Trespasses: A Novel

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST\n“Brilliant, beautiful, heartbreaking.”—J.Courtney Sullivan, New York Times Book Review\n“TRESPASSES vaults Kennedy into the ranks of such contemporary masters as McCann, Claire Keegan, Colin Barrett, and fellow Sligo resident, Kevin Barry.” —Oprah Daily\nSet in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and a dangerous passion.\nAmid daily reports of violence, Cushla lives a quiet life with her mother in a small town near Belfast. By day she teaches at a parochial school; at night she fills in at her family’s pub. There she meets Michael Agnew, a barrister who’s made a name for himself defending IRA members. Against her better judgment – Michael is not only Protestant but older, and married – Cushla lets herself get drawn in by him and his sophisticated world, and an affair ignites. Then the father of a student is savagely beaten, setting in motion a chain reaction that will threaten everything, and everyone, Cushla most wants to protect.\nAs tender as it is unflinching, Trespasses is a heart-pounding, heart-rending drama of thwarted love and irreconcilable loyalties, in a place what you come from seems to count more than what you do, or whom you cherish.

Literature & Fiction

Kennedy, Louise

United States

Riverhead Books

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION "Brilliant, beautiful, heartbreaking."--J.Courtney Sullivan, New York Times Book Review &nbsp; "TRESPASSES vaults Kennedy into the ranks of such contemporary masters as McCann, Claire Keegan, Colin Barrett, and fellow Sligo resident, Kevin Barry." --Oprah Daily Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and a dangerous passion. Amid daily reports of violence, Cushla lives a quiet life with her mother in a small town near Belfast, teaching at a parochial school and moonlighting at her family's pub. There she meets Michael Agnew, a Protestant barrister who's made a name for himself defending IRA members. Against her better judgment, Cushla lets herself get drawn in by him and his sophisticated world, and an affair ignites. Then the father of a student is savagely beaten, setting in motion a chain reaction that will threaten everything, and everyone, Cushla most wants to protect.

British & Irish

Brilliant, dark stories of women's lives by "a very major talent" (Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times) In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories by the author of the much-acclaimed Trespasses, women's lives are etched by poverty--material, emotional, sexual--but also splashed by beauty, sometimes even joy, as they search for the good in the cards they've been dealt. A wife is abandoned by her new husband in a derelict housing estate, with blood on her hands. An expectant mother's worst fears about her husband's entanglement with a teenage girl are confirmed. A sister is tormented by visions of the man her brother murdered during the Troubles. A woman struggles to forgive herself after an abortion threatens to destroy her marriage. Plumbing the depths of intimacy, violence, and redemption, these stories are "dazzling, heartbreaking . . . keen to share the lessons of a lifetime" (Guardian).

The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: Stories

Genre Fiction

If you picked up this book hoping to learn how to pull a rabbit out of a hat or master random tricks and illusions, then you're going to be disappointed. 
This book leads you on a journey into the unknown - but not one revolving around sleight-of-hand games. Rather, it's a quest to learn all that we are meant to come here and realise. 
It seeks to discover what all religions and spiritual systems have at their core, as well as what all wise people have sought throughout the ages: self-knowledge. 
Realising that you're responsible for what you create, how you perceive things, and what happens to you is tremendously liberating. If you can come to that realisation, you'll be equipped to create a new and more rewarding life. 
Join the author as she looks back at pursuing truth as a professional singer, spiritual healer, intuitive coach, and student of the occult, yoga, reincarnation, spirituality and more in The Idiot's Guide to Magic.

The Idiot's Guide To Magic

Religion & Spirituality

Disruptive Publishing

These memoirs were written to assist women who live most of their lives in emotional isolation, never receiving validation or help after traumatic life events.

Sex With All the Wrong Men: My Search for Love

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Trafford Publishing

Bailey is a boat cat. He loves nothing more than cruising aboard Nocturne, gazing wistfully out of portholes, lounging on the sun deck wearing his cat lifejacket, climbing the mast and generally fulfilling his important boat-cat duties-and blogging about them at baileyboatcat.com. 
This book captures Bailey's charm with lovable photos, pearls of 'whisker wisdom' and cheeky asides, all from a cat's eye view. Chatty, inquisitive and boasting an undeniable cute factor, Bailey explains (for the benefit of us slow-witted humans) the five steps of marine navigation, the importance of cubby holes, and just why cats are so much cleverer than dogs . . .
Packed with fabulous photography throughout, this endearing gift book will be coveted by sailors and cat lovers alike.

Bailey Boat Cat: Adventures of a Feline Afloat

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

Adlard Coles

If you picked up this book hoping to learn how to pull a rabbit out of a hat or master random tricks and illusions, then you're going to be disappointed.This book leads you on a journey into the unknown--but not one revolving around sleight-of-hand games. Rather, it's a quest to learn all that we are meant to come here and realise.It seeks to discover what all religions and spiritual systems have at their core as well as what all wise people have sought throughout the ages: self-knowledge.Realising that you're responsible for what you create, how you perceive things, and what happens to you is tremendously liberating. If you can come to that realisation, you'll be equipped to create a new and more rewarding life.Join the author as she looks back at pursuing truth as a professional singer, spiritual healer, intuitive coach, and student of the occult, yoga, reincarnation, spirituality and more in An Idiot's Guide to Magic.

The Idiot's Guide to Magic: Or Alchemy for Beginners

Self-Help

Self-Esteem

Balboa Pr

'A dazzling, heartbreaking debut collection' Guardian\n'Kennedy's voice, and her unforgiving gaze, are electric' Sunday Times\n'These stories sing, haunt and inspire laughter ... One of the best collections I've read in years' Sinead Gleeson\nA TIMES, IRISH TIMES AND IRISH INDEPENDENT HIGHLIGHT FOR 2021\nThe secrets people kept, the lies they told.\nIn these visceral, stunningly crafted stories, people are effortlessly cruel to one another, and the natural world is a primitive salve. Here, women are domestically trapped by predatorial men, Ireland's folklore and politics loom large, and poverty - material, emotional, sexual - seeps through every crack.\nA wife is abandoned by her new husband in a ghost estate, with blood on her hands; a young woman is tormented by visions of the man murdered by her brother during the Troubles; a pregnant mother fears the worst as her husband grows illegal cannabis with the help of a vulnerable teenage girl; a woman struggles to forgive herself after an abortion threatens to destroy her marriage.\nAnnouncing a major new voice in literary fiction for the twenty-first century, these sharp shocks of stories offer flashes of beauty, and even humour, amidst the harshest of truths.

The End of the World is a Cul de Sac

Contemporary

Bloomsbury Publishing

* AN OBSERVER DEBUT NOVELIST FOR 2022 *'A compulsively readable love story' EMMA DONOGHUE'Intense, unflinchingly honest, it broke my heart a million times' MARIAN KEYES'Absolutely loved it' MAX PORTER 'A beautiful, devastating novel' NICK HORNBYOne by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice. If Davy had remembered to put on a coat.If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark street.If Michael Agnew had not walked through the door of the pub on a quiet night in February in his white shirt.There is nothing special about the day Cushla meets Michael, a married man from Belfast, in the pub owned by her family. But here, love is never far from violence, and this encounter will change both of their lives forever.As people get up each morning and go to work, school, church or the pub, the daily news rolls in of another car bomb exploded, another man beaten, killed or left for dead. In the class Cushla teaches, the vocabulary of seven-year-old children now includes phrases like 'petrol bomb' and 'rubber bullets'. And as she is forced to tread lines she never thought she would cross, tensions in the town are escalating, threatening to destroy all she is working to hold together.Tender and shocking, Trespasses is an unforgettable debut of people trying to live ordinary lives in extraordinary times.-----------Picked as a highlight for 2022 by:The Times * i paper * New Statesman * New European * Irish Times * Irish Independent

Trespasses: ‘A compulsively readable love story’

Bloomsbury Circus

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Trespasses: A Novel

Trespasses: A Novel

The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: Stories

The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: Stories

The Idiot's Guide To Magic

Sex With All the Wrong Men: My Search for Love

Bailey Boat Cat: Adventures of a Feline Afloat

The Idiot's Guide to Magic: Or Alchemy for Beginners

The End of the World is a Cul de Sac

Trespasses: ‘A compulsively readable love story’