Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize

Claire Keegan

It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church....

Now & Then: A Collection of Recipes for Always

Tessa Kiros

A collection of recipes for always.  This is beloved food writer Tessa Kiros's definitive reflection on a lifetime of cooking and eating.   With characteristic generosity of spirit, Tessa invites us into her kitchen to share what she's cooking now: an exciting blend of new discoveries and enduring favou...

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

Hilary Mantel

'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.' As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she f...