Family & Relationships

Sybil Van Antwerp is seventy-three, slowly losing her sight and always writing letters . . To her children. Her favourite authors.Her ex-sister-in-law. The journalist poking into her past. Her doctor.Suitors. Kindly neighbours. Th…

When Daphne notices an older gentleman following her around the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, she doesn't expect it to be Eddie - her former stepfather.Married to her mother for a short time when Daphne was nine, she has…

A family secret. A new love. The chance to start again.Margaret's childhood is one of Saturday morning pancakes and sunlit swimming pools behind white picket fences. Then, one fateful summer, everything changes. A line is crossed …

Winner of the Man Booker PrizeThe nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened…

Following a long absence spent in New York, Elaine Nichols returns to her childhood home to live with her invalid father and his geriatric Alsatian dog.The house backing on to theirs is sold and as she watches the old furniture st…

When Frida Slattery and John Reddan meet in a Dublin pub in 2005, neither can imagine how they will come to shape and define each other's lives. Frida is struggling to launch her acting career, while John is already gaining a name…

Eddie Wilkens runs his own house-painting business. Forty-something and living alone, he just wants to take life one day at a time. When his eight-year-old neighbour, Russell, starts hanging around, Eddie sees that this small kid …

A story of sisterhood, forbidden desire, lost connection, and what it means to find a home among strangers.Edith, just out of school, has been sent from her quiet English life to rural Italy. It is the 1960s, and her mother has is…

Family is everything, even when it falls apart.Discover the brand-new novel from the multi-million-copy bestselling author. There is a heatwave across Europe.Goose and his three sisters gather at the family's house by Lake Orta in…

Vivienne and Patrick Fisher have done an excellent job raising their three daughters, Alex, Nancy, and Eva. They're well-adjusted women with impressive careers, caring partners, exciting hobbies, and sweet children. So it's with g…

In a remote valley in Idaho in 1981, a man, a woman and three children stop running to wash the blood from their hands and bodies. They are the few survivors of a terrible tragedy. Their only choice now is, somehow, to become a fa…

Fleeing his failed marriage in Berlin, Lukas Dorn revisits the West of Ireland, the place of his honeymoon two decades earlier. While his former wife is being cancelled at work and his daughter is arrested at a street protest, he …

ETTA'S FOUND THE CURE FOR OLD AGE. BUT HER FAMILY WON'T LIKE IT . ..Etta is sixty-eight years old. Happy, healthy and an active participant in her world, she s gathered her family together for an unforgettable weekend.Tick.At 5am …

Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up and she's in a relationship that's run its course.That's until she stumbles upon a mysterious book left by a fel…

In this compulsive story of betrayal, old bonds and buried scandals, one British establishment family comes face to face with the consequences of privilege and the true cost of power.Martin and Ben were friends for decades - best …

The sixth book in the multi-million-copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.In a special seat in a fabled Tokyo cafe, you're offered something irresistible - no…

Annie is on a journey straight back to her past.When the American Fantasy cruise ship sets sail for a four-day themed voyage, aboard are all five members of a famous 1990s boyband, and three thousand women who have worshipped them…

In the heart-aching new novel from the author of the award-winning Golden Child, a mother searches for the daughter she left behind a lifetime ago. When Dawn Bishop was sixteen, she left her home in Trinidad and journeyed across t…

Financial Time Bathroom salesman Matt is at a crossroads. He has lost his job, he is about to be made homeless and his girlfriend has left him.He wants his luck to change and he wants things to go back to how they were. Out of the…

Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin.And that’s before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart. …

Chuck and Joey meet in a bar. He's in his mid-thirties; she's twelve years younger. He's long abandoned his ambition of becoming a novelist and now works as a copywriter at a big ad agency.'Lead copywriter,' he corrects himself. J…

Dylan, Stevie and Ben have been inseparable since their days at Trinity, when everything seemed possible. A glance between them can still conjure their younger selves: dancing beneath pulsing lights, the sharp taste of salt after …

Susan arrives on Dune Island with a plan, settle her late uncle's estate, sign the papers, and leave within a week. The inheritance is simple, a weathered cottage, a small distillery, a stubborn dog named Walter.  On paper, nothin…

An extraordinary, sweeping novel following one man's itinerant search for home across the globe, after his childhood exile from Palestine.All his life, exile has been the shadow stitched to the sole of Sufien's shoe.Born in Palest…

When a creative writing academic becomes infatuated with his colleague – the poet – it is not long before it begins to threaten his relationship with his partner, Michael. Michael is beautiful. Michael is safe. But the poet is eve…

Summer, 1921.Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens and woods above Lahardane - the home her family is being forced to abandon. She knows the Gaults are no longer welcome in Ireland and that danger threatens. Lucy, however,…

Solace by Belinda McKeon is a dazzling story of love, family and divided loyalties. Mark Casey did not expect to fall in love. But from the minute he saw Joanne Lynch across the garden of a Dublin pub, it seemed that nothing else …

Catherine and James are as close as two friends could ever be. Witty, talented and charming, James is unlike anyone Catherine has encountered before, and she finds herself hungry to explore with him all that Dublin in the ‘90s has…

At the bar of a grand hotel in a small Irish town sits 84-year-old Maurice Hannigan. He's alone, as usual - though tonight is anything but. Over the course of this evening, he will raise five toasts to the five people who have mea…

On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice.His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory. Three years later, he returns home and hi…