Land: From the no. 1 bestselling author of Hamnet, a multigenerational epic of loss, hope and reunion...

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Maggie O'Farrell

Land

Name: Land
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ISBN: 9781472289094

From the no. 1 bestselling author of Hamnet, a multigenerational epic of loss, hope and reunion...

Maggie O'Farrell

$34.99

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English

Tinder Press
02 June 2026

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Historical fiction

'You will never understand how the land remembers, how deep the roots grow'

A spellbinding story of separation, longing, recovery and survival as a family makes a new home in the aftermath of tragedy.

On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomas and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. Tomas, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster.

The British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomas is sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse. His life, and those of his family, will never be the same again. Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his taciturn father. What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tomas and how is Liam, aged only ten, going to finish the mapping, and get them both home?

Land is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away.

By: Maggie O'Farrell
Imprint: Tinder Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
Weight: 41g
ISBN: 9781472289094
ISBN 10: 1472289099
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 02 June 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Maggie O'Farrell is the author of HAMNET, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020, and the memoir I AM, I AM, I AM, both Sunday Times no. 1 bestsellers. Her novels include AFTER YOU'D GONE, MY LOVER'S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize. She is also the author of three books for children, WHERE SNOW ANGELS GO, THE BOY WHO LOST HIS SPARK and WHEN THE STAMMER CAME TO STAY. She lives in Edinburgh.

Reviews for Land: From the no. 1 bestselling author of Hamnet, a multigenerational epic of loss, hope and reunion

A deep-mapping of a place and its people, a heart-bursting story of resilience and love. Land is simply the best novel I've read in years -- Louise Kennedy