Books of the Month

During a golden era of success for Irish rugby, Peter O'Mahony stood out as the player who most fully embodied the traditional values of the game.

Now, in his autobiography, Peter gives us a brilliantly detailed and frank account of the forces that made him who he is: his parents, his beloved grandmother, his club, his school, and the magnificent rugby pedigree of his province. And he brings us through the years that saw him rise to the captaincy of Munster, Ireland and the British & Irish Lions, and earn a reputation as a master of the silky and brutal arts of back-row play.

This book is everything that Peter was as a player: frank, combative, wholehearted and first-rate.

Ideal for readers who:

• Favour frank rugby autobiography rooted in Munster, Ireland and Lions leadership.
• Recognise grit, standards and an uncompromising back-row presence.
• Respond to sports memoirs shaped by family, club loyalty and elite culture.
• Return for candid, combative life stories with match-day intensity.

Thirteen unforgettable stories. One legendary day. The bond that changes everything.

Return to the world of the blockbuster Empyrean series, Threshing Day, contains thirteen stories starring your favourite characters and their dragons. The deluxe first edition includes sixteen beautiful original full-colour illustrations by artist Joe Requeza and silver-gilded edges.*

A deliciously honest memoir about dating, desire and the radical act of wanting more.

At 38, Louise O’Neill had the life she thought she wanted—until her long-term relationship ended, taking with it the home, future, and sense of certainty she’d built. Heartbroken but defiant, she made a radical decision: to say yes to everything, to take risks, and to reclaim her life—on her own terms.

What followed was a dating experiment that took her across Paris, London, New York, and beyond. Through the men she meets and the moments in between, Louise begins to challenge everything she’s been taught to settle for – in life, love, and in herself.

Part memoir, part manifesto, A Bigger Life is a candid, courageous exploration of modern womanhood, sexual freedom, and the myths we’re sold about what makes a life worthwhile. It’s about embracing uncertainty, finding joy after heartbreak, and creating space for the version of yourself that doesn’t play small. Louise invites us to laugh, wince, and reflect as she asks the question at the heart of the book: What does it really mean to live a bigger life?

You'll love this book if you:

• Are a fan of Louise O'Neill's fiction
• Enjoy biographies and memoir, particularly when they come with a feminist twist
• Love authors like Dolly Alderton or books like Belle Burden's Strangers

Since The Firm in 1991, John Grisham has published a number one bestseller every year.His books have been translated into 45 languages and have sold over 350 million copies worldwide. Nine have been adapted to film, including The Firm, The Pelican Brief and A Time To Kill.

His first work of non-fiction, The Innocent Man, was adapted into a six-part Netflix docuseries; his second, Framed, highlights work with organisations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. He is the two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was distinguished with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.

John lives on a farm in central Virginia.

Ideal for readers who:

• Warm to legal thrillers with intrigue, danger and courtroom momentum.
• Follow suspense where the law becomes both weapon and battlefield.
• Are curious about clean plotting, moral pressure and professionals forced into difficult choices.
• Trust familiar Grisham territory with a fresh international hook.

Can one rash decision prove the difference between a life well lived and a life destroyed? When the Marquis of Queensbury left his calling card at the Albemarle Club in February 1895, it bore only his name and five words: 'For Oscar Wilde, posing Somdomite'. The most feted playwright of his day famously sued for libel, which led to his arrest, criminal prosecution and ultimately prison. From then on, his gilded existence spiralled into public disgrace, humiliation and an early death. But what if he had simply ignored the insult? What direction might his life have taken? This is the premise of John Boyne's extraordinary new novel, The Weight of Angels. Rather than dying in penury in Paris at the age of forty-six, what if he had lived to bear witness to the momentous events and cataclysmic changes of the first part of the twentieth century, and even influence some of them? What if the second half of his life were as celebrated, dramatic, tumultuous and exhilarating as the first? In imagining the life that Oscar Wilde never had, John Boyne has written one of the great what-if stories of modern literature, giving the great Anglo-Irish poet and playwright a fresh new voice and the opportunity to take an entirely different path.

Praise for The Weight of Angels:

Exceptionally moving... A granularly imagined, witty, hugely pleasurable read' Neel Mukherjee 'Wise, imaginative, funny, and extremely moving' Tan Twan Eng, Booker longlisted author of The House of Doors 'A richly inventive multi-media novel of literary might-have-beens' John Banville, Booker prize winner of The Sea 'A spectacularly cheeky piece of speculative fiction, gleefully celebrating the possibilities of queer genius' Patrick Gale

Readers are loving THE WEIGHT OF ANGELS:'Remarkable, funny and very touching' Enjoyed this book so much I bought The Picture of Dorian Grey' 'I devoured it in just a few days. Completely transported!' READER REVIEW

Ideal for readers who:

• Are intrigued by alternate-history fiction that imagines another path for Oscar Wilde.
• Explore a literary what-if built around one public insult and its consequences.
• Seek novels that blend biography, invention and twentieth-century upheaval.
• Settle into stories about reputation, disgrace and the fragile hinge of a single choice.

#1 bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story that brilliantly confronts the private cost of a public life.

For rising young actors Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old is the opportunity they’ve both been waiting for. They’re on the verge of breaking out, and maybe even falling in love. Soon, the movie is blowing up, and so are their lives—in exciting, but also terrifying, ways.

John Green artfully blends a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story with an unflinching examination of the insatiable attention economy. Told through dual points of view, the novel follows Kai and Juniper from the first days on location to the movie’s premiere, brilliantly juxtaposing their story with the on-screen study of Warhol’s life at the dawn of celebrity culture.

Hollywood, Ending is a deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and finding your safe someone to hold onto. Tender, heartbreaking, and shrewdly funny, this is a story as only John Green can tell it.

Ideal for readers who:

• Gravitate towards love stories shaped by fame, ambition and the pressure of being watched.
• Appreciate behind-the-scenes Hollywood settings with emotional consequences, not just glamour.
• Are drawn to thoughtful characters facing very modern anxieties.
• Value romance that asks what public success can cost in private.