The Stromness Dinner
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The Stromness Dinner
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Author : Peter Benson
language : en
Publisher: Seren
Release Date : 2020-10-28
The Stromness Dinner written by Peter Benson and has been published by Seren this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-28 with Fiction categories.
Ed Beech is one half of Beech Building Services. He's based in Bermondsey but no job's too small, no distance too great. So when he's asked to do some work on a house in Orkney, he loads the van with paint, tools and sandwiches, and takes off. He gets nervous around farm animals and large ships, and he's never been so far north, but when he's joined by Claire, his client's city banker sister, he discovers that in Stromness, anything is possible.Peter Benson's compelling new novel continues his exploration of unlikely relationships, and paints a vivid picture of a place where all is not what it seems, but might be."What's on the menu at The Stromness Dinner? Small plates, big flavours. Peter Benson has the miniaturist's eye for the tiny details that bring grand themes alive: the love of food, the love of island life, and a love of love itself. His novel is humorous, humane and horrible good (as we say in Stromness.)" – Duncan McLean"Benson's snappy novel rattles along with irresistible pace and panache... his story will captivate and entertain and the happy ending is a great treat during the current pandemic nightmare." – Val Hennessy
Significance
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Author : Jo Mazelis
language : en
Publisher: Seren
Release Date : 2014-09-20
Significance written by Jo Mazelis and has been published by Seren this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-20 with Fiction categories.
Lucy Swann is trying on a new life. She's bought new clothes and cut and dyed her hair. But in a small town in northern France her flight is violently cut short. When Inspector Vivier and his handsome assistant Sabine Pelat begin their investigation into her murder, the chance encounters of her last days take on a new significance. Lucy's death, like a stone thrown in a pool, sends out far-reaching ripples, altering the lives of people who never knew her, and the lives of her loved ones back home.
Big Low Tide
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Author : Candy Neubert
language : en
Publisher: Seren
Release Date : 2012-05-15
Big Low Tide written by Candy Neubert and has been published by Seren this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-15 with Fiction categories.
In Candy Neubert's novel 'Big Low Tide' set on a small island in the Channel, Brenda, a feisty barmaid at the local pub suddenly finds herself raising her two young boys alone as her estranged husband, Peter, realizing he cant take the children with him leaves for Ireland in search of better prospects and a trip at sea. Worn down by the constant struggle and pregnant with a third child whose father is nowhere to be seen, Brenda's spark begins to dwindle and her children become more and more unruly. No longer able to cope she moves in with her sister in law, Elsa, who without warning walks out one day leaving the run of the house to Brenda. Seeing Brenda's slow decline, a friend persuades Peter to return and soon after on a wild and windy night, her youngest son disappears. As they search for the boy little do they know how close they are to finding something dark and terrible. This is a powerful story of reconciliation, hope and the wreckage of relationships broken, its dark undercurrents proving all is rarely as it first may seem.
The Tip Of My Tongue
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Author : Trezza Azzopardi
language : en
Publisher: Seren
Release Date : 2013-10-15
The Tip Of My Tongue written by Trezza Azzopardi and has been published by Seren this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with Fiction categories.
Azzopardi transforms a medieval heroine who won't be silenced into brave 1970s girl from downtown Splott who always seems to get the last word. The original Enid defends her misguided knight husband by warning him of danger, even though forbidden to speak. The new young Enid is also unlikely to respect a gagging order. The Tip of My Tongue is the ninth in Seren's series of ten New Stories from the Mabinogion.
Seahorses Are Real
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Author : Zillah Bethell
language : en
Publisher: Seren
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Seahorses Are Real written by Zillah Bethell and has been published by Seren this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Marly's had enough of the cramped little rundown flat and wounded grey street where she lives with her fiance, David. If they could just move away, escape to a rose-covered cottage by the sea, she's sure she would get better and everything would be alright... Seahorses are real is a powerful debut novel of love and damage. Zillah Bethell tells the haunting tale of a relationship warped by depression, at once tender and destructive, where violence is not only perpetrated by men and love is not necessarily enough.
The Scattering
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Author : Jaki McCarrick
language : en
Publisher: Seren
Release Date : 2013-03-01
The Scattering written by Jaki McCarrick and has been published by Seren this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-01 with Fiction categories.
Borders haunt this debut fiction collection from prizewinning writer Jaki McCarrick: the Irish border where she lives, the boundaries of the natural world, and the darker edge of human nature, even the supernatural, here with an 'Ulster Gothic' twist. From small-town Louth and Monaghan to London, Florida and New Orleans, and back in time to the dawn of humanity, these stories explore the spaces between certainty and doubt, dependency and freedom. We witness the psychological fall-out from catastrophe and constraint, the pain of dual and fractured identities, the experience of emigration. Above all, what it means to be alive in a fraught and ever-changing world. Jaki McCarrick is a playwright, poet and short-story writer living in Dundalk. She studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and Middlesex University, gaining distinction and first-class honours. She has won many awards for her work and her plays have been performed (and read) in London, Belfast, Galway, Philadelphia and New York.
Boy Running
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Author : Paul Henry
language : en
Publisher: Seren
Release Date : 2016-04-29
Boy Running written by Paul Henry and has been published by Seren this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-29 with Fiction categories.
"Boy Running is made up of the sort of lyrics Henry has specialized in throughout his career. His diction is straightforward, musical but spare, his image-making rich, surprising and rewarding. Henry's rich, wise and regretful poems should be better known than they are." – Times Literary Supplement "I thoroughly enjoyed Boy Running. If anything, Henry's lyricism has been distilled still further by his suffering, and has led to his most ambitious work to date. I very much recommend you get hold of a copy." – Matthew Stewart "This is a book whose power is extended with each re-reading. Much of its conviction comes from Henry's often startling ability to make us look afresh at familiar things in ways which give us a glimpse into the emotions of others." – Martin Bartholomew-Biggs Paul Henry has gained a reputation as one of the best poets in the UK. Boy Running is his beautiful sixth collection and the first to follow The Brittle Sea: New and Selected Poems. We begin in a 'Studio Flat'. Cut adrift by marital break-up, the poet must sort through the emotional fallout and the various 'chattels' left behind; a sea of characteristic props: tables, lamps, metronomes, pianos, guitars. The poet's sons are at the heart of this section where pathos is balanced by humour amidst the characters of a small country town. A second section moves to the Welsh coastal town of Henry's childhood, Aberystwyth, opening with a long poem, 'Kicking the Stone' set in the summer of 1969. Also in this section are some familiar characters from earlier poems such as Brown Helen and Catrin Sands. In the final sequence we meet 'Davy Blackrock': washed-up songwriter and modern day alter ego of Dafydd y Garreg Wen (David of the White Rock), alias David Owen (1720-1749), the blind, 18th century harpist and composer who fell asleep on a hill and dreamt the famous song which bears his name. In contrast to David of the White Rock, Davy Blackrock, 'star of an ashen town', drags his guitar from street to hotel to bedsit, an unsettled ghost who dreams of the perfect song.
Ibrahim Reenie
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Author : David Llewellyn
language : en
Publisher: Seren
Release Date : 2013-09-15
Ibrahim Reenie written by David Llewellyn and has been published by Seren this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-15 with Fiction categories.
Ibrahim is a young Muslim guy walking from Cardiff to London. He has his own reasons, and his own mental and physical struggles to deal with along the way. What he hadn't counted on was a chance meeting with 75-year-old East Londoner Reenie before he's hardly started. With her life's luggage in a shopping trolley, complete with an orange tent and her pet cockatiel, Reenie is also walking the M4, and not for charity. As they share a journey their paths stretch out before and behind them into the personal and political turns of European history in ways neither could have foreseen. An impressive and daringly human book from novelist David Llewellyn.
Six Pounds Eight Ounces
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Author : Rhian Elizabeth
language : en
Publisher: Seren
Release Date : 2014-04-15
Six Pounds Eight Ounces written by Rhian Elizabeth and has been published by Seren this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-15 with Fiction categories.
Hannah King is a liar, so everyone says. That means her stories of growing up in the Rhondda, as told in 'Six Pounds Eight Ounces', must be treated with caution. Debut novelist Rhian Elizabeth opens Hannah's notebook up on her own little world of crazy friends and crazy family, and a crazy school with crazy teachers who aren't always what they seem. From dolls and sherbet lemons, to a bright student who drops out of school in favour of drink, drugs and glam rock up on an estate which feels like another planet, Hannah, it seems, has always been trouble.
White Ravens
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Author : Owen Sheers
language : en
Publisher: Seren
Release Date : 2013-03-30
White Ravens written by Owen Sheers and has been published by Seren this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-30 with Fiction categories.
Two stories, two different times, but the thread of an ancient tale from the medieval Celtic Mabinogion cycle runs through the lives of twenty-first-century farmer's daughter Rhian and the mysterious Branwen, in this tale by Owen Sheers. Wounded in Italy, Matthew O'Connell is seeing out WWll in a secret government department spreading rumors and myths to the enemy. But when he is given the bizarre task of escorting a box containing six raven chicks from a remote hill farm in Wales to the Tower of London, he becomes part of a story over which he seems to have no control. Based on Branwen, daughter of Llyr from the Mabinogion.