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A Novel
by Emma Donoghue
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by Roisín O'Donnell
Published Feb 2026
Read ReviewsFrom an unforgettable new voice in Irish fiction, a heart-pounding, life-affirming story about one woman trying to leave her marriage and start over.
by Emily Spurr
Published Aug 2021
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2021 BookBrowse Debut Award
A soaring, heartfelt debut following fifty-five days in the life of ten-year-old Rae, who must look after herself and her dog when her mother disappears.
by Rhiannon Navin
Published Feb 2019
Read ReviewsFor fans of Room and the novels of Jodi Picoult, a dazzling, tenderhearted debut about healing, family, and the exquisite wisdom of children, narrated by a six-year-old boy who reminds us that sometimes the littlest bodies hold the biggest hearts, and the quietest voices speak the loudest.
by T Greenwood
Published Aug 2018
Read ReviewsBased on the experiences of real-life kidnapping victim Sally Horner and her captor, whose story shocked the nation and inspired Vladimir Nabokov to write his controversial and iconic Lolita.
by Benjamin Ludwig
Published Dec 2017
Read ReviewsTold in an extraordinary and wholly unique voice that will candidly take you into the mind of a curious and deeply human character.
by Craig Cliff
Published Nov 2017
Read ReviewsPlayfully literate and strikingly original, an unforgettable debut novel about art, imitation, and obsession.
by Chelsea Cain
Published May 2015
Read ReviewsA heart-stopping, entertaining thrill ride, One Kick announces the arrival of a blistering new series by a stunning talent in the thriller realm.
The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean
by David Almond
Published Feb 2015
Read ReviewsFrom master storyteller David Almond comes a gripping, exquisitely written novel about a hidden-away child who emerges into a broken world.
by Abbie Taylor
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsWith dark twists and intertwining narratives, The Stranger on the Train is an unforgettable novel of psychological suspense that you will keep you guessing until the shattering finale.
by Emily Murdoch
Published Apr 2014
Read ReviewsThere are some things you can't leave behind
by Peggy Riley
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsAmity & Sorrow is a story about God, sex, and farming. It's an unforgettable journey into the horrors a true believer can inflict upon his family, and what it is like to live when the end of the world doesn't come.
by Amity Gaige
Published Oct 2013
Read ReviewsAttending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder - a first-generation East German immigrant - adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily fit in, a fateful white lie that will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course.
by Margaux Fragoso
Published Jan 2012
Read ReviewsThis extraordinary memoir is an unprecedented glimpse into the psyche of a young girl in free fall and conveys to readers - including parents and survivors of abuse - just how completely a pedophile enchants his victim and binds her to him.
by Cate Kennedy
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsA compassionate and unswerving portrait of a broken family whose members go to extraordinary lengths to reclaim their lives and relationships from the mistakes of the past.
by Keith Donohue
Published May 2007
Read ReviewsInspired by the W.B. Yeats poem that tempts a child from home to the waters and the wild, The Stolen Child is a modern fairy tale narrated by the child Henry Day and his double.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Published Apr 2006
Read ReviewsUnafraid to show his traumatized characters' constant groping for emotional catharsis, Foer demonstrates once again that he is one of the few contemporary writers willing to risk sentimentalism in order to address great questions of truth, love and beauty.
by Jim Lynch
Published Apr 2006
Read ReviewsA mesmerizing, allegorical, and beautifully wrought first novel about one boy's wonder with the sea during the summer that will change his life, and the lives around him.
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Published Aug 2004
Read ReviewsA novel that is as compelling as it is rich. With her unerring eye for the whimsical, the absurd, and the quintessentially human, Ann-Marie MacDonald stunningly evokes the pain, confusion, and humor of childhood in a perilous adult world.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Published May 2004
Read Reviews'Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy.'
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