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A Long Way Home
A Long Way Home is a dramatic and tension-filled fictional story that explores the relationship between the English and the Irish in the late nineteenth century. It provides a fascinating insight into the issues created when those looking for conciliation come into conflict with those relying on confrontation in the struggle for Irish independence. The book traces the experiences of Paul Doherty, an Irishman immigrant. In a story that raises important issues of race, class, religion, sex, violence, and secret societies, Doherty struggles to look for conciliation rather than confrontation, bringing him into conflict with his great friend and fellow Irishman, Will, who is a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. The theme of confrontation and conciliation continues through the relationships Doherty has with the English arch racist Maurice Whitehouse and the English philanthropist William Harding. The book also draws upon comparisons between life in rural Ireland and the dark streets of an English industrial town of the late nineteenth century as it builds to a powerful conclusion of romance and violence.
Quarry Lane
Quarry Lane is the lane in which John meets his future girlfriend Vivienne. Their relationship, like the flowers of the lane, blossoms and they look forward to a future of promises. But they reckon without the implications of a mining disaster which leaves Johns father crippled; he is also distraught, as he believes he has been the cause of the accident. The family begins to experience financial difficulties, with the result that John has to leave school and find work before he can complete his sixth form education. This spoils his chances of gaining the place at university that he is so keen to achieve. The repercussions are also significant for Johns relationship with Vivienne. Her mother,...
Aurora, Me and Sardinia
Newcomers to Sardinia in 2005, Terry Dillon and his wife Aurora were captivated by an island of long sandy beaches and sunshine. Once holiday-makers living in agriturismo, they decided to buy a house. After much searching they settled for a property in the North Western corner of the island just north of Sassari and Alghero and west of Porto Torres, within sight of the sea ... and so began their fascinating and challenging ten years on one of the Mediterranean's most beautiful islands. Aurora, Me and Sardinia describes how they searched for a house, took on a property which had been allowed to fall into disrepair and survived the first of their hot summers with builders tramping through every room in a house which they were determined to make welcoming for themselves and for guests. Their experience is told with a humour which makes the book a captivating read.
Pirates in the Cotswolds?
'Pirates in the Cotswolds?' is a fictional story based on a mystery of the 1660s concerned with piracy, robbery and hangings. It describes the experiences of a ten-year-old boy, Tobias, who witnesses all three, and develops into the mystery of what happened to the local rent collector, Will Harrison, who, it is said, returned to Chipping Campden after being away for two years claiming he was captured and robbed by pirates whilst on his rounds in the North Cotswolds. Various stories about what happened to Harrison circulated at that time within his home town, Chipping Campden, leading to the execution of a local family, but what actually happened to him remained the sort of mystery which provides a fascinating plot for the book.
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Sam
Until now, few people could truly say they knew Sam Snead—his fears, his secrets, his dark side. Until today, there has never been a definitive biography of one of the greatest golfers of all time. Sam is not only a peek behind the mask, but an arresting look into the life of one of the game's most engaging yet enigmatic figures.
Deceit
Deceit is concerned with the life of headteacher Peter Delaney, and the implications of his finding the body of one of his pupils in his parish church. The investigation which follows implicates a pupil from one of Delaney's former schools, Joe Webster, who has already served time for a mugging when in his teens. Delaney had taught Webster to play the trombone when he was a member of his school band but had lost contact with him as he moved from the moors of north Yorkshire to the midlands. In the meantime, Webster had continued with his musical career and had become the leader of a very successful band The Swingalongs. Delaney and Webster meet again when The Swingalons play at The Royal Hot...
The Turquoise
A novel of a girl’s journey from an orphaned childhood in New Mexico to an opulent life in Gilded Age New York, by the author of Avalon. In 1850, as her mother lay dying and a priest stood by, Santa Fe Cameron was named by her Scottish father after the town in which she had just been born. At seven years old, she would also lose her father. Shortly thereafter, a Navajo shaman recognized psychic power in the orphan girl, and gave her a turquoise pendant as a keepsake. This turquoise, the Indian symbol of the spirit, will dominate her life—even after she leaves the simple beauty of her native New Mexico to search for happiness in the glamorous New York of the 1870s. For “Fey,” life is ...
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Dawns Like Thunder
Firsthand accounts of the Japanese invasion of Burma during World War II—including the Sittang Bridge disaster and the actions of Sir John Smyth. More than two years into World War II, Britain stood alone, fighting for survival and waiting for Hitler to launch Operation Sealion, an invasion from across the Channel. But in faraway Burma, life continued as if nothing was happening. The local European community continued their social lives filled with dancing, swimming, golf, bridge, and polo. Even though the sinking of battleships Prince of Wales and Repulse—which had been sent to Singapore by Churchill—brought a minor sense of discomfort, preparations for Christmas continued. The Govern...
