Den här boken är ett mästerverk. Juryn för Costa Awards Sommaren 1949 anländer Alfred Day, en ung före detta sergeant i det brittiska flygvapnet, till den tyska landsbygden för att medverka som statist i en film om det andra världskriget. Det är den enkla upptakten till A.L. Kennedys skräm[...]
Almost forty and with nothing to show for it, Hannah Luckraft is starting to notice that her lifestyle is not entirely sustainable: her subconscious is turning against her, her soul is a little unwell. Her family is wounded, her friends are odd, her body is not as reliable as it once was and her dri[...]
Includes the twelve stories that contain intimate observations of men and women who are perfectly ordinary people - whose marriages founder; who sit on their own in a cinema watching a film with no soundtrack; and, who risk sex in a hotel with an anonymous stranger.[...]
You are crossing the Atlantic on a liner with your boyfriend who may or may not be planning to propose. You are fleeing the past - your ex-lover Arthur, the man who helped you dupe the vulnerable into believing loved ones were trying to make contact from beyond the grave. But there's a secret you've[...]
Takes place on a railway platform, with a couple waiting for a train that never comes, and opens out into the husband's shocking admission of years of deceit, and a devastating portrait of a failed marriage, a failed man.[...]
Nathan Staples is consumed by loathing and love in roughly equal measures. Frustrated by his life and the way he lives it, he is sustained only by his passionate devotion for his estranged wife and their teenage daughter, Mary. When Nathan contrives to have Mary invited to the island where he lives [...]
A collection of stories concerned with the complexities of sex and the lack of it. Whether in Copenhagen or New York, the characters are engaged in possibly fruitless attempts to close down emotional distances and fill a physical void.[...]
Deals with Bullfighting. This title unpeels the layers and explains the mechanics before dissecting them with surgical precision. It focuses on the fact that a man faces his death while a crowd looks on.[...]
Offers readers and aspiring writers everything they need to know about the complexities of researching, writing and publishing fiction. This book ends with the transcript of the author's celebrated one-person show about writing and language that she has performed round the world to huge acclaim.[...]
Takes place on a railway platform, with a couple waiting for a train that never comes, and opens out into the husband's shocking admission of years of deceit, and a devastating portrait of a failed marriage, a failed man.[...]
Mitchell provides students with a comprehensive introduction to Kennedy's work, placing her fiction and non-fiction in a clear historical and theoretical context. Its importance is considered in terms of contemporary Scottish identity and relevance to key issues in contemporary culture and theory. I[...]
An Anchor Books Original
One day, on the brink of despair and contemplating her own mortality, novelist A. L. Kennedy is offered an assignment she can't refuse-an opportunity to travel to Spain and cover a sport that represents the ultimate confrontation with death: bullfighting.
The result [...]
From one of the U.K.'s most dazzling novelists--whom Richard Ford has called "a profound writer"--comes this daring new novel set in the unsteady, self-contained world of a luxury liner.
While on a transatlantic trip with her soon-to-be-fiance Derek, Elizabeth unexpectedly runs into ex-lover Art[...]
"All the Rage" was named to the shortlist of 'Best Short Story Collection 2014' by The Frank O'Connor Prize. A.L. Kennedy, the author of "The Blue Book" and "Day," writes like a force of nature. Claire Messud says she's "one of Britain's most iconoclastic and fiercely independent talents." Richard F[...]
From award-winning author A.L. Kennedy, an original Doctor Who novel featuring the beloved Fourth Doctor, as played by Tom Baker.
I shall make you the jewel at the heart of the universe.
Something distinctly odd is going on in Arbroath. It could be to do with golfers being dragged down into[...]
A first novel which dissects the intricate difficulties of human relationships, from a Scotswoman's passionate attachment to her father and her more problematic involvement with her lover, to the wider social relations between pupil and teacher, employer and employee, individual and state.[...]
Time Trips is a unique and beautifully illustrated collection of Doctor Who adventures from bestselling and award-winning writers including Joanne Harris, Trudi Canavan, Nick Harkaway, A.L. Kennedy and more. Taking you from ancient Alexandria to nameless planets in the far future, these tales are at[...]