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(0)Joseph O'Connor
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Eliza Duane Mooney sets out from Baton Range, Louisiana, across a devastated country, in search of a youngster she has not seen in years. It's a walk that has consequences for many seemingly unconnected survivors: a love-struck cartographer, a beautiful Latina poetess, a rebel guerrilla, a runaway slave and others.
Author
Series
Rome Escape Line volume 1
Pub. Date
2023
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Description
When the Nazis take Rome, thousands go into hiding. One priest will risk everything to save them. September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. An Irish priest, Hugh O'Flaherty, dedicates himself to helping those escaping from the Nazis. His home is Vatican City, a neutral, independent country within Rome where the occupiers hold no sway. He gathers a team to set up an Escape Line. But Hauptmann's net begins...
3) Shadowplay
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Description
1878 - The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three extraordinary people begin their life together, a life that will be full of drama, transformation, passionate and painful devotion to art and to one another. Henry Irving, the Chief, is the volcanic leading man and impresario; Ellen Terry is the most lauded and desired actress of her generation, outspoken and generous of heart; and ever following along behind them in the shadows is the unremarkable theatre...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Description
At college in 1980s Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese refugee. Together they form a band. Joined by cellist Sarah-Therese Sherlock and her twin brother Sean on drums, The Ships in the Night set out to chase fame. But the story of this makeshift family is haunted by ghosts from the past. Spanning 25 years, 'The Thrill of it All' rewinds and fast-forwards through an evocative soundtrack...
Author
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York's Lower East Side in the 19th century, from dark comedy to poignancy, from the wryly provocative to the quietly beautiful, these stories offer a gathering of dreamers and lost souls who contend with the confusions of living.
10) The salesman
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Dublin 1994. The hottest summer since records began. Billy Sweeney, a middle-aged satellite dish salesman, is about to commit murder.