June: The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry, £7.99. A Costa Award-winning novel, also short-listed for the Booker Prize. Nearing her 100th birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Roseanne and Dr Grene take it in turn to tell their stories through their respective journals, revealing an alternative history of Ireland's changing character.