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Winner of The Polari First Book Prize 2016 Finalist for The
People's Book Prize 2016 Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best
First Novel Award 2016 Chosen for City Reads 2016 Shortlisted for
the Guardian Not the Booker prize ELLE Best Books of 2015 The
Reading Agency: Books of 2015 Mickey Donnelly is smart, which isn't
a good thing in his part of town. Despite having a dog called
Killer and being in love with the girl next door, everyone calls
him 'gay'. It doesn't help that his best friend is his little
sister, Wee Maggie, and that everyone knows he loves his Ma more
than anything in the world. He doesn't think much of his older
brother Paddy and really doesn't like his Da. He dreams of going to
America, taking Wee Maggie and Ma with him, to get them away from
Belfast and Da. Mickey realises it's all down to him. He has to
protect Ma from herself. And sometimes, you have to be a bad boy to
be a good son.
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
We read because we want to experience lives and emotions beyond our
own, to learn, to see with others' eyes. The 32 is a celebration of
working-class voices from the island of Ireland. Edited by
award-winning novelist Paul McVeigh, this intimate and illuminating
collection features memoir and essays from established and emerging
Irish voices including Kevin Barry, Dermot Bolger, Roddy Doyle,
Lisa McInerney, Lyra McKee and many more. Too often, working-class
writers find that the hurdles they come up against are higher and
harder to leap over than those faced by writers from more affluent
backgrounds. As in Common People - an anthology of working-class
writers edited by Kit de Waal and the inspiration behind this
collection - The 32 sees writers who have made that leap reach back
to give a helping hand to those coming up behind. Without these
working-class voices, without the vital reflection of real lives or
role models for working-class readers and writers, literature will
be poorer. We will all be poorer.
So, you think you're a true Norwich City fan? A proper Canary? Yes,
you've a shirt or two, you even know the first verse of 'On The
Ball City', but do you really know the history of the club? Do you
know the substitute in the 1985 League Cup Final? Or who our
captain was in the 1983 FA Cup quarter-final? Or from which club
Gordon Bolland joined us? Test yourself here with the ultimate quiz
book on Norwich City FC. A book for any and all supporters of that
mighty team in yellow and green, it's the perfect companion for
those long journeys to away games or nights down at the local. From
famous players, managers and matches, to transfers, incidents and
trivia; it's all in here, designed to tease and test your knowledge
of the club. So get your Canary thinking caps on - it's quiz time!
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