Booker Prize winner 2023. A deeply unsettling, propulsive read set in a near-future Ireland sliding into authoritarianism — told in relentless, breathless prose that barely lets you surface. Paul Lynch writes in long, rolling sentences that pull you under like a current.

It is not an easy book. The dread is unrelenting and the ending offers little comfort. But it is brilliantly crafted and feels urgently of the moment.