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Reading Rites: Books, writing and other things that matter

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‘Evelyn Conlon’s voice is instantly recognisable:wise, funny, insightful (inciteful, if that’s a word) and irrepressible.’Lia MillsIn Reading Rites, Evelyn Conlon brings her characteristic wit and keen intelligence to the task of exploring her writing life, drawing out the events, people, books and concerns that have helped to make her the writer she is.Using the lens of her own life as a starting ... Read more

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‘Evelyn Conlon’s voice is instantly recognisable:wise, funny, insightful (inciteful, if that’s a word) and irrepressible.’Lia MillsIn Reading Rites, Evelyn Conlon brings her characteristic wit and keen intelligence to the task of exploring her writing life, drawing out the events, people, books and concerns that have helped to make her the writer she is.Using the lens of her own life as a starting
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Not the Same Sky

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By 1848 famine has ravaged Ireland, and London remains undecided about what to do. A shortage of female labour in Australia offers a kind of solution and so, over the following two years, more than 4000 Irish girls are shipped across vast oceans to an unimaginable world in the new colony. On Sunday 28 October 1849, one of these ships, the "Thomas Arbuthnot", sets sail from Plymouth with a cargo of ... Read more

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By 1848 famine has ravaged Ireland, and London remains undecided about what to do. A shortage of female labour in Australia offers a kind of solution and so, over the following two years, more than 4000 Irish girls are shipped across vast oceans to an unimaginable world in the new colony. On Sunday 28 October 1849, one of these ships, the "Thomas Arbuthnot", sets sail from Plymouth with a cargo of
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Moving About the Place: Short Stories

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This collection of eleven stories by one of Ireland’s best writers is a compelling exploration of what comes from moving about the place.In these stories, Evelyn Conlon vividly imagines her characters all over the world: Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Italy, Monaco, in a house with two drills of vegetables in Skerries. A couple spend their lives wandering around the equator because of a lie they ... Read more

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This collection of eleven stories by one of Ireland’s best writers is a compelling exploration of what comes from moving about the place.In these stories, Evelyn Conlon vividly imagines her characters all over the world: Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Italy, Monaco, in a house with two drills of vegetables in Skerries. A couple spend their lives wandering around the equator because of a lie they
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The Goldfinch

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A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by ... Read more

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A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by
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Are You Somebody?

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#1 New York Times Bestseller: This Irish writer's memoir is "a beautiful exploration of human loneliness and happiness, of contentment and longing" (Alice McDermott, The Washington Post).One of nine children born into a penniless North Dublin family, Nuala O'Faolain was saved from a harrowing childhood by her love of books and reading. Though she ultimately became one of Ireland's best-known ... Read more

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#1 New York Times Bestseller: This Irish writer's memoir is "a beautiful exploration of human loneliness and happiness, of contentment and longing" (Alice McDermott, The Washington Post).One of nine children born into a penniless North Dublin family, Nuala O'Faolain was saved from a harrowing childhood by her love of books and reading. Though she ultimately became one of Ireland's best-known
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A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic.Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography, autobiography, biographical criticism, biographical fiction, memoir, confession, diary.In these thoughtful and enlightening essays David Lodge considers some particularly interesting examples of life
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Attention

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