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`Characters all but leap off the page with believability in these marvellous stories of life (and death) in Belfast' Sunday TimesMelding his native Irish sensibilities to those of his adopted west-coast Scotland, these tales attend to life's big events: love and loss, separation and violence, death and betrayal.

One of a series of classic fiction titles for schools, this is a story of love and hate, set in strife-torn Belfast. A young Catholic falls in love with a young Protestant widow whose husband he has recently helped to murder. The book contains some uninhibited and explicit language.

Vintage paperback edition of MacLaverty's highly acclaimed Booker-shortlisted novel, which delicately and skilfully explores a variety of themes as it follows a young woman in the throes of post-natal depression as she returns to a provincial Ulster town for her father's funeral. A novel of great distinction, from a master story-teller. "A master of haunted realism. His best novel yet" "The Observer

This collection of 15 short stories, winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award, explores the themes of married love, male friendship, adult grief and the contemplation of infidelity. MacLaverty is the author of "Lamb", "Cal" and "A Time to Dance".

When it was first published, Bernard MacLaverty's masterpiece was hailed by Michael Gorra in the New York Times Book Review as "a marvel of technical perfection...a most moving novel whose emotional impact is grounded in a complete avoidance of sentimentality...[It] will become the Passage to India of the Troubles." For Cal, a Northern Irish teenager who, against his will, is involved in the terrible war between Catholics and Protestants, some...

Sixteen years on from his last novel, Bernard MacLaverty reminds us why he is regarded as one of the greatest living Irish writers. A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly from their home in Scotland to Amsterdam for a long weekend-a holiday to refresh the senses, to do some sightseeing, and generally to take stock of what remains of their lives. Their relationship seems safe, easy, familiar. But over the course of the four days we dis...

Diese Geschichte dreht sich um Hass und Liebe im kampfgebeutelten Belfast. Ein junger Katholik war an der Ermordung eines Protestanten beteiligt, in dessen Witwe er sich dann verliebt ... Abiturempfehlung zu den Themenbereichen Love and friendship und Northern Ireland

This long-awaited new collection from the noted Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty examines worlds in collision, relationships fragmenting, innocence coming face to face with real life and real death. A Catholic schoolboy playing football has a theological debate with a Protestant policeman, a chess game in Spain is a catalyst for grief and redemption, in the haunting title story a Belfast man out walking his dog is kidnapped at gunpoint. As alw...

When Brother Sebastian, nee Michael Lamb, runs away from a bleak reformatory, taking with him a 12-year-old boy, the media and the police call it a kidnapping. For Lamb, it is a rescue of a formerly abused boy from a place of no hope. But as the outside world closes in, Lamb finds himself moving toward a solution that is as shocking as it is loving. Now back in print, this masterful and moving first novel was an acclaimed motion picture starri...

A luminous novel by one of the finest living Irish writers, which Brian Moore has praised as "in every sense a triumph . . . moving throughout and ending triumphantly and joyously in its own special music".