THE BOOK ABOUT EVERYTHING Find Out More Head of Zeus Eighteen contributors including alumni David McWilliams and Caitriona Lally, emeritus fellow John Dillon, and adjunct teaching fellows Rhona Mahony, Marina Carr and Ronit Lent. Edited by Professor Declan Kilberd MA (1977), BA (1973), Enrico Terrinoni & Catherine Wilsdon ‘Can profitably be read by anyone with an interest in Joyce. illuminating insights underscore that Ulysses will continue to be a touchstone into its second century.’ Irish Times Joyce’s Ulysses is about everything, which is why everyone should read it, and why an economist, an obstetrician, an anthropologist, a classicist, a restauranteur, a philosopher and a broadcaster are among those who have been invited to give their expert opinions on different episodes of the great modernist novel. A vivid, accessible and often surprising immersion into the original bloomsday, filled with life and Joycean spirit. ALL THE BROKEN PLACES THE SEQUEL TO THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS Penguin/ Doubleday John Boyne, BA (1993) Find Out More Read an excerpt ‘Gripping and well-honed.consummately constructed, humming with tension. a defence of literature’s need to shine a light on the darkest aspects of human nature and it does so with a novelist’s skill, precision and power.’ The Guardian 1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape the past. Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. When a couple moves into the flat below in her London mansion block, it should be nothing more than a momentary inconvenience. However, the appearance of their nine-year-old son Henry brings back memories she would rather forget. FACTORY GIRLS John Murray Press Michelle Gallen, BA (1997) ‘Full of the stuff that we’re starting to expect of Michelle Gallen; wild, hilariously angry characters, and language that is vital, bang-on, and seriously funny.’ Roddy Doyle Find Out More Read an excerpt Smart-mouthed and filthy-minded, Maeve Murray has always felt like an outsider in the town in Northern Ireland that she calls home. She hopes her exam results will be her ticket to a new life in London; a life where no one knows her business, or cares about her dead sister. But first she’s got to survive a tit-for-tat paramilitary campaign as brutal as her relationship with her mam, iron 800 shirts a day to keep her summer job in the local factory, and dodge the attentions of Handy Andy Strawbridge, her dubious English boss.
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