Isaac (2024) Curtis Garner "I loved Isaac. It's so carefully written, sexually candid but full of warmth and longing, populated by relatable, believable, flesh-and-blood characters. Deeply satisfying in its elegance and tenderness."
Evenings & Weekends (2024) Oisin McKenna "Zadie Smith-esque in its kaleidoscope of London. Compassionate, intelligent, hilarious."
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning (2024) Keiran Goddard "This is a novel full of hard material but infused with dignity and originality. The language is swaggering, the character development deeply subtle ... genuinely beautiful."
Islanders (2022) Cathy Thomas "You feel everything in this book. Textured, intense, claustrophobic but riotously human and authentic."
Acts of Service (2022) Lillian Fishman "Seamlessly written, sedate and subtle and so pleasurable, and quite enrapturing on a psychological level. This book opens space for a new kind of precision and intelligence that gives the amoral opulence of desire its rightful place."
All Along the Echo (2022) Danny Denton "All Along the Echo is a very funny book with a sincerely bleak underbelly; a gritty, socially-engaged book with an antic exuberance that is so rare in contemporary writing. It's gorgeous and life-affirming."
Dinner Party (2021) Sarah Gilmartin "A different kind of modern Irish novel [...] it made me think of Belinda McKeon or Anne Enright [...] It's a really open-hearted, compassionate book shaped by tragedies and the subdued, but finally warm, survival instinct of one family in the face of tragedy."
Holding Her Breath (2021) Eimear Ryan "A confident, textured, fluent novel about first love - and the campus novel sections are a pure joy."
The Answer to Everything (2021) Luke Kennard "An intelligent, human, and moving story about love and betrayal in all of their puzzling subtleties."
Fake Accounts (2021) Lauren Oyler "Fake Accounts percolates the big moral questions of our age––fraudulence, identity as performance, surveillance capitalism, political instability, personal freedom–– through a narrative arc driven ingeniously by low-level dopamine hits. At the same time, it is very, very funny. Oyler is the kind of dangerous contemporary writer we need more of."
