The Queen Of Dirt Island

Donal Ryan, Doubleday, £14.99

Set in rural Tipperary, this tale follows three generations of the Alyward women starting in the 1980s.

Saoirse is born in the week that her father dies, and is raised by her mum Eileen and her dad’s mother Mary.

From the author of The Spinning Heart, this is a glorious story of ordinary lives punctuated by drama, heartbreak and loss but ultimately bonded in love.