Selected Non-Fiction – Pt. 2

MILK

9781529097948 HB | £12.99 | 09.03.23 | Picador

For fans of Megan Hunter, Sinéad Gleeson and Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Milk is an honest, heartfelt and thoughtprovoking memoir of the first year of motherhood, written by brilliant new talent Alice Kinsella.

Alice approaches the experience of motherhood and of having children in contemporary Ireland in a completely unique way, detailing her first nine months as a mother blended with a nuanced, emotive and spellbinding view of her country’s historical relationship with its women. The Archaeology of Loss was written after Sarah Tarlow’s husband took his own life in 2017 while suffering from a largely undiagnosed degenerative illness. In this unique debut memoir, Sarah approaches the experience of bereavement with humour, intelligence and urgency. Sarah is an accomplished archaeologist concerned with the ritual and belief behind the practice of grief, and in this powerfully moving book, she brings together reflections from her academic life and her own experience.

For readers of H is for Hawk and The Salt Path, this is an unforgettable exploration of the realities of caregiving, and the heartbreak of losing someone you love. A Girlhood is a parent’s deeply moving love letter to her transgender daughter, who has always known exactly who she is.

Carolyn Hays’s family almost lost custody of their daughter after an anonymous complaint was made about the upbringing of their transgender child in the Republican state her family called home. In this book Carolyn revisits this event through a series of letters, using them to cathartasize painful memories and replace them with love and compassion. Through these intimate, lyrical and moving letters, we learn about trans history, love in its strongest form, the sacrificial nature of motherhood, and the fears, challenges and joy of raising a trans child.

‘Milk is an important addition to the growing canon of work about the physical, political, and philosophical destabilization of motherhood’

Sarah Manguso, author of Very Cold People

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF LOSS

9781529099539 HB | £16.99 | 20.04.23 | Picador

‘Mark felt he had to die alone. I was not with him when he died to hold his hand and give him comfort’

Sarah Tarlow

A GIRLHOOD

9781529064483 HB | £16.99 | 19.01.23 | Picador

‘Stunning . . . Built like a thriller, moving, wise and illuminated on every page with love’

Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat