I don't know what it is I'm going to do but I'm going to do something. I'm going to make a difference. Three sisters, Orla, Marianne and Erin, dream of escaping their tedious suburban lives for a fresh start in America.
Brian Aldiss, who died in 2017, was best known for his science fiction - and in particular for a short story optioned by Stanley Kubrick, which would, under the direction of Steven Spielberg, become the film A.I. 'Sadness is just happiness in reverse,' says someone in a story within the story, 'We humans have to put up with it.'
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, a stirring account of how music acts as a witness to history and a medium of cultural memory in the post-Holocaust world.
This is a world of transformative pains, triumphs, losses and celebrations and joins us all in our universal experiences of health and sickness, birth and death, regardless of race, gender or wealth. Informed by over seventy hours of interviews, the work is punctuated with the historical narrative of the birth of the NHS Act.
To Throw Away Unopened is a fearless dissection of one woman's obsession with the truth - the truth about family, power, and her identity as a rebel and outsider.
To Throw Away Unopened is a fearless dissection of one woman's obsession with the truth - the truth about family, power, and her identity as a rebel and outsider.
Contains radio plays, which complement the author's work for the stage. The volume includes "In the Native State", which became the stage play "Indian Ink". It also includes "The Dissolution of Dominic Boot", "'M' is for Moon Among Other Things", "If You're Glad I'll Be Frank", "Albert's Bridge", "Where Are They Now?" and more.