Daughters of Passion. Faber Stories, Paperback - Julia O'Faolain

Her story was this: she had been an orphan, her mother probably a whore. That's true of what brought her here too: was she IRA, or did she just tak...

it is only a matter of time before she snaps. Edna O'Brien crafts a quietly horrifying scene of eroticism and insecurity, and makes one woman's nea...

Through stories within stories Chandra tells a spiralling tale of loss, and of two wounded people becoming something new. Borrowing a structure fro...

Between his second and third tours of duty, a soldier returns home. To his former home, that is, using an old key while the new tenant is at work.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: 'You'd make a terrific mother'. That's when she goe...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Reducere. Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Either way, this fragmented evocation of unrequited desire is, in the words of Joyce's biographer Richard Ellmann, a work of 'small, fragile, endur...

Yet when Linda gets engaged, Madge starts to feel an intangible peril gathering around the girl. ____In each of these short, sharp stories, the lon...

Of course, of everybody of whom this particular hero was suspicious, he was most suspicious of femme fatale, of this woman he was in love with.

Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, Difficult Daughters is the story of a young woman torn betwe...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full of people, they said, gather them up and put the...

'I'm going to tell him to pick up his prayer mat and get out of my house.'When Parvez's son Ali starts clearing out his bedroom, Parvez assumes he'...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Footballers with Their Shirts Off when she unexpecte...

Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all. It is not. 'Dante and the Lobster' is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel ...

When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Ch...

The first comprehensive biography of this undervalued writer, who was considered 'far and away the best living woman poet' in her day.Publisher: Fa...

Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the t...

A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. . Flannery O'Connor's famous fifties story evokes heat and dust, family and feuding, God an...

As a daughter of God, she is royalty. This beautifully illustrated book features all your little princess's favorite scripture heroines. Each chapt...

WINNER OF THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRYJulia Copus's new collection, Girlhood, is a book of transgressed boundaries and seductive veneers.Publ...

The first comprehensive biography of this undervalued writer, who was considered 'far and away the best living woman poet' in her day.

Told in original rhymes from a rising star in the poetry world, this is a debut picture book about a hog in the fog. Lil the mouse is expecting Har...

Julia Copus's poems bring humanity and light to some of our most intimate and solitary moments, repeatedly breathing life into loss.

A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman who escaped him 15 years earlier. trapped between her dead husband and a ...

Courageous dogs, cats, birds, horses, and even a bear have shown courage and devotion, and this book tells you their extraordinary stories. Include...

Sarah Silverman's father taught her to curse-at the age of three. With her signature taboo-breaking humour, Silverman writes on everything from her...

This dramatic meeting of minds has us questioning who is the more delusional - doctor or patient: like other victims in this exhilarating new colle...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The second Harry & Lil story from the acclaimed poet Copus. Hog and his friend Candy Stripe Lil are kept awake by strange noises in the night, but ...

The hunter arrives in an isolated community in the Tasmanian wilderness with a single purpose in mind: to find the last thylacine, the tiger of fab...

Reducere. This wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between fathers and daughters provides a new reading experience for Chicken Soup fans, with our 1...

Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): VariousNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 136 x 215 x 28Cover type: Paperback / softbackEdito...

Marito is a young Peruvian who toils away at his local radio station, dreaming of becoming a writer, before his life is torn apart by two arrivals....

Edexcel GCSE Music Practice Papers comprise four blank practice papers for Component 3: Appraising. Supporting the new Edexcel GCSE in Music, for f...

She doesn't remember. He won't let her forget. When Claudia Castro wakes up in her dorm room on the first day of spring break, she knows immediatel...

But then one drunken night everything changes. Her memory hazy, Claudia cuts herself off from her family, seeking solace in a new friendship, but w...

Features stories of families, feuds, enchantment, disenchantment and the manifold bonds of love. These stories are about the tension between countr...

Set in Peru during the 1950s, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee. At the s...

Reducere. Obsession, Unrequited Love, Jealousy, Revenge, and Violence Collide in this Page-Turning AnthologyCrimes of passion are both eerie and strangely ta...

Reducere. A final novel from the beloved Irish writer, Nuala O'Faolain. Best Love, Rosie, she said, "...is the book of my years of commuting between the mela...

Paperback of the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home. This book contains significant unpublished work, including a poignant m...

Reducere. Tevye's Daughters: Collected Stories of Sholom Aleichem, Paperback