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Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of ...
The stories collected in Original Bliss are concerned, appropriately, with the complexities of sex and the lack of it. In the long novella that gives ...
Jennifer M. Wilson has decided to become a voice. A professional enunciator, an announcer, a voice-over artist, she has retreated into a world of word...
A.L. Kennedy's fifth collection of short stories show us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. Her characters are perfectly ordinary people - wh...
Elizabeth Barber is crossing the Atlantic by liner with her perfectly adequate boyfriend, Derek, who might be planning to propose. In fleeing the UK ๏ฟฝ...
Nathan Staples is consumed by loathing and love in roughly equal measures. Frustrated by his life and the way he lives it, he is sustained only by his...
Almost forty and with nothing to show for it, Hannah Luckraft is starting to notice that her lifestyle is not entirely sustainable: her subconscious i...
Stories
Twice selected for "Granta's" list of Best Young British Novelists for her acclaimed novel "Day," Kennedy returns with a collection of stories that ca...
A Novel
From the prodigiously talented A. L. Kennedy comes a flamboyantly stylish and fiercely emotional novel about fathers and daughters, creation and self-...
After six novels, five story collections and two books of non-fiction, and countless international prizes, A.L. Kennedy certainly has the authority to...
Isnโt life terrible? Isnโt it all going to end in tears? Wonโt it be good to just give up and let something else run my mind, my life? Something...
Winston Churchill hated The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, and tried to have it banned when it was released in 1943. But Martin Scorsese, a champion...
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Jon is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his wor...
The love story (as well as the story of love lost, obsessed over, or longed for) gets a complete and thrilling renovation at the hands of the most vir...
Short stories which won the Somerset Maugham award. Author is considered one of the new successful young novelists in the UK....
A Writers' and Artists' Companion
Packed with tips from bestselling and prize-winning authors, Novel Writing: A Writers' and Artists' Companion will give you all the practical advice y...
An introduction to death -- To send a bull from Heaven -- Three bad days -- Drop by Drop: the making of a Torero -- Acts of faith -- Self-portrait -- ...
A dozen sharp new stories by one of contemporary fiction's acknowledged masters...
Love Letters to the Body by Great Writers
Our bodies all have stories to tell - and who better to tell them than fifteen of the world's finest writers? Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hear...
A magical, charming and deeply moving fable about the journey we all take through life, how we live in this world, and how we leave it...
Isn't life terrible? Isn't it all going to end in tears? Won't it be good to just give up and let something else run my mind, my life? Something disti...
Time Trips is a unique and beautifully illustrated collection of Doctor Who adventures from bestselling and award-winning writers including Joanne Har...
Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War
Combines evocative photographs and illustrations in a treasury of stories by 11 international writers that were inspired by artifacts connected to Wor...
How Public School Teachers Shaped Jazz and the Music of New Orleans
The world's fascination with New Orleans stems from the allure of the music of the city_music that owes its origins and development to many sources. U...
of Hope for Survivors of the Grenfell Tower Fire
In the early hours of 14 June 2017, a fire engulfed the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in west London, killing at least 72 people and injuring many more. An...
A biography of the life, work, and legacy of a pivotal figure in New Orleans cultural history. Based on more than seventy interviews with the subject ...
Robert Nathaniel Lee and the Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans, 1915โ2001
The inspiring true story of one of New Orleansโs most beloved citizens, whose remarkable life spanned most of the twentieth century. From his birth ...
1914-1918: An Anthology Inspired by Objects from the First World War
A moving collection of short stories by bestselling authors, each inspired by a different object from the First World War. The objects include a writi...
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The third book in a hilarious, heart-warming series for children from Costa Award-winning author A.L. Kennedy, illustrated by celebrated cartoonist Ge...
"Young orphan Pip, downtrodden and mistreated by his guardian sister, has a terrifying meeting with an escaped convict. Soon afterwards he is invited ...
A Public School Teacher's Contribution to New Orleans Music History
Mercedes Tucker Stamps was assigned in 1948 as the first itinerant instrumental music teacher serving schools for African American students in the New...
Robert Nathaniel Lee and the Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans, 1915-2001
Kennedy examines the life of "Robert Nathanial Lee, known as Chief Robbe, [who] was the first and only person to be named 'chief of chiefs' by the Mar...
From a Costa Book of the Year winner, Booker nominee and double Granta-selected Best Young British novelist comes a searing portrayal of trauma, polic...