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**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW** A GRANTA BEST YOUNG BRITISH
NOVELIST 2023 The new collection from a literary star - five
achingly tender, innovative and dazzling stories of
(dis)connection. From a child attending his first football match,
buoyed by secret magic, and a wincingly humane portrait of
adolescence, to the perplexity of grief and loss through the eyes
of a seahorse, Thomas Morris seeks to find grace, hope and
benevolence in the churning tumult of self-discovery.
Philosophically acute. Wincingly humane. Strikingly original. This
outstanding suite of stories is bursting with a bracing emotional
depth. Open Up cracks the heart as it expands the short story form.
Praise for We Don't Know What We're Doing: 'Heart-hurtingly acute,
laugh-out-loud funny, and one of the most satisfying collections
I've read for years.' ALI SMITH, Guardian 'Books of the Year'
'Masterly. . . marvellous grace and wit.' PHILIP HENSHER 'That
tonic gift, the sense of truth - the sense of transparency that
permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our
own'. The tonic comes in large doses in Thomas Morris's debut
short-story collection.' Irish Times 'Morris's fresh, direct
writing style feels brand new.' Metro 'Radiant' Independent
A thrilling investigation of a true Victorian crime at Dublin
railway station, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for
Non-Fiction 2022. 'All the shocks and surprises of the best crime
fiction' The Times Crime Club Dublin, November 1856: George Little,
the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus, is found
dead, lying in a pool of blood beneath his desk. Yet there is no
sign of a murder weapon and the office door is locked, apparently
from the inside. Thousands of pounds in gold and silver are left
untouched at the scene of the crime. Augustus Guy, Ireland's most
experienced detective, teams up with Dublin's leading lawyer to
investigate the murder - but the case defies all explanation. Then
a local woman comes forward, claiming to know the killer... 'An
intriguing and compelling true-crime whodunnit' Irish Times 'A
true-crime masterclass... As compelling as any thriller' Philip
Gray, author of Two Storm Wood
Dubliners 100 is a timely conversation with Joyce s classic short
story collection one hundred years after its publication. It serves
to bring together ambitious new writers, like Elske Rahill, with
well-known voices, like Patrick McCabe, looking in, reacting to and
reinterpreting Joyce. Dubliners 100 is a celebration, an
invitation, a tribute, and a wonderful collection in itself.
"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular Science
One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018
One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018
· A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions…
· A teenage boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick...
· A remarkable woman who, like a human fountain, spurted urine from
virtually every orifice...
These are just a few of the anecdotal gems that have until now lain
undiscovered in medical journals for centuries. This fascinating
collection of historical curiosities explores some of the strangest
cases that have perplexed doctors across the world.
From seventeenth-century Holland to Tsarist Russia, from rural Canada
to a whaler in the Pacific, many are monuments to human stupidity –
such as the sailor who swallowed dozens of penknives to amuse his
shipmates, or the chemistry student who in 1850 arrived at a hospital
in New York with his penis trapped inside a bottle, having unwisely
decided to relieve himself into a vessel containing highly reactive
potassium. Others demonstrate exceptional surgical ingenuity long
before the advent of anaesthesia – such as a daring nineteenth-century
operation to remove a metal fragment from beneath a conscious patient’s
heart. We also hear of the weird, often hilarious remedies employed by
physicians of yore – from crow’s vomit to port-wine enemas – the
hazards of such everyday objects as cucumbers and false teeth, and
miraculous recovery from apparently terminal injuries.
Blending fascinating history with lacerating wit, The Mystery of the
Exploding Teeth will take you on a tour of some of the funniest,
strangest and most wince-inducing corners of medical history.
A young video shop assistant exchanges the home comforts of one
mother-figure for a fleeting encounter with another; a brother and
sister find themselves at the bottom of a coal mine with a Japanese
tourist; a Welsh stag on a debauched weekend in Dublin confesses an
unimaginable truth; and a twice-widowed pensioner tries to persuade
the lovely Mrs Morgan to be his date at the town's summer
festival... Set in Caerphilly, a sleepy castle town in South Wales,
Thomas Morris' debut collection reveals its treasures in unexpected
ways, offering vivid and moving glimpses of the lost, lonely and
bemused. By turns poignant, witty, and tender - these entertaining
stories detail the lives of people who know where they are, but
don't know what they're doing. This is the work of a young writer
with a startlingly fresh voice, an uncanny ear for dialogue and a
broad emotional range. We Don't Know What We're Doing is a major
launch for the Faber fiction list in 2015.
**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW** A GRANTA BEST YOUNG BRITISH
NOVELIST 2023 The new collection from a literary star - five
achingly tender, innovative and dazzling stories of
(dis)connection. From a child attending his first football match,
buoyed by secret magic, and a wincingly humane portrait of
adolescence, to the perplexity of grief and loss through the eyes
of a seahorse, Thomas Morris seeks to find grace, hope and
benevolence in the churning tumult of self-discovery.
Philosophically acute. Wincingly humane. Strikingly original. This
outstanding suite of stories is bursting with a bracing emotional
depth. Open Up cracks the heart as it expands the short story form.
Praise for We Don't Know What We're Doing: 'Heart-hurtingly acute,
laugh-out-loud funny, and one of the most satisfying collections
I've read for years.' ALI SMITH, Guardian 'Books of the Year'
'Masterly. . . marvellous grace and wit.' PHILIP HENSHER 'That
tonic gift, the sense of truth - the sense of transparency that
permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our
own'. The tonic comes in large doses in Thomas Morris's debut
short-story collection.' Irish Times 'Morris's fresh, direct
writing style feels brand new.' Metro 'Radiant' Independent
'Thrilling... The "dizzying" story of heart surgery is every bit as
important as that of the nuclear, computer or rocket ages. And now
it has been given the history it deserves' James McConnachie,
Sunday Times For thousands of years the human heart remained the
deepest of mysteries; both home to the soul and an organ too
complex to touch, let alone operate on. Then, in the late
nineteenth century, medics began going where no one had dared go
before. In eleven landmark operations, Thomas Morris tells us
stories of triumph, reckless bravery, swaggering arrogance,
jealousy and rivalry, and incredible ingenuity, from the
trail-blazing 'blue baby' procedure to the first human heart
transplant. The Matter of the Heart gives us a view over the
surgeon's shoulder, showing us the heart's inner workings and
failings. It describes both a human story and a history of
risk-taking that has ultimately saved millions of lives.
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