Ogham and Dabar Books (2026)

24/04/2025

Paperback edition available from 6 May. Order from your local independent bookshop or from online booksellers.

04/03/2025

Out today in hardback; paperback 6 May
Fragments by Greg Dinner

A war photographer struggling with PTSD and a forensic archaeologist haunted by personal ghosts seek understanding in loss, find meaning in one another. In an 1890s shtetl in the Russian Pale of Settlement a young man dreams that music from his violin might warm the heart of the daughter of a tavern, only to encounter life’s tragedy, and life’s journey. In 1942 a patient at the Krakow Babinski Mental Home remembers the boy who loved her and the old man who spoke kindnesses. She alone survives by embracing memory and finding hope. And in 1943 a young man traveling the secret frozen paths with his father and brother is determined to save a young woman who has escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto, determined to hold onto her name.

To remember her story.

Tying these disparate generations is a broken violin called Memory—real and imagined fragments of experience that bring hope and salvation in word, in images, in music: from the past to the present to our joined future.

Referencing characters and some true events both from the sister novel A Requiem For Hania as well as stories lived today, Fragments continues a journey of meaning, moving from the Pale of Settlement in the 1890s to the border of Ukraine and Poland in March 2022, a story of the search for self and a fundamental exploration of human experience through that which is lost, and that which is found.

"I think we both are at the border, she says. And we both have to cross over."

01/03/2025

Out Tuesday, 4 March.
A story that begins in the Pale of Settlement, and ends at the Ukraine border with Poland in March, 2022.
Ukraine, we will always stand beside.

From the writer of 'A Requiem For Hania' comes a sister-novel, FRAGMENTS.Stories that begin the Pale of Settlement in the 1890s, and end at the Poland / Ukra...

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