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Amongst Women: Cillian Murphy: 'One of the greatest Irish writers’ (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out in the country, Moran is... Læs mere
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That They May Face the Rising Sun: Cillian Murphy: 'One of the greatest Irish writers’ (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Now a major motion picture: the Booker-shortlisted Irish author's last novel: a 'masterpiece' (Observer) - 'wise and compelling ...
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The Barracks: 'The ending is one the finest I’ve ever read by an Irish writer' (Claire Keegan) (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own; her husband is straining to break free... Læs mere
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The Dark: Cillian Murphy: 'One of the greatest Irish writers’ (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A novel about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and widower father.
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Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories 'One of the greatest Irish writers' (Cillian Murphy) (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
the memories of an ageing priest. John McGahern - the Booker shortlisted author of modern classic Amongst Women, celebrated as 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) - is hailed as one of the finest story writers of all time.
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Love of the World: Essays (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An enlightening collection of essays, reviews and speeches by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Tóibín). 'Wise and compelling ...
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The Country Funeral: Faber Stories (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.
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High Ground: and Other Stories (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The stories in High Ground are set in ordinary places, in the streets and suburbs and dancehalls of Dublin, the small towns and fields of the midlands, the big houses of... Læs mere
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Memoir: Cillian Murphy: 'One of the greatest Irish writers’ (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A family story, told with restraint and tenderness. This book is a son's unembarrassed tribute to his mother. His memory of walks with her through the narrow lanes to the country schools where... Læs mere
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The Pornographer (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Michael, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an ideal world of sex through his two stock athletes, Colonel Grimshaw and Mavis Carmichael, while he bungles every phase of his entanglement with an older woman who has the misfortune to fall in love with him.
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The Leavetaking (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A haunting novel by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Tóibín).
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Collected Stories (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A landmark event: the collected stories of 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Tóibín). 'Wise and compelling ...
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