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Barely eighteen years old, willie dunne leaves dublin in 1914 to fight for the allied cause, largely unaware of the growing political and religious tensions festering back home. told in sebastian barry’s characteristically beautiful prose, ‘a long long way’ evokes the camaraderie and humour of willie and his regiment, the royal dublin fusiliers, but also the cruelty and sadness of war, and the divided loyalties that many irish soldiers felt. tracing their experiences through the course of the war, the narrative brilliantly explores and dramatises the events of the easter rising within ireland, and how such a seminal political moment came to affect those boys off fighting for the king of england on foreign fields – the paralysing doubts and divisions it caused them. it also charts willie’s coming of age, his leaving behind of his sweetheart gretta, and the effect the war has on his relationship with his father, a member of the dublin military police and fervent loyalist. running throughout is the question of how such young men came to be fighting in a war, and how they struggled with the events that raged around them.

I went down into yorkshire before i began this book, in very severe winter time which is pretty faithfully described herein. as i wanted to see a schoolmaster or two, and was forewarned that those gentlemen might, in their modesty, be shy of receiving a visit from the author of the _pickwick papers, _ i consulted with a professional friend who had a yorkshire connection, and with whom i concerted a pious fraud. he gave me some letters of introduction, in the name, i think, of my traveling companion; they bore reference to a supposititious little boy who had been left with a widowed mother who didn’t know what to do with him; the poor lady had thought, as a means of thawing the tardy compassion of her relations in his behalf, of sending him to a yorkshire school; i was the poor lady’s friend, traveling that way; and if the recipient of the letter could inform me of a school in his neighborhood, the writer would be very much obliged. i went to several places in that part of the country where i understood the schools to be most plentifully sprinkled, and had no occasion to deliver a letter until i came to a certain town which shall be nameless. the person to whom it was addressed, was not at home; but he came down at night, through the snow, to the inn where i was staying. it was after dinner; and he needed little persuasion to sit down by the fire in a warm corner, and take his share of the wine that was on the table. i am afraid he is dead now. . . . — charles dickens

Ralph’s insomnia gets worse when ed deepneau gets out of control. ed is obsessed with the notion that derry is becoming the new armageddon and that time is ticking away for the residents. an evil of imaginable propotions has began and ralph has one chance to beat it.

The hit bbc series sherlock, starring benedict cumberbatch, offers a fresh, contemporary take on the original sir arthur conan doyle stories, and has helped introduce a whole new generation of fans to the legendary detective. in this tv tie-in edition to the classic novel, sherlock and dr watson receive a visit from mary morsten, who offers up a particularly cryptic puzzle for them to solve. her father went missing six years ago and since then she has received a pearl for every year he has not re-appeared. now, the treasure’s sender has requested a meeting and she would like sherlock and watson to accompany her. finding the mystery benefactor is only the start of this adventure, that puts sherlock and watson hot on the trail of cold-blooded killers and thieves, and a lost indian fortune.

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Autobiography covers morrissey’s (f. 1959) life from his birth until the present day