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A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year, the sequel to the beloved bestseller, Brooklyn.

The book version of the thrilling and innovative narrative podcast.
On a dark and stormy night ?
A pair of ghost-hunting journalists arrive at the most haunted house in Britain – the Hollow Hotel. They’re here to interview the Dark King of television magic, Romeo Gideon.

An Observer Best Debut Novelist of 2025
‘One of the most exciting writers working in Ireland today’ SALLY ROONEY
‘Lively, bighearted ? an utter joy to read’ COLIN BARRETT
‘Truly gorgeous ? a writer of immense talent’ MICHAEL MAGEE
‘Funny and heartbreaking’ FERDIA LENNON

THE INSTANT TOP 5 IRISH BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN McGAHERN BOOK PRIZE 2025
‘Wild, singular?gripped me from the start’ DOUGLAS STUART
‘Passionate, wild, hugely atmospheric’ DAVID NICHOLLS
‘Intelligent, probing’ MAGGIE O’FARRELL
‘A gorgeous, mysterious read’ AISLING BEA
‘I adored it’ LOUISE KENNEDY
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD

A collection of delightful short stories from one of Ireland’s greatest ever writers, Brian Friel. Demonstrating all of Friel’s peerless instinct for voice, scene, and the uncanny mystery found in the everyday, these tales tell of beauty, struggle and discovery: from the drowning of a man in the bog-black waters of Lough Keeragh, to the camaraderie of teenage potato gathers in County Tyrone, and from the careful work of the German War Graves Commission in Glenn na fuiseog, to trawlermen’s talk of sunken gold off the coast of Donegal.

Mairéad works all hours in a run-down West End theatre’s wardrobe department, her whole existence made up of threads and needles, running errands to mend shoes, fixing broken zips and handwashing underwear. She must also do her best to avoid groping hands backstage and the terrible bullying of the show’s producer. But, despite her skill and growing experience, half of Mairéad remains in her windy, hedge-filled home in Ireland, and the life she abandoned there. In noughties London, she has the potential to be somebody completely new – why, then, does she feel so stuck? Between the bustling side streets of Soho, and the wet grass of Leitrim and Donegal, Mairéad is caught, running from the girl she was but unable to reveal the woman she’d hoped to become.

A bone-shaking new trilogy begins – the latest adventure in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series

It’s not dust she’s looking for. It’s dirt. Esmie is supposed to be invisible. Just a cleaner with a foreign accent that no one quite has time to place. Her uniform of leggings and a duster allows her to explore the homes of the wealthy, unseen; an outsider creeping around the edges of privilege. But as she sweeps through the exclusive Woodlands gated neighbourhood, cleaning is the last thing on her mind. Treading silently over the polished wooden floorboards and cloud-soft carpets, Esmie gathers up the mess of broken marriages, quiet deceptions and careless failures. She tucks away their fragments, keeping them safe. For now. Because one of the residents took from her the person she loves most. She’s not here to clean; she’s here for revenge – and she’ll get it using the weapons her employers unwittingly handed her along with the keys to their homes: their own secrets.

*The book version of the thrilling and innovative narrative podcast launching August 2024*
On a dark and stormy night ?
A pair of journalists arrive at the most haunted house in Britain – the Hollow Hotel. They’re here to interview the Dark King of television magic, Romeo Gideon.

A gripping ghost story from Britain’s best-loved children’s storyteller, full of friendship, adventure and a pirate queen.
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