Aftertaste (2025) Daria Lavelle "Aftertaste is practically exploding with love, life and flavour. I relished every word."
The Bureau (2025) Eoin McNamee "Lyrical, atmospheric and full of foreboding, The Bureau takes the reader deep into the lawless hinterlands of the border. A beautiful book from a contemporary master, all the more extraordinary for being grounded in fact."
The Wardrobe Department (2025) Elaine Garvey "Astutely observed and beautifully written. I rooted for Mairead all the way to the end of this impressive debut."
Lo Fi (2024) Liz Riggs "Lo Fi has the intimacy of a Sally Rooney novel and the raw yearning of a Lucinda Williams song. A gorgeous, accomplished novel."
The Alternatives (2024) Caoilinn Hughes "Caoilinn Hughes is one of the most intelligent, surprising, and delightful writers around. The Alternatives made me laugh, cry, and think. Any one of the Flattery sisters would have made a compelling story; together they are glorious, as is this novel."
The Wren, the Wren (2023) Anne Enright "These pages practically crackle with intelligence, compassion and wit. Phil McDaragh is so real I almost googled him. As for the women he left ... Carmel's mothering made me blush with recognition and I wanted the world for Nell. The Wren, The Wren might just be Anne Enright's best yet."
Tell Me What I Am (2023) Una Mannion "This beautiful, haunting novel beats with the heart of a thriller, but is so much more. Una Mannion is a writer of extraordinary talent, compassion and power."
Close to Home (2023) Michael Magee "A vision of a post-conflict Belfast that didn't deliver what it promised, blighted by poverty, pain and memory. But far from being bleak, I laughed out loud many times. And it is full of love. Each character is so vividly drawn that I felt like I had met them somewhere before; even the most flawed of them is treated with dignity and respect, and an absence of judgement that reminded me of Annie Ernaux. And the writing! Supple, rich and demotic - Kneecap meets Chekhov - no one else is doing this. I had great hopes for this novel and Michael Magee has booted it out of the park. Absolutely glorious."
Nothing Special (2023) Nicole Flattery "In enviably elegant prose, she manages to be both arch and deadly serious. Wonderful stuff."
Redder Days (2021) Sue Rainsford "Terrifying, exquisite, enthralling - and shockingly beautifully written."
To Be a Man (2020) Nicole Krauss "Stunning. Intellectually and emotionally intelligent and immaculately written."
