A collection of intertwined tales, told with warmth and wonderful ventriloquy reflect an Irish community and examine the inner workings of twenty-two hearts. Like its predecessor, The Spinning Heart (not required reading to follow this one, although a similarly remarkable novel), each section is a different character, a different voice. Each section is a thread in the fabric, and lies, lives and layers intersect and coalesce into a rich tapestry of a novel.
The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-listed, bestselling author of Strange Flowers and The Queen of Dirt Island
'Beautiful...a book full of love and hope, more needed in these days than ever' Kit de Waal
'I am blown away by the ambition and scope of this exquisite piece of writing...sublime in both its sentiment and beauty' Rachel Joyce
Some things can send a heart spinning; others will crack it in two...
In a small town in rural Ireland, the local people have weathered the storms of economic collapse and are looking towards the future. The jobs are back, the…
Cheekily titled for a novel, Nonfiction is metafiction or reads like a fictionalized memoir. It's blunt and brutal, dealing with teenage drug addiction, and a mother swirling in grief, trauma, dealing with pain and powerlessness. It's also about the other parts of the woman, the wife, her memories of a former lover, and her current teaching writing and thinking about writing. It's tough and wise, searing, never sentimental.
This is definitely not a ghost story. But for a while after you’re gone, I see you everywhere. Every ragged young person sitting huddled on a pavement, every stretched-out body under cardboard in a shop doorway.
Two parents stand by powerlessly as their only child seems intent on destroying herself. As the mother―a novelist―attempts to understand her daughter, she finds herself revisiting her own uneasy, unresolved relationship with her mother. Weaving between childhoods past and present, laced with temptation and betrayal, Nonfiction: A Novel is an…
A story of a house, a bit of land in western Massachusetts, and an apple orchard, spanning three generations. The novel is both a page-turner and a collection of disparate voices, elements, including letters, diaries, poems, song lyrics, medical case notes, real-estate listings, vintage botanical illustrations, and a true-crime detective story, among others. But it's not disjointed, and it is wise, beautifully written and original. There's violence and murder, and there's also a lot of warmth and humanity.
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—“a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic” (The Washington Post) from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier.
“With the expansiveness and immersive feeling of two-time Booker Prize nominee David Mitchell’s fiction (Cloud Atlas), the wicked creepiness of Edgar Allan Poe, and Mason’s bone-deep knowledge of and appreciation for the natural world that’s on par with that of Thoreau, North Woods fires on all cylinders.”—San Francisco Chronicle
An exciting, moving literary thriller. Spanning three decades and two continents, soaked in passion, blood and the garish colors of the mean streets, Lowdown is a vivid, gripping romantic thriller. Moving from Brooklyn to Italy, the book follows a twisting road strewn with sorrow and desire, deceit and ecstasy, shocking violence and intimate tenderness, to arrive at a surprising, bittersweet redemption.
