Dark Lies the Island by Kevin Barry

Dark Lies the Island by Kevin BarryWinner of the Sunday Times short story prize Winner of the Edge Hill short story prize A kiss that just won't happen. A disco at the end of the world. A teenage goth on a terror mission. And OAP kiddie snatchers, and scouse real ale enthusiasts, and occult weirdness in the backwoods Dark Lies the Island is a collection of unpredictable stories about love and cruelty, crimes, desperation, and hope from the man Irvine Welsh has described as 'the most

popes and royalty with the same easy candour and intimacy with which she describes her childhood

John Betjeman

gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation

One of the best-loved children's classics of all time

A yearning homesick mother

mourning her youth - until the clock chimes midnight and a mysterious masked figure kisses her on the mouth

In the bestselling How To Be Right

Its history of empire

Translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre

the bombing campaigns

RIEU With an Introduction by PETER JONES

love and human connection