An Irish Independent Book of the Year.As the great John McGahern used to say, there's verse, and there's prose, and then there's poetry; William Wall is a poet in both mediums' John Banville.'An underrated veteran at the peak of his powers' Sunday Times.'It's this mood of lives irreparably spoiled that make this bitter-tasting tale so potent' Daily Mail.Grace and her mother and sis...

Selling Your House? Here's The Problem.Whether you are a first time home seller or selling a home for the 5th time, you usually contact a friend in real estate and hopefully they will guide you through the process while it happens. If that's your strategy, there is a better way. Accountability is the new normal. You must be accountable to yourself and be your own real estate advocate. Get to know what you deserve and are entitled t...

Eliminate trial and error as your teacher. The Perfect Real Estate Agent is the perfect companion to your state real estate exam study guide.You are learning how to pass your exam, and you can now be ready to do your first deal on day one.This is one of the most useful training books you will ever read about practical real estate. No motivational speeches, just the exact roadmap to eliminating trial and error from your learning expe...

Having questions is great. Knowing the answers makes it perfect.Do you have 10, 20, or even 50 questions ready to go for the buying process? We start you off with over 100 specific questions all buyers should ask of their real estate professionals. We even give you the answers you should receive. How nice is that? Buyers always turn to a friend or their real estate agent as their one and only source of information. Why is that? That is the only per...

Here's the perfect method to selling your home. Get prepared. Ask questions and get good answers so you can make the best decisions to get the highest price for your home.Sounds easy doesn't it. It's not, until now. Do you know what to ask your agent, the buyer's agent, the inspector, the appraiser, the surveyor, and the closing agent? "How can I get answers to make decisions when I don't even know what to ask?" That is the question we hear from ev...

First-Time Home Buyers. Learn Everything You Need, In Less Than 2 Hours!Buyers of any experience will benefit from this publication. Here's the problem. You want to buy a house, but you don't know where to start. It's the unknown. We all react the same way. So, you contact a friend in real estate and hopefully they will guide you through the process. If that's your strategy, there is a better way. Accountability is the new normal. You must be accou...

Joe Lyons has never had much success with relationships until he meets Suzie, a young music teacher. Living a solitary existence as a writer, he's alienated his mother with his autobiographical first novel and has little to say to his stridently religious sister, Mary. Only his father keeps in regular touch. But now, in the warmth of this new love, the happy endings finally seem to outnumber the tragedies. So when news comes that his mother is seriously ill, he returns home, but what he fi...

A startling and gripping novel, Suzy, Suzy follows a teenage girl trying to understand the chaos of her family life.Suzy lives in a dysfunctional household. She can't stand her mother; her father is keeping secrets; and her brother only seems to egg on their parents' erratic and unpredictable behaviour. Alongside her friends, Suzy finds herself drawn into the downward spiral of her parents' relationship, and as a result is drawn into the ce...

In an Ireland far removed from the familiar images of travel brochures, a bright teenager is heading for trouble: son of a single mother who has given up, rarely at school, taking drugs, and hovering on the fringes of the city's criminal underworld.When he falls for Pat The Baker's sister his life changes irrevocably, not least because when she gets pregnant, Pat breaks his legs. But as he tries to make a new start and adjust to being a lover and father, he realises he cannot evade...

Ivory Eb is a short story about interracial couples. The first part deals with a couple during the pre-Civil War era and their joys and sorrows from a tragedy. Parts Two and Three pertain to another couple and it is set from the turbulent 1960’s up to the present day. It’s tied to Part One by a twist of fate. They are dealing with their trials and tribulations, and their ultimate triumph over their adversity, won by an unshakeable love.Ivory Eb is a short, but endearingly

William Wall is the first international winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize.In this collection of interconnected stories, the beautiful and ravaging forces of sea and land collide with the forces of human nature, through isolation and family, love and loss, madness and revelation. The stories follow the lives of two sisters and the people who come and go in their lives, much like the tides. Dominated by the tragic loss of a third sister at a young age, their ...

One of Sarban's first published works, Ringstones helped establish him among critics and readers as a writer of unusually evocative power. Originally published in 1951, the story is set on the Northumberland moors, where Daphne Hazel appears to cross the boundaries of time, becoming involved with terrifying personalities from the mysterious past.Sarban is truly a master of his craft.