John Boyne & Andrew O’Hagan

John Boyne has been described by Colum McCann as “one of the great craftsmen in contemporary literature.” His 2006 novel, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, won two Irish Book Awards, topped the New York Times Bestseller List, and spent more than 80 weeks at no.1 in Ireland. The book has sold more than five million copies worldwide and has been made into an award-winning film.

His latest novel, The House of Special Purpose, is “a wonderful, many-layered novel” (The Irish Examiner) and “a work that chimes perfectly with our times” (The Irish Times). It tells the story of 80-year-old Georgy Jachmenev, a man haunted by his past. As Georgy prepares to make one final journey, we are transported to St Petersburg in the early 20th century, a time of change, threat and bloody revolution, and uncover the chilling story of the house of special purpose.

In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Maf. He had an instinct for the twentieth century. For politics. For literature. For interior decoration. In The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, Andrew O’Hagan tells his story.

The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog is a hilarious and highly original peek into the world of a real-life canine hero. Through Maf’s eyes, O’Hagan offers us a glimpse of the life of Monroe herself, and “a subtle, funny and moving study of America on the eve of one of its periods of greatest crisis.” (John Banville, The Guardian)

Scottish novelist Andrew O’Hagan is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Our Fathers, shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize, and Personality, winner of the 2003 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. In 2003 Granta named him one of the 'Best of Young British Novelists', and his awards include the E M Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, one of the highest distinctions a British author can receive in the United States.

Reviews

[The House of Special Purpose] is an exciting, fast-paced story... deft plotting and strong dialogue. Absorbing and richly satisfying

- The Times

[Maf the Dog is] the first novel of the Obama age, full of potential and hope and haunted by grief and regret . . . O'Hagan might, on the strength of this, be the person to break the Booker’s fear of funny.

- Scotland on Sunday

[Maf the Dog] is a clever, knowing book, full of entertainments and insights, and a treat, of course, for dog lovers everywhere.

- The Irish Times

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