Candia McWilliam0.0 The story of two people, a surgeon who is in control of his patients' lives and Anne Cowdenbeath, his closest friend. Together they embark on quite another type of experiment, the emotional vivisection of a young girl, Cora, who is conveniently without family ties.
Джорджина Эндрюс0.0 A woman's search for adventure leads her to leave the dull, safe predictability of life in Britain to work on a village water project in Kenya. Her experiences of hostility, isolation, politics and rape make her realize that she will always be a foreigner in a strange but beautiful land.
Джеймс Фрил0.0 This story begins in the North on the day that Denise Monton and her best friend, Deborah Ridley, had a fight up on the Rocks - and the Rocks opened up and swallowed Deborah whole. It ends somewhere to the left of North. "Taking the Veil" is the author's previous novel.
Гленн Паттерсон0.0 It is the summer of 1969 and ten-year-old Mal is finding it difficult to settle in his new home, a housing estate on the outskirts of Belfast. He befriends a brash and rebellious teenager, Francy, who revels in his own status as an outsider and has set up camp in the local dump.
But this is no ordinary summer - the civil rights marches are beginning, and the simmering sectarian tensions of the Larkview estate are set to erupt, hastening Mal's painful, shocking, loss of innocence.
"One of the great novels about Ulster at the start of its Troubles." - Carlo Gebler
"Remarkable assured...Patterson's novel, needless to say, is neither afraid nor prejudiced, but courageously magnanimous." - Guardian
"A novel of visionary power that sees through a child's eyes a Belfast about to explode into sectarian strife." - Sunday Tribune
"This is a very good novel and deserves your immediate attention." - Books Ireland
Сьюзан Вебстер0.0 The day-to-day hardscrabble existence of a small town on the edge of the Australian outback is chronicled here in a series of 26 vignettes. The author, an award-winning Australian journalist, gives the book its continuity through the narrator, himself a journalist and a big-city newcomer to this small town. Gradually a portrait of the town and its people emerges. There is the colorful newspaper editor and his chief photographer, whose engrossing second job is placing bets on the horses, and the old man and his brain-damaged wife who live in the country and save the narrator from a flood. His return help in saving their sheep finally earns him slow acceptance by the townspeople. Tragic chapters alternate with humorous in a well-balanced book recommended for large fiction collections.
