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Blank Pages and Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty
Category: Fiction
The extraordinary new story collection from one of Ireland's greatest writers and bestselling author of Midwinter BreakThe extraordinary new story collection from one of Ireland's greatest writers and bestselling author of Mindwinter Break.Bernard MacLaverty is a consummately gifted short-story writer a ...Show more
Blank Pages and Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty
Category: Fiction
Bernard MacLaverty is a consummately gifted short-story writer and novelist whose work - like that of John McGahern, William Trevor, Edna O'Brien or Colm Tóibín - is deceptively simple on the surface, but carries a turbulent undertow. Everywhere, the dark currents of violence, persecution and regret pul ...Show more
Cal by Bernard MacLaverty
Category: Fiction | Series: Irish Classics Ser.
When it was first published, Bernard MacLaverty's masterpiece was hailed by Michael Gorra in the New York Times Book Review as "a marvel of technical perfection...a most moving novel whose emotional impact is grounded in a complete avoidance of sentimentality...[It] will become the Passage to India of t ...Show more
Collected Stories by Bernard MacLaverty
Category: Fiction
Melding his native Irish sensibilities to those of his adopted west-coast Scotland, these tales attend to life's big events: love and loss, separation and violence, death and betrayal. But the stories teem with smaller significant moments too - private epiphanies, chilling exchanges, intimate encounters ...Show more
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
Category: Fiction
Returning to Belfast after a long absense, to attend her father`s funeral. Catherine McKenna-a young composer-remembers exactly why she left- the claustrophobic intimacies of the Catholic enclave, her fastidious, nagging mother, and the pervading tensions of a city at war with itself. She remembers a mo ...Show more
Matters of Life and Death & Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty
Category: Fiction
A new book of stories from Bernard MacLaverty is a cause for celebration, but "Matters of Life and Death" is more than that, as it is - without question - the finest collection yet from a contemporary master of the form. Beginning with the sudden, nauseating terror of a family caught up in an explosion ...Show more
Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty
Category: Fiction
A Guardian / Sunday Times / Irish Times / Herald Scotland / Mail on Sunday Book of the YearWinner of the Bord Gáis Novel of the Year'Midwinter Break is a work of extraordinary emotional precision and sympathy, about coming to terms - to an honest reckoning - with love and the loss of love, with memory a ...Show more
Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty
Category: Fiction
A Guardian / Sunday Times / Irish Times / Herald Scotland / Mail on Sunday Book of the Year Winner of the Bord Gáis Novel of the Year 'Midwinter Break is a work of extraordinary emotional precision and sympathy, about coming to terms - to an honest reckoning - with love and the loss of love, with memo ...Show more
Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty
Category: Fiction
'Midwinter Break is a work of extraordinary emotional precision and sympathy, about coming to terms - to an honest reckoning - with love and the loss of love, with memory and pain. Full of scenes that are rendered with exquisite accuracy and care, allowing the most detailed physical descriptions to be p ...Show more
The Anatomy School by Bernard MacLaverty
Category: Fiction
The story of the growing up of Martin Brennan, a troubled boy in troubled times. This is Belfast in the late sixties. Before he can become an adult, Martin must unravel the sacred and contradictory mysteries of religion, science and sex; and he must learn the value of friendship. Paperback
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