Day

Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the Cassar family is buffeted by conflict, struggling to find its feet – separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all.

This Strange Eventful History is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of François and Denise, devoted siblings connected by their family’s strangeness; of François’s union with Barbara, a woman so culturally different they can barely comprehend one another; of Chloe, the result of that union, who believes that telling these buried stories will bring them all peace.

Inspired in part by her own family’s history, Claire Messud animates her characters’ rich interior lives amid the social and political upheaval of the recent past. This Strange Eventful History is an immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history.

‘[A] wise and insightful novel about identity and family’ The Times, Book of the Day

‘A rich, sprawling saga… This Strange Eventful History may be Messud’s finest book’ Sunday Telegraph

A book of the year for the Times, the Sunday Times, the Independent, the Guardian and the Daily Mail

‘Charming . . . heartbreaking, sometimes both funny and unsettling, and always – from start to end – very, very good’ RODDY DOYLE

‘Magical . . . as scrumptious as the home-made mayonnaise, pumpkin soup and game pie coming out of Joan’s kitchen’ DAILY MAIL, BOOK OF THE WEEK

‘A love letter to a remarkable childhood. A total joy’ SARAH WINMAN

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In a small corner of a field in Wales, Tiffany Murray is hiding with Boggle the dog, dreaming of her mum’s moussaka, blackberry and apple crumble, and, if she’s lucky, ice-cold lemonade. A sheep bleats. The smell of hay tickles her nose. The twang of a guitar and crack of a snare carry on the breeze.

It’s the late 1970s and Tiff lives with her mum, Joan, at Rockfield, the iconic recording studios. This place of legend, where some of the most famous rock albums of all time were recorded, is the background to a freewheeling, ever-changing whirlwind of a childhood. Tiff’s days are spent running around the farm, making friends with local wildlife and helping out with the endless array of dishes her mum creates to keep the bands fed. She’s looking for a dog, she’s looking for a father; but the one constant throughout is her and Joan, building an unconventional family in the most unlikely of locations.

My Family and Other Rock Stars is Tiff’s remarkable, truly unique story of growing up in a rural idyll, of Cordon Bleu cookery and of a childhood where the chances of bumping into Freddie Mercury playing piano, or a group of Hell’s Angels turning up to record for Lemmy, or even the hope of David Bowie appearing, were as normal as hopscotch and homework.
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‘You will fall in love with Tiff, her hilarious non-nonsense mother Joan, and a cast of hungry rock stars from Freddie Mercury to Siouxsie Sioux. An utter treat’ RACHEL JOYCE

‘Full of pop gossip that’ll leave you starry-eyed, and written with a warmth and precision you’ll want to savour for as long as you can . . . I didn’t want it to end’ SÉAMAS O’REILLY

‘Enchanting’ INDEPEDENT, 20 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

Longlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize

My Family and Other Rock Stars was the Daily Mail book of the week 17.05.2024

A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug

‘Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest‘ SARAH MILLICAN

‘Hollie McNish’s words always sweep me away‘ GIOVANNA FLETCHER

As people, we are capable of both love and hate; amazement and disgust; fun and misery. So why do we live in a world that is constantly telling us to hate, both ourselves and others?

We are told to be repulsed by our own bodies, bodies that let us laugh and sweat and eat toast; to be ashamed of pleasure; to be embarrassed by fun.

In this collection, Hollie McNish brings her inimitable style to the question of what have been taught to hate, and if we might learn to love again.

‘Never have we needed her more‘ STYLIST

‘I’ve loved her work for years‘ JO BRAND

‘She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love‘ KAE TEMPEST

Malma Station traces the crooked lines of family and history and shows how memories morph to take new shape, postulating that perhaps the past is actually what we can change, rather than the future. The narrative builds like a train hurtling through time, each chapter a separate car hooking into the next.

Malma Station is at once an enchanting and gut-wrenching novel about family secrets and injustices passed on through generations – and a suspenseful hunt for a truth with the power to change everything.