{"product_id":"9781039058897","title":"Land","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed a Most Anticipated Read of 2026 by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e • \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e • \u003ci\u003eGQ • The Guardian • BBC • Libby • The Sydney Morning Herald • \u003c\/i\u003eFeatured in BBC's Spring Preview • \u003ci\u003eOprah Daily • Goodreads • Harpers Bazaar • Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe award-winning, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHamnet\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after The Great Hunger.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás 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. Tomás, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomás is unexpectedly 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 Tomás and how is Liam, aged only ten, going to finish the mapping, and get them both home?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about separation and reunion, tragedy and recovery, colonisation and rebellion. It 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs spellbinding and various as the landscape that inspired it, \u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e is, above all, a story of survival, for our times, and for all time.","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":49613300924655,"sku":"9781039058897","price":39.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0559\/3877\/7237\/files\/BNCImageAPI_217e6822-4936-48a3-a259-1c77b2b44cf6.jpg?v=1780065284","url":"https:\/\/www.entershinebookshop.ca\/products\/9781039058897","provider":"Entershine Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}