Banned on its 1961 release and long overlooked, The Pilgrimage returns as a startlingly modern portrait of desire, secrecy and small‑town conformity. John Broderick's fearless debut follows Julia Glynn, a respectable wife in an Irish midlands town whose carefully arranged life begins to fracture after a series of anonymous letters expose the frailty of the world she inhabits.As Julia, her ailing husband, their watchful manservant and an ambitious young doctor prepare for a...

First published in 1973 and swiftly banned, John Broderick's An Apology for Roses returns as one of the most audacious portraits of provincial Ireland ever written. Set in a midlands town where respectability masks obsession, corruption and thwarted desire, the novel follows the intersecting lives of Marie Fogarty – clever, restless, dangerously sure of her own charm – and Father Tom Moran, the charismatic curate drawn into her orbit. Around them spin the claustr...

An erotic nightmare and classic of modern Irish literature.Wealthy and devout, Michael and Julia Glynn are the envy of their neighbors and the model Irish Catholic couple, bearing Michael’s increasingly painful and crippling arthritis with stoicism. In hope of a miracle, their priest suggests a family pilgrimage to Lourdes. Yet these pious holiday plans are thrown into doubt when anonymous, obscene letters begin to arrive, full of terrible accusations.Banne...

Long overlooked but now recognised as a quietly radical masterpiece, The Waking of Willie Ryan reveals John Broderick as one of the most incisive chroniclers of mid‑century Ireland. Set in a midlands town where beauty and brutality uneasily coexist, the novel follows the return of Willie Ryan – once scapegoated for his relationships with men, institutionalised, and written out of local memory – who comes home to die and, in doing so, unsettles the pieties that once destroyed him.

Willie Ryan returns to his home town in 'the great central plain of Ireland' after escaping from the asylum where he was committed, and unvisited, by his devout Catholic family for twenty-five years. The pretext for his incarceration was an attack on his sister-in-law; the real reason, an affair with a hedonistic young man who introduced him to art, literature and music. In this exposé of the 'petty bourgeois snobbishness, hypocrisies and pretensions' of the 'little grocer's republic' of 1...

An erotic nightmare and classic of modern Irish literature.Wealthy and devout, Michael and Julia Glynn are the envy of their neighbors and the model Irish Catholic couple, bearing Michael's increasingly painful and crippling arthritis with stoicism. In hope of a miracle, their priest suggests a family pilgrimage to Lourdes. Yet these pious holiday plans are thrown into doubt when anonymous, obscene letters begin to arrive, full of terrible accusations.Banne...

The very first case for Oxford-based sleuth Gervase Fen, one of the last of the great Golden Age detectives. As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse, this is the perfect entry point to discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin – crime fiction at its quirkiest and best.A pretty but spiteful young actress with a talent for destroying men’s lives is found dead in a college room just yards from the office of the unconventional Oxford don Gervas...

'Her storytelling ability is second to none' Mail on Sunday'Maeve Binchy is a master storyteller' New York TimesAn old copper beech overlooks a school, and witnesses all the hopes and loves, dreams and ambitions of the children who grew up there...Shancarrig School stands in the shade of a glorious old copper beech whose colours tell the passing of the seasons and the years: a tree that has watched over many lives....

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"The combination of bracing Cornish cliffs and seascapes with cozy interiors and a cerebral mystery makes this one of the most deservedly resurrected titles in the British Library Crime Classics series." —Booklist STARRED review'Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualised a scene of this nature—himself in one armchair, a police officer in another, an...

The second volume of Helen Forrester’s powerful, painful and ultimately uplifting four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the 1930s.The Forrester family are slowly winning their fight for survival. But life remains extremely tough for fourteen-year-old Helen. Along with caring for her younger siblings and suffering terrible hardships she is also battling with her parents to persuade them to allow her to earn her own living. Helen is desperate...

이 책을 보고 있다면 영어공부를 하고 있거나, 영어과 임용을 준비중이거나 어떤 이유에서건 다소 고통스러움을 감수하고라도 영어원서를 읽어야만 하는 이유가 있는 분일 것이다.왜냐하면, 일반인이 단지 재미로 소설을 읽고 싶어 단어찾다 끝날 영어원서를 택하는 일은 거의 없을 테니까.그래서 이 책은 영어원서를 통해 영어공부를 하고 싶은 분들을 위해 제작되었다. 그에 맞춰 프롤로그 에서는 이 책을 활용해 영어공부를 하는 방법을 소개하였고, 책의 시리즈는 미국고등학교 필독도서, 중등 영어과 임용고사 영문학 대비 작품들, 그리고 미국대학의 영문학 필독 도서들로 구성하였다. 또한 난이도의 다양성을 위해 어른들이 읽을 수 있는 동화도 구성에 넣어 지루하지 않도록 하였다.사실 영어공부를 위한 가장 좋은 읽기 자료는 영어원서만한 것이 없다. 제대로 활용하지 못하기가 어려워서 그렇지. 문제는 영어원서를 독해집으로 본다는 데 있다. 시험볼때 시험문제를 풀기위해...

A Jazz Age socialite impulsively adopts an orphaned boy in this humorous, heartwarming taleIn 1929 London, twenty-eight-year-old Lesley Frewen lives a privileged, cultured life. But one thing is missing: love. When her aunt's female companion suddenly dies, leaving behind a young son, Lesley decides on a whim to adopt four-year-old Patrick—though she doesn't have any particular affection for children.As soon as Patrick moves in with her, Lesley gets to work...