Royd is convinced that his friend, Gark, has everything. He's just got a space pod & he's allowed to go to Mars whenever ...

Katie is fifteen, & in the library of all places on a hot August day. She is searching the WLTM (would like to meet) columns for a partner- not for herself but for her mum. & it is this search which forms the basis of a wonderful new romantic comedy from this fine writer. ...

Katie is fifteen, & in the library of all places on a hot August day. She is searching the WLTM (would like to meet) columns for a partner- not for herself but for her mum. & it is this search which forms the basis of a wonderful new romantic comedy from this fine writer. ...

When G4 appeared on our television screens on the X Factor
- they were instantly different. All of them had spent years training
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In Gaelic Football's Top 20, the greatest legends in Gaelic football history are exclusively profiled in what is a star-studded companion to the RTE radio series. Among the interviewees are Kerry legend Mick O' Connell & Galway's Sen Purcell, who vividly recount Gaelic football's golden age in the 1950s & '60s, while Sen O' Neill describes Down's historic breakthrough in 1960. The great Kerry teams of the '70s & '80s are also represented by stars including Pat Spillane, Mikey Sheehy, Jack O' Shea, John Egan & Eoin Liston, while Dublin's Jimmy Keaveney & Brian Mullins assess their most memorable battles with the Kerry giants. Elsewhere in the book, Larry Tompkins & Billy Morgan revisit Cork's matches with Meath in the late '80s & early '90s, Meath's Colm O' Rourke & Martin O' Connell offer their view of the contests & Offaly are represented by Matt Connor. Donegal's Martin Mc Hugh & Derry's Anthony Tohill remember their breakthroughs, unlike Mayo's Willie Joe Padden & Sligo's Mickey Kearins, who instead describe the pain of their counties' near misses. On a different note, Enda Colleran recalls Galway's famous three-in-a-row in the '60s. Gaelic Football's Top 20 is crammed with anecdotes of the great contests & controversies that have dominated Gaelic football in the last half a century. Offering rare insights & behind-the-scenes analysis, it is essential reading for all fans of Ireland's most popular sport. ...

Richard Powers' novel is a fascinating & profound exploration of the interaction of an individual human life & a corporate one. It tells two stories: the first that of an American company, which starts as a small family soap & candle-making firm in the early 1800s, & ends as a vast pharmaceuticals-to-pesticides combine in the 1990s. The second is that of a contemporary woman, living in the company town, who during the course of the novel is diagnosed & then finally dies of cancer, a cancer that is almost certainly caused by exposure to chemical wastes from the company's factories.

Richly intellectually stimulating, deeply moving & beautifully written, Gain is very much a ' Great American Novel', an exploration of the history, uniqueness & soul of America, in the tradition of Underworld. But it is most reminiscent of Graham Swift's Waterland, another novel that combines history, both public & private, with contemporary lives, showing how individuals are both the victims & shapers of large-scale historical & economic forces

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Richard Powers' novel is a fascinating & profound exploration of the interaction of an individual human life & a corporate one. It tells two stories: the first that of an American company, which starts as a small family soap & candle-making firm in the early 1800s, & ends as a vast pharmaceuticals-to-pesticides combine in the 1990s. The second is that of a contemporary woman, living in the company town, who during the course of the novel is diagnosed & then finally dies of cancer, a cancer that is almost certainly caused by exposure to chemical wastes from the company's factories.

Richly intellectually stimulating, deeply moving & beautifully written, Gain is very much a ' Great American Novel', an exploration of the history, uniqueness & soul of America, in the tradition of Underworld. But it is most reminiscent of Graham Swift's Waterland, another novel that combines history, both public & private, with contemporary lives, showing how individuals are both the victims & shapers of large-scale historical & economic forces

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Place exerts the power of destiny in these ten stories of lives uncannily recognisable & unforgettably strange: a boy makes a surprising discovery skating at night on Lake Michigan; an Irish clan in Massachusetts gathers at the bedside of its dying matriarch; a battered survivor of the glory days of Key West washes up on other shores.

Several of the stories unfold in Big Sky country, Mc Guane

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