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A master-class in the short story, from the Costa Book Award winning author of DayA. L. Kennedy's new collection of stories show us women and men wrestling with the lives they have been given and the times spinning out around them. Humour, fantasy, rage and despair both help and hinder individuals as they navigate their changing circumstances, their accumulating losses, their moments of comprehension and tenderness. Hoping for a quiet day at t...

Winston Churchill hated The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, and tried to have it banned when it was released in 1943. But Martin Scorsese, a champion of directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, considers it a masterpiece. It's a film about desires repressed in favour of worthless and unsatisfying ideals. And it's a film about how England dreamt of itself as a nation and how this dream disguised inadequacy and brutality in the clothes ...

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A master-class in the short storyA.L. Kennedy's new collection of stories is about our desperate need for human communication, and - equally - the desperation at our inability to communicate. Here are women and men examining the lives they were given - forensically going over the missed opportunities, wrong moves, lost chances to engage or escape. Visiting a zoo to take her mind off her grief, a woman finally snaps at a white man's racist tira...

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Sex and death are brought together in bullfighting. A man faces death while the crowd looks on, and so people are drawn to the arena to witness the ultimate spectator sport. Here the author explores all the definitions: sport, art form, stylized torture.

While showing us the unlikeliness of intimacy and the impossibility of communication, Kennedy also reveals the subversive liberation of impotence, the humour of discomfort as human beings chafe together, the crazed claustrophobia of the family adn the wildly funny results of an eccentricity unleashed.

Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber, he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now - the war took it away.

The dazzling new collection from the Costa Prize-winning author of Day and The Blue Book.She doesn't ever lie to him unless it's for the best. A husband and wife wait for a train as their relationship unspools silently around them. A woman contemplates the idea of her lover dying as she queues in a bank. An almost impossibly uncomfortably lunch culminates in a passionate kiss. In this dazzling collection of stories lies the battlefield of the ...

A collection of blogs, originally based on "The Guardian"'s website, about the art and nature of writing, from the award-winning author. Also features essays on character, voice, writers' workshops and writers' health, as well as a transcript of Kennedy's one-woman show about writing and language.

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The stories collected in Original Bliss are concerned, appropriately, with the complexities of sex and the lack of it. She can't find it at home, with the violent, deadly Mr Brindle, but will she find it in Stuttgart when she meets the enigmatic Edward E.

Rundum schön! A.L. Kennedy hat die Schlange aus Antoine de Saint-Exupérys "Der Kleine Prinz" entführt und in ihre eigene Geschichte gesetzt. Wer ist dieses Wesen, das doch mit dem Tod ein Bündnis hat? Erzählt wird amüsant und poetisch die Freundschaft des Mädchens Mary zur Schlange Lamno, die Mary eines Tages in ihrem winzigen Garten aufspürt und ein Leben lang mit ihr verbunden ist. Die Erzählung spielt zu keiner friedlichen Zeit, die Mensc...

Nathan Staples is consumed by loathing and love in roughly equal measures. When Nathan contrives to have Mary invited to the island where he lives in retreat, he sets in motion the possiblity of telling her he is her father, and becoming whole and complete and alive again.

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016, this is a topical London love story from the Costa prize-winning author. Set in 2014, it is poignant, funny and beautifully written.

Kennedy's absorbing, moving and gently political first novel dissects the intricate difficulties of human relationships, from Margaret's passionate attachment to her father and her more problematic involvement with Colin, her lover, to the wider social relations between pupil and teacher, employer and employee, individual and state.

Highly acclaimed study of the bloodiest of blood sports. Hemingway, Lorca and Conrad were all gripped by the spectacle which, as Kennedy points out, has at its core a man facing death. "Odd, beautiful and moving." "Jeanette Winterson

An original novel by A.L. Kennedy featuring the Fourth Doctor, as played by Tom Baker in the BBC TV series. Something distinctly odd is going on in Arbroath. It could be to do with golfers being dragged down into the bunkers at the Fetch Brothers' Golf Spa Hotel, never to be seen again. It might be related to the strange twin grandchildren of the equally strange Mrs Fetch - owner of the hotel and fascinated with octopuses. It could be the fact...

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