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“laura hird”

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  • Born Free

    by Laura Hird ...
    Shortlisted for the Whitbread Award: "this bleak tale" of a month in the life of a family struggling with addiction "is a work of considerable force" ( The Scotsman, UK).Punchy, sharp-witted and acutely observed, Born Free tells the story of an ordinary family living in Edinburgh, Scotland, and dealing with their troubles in an all-too ordinary way: each member is trying to escape life—and each ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hope and Other Stories

    by Laura Hird ...
    A "bloody, believable and intoxicating" collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of Born Free ( The Herald, UK).Laura Hird became one of the most exciting new voices in Scottish literature with her Whitbread Award-shortlisted debut novel, Born Free. Known for pitch-perfect characters dealing with the despair and dysfunction of contemporary life, Hird continues to mine this trademark ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Children of Albion Rovers

    by Laura Hird, Irvine Welsh, Paul Reekie, James Meek, Gordon Legge, Alan Warner ...
    Children of Albion Rovers is the best-selling and critically acclaimed collection of novellas that features six of the most exciting young writers to emerge from Scotland in the 90s: award-winning authors Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, Gordon Legge, and James Meek and introducing the striking new talents of Laura Hird and Paul Reekie. Children of Albion Rovers is a world of tripped-out crematorium ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • A Decent Ride

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    by Irvine Welsh ...
    Irvine Welsh returns to Edinburgh, the home of Trainspotting and so many of his novels since, with a new novel featuring one of his most iconic and beloved characters—'Juice' Terry Lawson—that's thick on the Scottish brogue, heavy on the filth and masterful in its comedic timing.A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back in Edinburgh, this time with one of his most compelling and popular characters ... Read more

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  • Wind in the Wires: A Woody Creek Novel 4

    by Joy Dettman ...
    Series Book 4 - Woody Creek
    The fourth book in the dark and addictive Woody Creek series from bestselling Australian author Joy Dettman"Dettman writes compulsively readable stories" The Age"The bombshell conclusion was worthy of a Thomas Hardy novel" Good ReadingThe wind is whispering in Woody Creek... Change is in the airIt's 1958 and Woody Creek is being dragged - kicking and screaming - into the swinging sixties.</... ... Read more

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  • Like a House on Fire

    by Cate Kennedy ...
    WINNER OF THE 2013 STEELE RUDD AWARD, QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 STELLA PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 KIBBLE AWARDFrom prize-winning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark Roots. In Like a House on Fire, Kennedy once again takes ordinary lives and dissects their ironies, injustices and pleasures with her humane eye and wry ... Read more

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  • Tell Me Why, Mummy

    A Little Boy’s Struggle to Survive. A Mother’s Shameful Secret. The Power to Forgive.

    by David Thomas ...
    The inspirational true story of one man overcoming enormous odds – including sexual abuse from his alcoholic mother – to choose his own path in life and become a truly exceptional human being.From the age of four David Thomas was sexually abused by his alcoholic mother and subsequently physically abused by his aged stepfather. By the age of 16 he had committed multiple burglaries, assaulted a ... Read more

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    Bernadette was just ten years old when her father packed her off to a convent school in Dublin. Seven gruelling years later, she returned home to Liverpool at the start of the swinging sixties. Bernadette had dreamed of being a teacher ever since she was a little girl so she promptly began a course at teacher training college, determined to give children the sort of education she wished she'd had. ... Read more

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    Series Book 7 - Torchwood
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