From the Costa Book of the Year-winning author of Days Without End Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live. Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself beyond the violence and dispossession of her past. But the fragile harmony of her unlikely family unit, in the aftermath of the Civil War, is soon threatened by a further traumatic event, one which Winona struggles to confront, let alone understand. Told in Sebastian Barry''s rare and masterly prose, A Thousand Moons is a powerful, moving study of one woman''s journey, of her determination to write her own future, and of the enduring human capacity for love. ''Nobody writes like, nobody takes lyrical risks like, nobody pushes the language, and the heart, and the two together, quite like Sebastian Barry does.'' ALI SMITH

***PRE-ORDER NOW*** THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOSTER, ANTARCTICA AND WALK THE BLUE FIELDS ''This is a tale of courage and compassion, of good sons and vulnerable young mothers. Absolutely beautiful.'' Douglas Stuart (Winner of the Booker Prize 2020) ''Marvellous-exact and icy and loving all at once.'' Sarah Moss ''A haunting, hopeful masterpiece.'' Sinead Gleeson It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church. The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster, Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness. ''A single one of Keegan''s grounded, powerful sentences can contain volumes of social history. Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.'' Hilary Mantel ''Astonishing. Claire Keegan makes her moments real - and then she makes them matter.'' Colm Toibin ''A true gift of a book. a sublime Chekhovian shock.'' Andrew O''Hagan ''A moral tale that is unsentimental and deeply affecting, because true and right.'' David Hayden