Allen & Unwin Solar Bones book Fiction English Paperback 272 pages

Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize: this 'masterpiece' of a novel, is an international literary sensation, winner of the Goldsmiths Prize and Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year.

WINNER 2018 Dublin International Literary PrizeWINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAROnce a year, on All Souls' Day, it is said in Ireland that the dead may return. Solar Bones is the story of one such visit. Marcus Conway, a middle-aged engineer, turns up one afternoon at his kitchen table and considers the events that took him away and then brought him home again.Funny and strange, McCormack's ambitious and other-worldly novel plays with form and defies convention. This profound new work is by one of Ireland's most important contemporary novelists. A beautiful and haunting elegy, this story of order and chaos, love and loss captures how minor decisions ripple into waves and test our integrity every day.

Mike McCormack is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from Mayo. His previous work includes Getting it in the Head (1995), Notes from a Coma (2005), which was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, and Forensic Songs (2012). In 1996 he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and in 2007 he was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. In 2016, Solar Bones won the Goldsmiths Prize and the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year.