Lyrical dark comic or iconoclastic the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight Anne Enright has brought together a dazzling collection of Irish stories by authors born in the twentieth century
- from Mary Lavin & Frank O' Connor to Claire Keegan & Kevin Barry With a pithy & passionate introduction by Enright The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story traces this great tradition through decades of social change & shows the pleasure Irish writers continue to take in the short-story form Deft & often devastating the short story dodges the rolling mythologies of of Irish life to produce truths that are delightful & real Also

Includes:: stories by Maeve Brennan Roddy Doyle Mary Lavin Colum Mc Cann William Trevor John Mc Gahern Colm Toibin Claire Keegan & Kevin Barry


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play French horror from cult director Jean Rollin starring Marie-George Pascal & Felix Marten When a young woman finds herself stranded in a remote village she discovers that the population has become infected by a deadly zombie virus spread by the pesticides used on the vineyards Actors Marie-George Pascal Felix Marten Serge Marquand Mirella Rancelot Patrice Valota Directors Jean Rollin Writers Jean Rollin Christian Meunier Producers Claude Guedj Format PALLanguage French Subtitles English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1 ...

' To the red country & part of the gray country of Oklahoma the last rains came gently & they did not cut the scarred earth' Drought & economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl the Joads a family of sharecroppers decide they have no choice but to follow They head west towards California where they hope to find work & a future for their family But while the journey to this promised land will take its inevitable toll there remains uncertainty about what awaits their arrival Winner of the Pulitzer Prize The Grapes of Wrath is an epic human drama with a stunning new cover by renowned artist Bijou Karman ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play John Ford&s adaptation of John Steinbeck&s classic novel follows the traumatic journey made by the Joads a dispossesed Oklahoma family who head towards California to begin a new life When Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) returns home after being released from prison he discovers the farmlands have been destroyed by dust storms Seeking a better future he leaves with his mother (Jane Darwell) & the rest of the family for California Their journey is far from easy however & there is no guarantee the &promised land& will provide the life they are hoping for ...

'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags I don't want him satisfied' Shocking & controversial when it was first published The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California Their story is one of false hopes thwarted desires & powerlessness yet out of their struggle Steinbeck created a drama that is both intensely human & majestic in its scale & moral vision ...

The leaping chalk horse carved into an English hillside in the Bronze Age stands witness to centuries of human endeavour To Stella it represents home
- sanctuary from the adrenalin-fuelled highs & corresponding lows of her career as a singer Stella is tough & talented adored by every man in every audience but a loser in love Spencer Mc Coll is an American ex-fighter pilot making a last sentimental journey from Wyoming to the England of his mother's childhood & the white horse to pay tribute to the past Harry Latimer sets off to the Crimea as a captain in the Hussars with a heart burdened by his undeclared love for his sister-in-law Rachel The grim reality of the battlefield provides a bitter contrast to Harry's memories of the tranquillity of home Stella Spencer Harry
- each marches to the tune of a different drama Their stories are separated by many miles & generations but profoundly connected in ways they can never fully understand

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This unique book quite bowled me over both intellectually & as a gorgeous literary feast Bernard Suits not only makes philosophy enjoyable as it should be but does so without any compromise of real profundity -- Simon Blackburn Cambridge University ...

Tracklist St Stephen Bertha Wharf Rat Jack Straw Truckin' Sugar Magnolia Morning Dew Brown-Eyed Women The Music Never Stopped Estimated Prophet ...

Sunny skies sleep waterand a sinister corpse Flavia is enjoying the summer spending her days punting along the river with her reluctant family Languishing in boredom she drags a slack hand in the water & catches her fingers in the open mouth of a drowned corpse Brought to shore the dead man is found to be dressed in blue silk with ribbons at the knee & wearing a single red ballet slipper Flavia needs to put her super-sleuthing skills to the test to investigate the murder of three gossips in the local church & to keep her sisters out of danger But what could possibly connect the son of an executed killer a far too canny police constable a travelling circus & the publican's mysteriously talented wife? Praise for the historical Flavia de Luce mysteries' The Flavia de Luce novels are now a cult favourite' Mail on Sunday'A cross between Dodie Smith's I Capture The Castle & the Addams familydelightfully entertaining' Guardian Fans of M C Beaton's Agatha Raisin Frances Brody & Alexander Mc Call Smith will enjoy the Flavia de Luce mysteries 1 Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie 2 The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag 3 A Red Herring Without Mustard 4 I Am Half Sick of Shadows 5 Speaking From Among the Bones 6 The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches 7 As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust 8 Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd 9 The Grave's a Fine & Private Place If you're looking for a cosy crime series to keep you hooked then look no further than the Flavia de Luce mysteries Each Flavia de Luce mystery can be read as a standalone or in series order ...

Who&s up for an apocalypse? The powerful cult known as the Black Temple wants to unleash ancient dark gods on mankind dooming us all The only thing that stands in their way are the Gravediggers Union Cole Haley & Ortiz At the centre of the Black Temple’s plan is Cole&s estranged daughter Morgan destined to free the dark gods Now the Gravediggers are in a race against time to rescue a mysterious alien monkey before the Black Temple can destroy it freeing the dark gods Before it&s over father & daughter will argue the merits of our species the secret history of the world will be revealed & the Gravediggers will make a last stand against the Black Temple’s undead horde for the fate of mankind Writer Wes Craig (DEADLY CLASS) & artist Toby Cypress (RETCON) bring their weird horror series to its apocalyptic conclusion! Collects GRAVEDIGGERS UNION 6-9 ...