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A young girl, un-dead and un-alive, brought to the shores of Iberia and nurtured to become the saviour of Madrid. A crippled boy drowning in the waters of Loughmichnois, called to preserve the secrets of a civilisation. A nun who instigates the bombing of Neo Dublin to reset a futureless people and start afresh. Times of darkness, worlds seemingly beyond salvation, people who have never known joy. What do they have in common? Three entirely different versions of Saint Ciarán to restore hope, faith, and brightness for humankind.

Life in the town of LV runs smoothly, regulated by an omnipresent System. When Monica and her daughter move in, everyone is ready to welcome them - until they fail to blend into the well-oiled scheme. A crescendo of unrest pervades the town, with consequences reverberating in unexpected ways. Will things ever be the same again?

A period piece memoir depicting the life of Richard Robison, who as a boy moved from town to town, swept along by his parents' quest for the American Dream. Beautifully told, humorous, sometimes dark - this memoir deals with forgiveness, empathy, music, and pain.

Spanning the 1930s to the 1960s, Catch the Moments as They Fly is a vividly realised portrait of class, ambition and womanhood in a rapidly changing Scotland. Told in Strachan's subtle and delicate prose, it is a radiant work of fiction.

In 1817, James Hastie, an East India Company sergeant, embarked on a perilous mission to the court of Radama, the warlike ruler of the most powerful kingdom in Madagascar. This is the first biography of a man whom Sir Mervyn Brown described as "one of the most important figures in the history of Anglo-Malagasy relations."

The riddles of desire, youth, old age, poverty, and wealth are laid bare in this radiant collection from a master of the form.John Fulton named one of The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellows for 2024!From inner-city pawnshops to high-powered law firms, from the desert of California to the coast of France, The Flounder paints a vivid portrait of how complex and poignant everyday life can be. Told in vibrant, incantatory prose, these moving, lyrical, and surprising stories teeter between desperation and hope, with Fulton showing us what lasts in an impermanent world."In The Flounder, John Fulton writes about men caught in riptides, navigating the rough emotional waters of love, marriage and family. A boy faces his father's terminal illness. A Mormon teenager traveling through post-Soviet Europe fails to lose his virginity. A young husband takes a road trip with his unfaithful wife. Fulton is a writer of great humanity, with an eye for the revelatory moment. These are masterful short stories--closely observed, moving, memorable and profound."--Jennifer Haigh, author of Mercy Street"The Flounder... feels unified by topic and tone--although the tones are various and the diction supple--as well as in, from time to time, the names of characters. Marital fidelity and infidelity are at issue here, as is the relation between generations and the search for (one might as well call it) authenticity. And the real connective tissue is the talent of its author, whose eye for detail is both telescopic and microscopic. Whether set in rural North America or towns and villages in Europe, John Fulton's fictions ring true."--Nicholas Delbanco author of Why Writing Matters"Faced with apocalypses that are sometimes private and sometimes prophesized, the characters in John Fulton's The Flounder wrestle with faith in many forms. These are stories that illuminate human realities of love and betrayal, life and death using a touch of the miraculous. The result is an elegant collection with a timeless sensibility, as well as the ecstatic capacity to make its readers see their lives anew."--Allegra Hyde, author of The Last Catastrophe"The Flounder is a remarkable book, full of remarkable stories, stories that move quickly through time while simultaneously being firmly rooted in place, stories that manage to be intimate while also having sweep, and grandeur. In this, they remind me of work by Alice Munro and John Cheever, but really, they're 100% John Fulton: smart, deeply felt, and ingeniously constructed stories of how we go to extraordinary lengths to keep on living our ordinary lives."--Brock Clarke, author of Who Are You, Calvin Bledsloe?Fiction.

Somota is society divided by change, and by memories. When A. arrives in the protectorate shortly after the first world war, he is unsure of what to expect. Employed by the government as a linguistic anthropologist, he is tasked with documenting the benefits of the new order and reporting them to the Reverend G. But what are these benefits? In his travels throughout the region, A. finds only the physical and emotional scars of conquest, and of routine colonial administration. Yet, even as the indigenous culture is being reduced to mere fragments, he also learns of a sublime literature responding to those historical traumas. One storyteller in particular, Kehinta, begins to reveal to A. just how much has been lost. A profoundly beautiful novel commenting on the horrors of colonial oppression, trauma, love, and the power of story.

Canada, 1804, on the edge of Chippewa territory. Flora wakes from a malarial coma to staggering loss in a new land. Set amid the privation of a struggling frontier settlement and a forest camp, Anangokaa is the evocative coming-of-age story of a young woman who must determine what sacrifices she is willing to make for the life she longs to live.

In August 1914, concert violinist Lucien Durosoir was on holiday with his mother Louise in Brittany, when the world changed. Swapping his instrument for a rifle, he was at the front a week later. This is the first ever English translation of the letters of Lucien and Louise Durosoir, providing a unique first-hand perspective on World War I.

Exceptionally well-written debut novel, driven by the experience of the emigrant in America. Frieda, an enigmatic cat, is the link connecting three generations of Greek-Americans, from a daunting trip across the ocean in the 1920s to present-day internet dating. A quirky, feel-good novel, loosely based on true stories.

Angus MacKay of Raasay (1812-1859), is a legendary figure in the history of Scottish music, with his work still celebrated 160 years after his death. The remarkable story of the man himself, however, has been neglected until now.