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by Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen

€16.99

Special Eason edition with sprayed edges They said they’d never let a man get in the way of their friendship... Laura and Dee haven’t spoken since the day they buried a body together. It was supposed to be the best summer of their lives. A break from university, from parents, from wasting their time on Irish boys with farmer’s tans. They’d imagined flirting with Ryan Phillippe on a New York rooftop. Instead, with summer jobs waitressing at a country club on Long Island, pickings are slim. Mikey is a bully. Marco is off limits. Jose is angry. Mr Haight is a sleaze. Josh is too keen. And Other Josh… he’s something else entirely. It’s a miracle only one of them ends up dead. Dee is pretty sure she didn’t mean to kill him. Laura, to her credit, never asked. Not until she sends an email, out of the blue, more than twenty years later. It’s finally time to mend the biggest heartbreak of that summer; Laura wants her best friend back. A hilarious and heartfelt story about friendship, young women and bad men. Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght bring their trademark Aisling humour in this completely new direction. Noughties nostalgia and a dead body, it’s the novel you didn’t know you needed. Ideal for readers who: Reach for darkly funny mysteries where friendship becomes tangled with guilt. Need Long Island summer nostalgia to curdle into secrets and danger. Get hooked by a buried body, a broken bond and questions left for decades. Connect with Irish humour that can sit comfortably beside menace and heartbreak.

by Matt Haig

€16.99

When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop? No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there. The chance to re-live the moments that meant most. To see what kind of person you really were. For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon in Venice. Before he gave it all away. He wishes he could go back and live differently. But to do so risks everything... A magical, time-travelling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library. Ideal for readers who: Gravitate toward time-travel stories where regret matters more than spectacle. Need a love story that revisits Venice, memory and the cost of second chances. Gravitate toward speculative fiction with a tender emotional question at its centre. Have ever wondered which moment they would return to if time briefly opened.

by Kathleen MacMahon

€12.99

A brilliantly observed, funny, poignant and utterly real portrait of a mid-life woman and her family. I loved it.' Claire Fuller 'An elegant and beautifully-observed novel by one of our finest contemporary writers' Louise Kennedy 'I found myself taking screenshots to send to friends because MacMahon nails it over and over again' Claire Kilroy --- 'Marriage was the biggest decision of their lives and yet they made it so lightly it was barely a decision at all' As schoolgirls, Justine and her best friend Iseult dreamed of a future that revolved around marriage. They saw it as a happy ending, never imagining for a moment that the reality would be more complicated. Coming up to fifty, they're still best friends. Justine has been married to Iseult's brother for twenty-five years and lives in her childhood home. Iseult has spent her adult life abroad, her marriage clearly unhappy for reasons she won't discuss. When Justine's daughter suddenly announces her engagement, Justine is thrown into planning a big family wedding. Afraid that her daughter is making a mistake, she finds herself questioning the choices she and Iseult made decades earlier. This crisis of confidence tests Justine in new and unexpected ways. From the Women's Prize longlisted author of Nothing But Blue Sky and The Home Scar, Other People's Lives is a captivating story about the decisions we make in a heartbeat, and their lifelong consequences. --- 'A book to inhale' Belinda McKeon 'Warm-hearted and relatable, perfectly captures the messiness of modern family life' Aingeala Flannery 'MacMahon is an astute chronicler of modern life' David Park 'A tender-hearted portrait of modern life, told with MacMahon's trademark wit and warmth. I flew through it' Louise Nealon 'Beautiful' Hilary Fannin 'Incisive, witty and tender, there's not a woman in the country who won't relate to this fine and thought-provoking novel.' Christine Dwyer Hickey 'Thoughtful and provocative, a beautifully narrated story of friendship and marriage' Anna Fitzgerald 'Simply exquisite. MacMahon is one of Ireland's finest writers.' Anne Griffin 'Perceptive, tender, astute, beguiling' Martina Devlin 'I really and truly loved this tender, deeply satisfying novel' Orla Mackey 'So beautifully observed, so penetrating, so coolly aware of the texture of people's lives.' Neil Hegarty 'This wise, truthful novel explores brilliantly all the complexity of women's lives' Anne Tiernan 'Thought-provoking and utterly absorbing' Sinéad Crowley Ideal for readers who: Prize beautifully observed fiction about marriage, friendship and midlife uncertainty. Reach for domestic comedy when the awkward details feel painfully exact. Gravitate toward contemporary Irish novels that are elegant, funny and quietly devastating. Notice the unspoken tensions around family rituals, weddings and old choices.

by Dawn French

€13.99

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 that Saturday morning, Etta wakes her daughter, her granddaughter, her son and her daughter-in-law up to lead everyone down to the beach. To ‘Etta’s Hollow’, where a roaring fire has already been lit. Drowsy but delighted – the sun is just starting to rise for a glorious dawn – Etta’s family bask in the beauty of the moment. A memory to be cherished forever. Tick. Until twenty minutes later, when Etta announces to her assembled beloveds something as shocking as it is alarming. ‘I have brought you all down to the beach this morning to tell you something important. You see, the thing is, today is my last day alive.’ Boom. Over the next twenty-four hours, Etta and her family are about to have the most surprising, affecting and life-affirming day of all their lives. Ideal for readers who: Respond to family novels built around one unforgettable, emotionally charged day. Hope for an older heroine whose choice gives the story its force and tenderness. Appreciate warmth and humour around conversations that are anything but easy. Appreciate life-affirming fiction with mortality, honesty and love close to the surface.

by Edie May Hand

€14.99

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 family. Five years earlier, Opal and her husband James arrive at a small mining community in the Silver Valley, drawn by promises of fortune and independence. There they meet Baron Rowe, the charismatic visionary who controls the community with an iron fist. Baron's son Denny has spent his life trying, and failing, to live up to Baron's expectations, and to protect his little sister Maude from their father's excesses. Soon, a tragic accident will change all their lives. And five years later, change will come again at the barrel of a madman's gun. Crossing the border into Canada, Opal, Denny, Maude, little Billy and the baby find refuge in a remote hunting cabin and in the generosity of the widowed Mrs Schweers. As these five become Ma, Da, Bunny, Bear and Baby, they must unlearn all they have known, tend to wounds old and new, and start afresh. Dirtpickers is a heart-swelling beauty of a debut novel of trauma and found family, from an incredible new literary talent. Written in exquisite lyrical passages, the novel moves between the four main characters, shuffling back and forth in time, to create a story that will live long in the reader's memory. Ideal for readers who: Read literary fiction for found family, trauma recovery and the slow work of trust. Come for the Idaho mining setting to shape the characters as much as the plot. Appreciate layered timelines and lyrical prose that ask for close attention. Feel moved by survival stories where home has to be invented from almost nothing.

by Sarah Gilmartin

€15.99

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 swims in Dublin Bay. Two decades on, life feels smaller. Dylan, once a rugby star, is stranded on the sofa, cared for by his wife Rachel. Across town, Stevie and Ben's relationship has settled into weary routine. Then, after countless auditions, Ben lands a role in Pinter's Betrayal. As rehearsals unfold, the play's shifting allegiances seep into reality, reviving old jealousies and awakening sudden longings, as each must reckon with how far they're willing to go in pursuit of desire. Wry, sexy and deftly observed, Little Vanities is a novel about the dangerous thrill of stepping outside the roles we've been given - and the distance between the lives we imagine and the ones we live. Ideal for readers who: Respond to Dublin fiction about old friendships, faded ambition and midlife desire. Have a soft spot for theatre-world tension when a play starts echoing real betrayals. Get pulled toward younger selves and present disappointments to complicate every relationship. Get drawn into stories where performance and intimacy become hard to separate.

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

€10.99

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 - not just a warm, comforting coffee, but the chance to go back in time to revisit the ones you love... In Before I knew I loved you, Toshikazu Kawaguchi takes us back to the warm heart of the mysterious Funiculi Funicula Cafe, with another four guests whose luminous stories of love, lost and won again, will reaffirm your belief in its eternal potential. In this book, we meet: - The girl who wishes to make amends with the mother she never accepted - The man who waited for a reply from his girlfriend, and never heard from her - The woman anxious to travel ahead to know what her future holds - The student who travels back to meet his father again, who passed away many years before. Yet the same rules always apply - you must return before the coffee gets cold. And while it does, memories are revisited, people are changed forever, and the enduring power of love transcends the boundaries of time. The sixth book in the phenomenal, bestselling series, translated from Japanese, Before I knew I loved you asks the irresistible question: what would you do if you were offered the chance to go back in time? Ideal for readers who: Return to the Funiculi Funicula Cafe for gentle time-travel consolation. Connect with linked stories about love that was missed, delayed or left unsaid. Respond to magical rules that make quiet decisions feel urgent and meaningful. Turn to tender Japanese fiction for grief, hope and emotional second chances.

by Ben Miller

€16.99

Adventure can be a deadly business. It began in the manner of all the very best adventures: in a coffee house. When one Richard Hannay-intrepid, inquisitive, and on the hunt for intrigue-encounters an old acquaintance in Constantinople, he has an inkling that something thrilling is afoot. Charged with an item of great mystery and import-a washbag, no less!-he soon finds himself in a very dangerous pursuit: from the luxurious confines of the Orient Express to the decks of the Titanic herself, all with the very fate of Europe in his care. Can he slip the net of Count Schwabing, whose long arm stretches from Berlin to the Bosphorus? And what of Madame Zara, the cabaret enchantress-does she play at affection, deception, or something far more deadly? In over his head, often a step-or thirty-nine-behind, but absolutely, resolutely determined to save the day, Hannay is about to embark on an escapade that will test his wits, his courage, and his ability to keep hold of a blasted washbag. Ideal for readers who: Miss old-school adventure with spies, trains, disguises and improbable escapes. Get pulled toward Constantinople, the Orient Express and the Titanic woven into a brisk chase. Enjoy heroes who are brave, baffled and several steps behind the danger. Have a soft spot for capers where a ridiculous object can still decide the fate of Europe.