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Charles Geniaux, Geniaux Charles 1873-1931
La Passion d’Armelle Louanais highlights the force of repressed feeling through a quiet tension around a Breton village, a manor, a church, a woman, and a priest.
Frank Dikotter
A historical study that reexamines the Great Chinese Famine of 1958 to 1962 and traces how policy, bureaucracy, and information control produced mass death.
David Grossman, Jessica Cohen
A mother walks through Galilee in an attempt to outpace the news of her son’s possible death. Memory, fear, and family bonds gather into an intense wartime novel.
Neil Richardson
IRELANDS FORGOTTEN LEGACY In 1914-1918, two hundred thousand Irishmen from all religions and backgrounds went to war. At least thirty-five thousand never came home. Those that did were scarred for the rest of their lives. Many of these survivors found themselves abandoned and ostracised by their countrymen, their voices seldom heard.The book includes: The first Victoria Cross Leading the way at Gallipoli and the Somme North and South fighting side by side at Messines Ridge Irelands flying aces Brothers-in-arms heart-rending stories of family sacrifice The lucky escapes of some; the tragic end of others The homecoming why there was no heros welcome
Jerome Tharaud, Jean Tharaud
A satirical novel centered on the fictional writer Dingley. It lightly exposes the vanity of literary circles, the hunger for fame, and the distortions between creativity and commercialism.
John Gore
John Gore’s biographical memoir of George V presents the king’s character and reign from a close, personal vantage point. It covers his domestic life, his role during the First World War, and the shape of monarchy in modern Britain.
Michel Houellebecq
Through a painter and a writer, the novel satirizes commercialization, artistic valuation, and modern loneliness while tracing the strange place of art in contemporary life.
Isabel Wilkerson
A social history of the Great Migration that follows individual lives to show how African Americans moved from the South to the North and West in the 20th century, and what that movement meant for memory and identity.
Niamh Sharkey
A zany bunch of pals succumb to wanderlust – and get more than they bargained for. Mavis and Marge are different from other animals. They want to go a-wandering. Over the hills, across the sea, and up to the moon they go, gathering a band of free-range friends on the way. But, suddenly, from across the milky way, home has a distant allure...
Mary Helen Stefaniak
A worldly young teacher arrives in a small Georgia town in 1938 and unsettles the life of the community, especially through the eyes of an observant child narrator.
Derek Landy
Following the shocking revelations of DARK DAYS, get ready for the fifth instalment of the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series – guaranteed to contain at least 40% humour, 50% action, and 100% thrills… "The blonde girl with the black lips turned to Valkyrie. 'We know,' she said. 'We've seen the future. We know you're going to kill the world…'" Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back – just in time to see their whole world get turned upside down… While they struggle to protect a known killer from an unstoppable assassin, Valkyrie is on a secret mission of her own. This quest, to prevent her dark and murderous destiny, threatens to take her to the brink of death and beyond. And then the body-snatching Remnants get loose, thousands of twisted souls who possess the living like puppets, and they begin their search for a being powerful enough to lead them. Facing such insurmountable odds, Skulduggery, Valkyrie, Ghastly and Tanith can trust no one. Not even each other…
Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin&;s The Sun-fish deftly displays the poet&;s gift for the allegorical, verging at times on parable, yet always with a sense of lived experience and a strong acknowledgement of the everyday. From the dedicatory epithalamium to the concluding poem, Ní Chuilleanáin&;s enigmatic verse exudes deep but unpretentious wisdom, often asking simple questions that demand complex answers. In poems on nature, writing, folklore, religion, love and grief, and on many homes in different places, we are taught to &;see who is there / In the whirling dance&; so that we may trace the line between illusion and reality and grasp the &;moment thinning the curtain, / Real, like the tricks of light.&; Winner of the International Griffin Poetry Prize.