This Cold Country Annabel Davis-Goff ISBN:9780156027380 About the book: Known for her elegant prose and her keen eye for the nuances of class, Annabel Davis-Goff adds the lush immediacy of a Merchant-Ivory film to her compelling tale of a woman and a culture forever changed by World War II. Only three days after Daisy Creed [...]
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The Fox's Walk by Annabel Davis-Goff
The Fox’s Walk Annabel Davis-Goff ISBN:9780156030106 About the book: Alice Moore is eight years old and has just been left in the care of her autocratic grandmother at Ballydavid, a lovely old house in the south of Ireland. It is 1915, the First World War has just entered its second year, and, in Ireland, Nationalists [...]
This Human Season by Louise Dean
This Human Season Louise Dean ISBN:9780156035330 About the book: November 1979, the height of Northern Ireland’s Troubles. Kathleen Moran’s son Sean has just been transferred to the hypersecure H-block in Belfast’s notorious Maze prison, where he soon emerges as a young but important force in the extreme protest that political prisoners are staging there. John [...]
