The Half Moon'Best Book of 2023' in Vogue, Entertainment Weekly, People, Book Page, Literary Hub 'It's such a pleasure to sink into Keane's quietly luminous prose . . . she manages to find the extraordinary grace in our achingly ordinary world' NEW YORK TIMES 'Mary Beth Keane writes to the heart of the human heart . . . I could not put this book down' MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER 'Prepare to lose yourself in this book' SARA COLLINS 'Her insights into matters of the

murder and sausage dogs

It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth

To some a ruthless warrior and master tactician

she hoards them in a vast internal sonic archive

'The History of Bees is a fascinating and brilliantly written novel that elegantly moves between the various stories and timelines' Oddmund Hagen

the Edgeworld has changed

Even though youve done your travelling

Jai Seong Sin

Antonito hand rears a little black calf and they become firm friends

To Ren's astonishment

mystery and war

which sheds never-before-told light on a pivotal mission that helped bring the war to its bloody and brutal close