Fiction

Orbital

Samantha Harvey
Orbital
Paperback

The Story Collector

Iris Costello
The Story Collector
Paperback

Blackouts

Justin Torres
Blackouts
Paperback

Happy

Celina Baljeet Basra
Happy
Paperback

Mistletoe Magic in the Highlands

Bella Osborne
Mistletoe Magic in the Highlands
Paperback

Make the Season Bright

Ashley Herring Blake
Make the Season Bright
Paperback

Breathe

Joyce Carol Oates
Breathe
Paperback

The Loser

Thomas Bernhard
The Loser
Paperback

Preloved

Lauren Bravo
Preloved
Paperback

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – October 2024

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he’s supposed to do. He works hard, he studies, and he – mostly – stays out of trouble. The thirty-year conflict is over, he’s told, and his future is lit with promise. But when Sean returns home from university, he finds much of the same – the same friends doing the same gear in the same clubs, the same fathers and brothers missing… One night, he assaults a stranger at a party, and everything begins to come undone. Close to Home begins with this sudden act of violence and expands into a startling portrait of working-class Ireland under the long shadow of the Troubles.  //  Discuss in the Fiction reading group  //
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