O Farrell: 70 books

À vingt-deux ans, Lily, que la vie ennuie un peu, vit chez sa mère et cumule trois emplois, sans conviction. Quand Marcus, un jeune architecte rencontré lors d'un vernissage, lui propose de partager son loft londonien, la jeune femme est immédiatement séduite par la proposition, et par le charme...

Op een koude middag in februari vangt Stella een glimp op van een man die ze jaren niet gezien heeft maar direct herkent. Dat denkt ze, althans. Ze vlucht naar Schotland, naar een plek waarvan alleen haar zus Nina het belang kent. Aan de andere kant van de wereld beseft Jake op datzelfde moment dat...

Acclaimed author and Catholic thinker Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964) penned two novels, two collections of short stories, various essays, and numerous book reviews over the course of her life. Her work continues to fascinate, perplex, and inspire new generations of readers and poses important questions...

Récompensé par le très prestigieux Costa Book Award, un somptueux roman, bouleversant et sensible, où s'entremêlent des voix aussi émouvantes que troublantes pour évoquer les relations maternelles, la force des liens du sang et le pouvoir destructeur des non-dits. Lexie a accompli son...

Jake vit à Hong Kong, Stella, à Londres. La distance entre eux est immense, et pas seulement géographique... Un roman magnifique et captivant sur l'amour, les liens familiaux, le hasard et le destin. À Hong Kong, après un maheureux concours de circonstances, Jake se retrouve marié à...

In the middle of tending to the everyday business at her vintage-clothing shop and sidestepping her married boyfriend’s attempts at commitment, Iris Lockhart receives a stunning phone call: Her great-aunt Esme, whom she never knew existed, is being released from Cauldstone Hospital—where she has...

Even those who know a great deal about the Easter Rising may not know that there were temporary ceasefires in the St Stephen's Green area, to allow the park attendants to feed the Green's ducks. Few know that the first shots of the rising were actually fired near Portlaoise and not in Dublin or indeed...

In 1962, Walker Percy (1916--1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene when he won the National Book Award for fiction with his first novel, The Moviegoer. A physician, philosopher, and devout Catholic, Percy dedicated his life to understanding the mixed and somewhat contradictory...

The ghost story holds a special place in Ireland. It provided the raw material for evenings of storytelling that were a common feature of country life up to the 1950s (and frequently beyond). Unexplained psychic phenomena fascinate people from all walks of life. Many are afraid, ashamed and...

A Walk Through Rebel Dublin 1916 is a comprehensively illustrated guide to the Rising of Easter Week 1916, based on the significant locations of the rebellion. Dealing separately with thirty buildings and sites throughout the city – including the GPO, Liberty Hall, Trinity College, the Four Courts...

Seventeen ninety-eight saw French and American revolutionary ideals converge with popular rebellion in Ireland. The rebellion ended in bloody failure, but 1798 was kept alive in folk memory by a nascent literature added to by succeeding generations of nationalists and cultural revivalists. This wide-ranging...

Reversibility is a thread woven through many branches of mathematics. It arises in dynamics, in systems that admit a time-reversal symmetry, and in group theory where the reversible group elements are those that are conjugate to their inverses. However, the lack of a lingua franca for discussing reversibility...

It is not hard to admire St. Thomas Aquinas immovably caught in the splendor of a stained-glass window; it is easy to pay tribute to his Summa Theologica as long as it remains high on a bookshelf giving character to a library. Under these circumstances, we of the twenty first century can read about them...

It is not hard to admire St. Thomas Aquinas immovably caught in the splendor of a stained-glass window; it is easy to pay tribute to his Summa Theologica as long as it remains high on a bookshelf giving character to a library. Under these circumstances, we of the twenty first century can read about them...