Anne Enright
The Gathering

The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam.lt wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. Tracing the line of hurt and redemption through three generations, this is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars.

Tana French
In the Woods

Summer 1984 and three children are playing in the woods. When they don't return, the police are called. Two are never seen again. The third child is found terrified, unable to recall anything. Twenty years later, that boy, Rob Ryan, is a Dublin detective. But when a 12-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox find themselves investigating a case with chilling links to that long­ago disappearance. Now, Rob has the chance to unravel both the case before him and his own shadowy past. And every trail leads inexorably back ... into the woods.

Jonathan & Angela Scott
Antarctica: Exploring a Fragile Eden (NF)

A journey to Antarctica changes your life. It forces you to take a long hard look at the state of our planet and its last wild places ... Antarctica promises man the chance to do something that he has never done before - commit to the preservation of a vast wilderness, simply because it exists. Here the Scotts tell the story of their modern-day exploration of this extreme continent, a journey through the magnificent icy landscape, to explore the wildlife of this rare sanctuary, and reflect on the experiences of early explorers, and on the relationship between man and the wildlife in this remote and spectacular environment.