The Truth Commissioner

An important novel from an authoritative voice of post-Troubles Northern Ireland. Shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award, Irish Novel of the Year Award and the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Prize. A Radio 4 Book at Bedtime For fans of JM Coetzee, Ian McEwan, John McGahern and Bernard MacLaverty Swallowing the Sun and The Big Snow have been rejacketed to tie in with the new look

Four men. One dangerous secret.Henry Stanfield, the newly arrived Truth Commissioner, is troubled by his estrangement from his daughter, and struggling with the consequences of his infidelities. Francis Gilroy, veteran Republican and recently appointed government minister, risks losing what feels tantalisingly close to his grasp. In America, Danny and his partner plan for the arrival of their first child, happily oblivious to what is about to pull him back to Belfast and rupture the life they have started together. Retired detective James Fenton, on his way to an orphanage in Romania with a van full of supplies, will soon be forced to confront what he has come to think of as his betrayal, years before, of a teenage boy. In a society trying to heal the scars of the past with the salve of truth and reconciliation, these four men's lives become linked in a way they could never have imagined.