The autobiography of one of the most popular saints in history, now available in a new translation.
Beyond being recognized as the patron saint of Ireland (perhaps for having chased some nonexistent snakes off the Emerald Isle), little else is popularly known about Saint Patrick. And yet, Pa[...]
Acclaimed for their searing wit and their deep humanity, this magnificent cycle of novels -- in which Patrick Melrose battles to survive the savageries of his childhood and lead a self-determined life -- is one of the major achievements in English fiction. 'Perhaps the most brilliant English novelis[...]
On Saint Patrick's Day, an Irish American writer visiting Dublin takes a day trip around the city and muses on death, sex, lost love, Irish immigrant history, and his younger days as a student in Europe. Like James Joyce's Ulysses, Thomas McGonigle's award-winning novel St. Patrick's Day takes place[...]
Tom O'Loughlin provides a fresh translation as well as an insight into the man and his time.
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Model police officer Scotty McVeigh was one of New York's finest, until someone pumped a pair of bullets into his body on St. Patrick's Day. Former nun Christine Bennett and her police-detective boyfriend find this motiveless murder puzzling. Could there be a connection between McVeigh's murder and [...]
Everyone's favourite little monkey celebrates a lucky, leprechaun-filled St. Patrick's Day with neighbours and friends in this joyful tabbed board book of poems. Today is George's lucky day - St. Patrick's Day is here! George loves a celebration, and St. Patrick's Day means plenty o' music, dancing,[...]
Open a book and let the celebration begin! Treat your kids to fun in learning with this festive series on holidays and celebrations. Each book teaches diversity and culture by discussing the holiday's origin, rituals, customs, foods, decorations, and more. With simple writing supported by vivid, ful[...]
St Patrick did not drive the snakes out of Ireland (the island had no snakes), nor did he engage in epic battles of supernatural power with Irish druids. But the facts revealed in this eminently readable biography are no less astonishing than the myths that surround him. Born in Britain in the late [...]
Not many people in Tinker's Cove, Maine, knew Old Dan Malone. The grizzled barkeep's social circle was limited to the rough-hewn lobstermen and other assorted toughs that frequented his bar. But when his body is found bobbing in the town's icy harbor, Lucy Stone makes getting to know more about Old [...]
To most of the people of Longely, New York St. Paddy's Day means good food, great music, and plenty of Guinness. But when the lifeless body of Mike Sweeney floats to the top of a vat of green beer, it looks like the luck o' the Irish has just run out. Unfortunately for the Simmons sisters, Bernie an[...]
When his parents and older brothers insist that he is too young to march in the St. Patrick's Day parade, little Jamie Donovan and his sheepdog, Nell, prove them wrong[...]
NOW COLLECTED INTO ONE VOLUME FOR THE FIRST TIME, ALL FIVE INSTALLMENTS OF EDWARD ST. AUBYN'S CELEBRATED PATRICK MELROSE NOVELSEdward St. Aubyn has penned one of the most acclaimed series of the decade with the Patrick Melrose Novels. Now you can read all five novels in one volume: "Never Mind, Bad [...]
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An" Atlantic Magazine" Best Book of the Year
A "Publishers Weekly" Best Book of the Year
"The Melrose Novels are a masterwork for the twenty-first century, written by one of the great prose stylists in England." --Alice Sebold, author of "The Lovely Bones"
For more[...]
Acclaimed for their searing wit and their deep humanity, this magnificent cycle of novels - in which Patrick Melrose battles to survive the savageries of his childhood and lead a self-determined life - is one of the major achievements in English fiction.[...]
Edward St Aubyn åbner et vindue til en verden gennemsyret af dekadence, amoral, grådighed, snobberi og ondskab: det britiske aristokrati .
»Jeg tror, min mors død er det bedste, der er overgået mig ...altså, siden min far døde,« siger Patrick Melrose til en ven, den dag hans mor skal [...]