'Wow! This book kept me on the edge of my seat and every time I thought I knew what was going to happen there was another fabulous twist. I loved it.' Reader review 'Well! I HORSED through The Nurse, pure HORSED! Tense, pacey, unpudownable.' - MARIAN KEYES
'Wow! A stunning, nerve-wracking read. So well plotted with so many twists and turns...it kept me guessing until the very last page!' - Bestselling author Patricia Gibney I don't know what happened to my daughter. Only that she's missing - and I was the last person to see her...
The year is 1950, World War II is over, food rationing is nearly finished and the word teenager has just been invented. There are nineteen identical yellow-brick terraced houses on one side of the Avenue and twenty on the other yet each house is a world of its own and as different from the next as the people who live in them.
Introduces forty-four distinct voices, exploring the complexity and nuance of Irish culture, language, and society. In poems of loss, outrage, exhilaration, contemplation, and humour, the writers collected here offer responses to Ireland that intrigue, satisfy, and sustain.
Mike Ireland was a happily married man totally devoted to his wife and daughters. His family is devasted when one of his daughters develops a life threatening disease. Her only chance of survival is a life saving operation in America by way of a transplant. He embarks on a mission to produce counterfeit GBP50 notes to pay for the operation...
'Old Romantics' is an acutely observed and hideously entertaining collection of linked short stories from an astonishing new talent. Slippery, flawed and acute, Maggie Armstrong's narrator navigates a world of awkward expectation and latent hostility.