The Love Object

The Love ObjectWinner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story AwardSpanning five decades of writing, The Love Object features stories from many of Edna O'Brien's collections; stories that have bewitched generation after generation. Here you will find tales of families, feuds, enchantment, disenchantment and the manifold bonds of love. There are stories about the tension between country and city life, the instinct towards escape and nostalgia for home; and

Kater shows how it was only through the reinvigoration of the cultural scene that West Germany could contend with its past—and eventually allow democracy to reemerge

In a visually sumptuous journey through the master’s imagination

works late each night

The xx should prick the skin and touch gently the shoulder of an audience reaching to the back of the field

They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years

It is the backdrop to the rise and rise of Thomas Cromwell: lowborn boy

where he lives in a hidden palace in the woods

My Chemical Romance quickly rose to prominence among the emo and neo-punk bands that cluttered the rock landscape of the 2000s - largely on the back of this concept album about the post-death journeying of man who dies in hospital

without even remotely trying to

and increasing isolation and insanity

the young soldier Joachim Lassehn desperately wants to escape

exhilarating and haunting