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Jeden Tag, während Cushla Lavery ihrer alkoholkranken Mutter das Frühstück macht, sich im Garten mit dem Nachbarn unterhält, ihre Grundschüler unterrichtet oder in der Bar ihrer Familie aushilft, werden die Toten und die Verletzten gezählt. Es ist 1975, und in Belfast eskaliert der Bürgerkrieg. Die katholischen Laverys betreiben ihren Pub in einer überwiegend protestantischen Vorstadt. Sie müssen vorsichtig sein - ein falsches Wort, schon find...

Four stories of feathers, blood and eggs. These are journeys fuelled by love, loss and self-discovery, in which characters must fight or take flight.

* SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2022 * * AN OBSERVER DEBUT NOVELIST FOR 2022 * * A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME * 'Like Sally Rooney mixed with a political thriller' RUSSELL KANE 'Intense, unflinchingly honest, it broke my heart a million times' MARIAN KEYES 'Absolutely loved it' MAX PORTER 'A beautiful, devastating novel' NICK HORNBY One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice. If Davy had remembered ...

Alison Louise Kennedy (...) gehört zu den aufregendsten Stimmen der britischen Gegenwartsliteratur. Unabhängig von ihren Themen - und das wären die irritierenden, weil so alltäglichen Kippfiguren von Normalität und Obsession, Liebe und Gewalt, Hingabe und sexueller Grausamkeit - ist da immer ein Ich, das ein wenig verloren unterwegs ist, um sich wiederzufinden" (Angelika Overath/NZZ). Es entsteht das Selbstporträt einer Autorin als engagierte ...

Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering debut novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and unsanctioned love"--

A dazzling, heartbreaking debut collection' Guardian 'Kennedy's voice, and her unforgiving gaze, are electric' Sunday Times 'These stories sing, haunt and inspire laughter ... One of the best collections I've read in years' Sinead Gleeson A TIMES, IRISH TIMES AND IRISH INDEPENDENT HIGHLIGHT FOR 2021 The secrets people kept, the lies they told. In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories, people are effortlessly cruel to one another, an...

From the acclaimed writer of The End of the World is a Cul de Sac comes a novel about ordinary people living normal lives within the wider political landscape of 1970s Northern Ireland, where love is never far away from violence. Cushla Lavery lives with her mother, Gina, in a small town in Northern Ireland. At twenty-four, she splits her time between her role as a teacher to a class of seven-year-olds, and regular bartending shifts in the pu...

From the acclaimed writer of The End of the World is a Cul de Sac comes a novel about ordinary people living normal lives within the wider political landscape of 1970s Northern Ireland, where love is never far away from violence. Cushla Lavery lives with her mother, Gina, in a small town in Northern Ireland. At twenty-four, she splits her time between her role as a teacher to a class of seven-year-olds, and regular bartending shifts in the pu...

A stunning collection of seventeen stories by a vibrant mix of established and emerging writers. The best short story collection to come out of lockdown! Contributors include A L Kennedy, Helen Simpson, Alison Moore, Stephen S.Thompson and Amanda Craig.

If you picked up this book hoping to learn how to pull a rabbit out of a hat or master random tricks and illusions, then you're going to be disappointed.This book leads you on a journey into the unknown - but not one revolving around sleight-of-hand games. Rather, it's a quest to learn all that we are meant to come here and realise.It seeks to discover what all religions and spiritual systems have at their core, as well as what all wise people...

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A remarkable collection of short stories' Nick Laird 'These stories sing, haunt and inspire laughter ... One of the best collections I've read in years' Sinead Gleeson 'Darkly funny, beautifully crafted, intense ... Outstanding' Kevin Barry A TIMES, IRISH TIMES AND IRISH INDEPENDENT HIGHLIGHT FOR 2021 The secrets people kept, the lies they told. In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories, people are effortlessly cruel to one another, ...

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If you picked up this book hoping to learn how to pull a rabbit out of a hat or master random tricks and illusions, then you're going to be disappointed. This book leads you on a journey into the unknown-but not one revolving around sleight-of-hand games. Rather, it's a quest to learn all that we are meant to come here and realise. It seeks to discover what all religions and spiritual systems have at their core as well as what all wise people ...

Louise Kennedy grew up in pioneer Alberta. She tells stories of her childhood life on the farm, berry picking, gardening, going to school. She starts in Plamondon, Alberta, then they move north to Breyat to build a new home.

Excerpt from Factors Related to the Keeping Qualities of Cut FlowersThe problem of extending the life of flowers after they have been cut from the plant is one which has interested people for many years. The work done in this field has been undertaken with the object of increasing the life of the flowers because of economic advantages. That is, practical treatments have been sought whereby the grower, florist and buyer can im prove the keeping...

Excerpt from Factors Related to the Keeping Qualities of Cut FlowersThe problem of extending the life of flowers after they have been cut from the plant is one which has interested people for many years. The work done in this field has been undertaken with the object of increasing the life of the flowers because of economic advantages. That is, practical treatments have been sought whereby the grower, florist and buyer can im prove the keeping...

This book brings together research on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs. It integrates lexical and compositional semantics and provides a full account of the structural and interpretive properties of adjectives and adverbs. It will interest students in linguistics and philosophy at graduate level and above.

Based on the Bailey Boat Cat blog, this features Bailey, the cool cat making waves with his devilish good looks, onboard escapades and feline philosophies of life aboard a boat. With photos and pearls of 'whisker wisdom' from a cats' eye view.