The Shadows of Rookhaven by Padraig Kenny

The Shadows of Rookhaven by Padraig KennyShadows are gathering over Rookhaven. It is the time of The Great Configuration, a once in a hundred years event. Family and monsters descend on Rookhaven from all over the country to take part. But amid the guests there is an interloper. One who is disguised and has an eye on their destruction. Meanwhile Mirabelle part human, part monster discovers that to those from outside Rookhaven she is not considered family at all and, forced to search further

the more friendless

'Blistering' Sunday Times'Indispensable' Observer'Fascinating' The Times'Brilliant' Peter Frankopan'Revelatory' Lindsey HilsumA timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled

comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry

The systems that we have put in place to manage our mortality are manifestly failing

and the deadline was imminent

'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday Times

WINNER of the McIlvanney Prize 2020

What - and who - she brings with her will change the course of her family's life forever

Myrtle Meek has everything she could possibly want

Bram Stoker

who is on her way to Europe to promote the book she has just published

Which of us is happy in this world