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'The Day Michael Collins Was Shot' NEW edition and fully Revised. Highly acclaimed and regarded as one of the best reference books on Collins.

Saskia watches the lives of others from her eyrie in Lavender Square with a lonely fascination. While the teacher, the recluse, the advertising whizz-kid and the African woman and her young son run, rush, dart and dash, she knows for sure that she will never have anything worth dashing to. But sometimes all it takes is a little magic to bring people together. And, in Lavender Square, where the lavender grows in mysterious abundance and colours the air with a musky sense of love, magic is never very far away. The neighbours, who once passed each other by in detached universes, find themselves thrown together when they are obliged to take care of young Patrick Kimba. His mother is seriously ill and no one knows when or if she is ever coming home.

In Life Is a Funny Business Alan Shatter revisits his early life experiences and explores how he was shaped and influenced by them.