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In the Pines
'The fragmented stories and haunted photographs in Paul Scraton and Eymelt Sehmer's In the Pines feel like field recordings from the shadow forest of their imaginations, transcribed into the pages of an old Explorer's Journal. I felt like I had gone into the forest, rucksack packed with Binoculars, Compass, Penknife, Whistle, Magnifying glass, Notebook, Pencil... and this haunting, collodion-eerie book..' – Jeff Youngl, author of Ghost Town In the Pines is author Paul Scraton's story of an unnamed narrator's lifelong relationship with the forest and the mysteries it contains, told through fragmented stories that capture the blurred details and sharp focus of memory.. Accompanied by eerie images created using a 170-year-old technique of collodion wet plate photography by Eymelt Sehmer, In the Pines is a powerfully evocative collaboration between image and text
Cast Up by the Sea
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Cast up by the Sea
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Midnight Feast
'Midnight Feast', winner of a Betty Trask Award, is the dark and funny story of love in a convent boarding school. When sixteen year-old Grace arrives at Mayo, she immediately falls for the mercurial and glamorously thin Colette MacSweeney. She soon finds herself descending with Colette into life-threatening anorexia, entangled in the dysfunction that seethes below the surface of Colette's family. This is a new and revised edition."e;A story of charismatic starvation (rather like an anorexic Madchen in Uniform), Evans's prose shimmers somewhere strange and changeable between peculiarly heightened realism and sheer fever."e; - Ali Smith, Times Literary Supplement"e;She'll give the Dublin Boys a good run for their money one day."e; - Amanda Craig, Literary Review"e;Superb"e; - Kate Figes, The Independent on Sunday"e;A nightmarish tale of two convent girls' descent into life-threatening bulimiacommunicates the irrationality of childhood fears and passions as well as the incomprehensible affliction of eating disorders."e; - The Irish Times
Sporting Magazine
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