Outline by Rachel Cusk

Outline by Rachel CuskOutline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from the place. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves, their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through

It's squishy

freeing her from her past and reuniting her with those she loves

A beautiful and witty picture book charting the journey of Little Owl

both physical and emotional

yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both puritanical state religion and a strange

and politics in a tale both heartbreaking and hopeful

their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis

so his mother calls him 'Wild Thing' and sends him to bed without his supper

tiny mice - who are all beginning to feel really

was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders

This anthology of the best ghost stories from Ireland and Irish writers includes contributions from such masters as Sheridan Le Fanu

to Gerry Adams