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The Solace of Trees tells the story of Amir, a young boy of secular Muslim heritage who witnesses his family’s murder in the Bosnian War. Amir hides in a forest, mute and shocked, among refugees fleeing for their lives. Narrowly escaping death, he finds sanctuary, and after a charity relocates him...

A series of brutal killings leads a former FBI profiler to confront his haunted past. A man is brutally attacked and then disappears. His wife calls an old flame, Wallace Mack, a former FBI profiler. As Mack looks into the man's disappearance, a brutal set of murders leads him in a whole new...

So, that's how it was with us after the Captain's slaughter. Shock, then panic, then hope, then self-preservation. The killing was the easy part, all done and dusted in short order, as clean as these things can be...' These wide-ranging stories follow the disparate disciples of the Captain – a mysterious,...

A collection of 21 short stories by Josie Arden. Themes include travel, adventure, pets, ghosts, talking trees and more.

Set mostly in contemporary Cairo and Iraq, as well as Israel, London, and Hungary, these twelve short stories are a staggering follow-up to those in the acclaimed collection The Devil Is a Black Dog by leading Hungarian writer/photojournalist Sándor Jászberényi. Told from the perspective of Cairo-based...

CHRISTMAS, 1940 France is under German control, Britain is in danger and the United States has yet to join the war. Ireland has succeeded in staying neutral – so far. But rumours about a British troop build-up in the North stoke fears that Ireland is facing an invasion. And Germany’s bombing of...

‘Ledwidge very deliberately chose not to bury his head in local sand and, as a consequence, faced the choices and moral challenges of his times with solitude, honesty and rare courage. This integrity, and its ultimately gratifying effects upon his poetry, should command the renewed interest and...

Group sex bisexuality threesomes and exhibitionism are the norm in this sizzling unconventional love story. After the breakup of her marriage a young woman falls in love with a handsome foreigner and becomes sexually awakened to such an extent that she eventually cheats on him. She is simply insatiable....

Isbister in the Orkneys is one of those extraordinary archaeological sites where the remains of Neolithic man and his works have been so well preserved that they give us an amazingly clear picture of the life and people of 5000 years ago. In Tomb of the Eagles John W. Hedges describes vividly the...

Bestselling author Julie Parsons (Mary, Mary, I Saw You, The Hourglass) is back with a powerful, compelling, and darkly chilling novel of violence, shame and deceit. On Sundays peace was restored. He would lie down, dream and remember. He would enjoy. And later on the bell would ring. He would get...

‘The doyen of Irish drag queens … The original of the species … Mr Pussy is a riot’ In 1969, a young Englishman named Alan Amsby arrived in Ireland with a frock and a wig. He was booked for one week, but was an overnight sensation, and made Dublin his home. Catholic Ireland had never before...

“One day, as I was daydreaming on the boulevard Beaumarchais, I had the idea—it came and went in a flash, almost in spite of myself—of doing a Google search to find out what I had been up to and where I had been the previous evening, since my own recollections were confused.” So begins MaeÅNl...

From lovable oddballs and quirky miscreants to out-and-out chancers and the certifiably insane, the streets of Dublin have been filled with an eclectic cast of characters down through the years. Aided by comic illustrations from Ruan van Vliet, Bobby Aherne relates the stories of over 100 of the city’s...

There is one thing you must never lose sight of. No matter what life deals you, promise me that you will strive tooth and nail for the right to be happy. Having surrendered her happiness to raise her children, Eva Fitzgerald defies convention in 1950s Ireland by leaving a failed marriage...