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The Echo of Old Books meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets.
On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found…
For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives.
But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world of wonder… where nothing is as it seems.
Forgiveness is about letting go, not forgetting what was done to
you. Are you ready to let go or are you a prisoner within? Amy
thought she had a protective shield; her older brother Josh and her
beloved Mum to protect her from her Dad's drunken rages. One
never-to-be-forgotten night Amy loses them all... Can she ever
trust again? Prisoner Within is a tale of learning to love again
and forgiveness from award winning author Jenny Ford.
'God is Alive, Magic is Afoot' is a poem/mantra from Leonard
Cohen's legendary novel 'Beautiful Losers'. It is a flash of
optimism, and remains one of his most accessible pieces of writing.
WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR
A SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR
Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and holidays in Provence, beginning a complex ménage-à-quatre. But when Frances and Nick get unexpectedly closer, the sharply witty and emotion-averse Frances is forced to honestly confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time.
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Flights
(Paperback)
Olga Tokarczuk; Translated by Jennifer Croft
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R293
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Flights, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human
anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's most ambitious to date. It interweaves
travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth
exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and
migration. From the seventeenth century, we have the story of the
Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of
his own amputated leg. From the eighteenth century, we have the
story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier
stuffed and put on display after his death. In the nineteenth
century, we follow Chopin's heart as it makes the covert journey
from Paris to Warsaw. In the present we have the trials of a wife
accompanying her much older husband as he teaches a course on a
cruise ship in the Greek islands, and the harrowing story of a
young husband whose wife and child mysteriously vanish on a holiday
on a Croatian island. With her signature grace and insight, Olga
Tokarczuk guides the reader beyond the surface layer of modernity
and towards the core of the very nature of humankind.
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