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Communion

Jon Doyle

‘An immaculate debut with dirt under its fingernails’Colin Walsh, author of KalaJust so we’re clear, she said, I know the rules of confession. What I say cannot be repeated. Not to anyone…When Mack O’Brien left his home in Port Talbot for the seminary as a teenager, he didn’t imagine he’d be back a decade later, unordained and still at a loss as to what makes for a moral life. He takes a job as a security guard at the local steelworks and begins an uneasy transition into the world he once rejected. When the men of the steelworks organise an unprecedented strike in protest against job cuts, h …

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Atlantic pre-empts Eve Binder’s funny, gorgeous debut novel about fertility, family and marriage, On One Condition

13 March 2026

Atlantic Fiction has pre-empted Eve Binder’s wise and hilarious debut On One Condition. Rachel Imrie, Editor at Atlantic and Corvus, bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Florence Rees at A.M. Heath. Atlantic will publish the novel as a lead title in summer 2027, backed with a significant marketing and publicity campaign. On One Condition follows Fran and Len, a happily child-free-by-choice couple, whose marriage is exploded when Len’s brother, Harry, asks Len to be a sperm donor. This huge request only snowballs into something more enormous, revealing long-kept secrets, ex …