Midnight opening: Intermezzo

Pre-order Intermezzo, the fourth novel by the international bestselling author Sally Rooney, which will be published on Tuesday 24th September 2024. Copies will be available for collection at our midnight opening on Monday, 23rd September.

Join us from 11.00 pm on Monday 23rd September for our late-night opening and celebration of all things Sally Rooney, complete with chamomile tea and cookies - pyjamas optional! Copies will be available for collection from the stroke of midnight.

Alternatively, if you're not able to join us in person but would like to support our independent bookshop by pre-ordering Intermezzo from us, please select a shipping option and we'll post your copy to you!

Not a night owl, but a Sally Rooney fan? Why not join us for our Intermezzo silent book club on Tuesday 24th September instead?

About the book:

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. 

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties – successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women – his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. 

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude – a period of desire, despair and possibility – a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

Hardback, publishing on 24th September 2024.