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Since childhood, Sandra Peters has been fascinated by the small,
private island of Lieloh, home to the reclusive silent-film star
Valerie Swanson. Having dreamed of going to art college, Sandra is
now in her forties and working as a receptionist, but she still
harbours artistic ambitions. When she sees an advert for a two-week
artists' retreat on Lieloh, Sandra sets out on what might be a
life-changing journey.
With an abandoned degree behind her and a thirtieth birthday
approaching, amateur writer Bonnie Falls moves out of her parents'
home into a nearby flat. Her landlady, Sylvia Slythe, takes an
interest in Bonnie, encouraging her to finish one of her stories,
in which a young woman moves to the seaside, where she comes under
strange influences. As summer approaches, Sylvia suggests to Bonnie
that, as neither of them has anyone else to go on holiday with,
they should go away together - to the seaside, perhaps. The new
novel from the author of the Man Booker-shortlisted The Lighthouse
is a tense and moreish confection of semiotics, suggestibility and
creative writing with real psychological depth and, in Bonnie Falls
and Sylvia Slythe, two unforgettable characters.
Alison Moore's debut collection, The Pre-War House and Other
Stories, gathered together stories written prior to the publication
of her first novel. 'The tales collected in The Pre-War House...
pick at psychological scabs in a register both wistful and brutal.'
-Anthony Cummins, The Times Literary Supplement 'Moore's writing is
surprising and exact and culminates in the title story, the novella
which brings the collection to a powerful crescendo' -The Arkansas
International 'just as uncompromising and unsettling as The
Lighthouse... Moore's distinctive voice commands exceptional power'
-Dinah Birch, The Guardian Eastmouth and Other Stories is her
second collection, featuring stories published in the subsequent
decade, including stories that have appeared in Best British Short
Stories, Best British Horror and Best New Horror, as well as new,
unpublished work.
Sometimes, when you open a door or lift a lid, you find exactly
what you expected to find: coats in the coat cupboard, bread in the
bread bin, toys in the toy box. And sometimes you don't. When
Sunny's parents buy an antique shop, they get more than they
bargained for: in some of the old furniture, Sunny finds ghosts.
Each of the ghosts has an unfulfilled desire, something they never
did in their lifetime: Walter wants to learn to read, Violet wants
to write a novel, Mary and Elsie want to go to the seaside. While
Sunny is trying to help them all, it seems someone else is out to
cause trouble...
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Having moved from the Fens to the Midlands to the Scottish Borders,
Jessie Noon finds herself struggling to leave the past behind.
Following a family tragedy, Jessie Noon moved from the Fens to the
Midlands and now lives in the Scottish Borders with a cat, a dog
and - she is convinced - a ghost in the spare room. Her husband
walked out almost a year ago, leaving a note written in steam on
the bathroom mirror, and Jessie hasn't seen her son for years. When
Jessie meets Robert, a local outreach worker, they are drawn to one
another and begin a relationship; meanwhile, Jessie has begun
receiving messages telling her I'm on my way home. As a translator,
Jessie worries over what seems like the terrible responsibility of
choosing the right words. It isn't exactly a matter of life and
death, said her husband, but Jessie knows otherwise. This is a
novel about communication and miscommunication and lives hanging in
the balance (a child going missing, a boy in a coma, an unborn
baby), occupying the fine line between life and death, between
existing and not existing.
Winner of the 2013 McKitterick Prize Shortlisted for the 2013 East
Midlands Book Award Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012
Shortlisted for New Writer of the Year in the 2012 Specsavers
National Book Awards Observer Book of the Year 2012 The Lighthouse
begins on a North Sea ferry, on whose blustery outer deck stands
Futh, a middle-aged, recently separated man heading to Germany for
a restorative walking holiday. Spending his first night in Hellhaus
at a small, family-run hotel, he finds the landlady hospitable but
is troubled by an encounter with an inexplicably hostile barman. In
the morning, Futh puts the episode behind him and sets out on his
week-long circular walk along the Rhine. As he travels, he
contemplates his childhood; a complicated friendship with the son
of a lonely neighbour; his parents' broken marriage and his own.
But the story he keeps coming back to, the person and the event
affecting all others, is his mother and her abandonment of him as a
boy, which left him with a void to fill, a substitute to find. He
recalls his first trip to Germany with his newly single father. He
is mindful of something he neglected to do there, an omission which
threatens to have devastating repercussions for him this time
around. At the end of the week, Futh, sunburnt and blistered, comes
to the end of his circular walk, returning to what he sees as the
sanctuary of the Hellhaus hotel, unaware of the events which have
been unfolding there in his absence.
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Lewis Sullivan lives less than a mile from his childhood home. His
grown-up daughter visits every day, bringing soup, and he spends
his evenings at his second favorite pub for half a shandy and
sausage. But when an old friend appears, Lewis finds his
comfortable life shaken up, and he longs for more excitement. A
modern-day Death in Venice by the author of Booker-shortlisted The
Lighthouse, He Wants is charged and unpredictable. Alison Moore is
the author of one previous novel, The Lighthouse, and a short story
collection The Pre-War House. She lives in Nottingham, England.
Brilliantly funny, terrifying, tender and sharp: the best short
stories to come out of lockdown. A vibrant collection of
established and emerging authors, including A L Kennedy, Helen
Simpson, Alison Moore whose novel The Lighthouse was shortlisted
for the Booker Prize, Amanda Huggins (winner of the Colm Toibin
short story award), Richard Lambert shortlisted for The Sunday
Times EFG award, Stephen S. Thomson author of Toy Soldiers and
Sitting in Limbo for BBC 1 . Introduction by Amanda Craig, long
listed for the Women's prize for Fiction 2021. '18 well-chosen
stories, loosely based on the idea of solitude, explore loss,
loneliness and love, and head from the wilds of the Northern
Rockies with an ailing father and an intrepid grieving daughter
(Leadfall by D. W. Wilson) to the cable-tangled, neon-jagged
streets of Bangkok where, in Stephen Thomas's titular story, a
traveller watches the world and thinks the setting is strange to
her, but her thoughts are inescapably familiar.'DAILY MAIL
This volume was derived from the nineteenth annual Theoretical
Roman Archaeology Conference, which took place at the University of
Michigan (3-5 April 2009) and the University of Southampton (17-18
April 2009).
On the hottest day of the year, Ana Sharma and her mum check in to
the Hotel Splendid, a place where bells seem to ring all by
themselves, jam pots and milk jugs appear on the breakfast table as
if by magic, and things go bump in the night. The Hotel Splendid
has a problem. When Ana and Sunny meet, they come up with a
solution, but one problem leads to another. Meanwhile, the hotel is
harbouring an unexpected guest ...
Shortlisted for the East Midland's Book Award 2014 The Pre-War
House and Other Stories is the debut collection from Alison Moore,
whose first novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for the Man
Booker Prize and Specsavers National Book Awards 2012. The stories
collected here range from her first prize-winning short story
(which appeared in a small journal in 2000) to new and recently
published work. In between, Moore's stories have been shortlisted
for more than a dozen different awards including the Bridport
Prize, the Fish Prize, the Lightship Flash Fiction Prize, the
Manchester Fiction Prize and the Nottingham Short Story
Competition. The title story won first prize in the novella
category of The New Writer Prose and Poetry Prizes.
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Observer Book of the Year 2014 Lewis Sullivan, an RE teacher at a
secondary school, was approaching retirement when he wondered for
the first time whether he ought to have chosen a more dramatic
career. He lives in a village in the Midlands, less than a mile
from the house in which he grew up. He always imagined living by
the sea. His grown-up daughter visits every day, bringing soup. He
does not want soup. He frequents his second-favourite pub, where he
can get half a shandy, a speciality sausage and a bit of company.
But when a childhood friend appears on the scene, Lewis finds his
life and comfortable routine shaken up. In Moore's inimitable,
haunting style, this seemingly simple but in fact multi-layered
narrative unfolds with compelling assurance. Moving between Lewis's
current life of cosy habit, his memories of childhood, and his aged
father agitating away in a nursing home, plot twists thicken and
weave with stealthily increasing tension. Always unexpected,
sparely written and beautifully crafted, He Wants deftly dissects
the themes of loneliness, anxiety, the weight of recollection and
the complex nature of friendship and family ties. A surprising,
lingering and intensely moving tale which reflects the prodigious
talent of one of our most exciting novelists.
This novel was extremely well-received in the UK, and will be quick
to find an audience in America. It will be promoted as a title
perfect for book clubs. Shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize,
Esquire "50 Novels All Men Should Have Read" List 2015, Winner
McKitterick Prize 2013, Observer Book of the Year 2012.
Updated papers presented at the infancy and childhood conference at
the University of Kent in 2005. From this conference the new
Society - the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP) emerged.
Contents: 1) The Osteology of Infancy and Childhood: Misconceptions
and potential (Mary Lewis); 2) Subadult or Subaltern? Children as
serial categories (Frederik Fahlander); 3) Etruscan Infants:
Children's cemeteries at Tarquinia, Italy, as indicators of an age
of transition (Marshall J. Becker); 4) Thrown Out with the
Bathwater or Properly Buried? Neonate and infant skeletons in a
settlement context on the Durrnberg bei Hallein, Austria (Raimund
Karl and Klaus Locker); 5) The Children in the Bog (Grete
Lillehammer); 6) Parenting, Childloss and the Cillini of
post-Medieval Ireland (Eileen Murphy); 7) The Disposal of Dead
Infants in Anglo-Saxon England from c.500-1066: An overview (Sally
Crawford); 8) Where Have All The Flowers Gone? Bronze Age
children's burials in south-east England: Initial thoughts (Dawn
McClaren); 9) Ble Mae'r Babanod? Infant burial in early Medieval
Wales (Marion R. Page); 10) Childhood in Roman Egypt:
Bioarchaeology of the Kellis 2 cemetery, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt
(Sandra M. Wheeler et al); 11) Constituting Childhood"
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