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  • Journey
    Laurie Brady
    Each stage in a person’s life comes with different thoughts and feelings about life. For instance, it’s often thought that the impressionability and sometimes impulsiveness of youth gives way to the sober reflections of mature age. Poetry is the perfect medium for capturing the evocations of different stages. The ’journey’ of artists may also be evident in how well they have le...
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    24,51 €

  • Five Ordinary Men
    Laurie Brady
    Five Ordinary Men is a collection of five stories, each focusing on a different man, though the reader may think the book title is a misnomer and question whether some or all of the men are ’ordinary’ at all. One man inexplicably commits a terrible crime, and relates aspects of his life trying to explain his actions both to himself and others. Another’s memories of his close fr...
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    25,67 €

  • Kissing the Cheek of Time
    Laurie Brady
    This short novel is both a love story, and a story about life and death, age and youth, and innocence and experience. Peter Allthorpe, at the age of sixty-seven, is confronted with the likelihood of his imminent death from terminal cancer. As he copes with this reality and its medical treatment, and his own place in ’the scheme of things’, he searches for what he calls ’a lucid...
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    20,34 €

  • Mask of Sorrow
    Laurie Brady
    Ed Grainger returns home from his History Club meeting to find his house swarming with police. His wife Lucy has been murdered. The police identify a number of suspects. Was it Lucy’s recently jilted lover, her work colleague robbed of promotion, her lawyer with whom she had a brief affair, Ed’s ’unhinged’ and jealous stalker and her equally as jealous and bellicose husband, or...
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    20,24 €

  • Swords and Kisses
    Laurie Brady
    Swords and Kisses is the story of two young friends who battle to manage two very different obsessions that threaten to change the course of their lives. Both encounter highs and lows as they attempt to resolve their challenges, which they do in very different ways. It is also a story about friendship and empathy that is told with an economy of prose, and an insight into the hu...
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    18,06 €

  • Beyond the Pale
    Laurie Brady
    As the title suggests, this collection of short stories focuses on a variety of unusual but not atypical emotional and life-style reactions people experience as a result of guilt, compassion, indiscretion, abuse, jealousy, fantasy, loss, sense of mission, and impending death. It provides insight into the strange nature of what it means to be human. 3 ...
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    21,78 €

  • Pursuit
    Laurie Brady
    Recollecting school escapades, ridding a house of lust, a practical joke misfiring, dealing with a boy’s swearing, a talking dog, a woman’s take on the Odysseus legend, dogged self-centredness, a suspect solution to the world’s problems, bizarre seductions, an afterlife wish granted, a jinxed lover pursuing his beloved… These are some of the themes of the seventeen humorous sho...
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    21,35 €

  • Slices
    Laurie Brady
    Slices, a title taken from Zola’s description of good drama as ‘a slice of life’, contains sixteen stories that explore a range of often capricious and sometimes predictable responses to the challenges life presents. The stories explore the nature of memory and imagination, friendship and love, decline and loss, searching and fulfilment, and even the ridiculous. Collectively, t...
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    18,60 €