Peter Gregory a 35-year-old high school English teacher with an ex-wife & kids tries to drown himself in the Ohio River Failing to manage even that he decides to hitch a ride east fleeing the state & escaping accusations of rape & murder As he assumes & discards aliases along the way he believes that he can begin again a fresh start
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A stunningly moving & explosive psychological thriller from the international bestselling author of A Suitable Lie 300 pages Malone Michael J ...

After the death of her husband Sarah (Prunella Scales) is forced to bring up her teenage daughter by herself & deal with a demanding mother (Joan Sanderson) Features all the episodes from the series ...

Alarm clocks barking dogs telephones meetings & the rush hourthe hustle & bustle of life What better way to relax than to sit down at the piano chill out & indulge yourself with music from " Pam Wedgwood's After Hours Jazz"? Relax with the lush harmonies & laid-back melodies of your favourite jazz standards plus some great original works by Pam Wedgwood all specifically arranged for the Grade 3-5 pianist to enjoy ...

Emi Ashiana is 24 unemployed & not really sure what she wants do with her life When a friend invites her to a dance club Emi doesn't expect much But what she finds will change her world! Emi isn't much of a party girl but she decides to give clubbing a tryand ends up hiding in a corner after her friend ditches her to flirt with a guy! Emi figures the night is a bust but then an exciting woman comes to her rescue Kei is a DJ & her effortless self-confidence captivates Emi Is this the start of something special or just a wonderful one-nighter? ...

Ireland is suffering a crisis of authority Catholic Church scandals political corruption & economic collapse have shaken the Irish people's faith in their institutions The nation's struggle for independence is thrown into doubt But as Declan Kiberd argues in this engaging survey of post-war Irish literature the country's creative writers have been alert to this reality from the start He describes the young Samuel Beckett witnessing the burning of Dublin in 1916 & realising that 'the birth of a nation might also seal its doom' Surveying thirty works by modern Irish writers Kiberd traces the response to the crisis of Irish Statehood in the work of Seamus Heaney Edna O' Brien Joseph O' Connor Tom Murphy Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill Derek Mahon & John Banville among others Placing these writers at the centre of Ireland's on-going exploration of the true meaning of freedom Kiberd shows how Irish artists preserve & extend a humane culture that imagines a renewed more plural & open nation Kiberd's Inventing Ireland originally published in 1995 is a dazzlingly ambitious critical history of modern Irish literature & the standard work on the Irish Literary Revival In After Ireland Kiberd responds to the next generation of Irish writers in this second renaissance of Irish literature ...

A magisterial survey of the ways in which postwar Irish writers have witnessed the frustration of the promise of Irish independence 560 pages Kiberd Declan ...

A tense truce holds between the Capulets & the Montagues after the deaths of Romeo & Juliet Benvolio Romeo's best friend is in love with Rosaline Juliet's cousin; but Rosaline is bent on revenge After Juliet by Sharman Macdonald was specially commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for the BT National Connections Scheme for young people ...

GUARDIAN EVENING STANDARD & BOOKFORUM BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 Kathy Acker Rich girl street punk scholar stripper victim media-whore & cultural icon The late Kathy Acker's legend & writings are wrapped in mythologies many of them created by her Twenty years after her untimely death aged just 50 Acker's legend has faded but her writing has become clearer A few years ago the writer Chris Kraus author of I Love Dick found that her own experiences were becoming more & more like Kathy's She began writing about Acker 'through the distance but with this incredible frisson of feeling that often I could write "I" instead of "she"' This is 'literary friction' The first fully authorised biography of the avant-garde writer Kathy Acker by the woman who arrived on the scene straight after her who shared some of her boyfriends & friends & her artistic ambitions Using exhaustive archival research & ongoing conversations with mutual colleagues & friends Kraus traces the woman behind the notorious novels & places her at the centre of a kaleidoscopic artistic world' The path of the female artist Is hell Chris Kraus's veracious & intricately structured portrait rouses & stirs as it documents in meticulous & fascinating detail the life work & body of Kathy Acker & what it takes to a become a 'great writer as countercultural hero' Viv Albertine' This is a gossipy anti-mythic artist biography which feels like it's being told in one long rush of a monologue over late-night drinks by someone who was there' Sheila Heti ...

Two women Two villages Different destinies Odeta's life has shrunk to a daily round of drudgery running her father's grocery store in a remote Albanian village One day a stranger from Tirana walks into the shop & promises her a new career in London Odeta's life is about to change but not in the way she expected Journalist Kate lives on a quiet London street & seems to have a perfect life but she worries about her son Ben who struggles to make friends Kate blames the internet & disconnects her family from the online world so they can get to know their neighbours On a visit to her home village in Wales Kate is forced to confront a secret from her past But greater danger lies closer to home Perhaps Kate's neighbours are not the friendly community they seem ...