Land (Pre-Order June 2nd 2026)

Land by Maggie O'Farrell Pre-Order June 2nd 2026

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O’Farrell returns with a powerful and atmospheric historical novel set in Ireland before and after the Great Hunger.

In 1865, on a windswept Atlantic peninsula, Tomás and his ten-year-old son, Liam, are part of the great Ordnance Survey project tasked with mapping every inch of Ireland. The country is still scarred and hollowed by famine, its landscapes bearing silent witness to loss and displacement. For Tomás, this work is more than cartography — it is an act of remembrance, a way to ensure that the devastation of the Great Hunger is never erased.

As British officers prepare to arrive and demand completion, a chance and unsettling encounter in an ancient copse fractures the fragile order of Tomás’s life. Suddenly altered, withdrawn, and haunted, he leaves Liam to shoulder responsibilities far beyond his years. Terrified yet determined, Liam must finish the mapping and guide them home, even as the past begins to surface in unexpected and dangerous ways.

Land is a sweeping novel of separation and reunion, colonization and resistance, memory and survival. With buried treasure, persistent ghosts, loyal companionship, and landscapes alive with history, Maggie O’Farrell weaves an unforgettable story about how land remembers — and how history never truly disappears.

Lyrical, haunting, and deeply human, Land is a masterful exploration of endurance, inheritance, and the ties that bind us to place, time, and one another.