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Sarah Davis-Goff

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Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney

Sarah Davis-Goff's debut novel Last Ones Left Alive was published in the UK and Ireland by Tinder Press, and in the US by Flatiron.

It was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award and the Kate O'Brien Award, and won the Chrysalis Award. Film rights were optioned by Treasure Entertainment. Sarah's second novel, Silent City, was published in 2023: the Wall Street Journal called it 'a grown-up Hunger Games'.

Sarah is also co-founder of Tramp Press, an independent publisher based in Dublin.

Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney

Sarah Davis-Goff's debut novel Last Ones Left Alive was published in the UK and Ireland by Tinder Press, and in the US by Flatiron.

It was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award and the Kate O'Brien Award, and won the Chrysalis Award. Film rights were optioned by Treasure Entertainment. Sarah's second novel, Silent City, was published in 2023: the Wall Street Journal called it 'a grown-up Hunger Games'.

Sarah is also co-founder of Tramp Press, an independent publisher based in Dublin.

Published Works

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Last Ones Left Alive

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Illustrator: Sarah Davis-Goff

Genres: Genre Fiction

An Irish Times Book of the Year

Raised by her mother and Maeve on Slanbeg, an island off the west coast of Ireland, Orpen has a childhood of love and stories by the fireside. But the stories grow darker, and the training begins. Ireland has been devoured by a ravening menace known as the skrake, and though Slanbeg is safe for now, the women must always be ready to run, or to fight.

When Maeve is bitten, Orpen is faced with a dilemma: kill Maeve before her transformation is complete, or try to get help. So Orpen sets off, with Maeve in a wheelbarrow and her dog at her side, in the hope of finding other survivors, and a cure. It is a journey that will test Orpen to her limits, on which she will learn who she really is, who she really loves, and how to imagine a future in a world that ended before she was born.

“fiercely feminist, highly imaginative”
- The Observer
“You'll be terrified, fascinated and above all, uplifted by Orpen - a heroine to rival Philip Pullman's Lyra or The Passage's Amy.”
- Stylist
“Bleakly beautiful. A raw emotional depth charge of a novel”
- M. R. Carey, author of The Girl With All The Gifts
“Last Ones Left Alive is a debut novel of jaw-dropping skill and immense power, a shimmering dystopian vision but also a lucid meditation on tenderness, intimacy and courage. From the get-go, it gripped me, and since the last page I've been haunted”
- Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the Sea
“A stormer of a debut”
- Kieran Milwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink and Stars
“Ferocious and chilling, but brimming with real humanity”
- Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies
“Crisp and evocative. The dialogue crackles and sparks.”
- Donal Ryan, author of The Spinning Heart
“Kept me awake until 2am. A triumph.”
- Louise O’Neill, author of Asking For It
“A riveting novel”
- Eowyn Ivey, author of The Snow Child
“Last Ones Left Alive can at times feel like a distinctly feminist, Irish spin on Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend”
- Tobias Carroll
“Davis-Goff’s painstaking account of the courage and resourcefulness of these three women dominates the first part of the book, but their solitary ordeal preludes a much grander unfolding of female empowerment, in which they must join forces with the banshees, a company of women who set out to defeat the skrake—and other monstrous beings—and give humanity another chance.”
- BookPage October Issue

Orpen has always been an outlier in Phoenix City - the only outsider ever admitted to the ranks of the banshees, the female warriors who enforce order, and protect it from the skrake - the ravening creatures that have laid waste to the rest of the country, and gather at the city walls.

Unrest is building in the city - a deadly sickness is spreading through the workers, while an unspoken disillusionment is creeping amongst the fighting women, weary of enforcing the all-male management's patriarchal rule, and of the cost, to their sisters, and to young new recruits, of upholding this order.

Rumour has it that banshees have been taking matters into their own hands, and taking swift and violent revenge. When Orpen's troop leader falls under suspicion it becomes clear that Orpen will need to muster all her courage and prowess if she and her fellow banshees are going to be able to find a way to escape, and rebuild a society worth fighting for.

“A fierily compelling dystopian thriller crackling with resonances of the now. Sarah Davis-Goff proves herself a storyteller of remarkable gifts in this provocative gobsmacker of a novel.”
- Joseph O’Connor
“Darkly witty and thought provoking, Silent City stays with you long after you try to put it down. A world that will follow you into your dreams.”
- Tara Flynn
“The novel’s worldbuilding is crisply efficient...The plot is fast-paced and suspenseful, and the banshees satisfyingly heroic.”
- Kirkus
“A moving, deeply feminist take on the ever-popular zombie apocalypse.”
- The Guardian
“Silent City is grim but hopeful, tackling questions of risk, trust, courage, morality, and sacrifice. Davis-Goff's prose is stark but lovely. A strong feminist voice, austere circumstances, and a resolute sense of integrity make this dystopia memorable and inspiring.”
- Shelf Awareness