Trespasses* AN OBSERVER DEBUT NOVELIST FOR 2022 * One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice. If Davy had remembered to put on a coat. If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark street. If Michael Agnew had not walked through the door of the pub on a quiet night in February in his white shirt. There is nothing special about the day Cushla meets Michael, a married man from Belfast, in the pub owned by her family. But here, love is

No one will be there to meet him

and the connections that bind them

the conflict between winning on others' terms

but he is also loved by all in townespecially the children to whom he tells stories and gives toys

an elderly ex-pilot hospitalised when his precious Distinguished Flying Cross was violently stolen from him

Kamila Shamsie and Ali Smith - introduced by Sandi Toksvig

Everywhere John looks

The Akallabeth recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Nmenor at the end of the Second Age and Of the Rings of Power tells of the great events at the end of the Third Age

Eliza was accompanied by her older sister

From the Booker-winning Irish author

and even his own past may not be all he thought it was

entertains the house scholars with her beauty and wit