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WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS' PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, The Sunday Times, The Economist, Observer, Guardian, Washington Post, Lit Hub, TIME magazine, Irish Times, The Oldie, Daily Mail, i Paper, Independent, The Standard, The ...

- Von der New York Times und der Washington Post zu einem der 10 besten Bücher 2023 gekürt, für The New Yorker, TIME, New York Public Library und BBC eines der besten Bücher des Jahres 2023 und Gewinner des 2023 An Post Irish Book Award als Roman des Jahres - Familie Barnes steckt in Schwierigkeiten. Dickie Barnes' lukratives Autogeschäft läuft nicht mehr. Aber anstatt sich dem Problem zu stellen, beginnt er in den Wäldern einen Bunker zu baue...

Danger, distress, and death, mixed with friendship, camaraderie, and joy, promise to make this adventure one to remember. Nineteen-year-old Tyler Linders, his Pa, and twelve-year-old sister Penny set out on the Oregon Trail in 1852, traveling with a wagon train containing eighty-five wagons and over 450 people. Tyler is hoping that, by the time they reach Oregon, he will meet a suitable young lady, willing to settle down with him on the 640 ac...

Dutch Reformed Pastor Andrew Murray probes Scripture and the life of Christ in order to teach us how to pray effectually. He asks us to enroll in a new kind of academy. "Jesus has opened a school, in which He trains His redeemed ones, who specially desire it, to have power in prayer. Shall we not enter it with the petition, Lord! it is just this we need to be taught! O teach us to pray." With the Redeemer as our headmaster, Murray gently instr...

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There is a fresh candor and a new ease of utterance in this fifth volume of poems by the Dominican writer Paul Murray. What most immediately impresses, in lyric after lyric, are the moments of quiet epiphany. But such moments of vision have not been easily achieved. Throughout the work, rather than avoid the "torn" and wounded areas of our lives, a range of feelings and experiences--unnamed, invading, threatening, desired--are courageously exp...

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From the author of Skippy Dies, a dazzlingly intricate and poignant tragicomedy about family, inheritance, and the struggle to be good at the end of the world.The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie is up to his armpits in debt and increasingly preoccupied with preparing for an apocalypse that may or may not be just around the corner. His wife, Imelda, has become invisible to everyone except Big Mike, a man with unsavory local connections and ...

A tragicomic triumph. You won't read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year' Guardian'It's a thing of beauty, a novel that will fill your heart' Observer'Hugely entertaining, vivid, ambitious and expansive . . . Murray is a natural storyteller' Irish Times'An expansive and blackly funny tale' Tanya Sweeney, Irish IndependentIrresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, The Bee Sting is a tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggl...

Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking - a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart...The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewellery on eBay while ...

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