M. J. Hyland

Winner of The Hawthornden Prize, United Kingdom, and The Encore Award, United Kingdom. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. John Egan lives with his mother, father, and grandmother in rural Ireland. The Guinness Book of Records is his favourite book, and he dreams of visiting Niagara Falls with his mother. But more than...

When his fiancée breaks off their engagement, Patrick Oxtoby leaves home and moves to a boarding house in a seaside town. But in spite of his hopes and determination to build a better life, nothing goes to plan and Patrick is soon driven to take a desperate and chilling course of action. This Is How is a mesmerising and meticulously...

How the Light Gets In: Popular Penguins by M.J. Hyland tells the story of Lou Connor, who desires to break free from her emotionally crass family and life of poverty. To achieve this, Lou embarks on a journey from Sydney to the United States as an exchange student. Upon her arrival, she is placed with the Hardings, a host family...