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The Posthumous Affair
Fiction. In the late nineteenth century, in Washington Square, two children play with a red balloon...and so begins the strange romance between Daniel, beautiful and tiny, and Grace, known as The Fat Princess, an orphaned girl whose enormous girth matches her wealth. Each wishes for a life of the mind, for artistic mastery, to be read and to be understood—most of all by each other—but through their lives, the couple only occasionally meet, until Daniel uncovers Grace's great secret in her House of Death.
Left of North
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Taking the Veil
A story about a priest with a grudge, a father with a secret, a red-headed lesbian called Sonny, a blond young lover called Andreas, a woman hanged with her own tights and a girl who thinks she is a car. James Friel is the author of Left of North.
Chain of Office
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The Higher Realm
The Higher Realm is an intense psychological drama and a suspenseful murder mystery that deftly draws the reader along. Sidney Chisholm discovers the five bodies of his neighbours, the Gilhooley sisters. They have been dead for some weeks. In a complex series of twists and turns, their mystery becomes the catalyst for unravelling the truth behind the unexplained disappearance of Sidney's young daughter, Tina, some fifteen years before. The Higher Realm is both uplifting and terrifying, and at times deeply claustrophobic in its portrayal of betrayal, compassion, trust, and sexual and emotional abuse.
The Book of Liverpool
A baby blown out of an upstairs window by a WWII bomb lives to hear others tell the tale… A woman embarks on a long-term obsession with a city landmark, abandoning her lover for the Liver… A bricklayer working on the foundations of a never-built cathedral becomes its evangelist, its full splendour soaring only in his mind… Bringing together fiction from some of the city’s most celebrated writers, The Book of Liverpool traces the unique contours that decades of social and economic change can impress on a city. Set against key historical moments from the Second World War to the Capital of Culture year, these stories question what ‘belonging’ and ‘home’ mean in the Liverpudlian ...
