In this bundle are three novels that we’ve published over the years, for a special price of £40!

Books included in this bundle: The Lammisters by Declan Burke, Number 5 by Glenn Patterson, and Seed by Joanna Walsh.

Set in 1920s Hollywood, The Lammisters is a sharp-witted comedy following Irish bootlegger Rusty McGrew and a crew of accidental co-conspirators as they are forced to go on the run from the LA Police Department. Fast-paced and playful, this is a timely, subversive and entertaining read. Delighting in rapid-fire dialogue, subversive genre-bending and metafictional digressions, The Lammisters is a comic novel that will likely be declared a wholly original comedy classic by anyone who has yet to read Flann O’Brien, Jane Austen, PG Wodehouse or Laurence Sterne.

Number 5 is a three-bedroom terrace house in a suburban Belfast street. From the ’50s to the present day, successive occupants fill the house with their troubles and joys, simply trying to cope with all that life hurls their way whilst outside the front door the city shivers and sweats with the passing seasons. As fashions and tastes change according to each generation moving into Number 5, so the social fault lines of the city shift. Yet the presence of those who have come before is an ever-present memory…. Originally published in 2003, this edition of Glenn Patterson’s Number 5 is a reissue by No Alibis Press.

Seed’s narrator is on the threshold of adulthood, living in an English valley in the late 1980s when life is overshadowed by fears of nuclear contagion, AIDS and CJD. Composed in narrative threads of poetic prose, Seed explores universal themes of restriction and desire, delving deep into the narrator’s subjective consciousness and demonstrating the polyphonic discourse – fashion magazines, art, public health advice – and relationships that shape her becoming.