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...

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...

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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In The war and our financial fabric, Walter William Wall examines the profound strains modern warfare places upon national finance, credit systems, and economic organization. Written in the urgent context of a society confronting wartime disruption, the book studies how public borrowing, banking, taxation, and monetary confidence become interwoven with national survival. Its style is analytical yet accessible, combining the clarity of economic exposition with the civic seriousness of a pub...

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"Be fruitful," advises Judeo-Christian Scripture, "and multiply, and replenish the earth." Eight centuries BCE global population is inferred to have been roughly five millions, soaring to between 50 and 60 millions when Julius Caesar fell, and escalating in the mid-17th century to about half a billion. A significant benchmark of one billion, reached circa 1804, doubled in 123 years to 2 billions by 1927, and to 3 billions in 1960. Only 14 years later, in 1974, 4 billions crowded the world,...

Perplexed by an unearthly stranger's inexplicable appearances, Cosmologist Roger Shore is dismayed when the alien entity's provenance becomes obvious by making him unable to do other than respond to any knowledge of faster-than-light spacecraft development. Baffled when only his voice registers on a recording of the alien exchange, his superior in orbiting Galileo Observatory reluctantly reveals the existence of a covert effort to develop FTL interstellar flight sponsored by the wealthy da...