Hamnet writer Maggie O'Farrell has penned her tenth novel

Fans of the bestselling novel Hamnet will be thrilled to hear that another Maggie O'Farrell book is on the way.

Tinder Press has confirmed that Maggie’s tenth novel, Land, will be published in June 2026. 

Land is a multi-generational epic that opens on a windswept peninsula in the West of Ireland.

It follows the characters to Canada and India, amongst other places, and is Maggie's most ambitious novel so far. 

Land is a powerful story of loss, reunion, and hope, which was inspired by Maggie’s own family history and by the Irish landscape to which she has a deep personal attachment.

What is Land by Maggie O'Farrell about?

Tomás and his ten-year-old son, Liam, are working for the Ordnance Survey, which is mapping the whole of Ireland. It's 1865, and the country has been decimated by the Great Hunger. Tomás is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster. 

An unsettling encounter in a copse on a remote stretch of the coast sets Tomás and his family on an unexpected journey which unearths histories old and new and changes all their lives, and the lives of those who come after them.

Land is an epic story of survival, for our times, and for all time.

Maggie O’Farrell says:

"Three or so years ago, I was staring out of the window on a long and delayed train journey when a sentence appeared in my head: His father was ever a man of few words. 

“I pictured a man and a reluctant child on a rain-soaked hillside, with surveying tools in hand. I knew immediately that I had the opening to a novel I’d long been mulling for a long time - a novel about a father and son mapping together in the west of Ireland."

A movie based on O'Farrell's novel Hamnet, starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley, lands in cinemas in January 2026.

This gives you plenty of time to read the book before the movie is released.

Buy Hamnet here.