Results for: books tagged ‘Isolation’
The Hunter: Julia Leigh
The hunter arrives in an isolated community in the Tasmanian wilderness with a single purpose in mind: to find the last thylacine, the tiger of fable, fear and legend. The ... More
Dark Earth: David Harrower
When Valerie and Euan's car breaks down in remote countryside near the Antonine Wall they have a problem. With their mobiles left at home and an evening out arranged in ... More
My Sister Sadie: Alan Ayckbourn
Luke and his mother Avril eke out their existence tending to their run-down, isolated farm in a remote part of England. They both miss Luke's sister June so much and ... More
The North of England Home Service: Gordon Burn
In a forensic dissection of Britain's souring landscape Gordon Burn tells the tale of Ray Cruddas, a light entertainer effecting a semi-dignified retreat from his fading career, who returns to ... More
The Dark: Charlotte Jones
John lives with his elderly mother and is helping the police with their enquiries. Brian and Janet's teenage son only talks to strangers. Barnaby and Louisa feel unable to give ... More
The Swing of Things: Sean O'Reilly
Noel Boyle needs a new life and he has come to Dublin to find it. He dreams of transformation and renewal. But once there he finds himself haunted, both by ... More
Snow: Orhan Pamuk
The year is 1992. Ka, a poet and political exile, returns to Turkey as a journalist, assigned to write an investigative piece about troubling events in the small and mysterious ... More
Being Bindy: Alyssa Brugman
What happens when your worst friend, who used to be your best friend, turns out to be your sister?'Everywhere I looked I saw smirking faces, people whispering to each other, ... More
The Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath
The first and only novel by Sylvia Plath, originally published in 1963. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing ... More
The Best Way You Know How: Christine Pountney
A work of immense feeling and power, The best way you know how tells the story of Hannah and her marriage to Daniel. Exploring themes of love and isolation, guilt ... More
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