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A radio 4 dramatization of a stephen king horror novel. dr louis creed and his wife chose rural maine to settle their family and bring up their children. it was a better place than smog-covered chicago – or so they thought before they became acquainted with the old pet cemetery.

Manon gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a louisiana sugar plantation. she misses her family and longs for the vibrant lifestyle of her native new orleans, but most of all, she longs to be free of the suffocating domestic situation. the tension revolves around sarah, a slave girl who may have been given to manon as a wedding present from her aunt, whose young son walter is living proof of where manon’s husband’s inclinations lie. this private drama is being played out against a brooding atmosphere of slave unrest and bloody uprisings. and if the attacks reach manon’s house, no one can be sure which way sarah will turn . . . beautifully written, property is an intricately told tale of both individual stories and of a country in a time of change, where ownership is at once everything and nothing, and where belonging, by contrast, is all.

Two of the greatest storytellers of our time join forces to create an epic thriller of unsurpassed power, a twisting, compelling story of a small american town held in the grip of evil beyond all reason. abandoned by his friends as they cycle through the wisconsin town of french landing, ten-year-old ty marshall spots a crow hopping towards him down the sidewalk. then it calls his name. fascinated, ty gets off his bike for a closer look — and is dragged into the shadows. is ty destined to become the fourth victim of the fisherman, the serial killer who’s stalking this sleepy town? if so, only ex-detective jack sawyer may be able to save him. jack left his old life behind precisely to avoid such madness, but lately he’s been visited by strange nightmares and visions. could the doomed past he thought he’d escaped forever be reaching out for him … from the black house?

The highly anticipated novel from the internationally bestselling author of the pull of the stars and room ‘this is donoghue at her strange, unsettling best.’ – maggie o’farrell, author of hamnet ‘combines pressure-cooker intensity and radical isolation, to stunning effect.’ – margaret atwood via twitter in seventh-century ireland, a scholar and priest called artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. taking two monks – young trian and old cormac – he travels down the river shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. drifting out into the atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for god. their extraordinary landing spot is now known as skellig michael. but in such a place, far from all other humanity, what will survival mean? haunting, moving and vividly told, haven displays emma donoghue’s trademark world-building and psychological intensity – but this tale is like nothing she has ever written before . . . one of the times books of the year 2022 one of easons ‘favourite book of the year 2022’. the irish times ‘books to look out for in 2022’. pre-order learned by heart, the dazzling new love story from emma donoghue.