Fiction

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  //

Close to Home

Michael Magee
Close to Home
Paperback

The Little Board Game Café

Jennifer Page
The Little Board Game Café
Paperback

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – September 2024

One family’s deepest pain. Another’s darkest secret. Who will they be when the truth comes out? On a hot day in 1960s Maine, six-year-old Joe watches his little sister Ruthie, sitting on her favourite rock at the edge of the blueberry fields, while their family, Mi’kmaq people from Nova Scotia, pick fruit. That afternoon, Ruthie vanishes without a trace. As the last person to see her, Joe will be forever haunted by grief, guilt, and the agony of imagining how his life could have been… The Berry Pickers is an exquisitely moving story of unrelenting hope, unwavering love, and the power of family – even in the face of grief and betrayal.

The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters
The Berry Pickers
Paperback

Ceremony

Leslie Marmon Silko
Ceremony
Paperback

The Burnout

Sophie Kinsella
The Burnout
Paperback

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