Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties – successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women – his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude – a period of desire, despair and possibility – a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude - a period of desire, despair and possibility - a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018.

Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years.

This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells us how difficult it is to talk about how we feel and it tells us - blazingly - about cycles of domination, legitimacy and privilege. Alternating menace with overwhelming tenderness, Sally Rooney's second novel breathes fiction with new life.

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.

Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young - but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in.

Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

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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.

Whether you want a super-speedy refresher, a quick and easy way to get into the text for the first time, or an exciting new way to revise, the 55 cards in this pocket-sized pack are brimming with everything you need to plan, practise and perfect your study of Stevenson's gothic novella. In no time at all, you can whizz through all the essential info you need to quickly and efficiently refresh your knowledge and catch up. Characters and quotations, plots and contexts, themes and language - it's all here. Think more deeply sections invite you to answer questions such as: How does Stevenson build secrecy in the novel? We've even included powerful quick-fire tips and practice cards to engage your brain and get your skills back up to scratch as quickly as possible. York Notes are the experts in English Literature, so if you're looking for THE ultimate smart, fast and highly effective way to get ahead with Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, then these clever cards are all you need.

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An enhanced exam section: expert guidance on approaching exam questions, writing high-quality responses and using critical interpretations, plus practice tasks and annotated sample answer extracts. Key skills covered: focused tasks to develop your analysis and understanding, plus regular study tips, revision questions and progress checks to track your learning. The most in-depth analysis: detailed text summaries and extract analysis to in-depth discussion of characters, themes, language, contexts and criticism, all helping you to succeed.

In this sequel to 'The Lion King', Simba's wilful daughter Kiara escapes her inept babysitters Timon and Pumbaa and goes in search of adventure. She wanders into the forbidden Outlands, where she encounters Kovu, a young cub who is following in the evil Scar's pawprints. However, Simba is forced to make difficult decisions when Kiara and Kovu fall in love.

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My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all.

Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go. Now they are on the brink of the inevitable.

Sally Rooney is one of the most acclaimed young talents of recent years. With her minute attention to the power dynamics in everyday speech, she builds up sexual tension and throws a deceptively low-key glance at love and death.

Whether you're looking for a reliable way to get back on track, a super-speedy refresher, or if this is your first time studying Robert Louis Stevenson's gothic novella, York Notes for GCSE AQA Rapid Revision Guide: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is brimming with everything you need to supercharge your success and race ahead to great results in all your assessments and exams. This Rapid Revision Guide is a fast and effective way to refresh your knowledge. Cleverly structured and very easy to use, this handy, portable catch-up guide will take you step-by-step through everything you need to know, remember and recall. In order to impress an examiner you are likely to need to demonstrate understanding of key contexts. This Rapid Revision guide will help you to revise what is learnt about the characters, themes, and language that Stevenson uses, as well as focusing on key quotations. Exam focus sections appear frequently and provide practical answers to questions such as: How do I link context to the play? Quick quizzes, power paragraphs and try for yourself sections make this a speedy way to practise your skills. York Notes are the experts in English Literature, so if you're looking for THE ultimate smart, fast and highly effective way to get ahead with Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, then this handy guide is all you need.

The Gutless Wonder is a true story of a young man faced with terrific pressures from secrets about his family. He kept this within himself and sought out the venue of playing high school football. His determination and will to never quit made it possible for him to achieve success under great physical and mental barriers that could not be understood by most everyone around him. His tragedies and accomplishments are detailed in the story and would give others a path to imitate if faced with similar situations.

"Bears on the Road to Damascus" presents a mad hodgepodge of the real and the fantastic, a literary buffet designed to please several palates.

In this collection of short stories and essays, often macabre and always touching, strange tales of terror, love, absurdity, violence, loss, and conviction await. Just when things may seem a bit bleak, charming folk tales emerge to inspire and delight. The title story tracks a convoluted murder mystery in the beach town of Santa Roma, a strange place where the ocean hints at favors-but makes no promises.

This collection contains a first-person account of occupying a campus administration building in protest along with hilarious, satirical news articles; a long-lost script of Sarah Palin's Alaska; and a heartfelt essay examining our place in history, and the path forward.

With a little something for everyone, "Bears on the Road to Damascus" is an indescribable and peculiar adventure into pure imagination.

He is thirteen years old and an eighth grade honor student when he kills for the first time. He kills again just before he graduates from college, but then, afraid of the police, makes a vow to himself that he will never kill again. And he keeps that vow for many years as he becomes a solid citizen of the affluent shoreline town of Hastings, Connecticut.

Patty Bass, a runner and former actress, is elated when she is hired to teach third grade at the award-winning Island Brooke School in Hastings. Newly married and in the best of health, her own death is the farthest thing from her mind as she begins the academic year. But then Patty is shocked to discover that her renowned principal is changing standardized test scores. After she reports the test tampering to the superintendent of schools, Patty hopes that she can step back and stay out of the furor that erupts in town.

What Patty doesn't know is that her act of good citizenship has just opened the door for the cold-blooded sociopath to initiate his well-orchestrated third murder. When threatening letters addressed to "Dear Whistleblower" begin arriving in her mailbox, Patty realizes she's landed in a deadly predicament with no clear way out.

Packed with nail-biting suspense and vivid characters, Dear Whistleblower is a first-rate thriller guaranteed to keep you turning the page.