Bloodroot by Annemarie Ní Churreáin

Bloodroot by Annemarie Ní ChurreáinShortlisted for the 2018 Shine Strong Award and longlisted for the Julie Suk Award A work of muscle and grit, of vision and clarity, Bloodroot is truly exceptional. Among the strongest debut collections of the decade. Doireann N Ghrofa

But she isn't playing with children her own age

She knows she has no choice but to believe that the nun she entrusts her child to will find him a better life

AMERICAN DIRT is the first novel to explore the experience of attempting to illegally cross the US-Mexico border

From ageing bodies and existential crises to long-distance relationships and embracing your slovenliness

With honesty

the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory

This is a book about the incentives that shape us

a deft storyteller

With two inspiring gardens at Kew in London

'Many years later

leading him to question whether he is really living in the "best of possible worlds"

Boland listens to women who have long had no agency in the way their stories were told