‘If there is anything in common between Haven and Donoghue’s multi-million seller Room (2010), it is the exploration of how human beings respond to extraordinary circumstances: something she achieves by acute observation and attention to (poignant) detail. ‘

‘This is a novel that is so of its time, so accurate in its depiction of a Catalonian cultural snapshot, yet expansive in its emotional range. It’s so geographically, and psycho-geographically, specific.’

‘I think about the woodland. I think about bars of morning sunlight, bobbing with life; aphids and spores. I think about the bulk of the herd moving through the undergrowth, gracefully, like whales through water.’

‘The writing, brought effortlessly to life in Caroline Waight’s deft translation, is, from the first, surprising and sharply observed. Laura Vogt is unafraid to expose her characters’ raw, unadulterated depths. ‘

‘ABÉCÉDAIRE rewards when met on its own terms: an immersion in the landscape rushing past, an attention to the crazy detail that both differentiates and connects it; an awareness at all times of the window which frames your view.’

‘Cold Fish Soup is like nothing else you will read this year: a lyrical and courageous exercise in uncovering one’s own personal history’

Our first print edition is now available to order

‘Fundamentally, though, it is that rare thing: a literary novel concerned with pleasure — of sex, and eating, and music, and the pleasures of a narrative, of escaping somewhere else, becoming someone else’

Submissions for our second print edition, publishing November, are now open.

‘‘For a novel that is so sharp and often written with such linguistic utility, it isn’t at all sparse. Despite these moments in which the narration is given the control that the narrator so desires, this novel is full. In fact, fittingly, one might say it has real weight.’

‘Of Saints and Miracles causes us to look at the world anew’

‘The Cellist is an immersive portrait of an intriguing character; an ode to the complex creation of an artist.’

‘Maddie came to meet me in her jeep to collect me from town and I thought here’s a woman for whom no poems have been written.’

‘The novel’s strongest points are in its scenes of the mundane everyday of suburban American life, imbued with a bittersweet nostalgia.’

‘A Door Behind a Door may disorient readers who prefer more conventional narrative structures, or disappoint those looking for satisfying resolutions, but it is a thrilling, intoxicating ride.’

‘With this book, which will appeal to fans of Jenny Offill and Meg Mason, Mou joins the ranks of contemporary female authors unafraid to delve into the uncomfortable and unsettling.’

‘The daughter belongs to another world, she’ll not stay long in this one. She looks like Isak Dinesen at the end of her siege with love.’

‘When Gabe wouldn’t talk as a baby, oh man, did we have excuses. Same as now. Colleen wants to know where we’ve been, have we sided with Connor? She’s at the door in denim.’

‘We walked slowly and sometimes into each other because we’d been drinking five dollar buckets of beer all day. A child had ferried the beer to our sun loungers as soon as we waved a hand and this we found amusing and it had opened up our wallets.’

‘I don’t know how it is in Ireland now, but here if you want to see old people and babies, go to Mass.’