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A.L. Kennedy

Kaye Mitchell

Its importance is considered in terms of contemporary Scottish identity and relevance to key issues in contemporary culture. Accessible and comprehensive, this guide includes a timeline of key dates, interview…

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A.L. Kennedy

Kaye Mitchell

Its importance is considered in terms of contemporary Scottish identity and relevance to key issues in contemporary culture. Accessible and comprehensive, this guide includes a timeline of key dates, interview…

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We Are Attempting to Survive Our Time

A.L. Kennedy

‘Kennedy is a superb writer and the canniness of her observation keeps you reading’ Sunday Times Humour, fantasy, rage and despair both help and hinder the protagonists of these stories…

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The Little Snake

A.L. Kennedy

A magical, charming and deeply moving fable about the journey we all take through life, about love and family, about war and resilience, about how we live in this world…

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Uncle Shawn and Bill and the Almost Entirely Unplanned Adventure

A.L. Kennedy

The first book in a hilarious, heart-warming series for children from Costa Award-winning author A. L. Kennedy, illustrated by Gemma Correll.

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Uncle Shawn and Bill and the Almost Entirely Unplanned Adventure

A.L. Kennedy

The first book in a hilarious, heart-warming series for children from Costa Award-winning author A. L. Kennedy, illustrated by Gemma Correll.

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The Little Snake

A.L. Kennedy

A magical, charming and deeply moving fable about the journey we all take through life, about love and family, about war and resilience, about how we live in this world…

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

A.L. Kennedy

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, released in 1943, is regarded as one of the masterpieces of British cinema. In this interpretation of the film, A.L. Kennedy finds it…

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Paradise

A.L. Kennedy

Almost forty and with nothing to show for it, Hannah Luckraft is starting to realise that her lifestyle is not sustainable. From Scotland to Dublin, from London to Montreal, to…

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Serious Sweet

A.L. Kennedy

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Jon is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work, he is a…

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Uncle Shawn and Bill and the Pajimminy Crimminy Unusual Adventure

A. L. Kennedy

Badger Bill loves his best friend Uncle Shawn. But he has started to notice that Uncle Shawn is a bit unusual.

Dr P'Klawz hates Uncle Shawn. He has also noticed…

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Uncle Shawn and Bill and the Pajimminy Crimminy Unusual Adventure

A. L. Kennedy

Badger Bill loves his best friend Uncle Shawn. But he has started to notice that Uncle Shawn is a bit unusual.

Dr P'Klawz hates Uncle Shawn. He has also noticed…

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Indelible Acts

A. L. Kennedy

Contains twelve stories which are variations on a theme of longing - the unassuagable human need for contact, for completion, for that most fugitive gift of all: reciprocal love. This…

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Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains

A. L. Kennedy

The heroes and heroines of this, A.L. Kennedy’s first collection of stories, are small people - the kind who inhabit the silence in libraries, who never appear on screen and…

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So I am Glad

A. L. Kennedy

Jennifer M. Wilson has decided to become a voice, a professional enunciator, an announcer, a voice-over artiste. Behind the sound-proof doors of the recording studio she must surely be safe…

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The Blue Book

A. L. Kennedy

Elizabeth Barber is crossing the Atlantic by liner with her perfectly adequate boyfriend, Derek, who might be planning to propose. In fleeing the UK - temporarily - Elizabeth may also…

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Looking for the Possible Dance

A. L. Kennedy

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…

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Day

A. L. Kennedy

A magnificent novel about war by one of the finest living British writers

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Novel Writing: A Writers’ and Artists’ Companion

Romesh Gunesekera,A.L. Kennedy

Packed with tips from bestselling and prize-winning authors, this book gives you all the practical advice you need to write and publish your novel.

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Memento Mori

Muriel Spark

A brilliant, daring and darkly funny novel by Muriel Spark, ‘mistress of the highest high comedy’ (The Times)

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