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The Last Train to Scarborough
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'A riveting new adventure for Jim Stringer, Andrew Martin's celebrated Steam Detective .It is March 1914, and Jim Stringer is uneasy about his next assignment. It s not so much the prospect of a Scarborough lodging house in the gloomy off-season that bothers him, or even the fact that the last (...)
Creatures of the Earth
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'John McGahern is considered by many to be the most important Irish prose writer of the last fifty years. McGahern s short stories equal his finest novels, reflecting both the richness of the ordinary, and the extraordinary, in the lives of a variety of individuals: the jilted lover waiting with (...)
The Barracks
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''Marvellous.' Susan Hill, The TimesElizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom and loneliness marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own; her husband is straining to break free from the servile security of the police force; and her own life, threatened (...)
The Dark
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'The Dark, John McGahern s second novel, is set in rural Ireland. The themes that McGahern has made his own are adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both a puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between (...)
Amongst Women
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'Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the (...)
Memoir
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'As wise and compelling a book as any of his elegiac and graceful novels. David MitchellThis is the story of John McGahern s childhood; of his mother s death, his father s anger and bafflement, and his own discovery of literature. Long before Frank McCourt made an entire industry out of twinkly (...)
Tusk Tusk
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Come on troops. Let s take check: Finn Bar, slightly ruffled but still in fighting form. Maggie, could do with a full nights sleep but otherwise all in order… Stay here. Don t answer the door. I ll go out and get some proper food.In a new flat, three children play hide and seek. Eliot wears a (...)
A Shadow Falls
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This is a unique report from deep inside the largest Muslim country in the world. It is not another work of journalism; instead it is a picture of how Islamic fundamentalism can displace older and more easygoing forms of belief, inside families and small communities. The author lived with his (...)
The Black Monastery
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People used to come to the small Greek island of Palassos for the historic ruins. Now they come to take drugs and party all night. But the horrific ritual murder of a boy in the grounds of an old monastery brings back memories of two similar deaths in the mid-1970s, and of a mysterious cult who (...)
Bear in Mind These Dead
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A moving and timely work, which captures the lasting pain and grief of those who lost loved ones during the Troubles. Eoin McHugh, Sunday IndependentNearly 4,000 people were killed during the Troubles. Susan McKay s book explores the difficult aftermath of the violence for families, friends and (...)