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In the years after the Great Famine, Tomás, a mapmaker employed by the British to survey Ireland and translate its place names, moves his family from the Dublin slums to a stone cottage on a remote western peninsula, where a stand of trees missing from every map changes his work.
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Desert
Two stories braided together: the Blue Men of the Sahara driven north by French colonial troops in 1909 and 1910, and Lalla, a girl descended from them, growing up decades later in a shantytown on the Moroccan coast.
Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996
Thirty years of Heaney's poems, from Death of a Naturalist to The Spirit Level, with his Nobel lecture.
Troubles
In 1919, Major Brendan Archer, shaken by the war, arrives at a crumbling hotel on the Irish coast to see the fiancée he barely remembers, and watches the building, and the empire, fall apart around him.
The Yield
August Gondiwindi comes home from England for her grandfather's funeral and finds the family land about to be taken by a mining company, while his Wiradjuri dictionary tells his own story.
The Echo Maker
After a truck crash on a Nebraska road, a young man wakes believing his sister is an impostor, and a famous neurologist arrives as sandhill cranes gather on the Platte River.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
In a remote county of nineteenth-century China, seven-year-old Lily is matched with Snow Flower as a laotong, an 'old same' for life, and the two girls write to each other in nu shu, a secret women's script, on a silk fan as foot-binding, marriage and upheaval shape their lives.
Clear
In 1843, as Scotland's church splits and landlords clear the land, a poor minister takes a job removing the last inhabitant of a remote island north of Shetland, but an accident leaves him in the care of Ivar, the man he came to evict, though they share no language.
Hamnet
Shakespeare's wife raises their twins in plague-era Stratford, and when their son dies, she channels her grief into the creation of a play her husband will write.
The Vaster Wilds
A colonial-era woman flees into the Virginia wilderness and must survive alone, carrying the weight of everything she's running from.
Bring Larks and Heroes
Corporal Phelim Halloran, an Irish marine in the penal colony of New South Wales in the late eighteenth century, loves a convict servant girl and is drawn into a plot by Irish convicts.
Solar Storms
Angela Jensen, seventeen, scarred and raised in foster homes, comes back to the boundary waters between Minnesota and Canada to find the women of her family, as a dam project threatens their land.
A Mercy
In the early days of American slavery, a young woman sold from one master to another navigates a world where mercy is rare and freedom is an idea without language.