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Edna O'Brien
The new novel by the legendary Edna O'Brien, author of The Country Girls (dramatised on BBC Radio 4 in August 2019). Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator…
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Ten years on from her last novel, Edna O'Brien reminds us why she is hailed as one of the great Irish writers of this and any generation.
Edna O'Brien’s iconic first novels - The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl, and Girls in their Married Bliss - published as a trilogy with a new foreword by Eimear McBride.
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Amanda Greenwood
Concentrating mainly on the novels from 1960 to the present day Amanda Greenwood contests critical perceptions of O'Brien as a narrow chronicler of women’s inner lives, arguing that O'Brien’s writings…
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In these interviews, Edna O'Brien finds her own critical voice and moves interviewers away from a focus on her life as the once infamous Edna toward a focus on her…
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Collected interviews covering over fifty years of this acclaimed and controversial Irish author’s career
John Banville,Edna O'Brien,Edna O'Brien
Originally published: Great Britain: Faber & Faber, 2013.
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Maureen O'Connor
Provides an urgent retrospective consideration of one of the English-speaking world’s best-selling and most prolific contemporary authors. Applying new theoretical approaches, this study considers the pioneering and enduring ways Edna…
The essays collected in Edna O'Brien: New Critical Perspectives illustrate the range, complexity and interest of O'Brien as a fiction writer and dramatist.
A classic title in Edna O'Brien’s Country Girls Trilogy - the first volume.
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The Lonely Girl continues the story of childhood friends Kate and Baba, now both 21, as they navigate the rocky, sometimes treacherous pathways of urban life. With hearts as big…
Tearful Kate, bored with her grey husband in their grey stone house, is driven to indiscretions she can hardly handle without Baba s help. But Baba has her own hands…
One of Ireland's greatest writers turns her attention to the legacy of another.
A collection that is characterised by the author’s powerful evocations of place and a glorious and an often heart-breaking grasp of people and their desires and contradictions.
Three women (mistress, wife, and daughter) uncover their passion for the same man and confront the ways that love can simultaneously liberate and entrap. This lyrical and captivating drama weaves…
A paperback reissue of Edna O'Brien’s classic novel, Night, repackaged in line with her new jacket design.
Originally published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Limited, October 2012 –Title page verso.
Adapted for the stage by the author, The Country Girls, the play, is a highly theatrical and free-flowing telling of this classic coming of age story.The Country Girls premiered at…
Edna O'Brien returns to the world of her debut novel, The Country Girls, in an inspired account of a dying mother and her daughter
O'Brien digs deep, like elaborate crochet-work where the needles lance to the heart.‘ Daily Telegraph 'An enchanting exploration of desire and regret.’ Observer Haunted premiered at Manchester’s Royal Exchange in…
The acclaimed new collection of short stories by award-winning author Edna O'Brien, full of her trademark lyricism, compassion and insight.
A stunning collection of short stories from Edna O'Brien, spanning five decades.
In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien’s A Fanatic Heart pulls the reader into a woman’s experience.
Her stories portray a young Irish girl’s…
With her inimitable gift for describing the workings of the heart and mind, O'Brien introduces a vivid new cast of restless, searching people who–whether in the Irish countryside or London…
Adapted for the stage by the author, The Country Girls, the play, is a highly theatrical and free-flowing telling of this classic coming of age story. This new edition of…
Edna O'Brien’s stunning novel about the uniquely wonderful, terrible, peculiar place she once called home.
Arguably the most influential writer of the 20th century, James Joyce continues to inspire writers, readers, and thinkers today. Now one of Ireland’s great writers approaches the master as only…
and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who returns home with a child blighted by enemy blood. From one of the century’s greatest living authors…
O'Brien’s latest novel charts the quick and critical demise of relations between the warring sons of warring sons fighting over inherited land in the countryside of western Ireland.
Michael O'Kane’s problems go beyond early loss and abuse–the killing instinct is already kindled in him as he earns the title of Kinderschreck: someone of whom children are afraid.
In a diary-like stream of image, impression, expression and experience, this book catalogues the mundane agony of the poor Irish child confronted at every turn with abundant opportunities for a…
Set in a Spanish seaside enclave this is a passionate account of lost love and the return to loving, where currents of regret and loneliness clash with a fiery instinct…
Time and Tide portrays the loves and catastrophes–and catastrophic loves– of Nell, an Irish woman trying to make a life for herself in the literary world of London. –Back cover.
Destiny flung them together when McGreevy, bloody crusader for a united Ireland, chose Josie’s house to hide out in. But McGreevy has used her house for more than a refuge.
A novel set in Ireland relates the story of a young girl who becomes pregnant by her father, a situation made worse when it becomes fodder for the mill of…
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
Superb…[Lantern Slides] continues the quest for origin and explanation that has preoccupied O'Brien…Her stories unearth the primeval feelings buried just…
The story of Cait and Baba and their escape from countryside and convent to the alluring crowds and lights and noise of Dublin. The author also wrote Johnny I Hardly…
The nobility, arrogance and sheer theatre of Byron’s life.
One of Ireland’s greatest contemporary writers turns her attention to one of the country’s greatest novelists: James Joyce - 100th anniversary of the iconic classic ULYSSES. ‘A delight from start…
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A portrait of the relationship between James Joyce and Nora Barnacle
Originally published in Great Britain by Faber & Faber Ltd., October 2015 –Title page verso.
Country Girls by Edna O'Brien is here adapted for the stage from the stunning, controversial novel that shocked a nation in 1960. The Country Girls Trilogy is the Dublin: One…
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