Quando lo scrittore Jim Winter, in pieno lockdown, decide di offrire un workshop online a cinque aspiranti autori, non può nemmeno immaginare quello che lo aspetta. La regola è una sola: il completo anonimato di insegnante e allievi. Tra le storie inviate spicca quella scritta da Deirdre, che racconta la tragica fine di Mattie Lantry, un ragazzo solitario e isolato dai coetanei, ritrovato senza vita all’interno di un cimitero a soli diciassette anni nell’ormai lontano1980. Mentre Deirdre i...

Un giorno una donna bussa alla porta di Kate, in Irlanda, le dà un mazzo di chiavi e se ne va senza spiegazioni. Lei, professoressa universitaria ed esperta di Joyce, è rimasta vedova da poco e ha scoperto che il marito, operatore finanziario, l’ha lasciata in un mare di debiti in procinto di sommergerla. Non ha mai visto quelle chiavi prima e comincia a cercare tra le carte del defunto marito per trovare un indizio. Viene a sapere così che lui possedeva segretamente un appartamento a Camo...

Irlanda del Sud,1969. Due fratelli, Liam Óg e Seán, vivono in un piccolo villaggio costiero. La loro infanzia è caratterizzata dalla libertà, dall’amore per la natura e dalle avventure sulla spiaggia di Cannavee, dove scoprono un grande albero trasportato dalle maree, che diventa il fulcro delle loro fantasie e dei loro giochi. Il paesaggio costiero, il mare e l’albero rappresentano per loro un rifugio sicuro, un luogo di immaginazione e libertà. Il padre dei ragazzi è un giornalista invia...

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...

Tre isole, due sorelle, una storia familiare intensa e trascinante che, come una tragedia classica, mette in scena la brutalità e l’ipocrisia dei sentimenti umani con la luminosità di una scrittura lirica ed evocativa. Il primo romanzo pubblicato in Italia di uno dei più apprezzati poeti e narratori irlandesi. Nei ricordi d’infanzia di Grace e Jeannie c’è una piccola isola poco al largo della costa di Cork, in Irlanda, esposta ai venti e alle tempeste dell’Atlantico. Passano lì gran parte ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 centre of a mystery surrounding a murder. Forc...

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