Mouth Full of Blood
ISBN : 9781529110883
A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time. A Mouth Full of Blood is a powerful, erudite and essential gathering of ideas that speaks to us all.
Late in the Day
ISBN : 9781784709235
Alex and Christine and Zach and Lydia have been inseparable since their twenties. From student house shares and grubby pubs to proper homes and grown-up careers, the two couples' lives have been interlinked for decades. Then one evening, Alex and Christine receive a call from a distraught Lydia. Zach is dead. Inconsolable, Lydia moves in with Alex and Christine. But instead of their loss bringing them closer, the three of them find that love and sorrow give way to anger and bitterness as old entanglements and resentments rise from the past.
The Testaments
ISBN : 9781784708214
The Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the regime AiIlk come face to face with the legendary, ruthless Aunt Lydia. But how far will each go for what she believes ?
Actress
ISBN : 9781529112139
Katherine O'Dell is a legend of Irish theatre. As her daughter, Norah, retraces her mother's celebrated career and bohemian life, she delves into long-kept secrets, both her mother's and her own. Every moment of her life is a performance, with young Norah standing in the wings. But the mother-daughter romance cannot survive Katherine's past or the world's damage. With age, alcohol, and dimming stardom, Katherine's grip on reality grows fitful, and, fuelled by a proud and long-simmering rage, she commits a bizarre crime. This is the story of a daughter's search for the truth : the dark secret in the bright star, and what drove Katherine finally to madness...
Elephant - And Other Stories
ISBN : 9780099530350
These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared. This fine story suggests that the greatest of modern short story writers may, in the year before his untimely death, have been flexing his muscles for a longer work.
