The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past.
But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she has some questions of her own to answer. If her ex-husband is really the monster everyone says he is, then how complicit was she in his crimes?
Escaping her old life might seem like a good idea but the choices she has made throughout her…
This is the second of four books (two of which are yet to be published). I actually read them in the wrong order but that does not matter. The books are linked via characters: (a minor character from the first book is the principle protagonist in the second). As is to be expected from this author, he deals with sensitive topical subjects in a way that brings them to life with strong characters and emotional engagement.
'Utterly compelling... powerful and disturbing' Sunday Independent 'Compelling... a potent portrait of a flawed young man' Daily Mail 'A strong set-up, and with the masterly Boyne at the helm, the tension never lets up' Mail on Sunday 'New and ambitious... packed with big ideas, moral questions and social commentary' Irish Times _____________
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man whose direction in life takes a vastly different turn than what he expected.
It's the tabloid sensation of the year: two well-known footballers standing in the dock, charged with sexual assault, a series of vile…
Like most writers I am a fan of HG Wells, the subject of this book. David Lodge takes us deep into his life, his politics, his womanizing and the lives of his wives and lovers.
A riveting novel about the remarkable life—and many loves—of author H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells, author of The Time Machine and War of the Worlds, was one of the twentieth century's most prophetic and creative writers, a man who immersed himself in socialist politics and free love, whose meteoric rise to fame brought him into contact with the most important literary, intellectual, and political figures of his time, but who in later years felt increasingly ignored and disillusioned in his own utopian visions. Novelist and critic David Lodge has taken the compelling true story of Wells's life and transformed…
Depicts a particular period in the life of Sir Arthur Kennedy. Best remembered as a diplomat who governed a number of British colonies under Queen Victoria, Kennedy spent two years as Poor Law Inspector in one of the worst affected parts of Ireland during the Great Famine. He came into conflict with the local land owners and exposed the brutality of the evictions they conducted. This is a fictionalized account of that period.
