Solar Bones, Paperback/Mike McCormack

Narrated in a single sentence, it is the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2016 and the 2016 Irish Book of the Year. Ambitious and other-worldy, this profound elegy is a story of love, chaos and loss as it reflects on All Souls' Day - a day in Ireland where it is thought the dead may return. Doing just that, Michael Conway returns to his kitchen table and attempts to piece together the events which took him away before bringing him back home again.