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Random House presents the audiobook edition of From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan, read by Stephen Hogan, Gerry O''Brien and Ramon Tikaram.Farouk’s country has been torn apart by war.Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe.John’s past torments him as he nears his end.The refugee. The dreamer. The penitent. From war-torn Syria to small-town Ireland, three men, scarred by all they have loved and lost, are searching for some version of home. Each is drawn towards a powerful reckoning, one that will bring them together in the most unexpected of ways.''An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel'' RODDY DOYLE

Brought to you by Penguin.‘He heard Daddy one time saying he was a grand quiet boy to Mother when he thought Johnsey couldn’t hear them talking. Mother must have been giving out about him being a gom and Daddy was defending him. He heard the fondness in Daddy’s voice. But you’d have fondness for an auld eejit of a crossbred pup that should have been drowned at birth.’While the Celtic Tiger rages, and greed becomes the norm, Johnsey Cunliffe desperately tries to hold on to the familiar, even as he loses those who all his life have protected him from a harsh world. Village bullies and scheming land-grabbers stand in his way, no matter where he turns. Set over the course of one year of Johnsey’s life, The Thing About December breathes with his grief, bewilderment, humour and agonizing self-doubt. This is a heart-twisting tale of a lonely man struggling to make sense of a world moving faster than he is.Donal Ryan’s award-winning debut, The Spinning Heart, garnered unprecedented acclaim, and The Thing About December confirms his status as one of the best writers of his generation.© Donal Ryan 2013 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Brought to you by Penguin.From the multi-award-winning author of the number one bestseller, STRANGE FLOWERS, a searing, jubilant story about four generations of women and fierce love.The Aylward women of Nenagh, Tipperary, are mad about each other, but you wouldn''t always think it. You''d have to know them to know - in spite of what the neighbours might say about raised voices and dramatic scenes - that their house is a place of peace, filled with love, a refuge from the sadness and cruelty of the world.Their story begins at an end and ends at a beginning. It involves wives and widows, gunrunners and gougers, sinners and saints. It''s a story of terrible betrayals and fierce loyalties, of isolation and togetherness, of transgression, forgiveness, desire, and love. About all the things family can be and all the things it sometimes isn''t. From the prize-winning author of Strange Flowers and The Spinning Heart, The Queen of Dirt Island is an uplifting celebration of fierce, loyal love and the powerful stories that bind generations together.''Donal Ryan is giving us characters that we haven''t seen in Irish literature before'' RODDY DOYLE''Ryan''s work has set a benchmark to which other writers will aspire'' JOHN BOYNE''I think you have to truly love people to write like this'' RACHEL JOYCE© Donal Ryan 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

''Startlingly original stories.''S Magazine''Together they assert that love is more heart-breaking and transforming that the word necessarily conveys.''Observer Love is not a singular concept. In this collection, seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love: from Philautia, self-love, to Agape, love for humanity; and from Storge, a natural affection for family, to Mania, a frenzied, obsessive love. Seven authors; seven short stories; seven flashes of love. ''Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.'' Zelda FitzgeraldThis paperback edition of How Much the Heart Can Hold includes the winning short story from the SceptreLoves short story Prize.

Brought to you by Penguin.‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’Some things can send a heart spinning; others will crack it in two.In a small town in rural Ireland, the local people have weathered the storms of economic collapse and are looking towards the future. The jobs are back, the dramas of the past seemingly lulled, and although the town bears the marks of its history, new stories are unfolding.But a fresh menace is creeping around the lakeshore and the lanes of the town, and the peace of the community is about to be shattered in an unimaginable way. Young people are being drawn towards the promise of fast money whilst the generation above them tries to push back the tide of an enemy no one can touch…A stunning, lyrical novel told in twenty-one voices, Heart, be at Peace can be read independently, or as a companion to Donal Ryan’s multi-award-winning novel, The Spinning Heart, voted ‘The Irish Book of the Decade’.PRAISE FOR DONAL RYAN:''Beautiful, compassionate ... Donal Ryan at his inimitable best.'' MAGGIE O''FARRELL''One of the finest novelists writing today... a haunting, exquisite masterpiece.'' RACHEL JOYCE''The prose drips like honey off a spoon'' SUNDAY TIMES©2024 Donal Ryan (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Brought to you by Penguin. Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2013Shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award 2014Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013Winner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2012In the aftermath of Ireland''s financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus of unique voices, each struggling to tell their own kind of truth, a single authentic tale unfolds.The Spinning Heart speaks for contemporary Ireland like no other novel. Wry, vulnerable, all-too human, it captures the language and spirit of rural Ireland and with uncanny perception articulates the words and thoughts of a generation. Technically daring and evocative of Patrick McCabe and J.M. Synge, this novel of small-town life is witty, dark and sweetly poignant.''Funny, moving and beautifully written'' EDNA O''BRIEN''Filled with light and shade, love and tragedy ... if it was a song you could sing it'' ANNE ENRIGHT''Donal Ryan is the real deal ... a brilliantly realised, utterly resonant state-of-the-nation landscape'' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT''I can''t imagine a more original, more perceptive or more passionate work than this. Outstanding'' JOHN BOYNE''It''s furious, it''s moving, it''s darkly funny, it punches you right in the gut'' NEW YORK TIMES© Donal Ryan 2012 (P) Penguin Audio 2024