Browse by category
Orchid and the Wasp by Caoilinn Hughes
Category: Fiction
"A gem of a novel." - ELLE "Caoilinn Hughes is a massive talent." - Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See An unforgettable young woman navigates Dublin, London and New York, striving to build a life raft for her loved-ones amidst economic and familial collap ...Show more
Orchid & the Wasp by Caoilinn Hughes
Category: Fiction
Orchids are liars. They use pheromones to lure wasps in to become unwitting pollinators. In nature, such exploitative systems are rare. In society, they are everywhere. Gael Foess is a heroine of mythic proportions. Raised in Dublin by single-minded, careerist parents, she learns from an early age how i ...Show more
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
Category: Fiction
The four Flattery sisters - Olwen, Nell, Maeve and Rhona - were left to cobble together their own makeshift adolescence after the death of both their parents. Decades later, all four of them have found success in their respective fields, all of them boasting PhDs and, in Nell's case, a healthy clutch o ...Show more
The Alternatives - A Novel by Caoilinn Hughes
Category: Fiction
"A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for our agonizing species, The Alternatives unfolds in a prose full of gorgeous surprises and glows with intelligence, compassion, and beauty." --Hernan Diaz From the writer Anthony Doerr calls "a massive tale ...Show more
The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes
Category: Fiction
AN IRISH TIMES, IRISH SUNDAY TIMES, IRISH INDEPENDENT & SUNDAY INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2020NOMINATED FOR NOVEL AT THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS, 2020'Extraordinary... A book of wicked intelligence and tender heart.' - Max Porter, author of LannyIt's 2008, and the Celtic Tiger has left deva ...Show more
The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes
Category: Fiction
It's 2008, and the Celtic Tiger has left devastation in its wake. For Hart and Cormac Doharty life continues as normal - at least at first. But when their father falls ill, the boys face a devastating choice. Their family, and their community, are in crisis, and there's nothing more dangerous than two m ...Show more
0 - 6 of 7