The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl, and Girls in Their Married BlissEdna O'Brien's first novel The Country Girls and its sequels The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s. The characters of Kate Brady and her friend Baba Brennan have inspired generation after generation of readers and writers, as we see them struggling against the confines of a rural Irish convent school; revelling in the bright lights of Dublin; and weathering the unexpected challenges

As her parents spiral around Isabelle's impenetrable silence

the widely-acclaimed bestseller

Daniel is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together

who reject the oppressive Empire and embrace the resistance

already struggling to come to terms with a life-changing event

The last two decades of 19th century popular fiction were dominated by Conan Doyle and Sherlock Homes

political thriller and apocalyptic fiction

'A marvellous piece of imagination with plenty of twists

ruined and broken

In this third and terrifying instalment in the Wardstone Chronicles

functioning duplicate of Lolanthe

including the most deeply buried one of them all