A collection of short stories by the author of "Cal". The stories examine and describe worlds where disaster has struck, relationships ended and where innocence comes face to face with real life and death.

Walking the Dog

Literature & Fiction

bernard-maclaverty

Contemporary

Vintage

The Great Profundo and Other Stories

<p>Returning to Belfast after a long absense, to attend her father's funeral. Catherine McKenna - a young composer - remembers exactly why she left: the claustrophobic intimacies of the Catholic enclave, her fastidious, nagging mother, and the pervading tensions of a city at war with itself. She remembers a more innocent time, when the Loyalists Lambeg drums sounded mysterious and exciting; she remembers her shattered relationship with the drunken, violent Dave, she remembers the child she had with him, waiting back in Glasgow. This is a novel, about coming to terms with the past and the healing power of music, "Grace Notes" is a master story-teller's triumphant return to the long form: a powerful lyrical novel of great distinction.</p>

Grace Notes

Literary

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

Portrays crises, emotional experiences, and turning points in the lives of characters ranging from a man on his eighty-third birthday to a young boy who spies on his mother

A Time to Dance and Other Stories

Penguin Books, Ltd.

On the fringes of society, the characters of Bernard MacLaverty's stories are forced to seek consolation as best they can. A lonely old lady, a retired policeman, a cornet player, a sword-swallower, a parish priest - all in their own ways lonely and suffering.

Penguin Uk

Walking the Dog & Other Stories

Blackstaff Press

One of a series of fiction titles for schools, this is a selection of ten short stories by Bernard MacLaverty which are all written from the viewpoints of children or young people.

Best of Bernard MacLaverty : Short Stories

Teen & Young Adult

Heinemann Educational Publishers

This collection of stories probe into the dark undercurrents of family life and capture innocence confronted by the harsh reality of life and death. A chess game in Spain becomes a catalyst for grief and redemption between a teenage girl and her mother.

Walking the dog and other stories

Blackstaff Press Ltd

<p>The extraordinary new story collection from one of Ireland's greatest writers and bestselling author of Mindwinter Break.\nBernard MacLaverty is a consummately gifted short-story writer and novelist whose work - like that of John McGahern, William Trevor, Edna O'Brien or Colm Tóibín - is deceptively simple on the surface, but carries a turbulent undertow. Everywhere, the dark currents of violence, persecution and regret pull at his subject matter: family love, the making of art, Catholicism, the Troubles and, latterly, ageing.\nBlank Pages is a collection of twelve extraordinary new stories that show the emotional range of a master. 'Blackthorns', for instance, tells of a poor out-of-work Catholic man who falls gravely ill in the sectarian Northern Ireland of 1942 but is brought back from the brink by an unlikely saviour. The most recently written story here is the harrowing but transcendent 'The End of Days', which imagines the last moments in the life of painter Egon Schiele, watching his wife dying of Spanish flu - the world's worst pandemic, until now.\nMuch of what MacLaverty writes is an amalgam of sadness and joy, of circumlocution and directness. He never wastes words but neither does he ever forget to make them sing. Each story he writes creates a universe.</p>

Blank Pages and Other Stories

Genre Fiction

Midwinter Break

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

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Walking the Dog

The Great Profundo and Other Stories

Grace Notes

A Time to Dance and Other Stories

The Great Profundo and Other Stories

Walking the Dog & Other Stories

Best of Bernard MacLaverty : Short Stories

Walking the dog and other stories

Blank Pages and Other Stories

Midwinter Break