Hagstone

Sinéad Gleeson’s essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life was published by Picador in 2019 and won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Michel Deon Prize. She is the editor of The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers (named for a line from Maeve Brennan, which includes a story by Brennan), The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland and The Art of Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories. Sinéad also collaborates with artists and musicians, with commissions from The Wellcome Collection, BBC, Frieze and various galleries. In 2022, with Kim Gordon, she co-edited This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music, published by White Rabbit Books, and Hagstone is her first novel.

'A passionate, wild, hugely atmospheric and enjoyable debut from such an original voice' David Nicholls, author of You Are Here‘An intelligent, probing novel about isolation, art, and the incompatible desires for both solitude and community’ Maggie O’Farrell, author of Hamnet‘A wild, singular story that gripped me from the start' Douglas Stuart, author of Young Mungo'Sublime … wonderfully wise' Observer'Startling, engrossing, darkly playful' Roddy Doyle, author of Love'A gripping punch to the gut' Sunday Independent'Absorbing and wild' Spectator‘Original and captivating’ BBC‘Totally original’ Elaine Feeney, author of How to Build a Boat'Beautifully written, unsettling and eerie' Irish Times'Gleeson’s prose shines with a literary luminescence’ Sunday Business Post‘Wonderful and captivating’ Cosey Fanny Tutti, author of Art Sex Music'Mesmerising and haunting' Emilie Pine, author of Ruth & Pen‘Beautiful, unsettling’ Rebecca Tamas, author of Strangers‘Beautiful, eerie' Patrick Freyne, author of OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea‘Wildly seductive’ Kerri ní Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places‘A delicious eccentric story’ June Caldwell, author of Room Little Darker‘Engrossing and wild and gothic, a startlingly good debut’ Evie Wyld, author of The Echoes‘A wonderful neo-mythic conjuration’ Mike McCormack, author of Solar Bones‘A visceral storyteller who nails your head to the page’ Blindboy Boatclub‘Fresh and strange and compelling’ Lizzie Stewart, author of Alison