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Hex: Darkland Tales by Jenni Fagan
Category: Fiction | Series: Darkland Tales Ser.
FROM GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST JENNI FAGAN COMES AN AMBITIOUS AND POWERFULLY POIGNANT TALE OF ONE OF THE MOST TURBULENT MOMENTS IN SCOTLAND'S HISTORY, THE NORTH BERWICK WITCH TRIALS.'This series has already produced two works of note and distinction. It raises the question - if a country can ...Show more
Hex: Darkland Tales by Jenni Fagan
Category: Fiction | Series: Darkland Tales
IT’S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591.On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floors below Edinburgh’s High Street, convicted witch Geillis Duncan receives a mysterious visitor – Iris, who says she comes from a future where women are still persecuted for who they are and what they believe. ...Show more
Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan
Category: Fiction
Featured in Damian Barr's picks for 2021'Definitely going to be one of my books of 2021, a gloriously transgressive novel of Edinburgh denizens past and present.' IAN RANKIN________________________Stories tucked away on every floor. No. 10 Luckenbooth Close is an archetypal Edinburgh tenement.The devil' ...Show more
Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan
Category: Fiction
Stories tucked away on every floor. No. 10 Luckenbooth Close is an archetypal Edinburgh tenement.The devil's daughter rows to the shores of Leith in a coffin. The year is 1910 and she has been sent to a tenement building in Edinburgh by her recently deceased father to bear a child for a wealthy man and ...Show more
Ootlin by Jenni Fagan
Category: Biography Memoir
'Beautiful, deep, dangerous, transfixing . . . it will burn a home in your heart, it has in mine. Read every word of every page. Turn them carefully. Jenni Fagan is made of fire and spirit. From start to finish I could not put it down. Close the door. Sit down now. Read Ootlin. Read' LEMN SISSAY'Essenti ...Show more
The Bone Library by Jenni Fagan
Category: Poetry
The Bone Library examines and interprets all of human life. The poems here respond to broader themes of identity, of place, of love and the unloved. Written in the old Dick Vet Bone Library during the author’s time as writer in residence there, this is a vivid exploration that cuts to the very core of w ...Show more
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
Category: Fiction
Pa'nop'ti'con ( noun). A circular prison with cells so constructed that the prisoners can be observed at all times. [Greek panoptos 'seen by all'] Anais Hendricks, fifteen, is in the back of a police car, headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders. She can't remember the events that l ...Show more
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
Category: Fiction
Fifteen-year old Anais Hendricks is smart, funny and fierce, but she is also a child who has been let down, or worse, by just about every adult she has ever met. Sitting in the back of a police car, she finds herself headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders where the social workers ...Show more
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
Category: Fiction
"JENNI FAGAN HAS BEEN NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2013b>b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTION AND THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2013Fifteen-year old Anais Hendricks is smart, funny and fierce, but she is also a child who has been let down, or wo ...Show more
The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
From the highly acclaimed author of The Panopticon and one of Granta's Best Young British Writers comes the new novel THE SUNLIGHT PILGRIMS. Set in a Scottish caravan park during a freak winter - it is snowing in Jerusalem, the Thames is overflowing, and an iceberg separated from the Fjords in Norway is ...Show more
The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
Category: Fiction
From the highly acclaimed author of The Panopticon and one of Granta's Best Young British Writers comes the new novel THE SUNLIGHT PILGRIMS. Set in a Scottish caravan park during a freak winter - it is snowing in Jerusalem, the Thames is overflowing, and an iceberg separated from the Fjords in Norway is ...Show more
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