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    Tessa Hadley & Donal Ryan

    Tessa Hadley & Donal Ryan: Tales of Life and Loss

     

     

    Step into the captivating worlds of two masterful storytellers, Tessa Hadley and Donal Ryan, as they discuss their latest works of fiction.

    Tessa Hadley, known for her keen psychological insight and elegant prose, will present her latest short story collection, After the Funeral, and her new novella, The Party. These both delve deep into family dynamics and hidden secrets, showcasing Hadley’s remarkable ability to illuminate the complexities of ordinary lives.

    Joining her is acclaimed Irish author Donal Ryan, whose lyrical and emotionally resonant narratives have garnered critical acclaim. His latest novel, Heart Be at Peace, continues to explore themes of love, loss, and redemption, all rendered with his signature poetic grace and deep empathy for his characters.

    In this engaging conversation, Hadley and Ryan will examine how they capture the nuances of life, love, and loss in their writing. They will share their approaches to crafting compelling narratives within the short story form, discuss the unique challenges and rewards it offers, and reveal what inspires them to write.

    This is a unique opportunity to witness the interplay of two distinct voices, each bringing their own perspective to the human experience. Secure your tickets now for an afternoon of literary brilliance and heartfelt storytelling.

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    Folkestone Book Festival is our annual celebration of books, ideas, reading and writing in many magical forms. This year's festival has been curated by award-winning author and journalist Sophie Haydock. Sophie is our new Curator: Books, Ideas and Community.

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    Accidents in the Home: The debut novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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    An improbable coincidence brings Clare back into contact with someone she once had sex with at a teenage party; Clare is married with three small children, she bakes her own bread and buys her clothes from the charity shop. Clare's story is intertwined with other stories of her extended family.

    After the Funeral

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    All We Shall Know

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    Bad Dreams and Other Stories

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    The dazzling collection of stories from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Late in the Day. **WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE** Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby.

    Clever Girl

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    Stella was a clever girl, everyone thought so. Living with her mother and rather unsatisfactory stepfather in suburban respectability she reads voraciously, smokes until her voice is hoarse and dreams of a less ordinary life. But these things come at a price and one that Stella despite all her cleverness doesn't realise until it is too late.

    Everything Will Be All Right

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    Joyce Stevenson is thirteen when her widowed mother takes them to live with Aunt Vera, a formidable teacher neglected by her unfaithful husband. Joyce watches the two sisters - her aunt's unbending dedication to the life of the mind, her mother worn down by housework - and thinks that each of them is powerless in her own way.

    Free Love

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    From a Low and Quiet Sea

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    ***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018******SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018***'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel' RODDY DOYLEFarouk's country has been torn apart by war. From war-torn Syria to small-town Ireland, three men, scarred by all they have loved and lost, are searching for some version of home.

    Heart, Be at Peace (Signed)

    £15.29 £16.99

    Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure

    £35.09 £38.99
    Hadley examines how James disentangles himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. She shows how he pursues his ambitious enterprise to represent the privileges and the pains of turn-of-the-century leisure-class society.

    Late in the Day: The classic Sunday Times bestselling novel from the author of Free Love

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    'Unflinching, intelligent and fascinating' Marian Keyes The lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this Sunday Times bestselling novel Alex and Christine and Zach and Lydia have been inseparable since their twenties.

    Married Love: 'One of the most subtle and sublime contemporary writers' Vogue

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    Her fiance is Edgar Lennox, a composer of religious music and lecturer at Lottie's university, forty-five years her senior.It is a story of romantic dreams and daily reality, family loyalties tested but holding, and the comedy and solace to be found in small moments.

    Past

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    Four siblings meet up in their grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. But under the idyllic surface lie shattering tensions. Roland has come with his new wife, and his sisters don't like her. Fran has brought her children, who soon uncover an ugly secret in a ruined cottage in the woods.

    Slanting of the Sun: Stories

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    An old man looks into the eyes of a burglar left to guard him while his brother is beaten; an Irish priest in a war-torn Syrian town teaches its men the art of hurling; a squad of broken friends assemble to take revenge on a rapist; a young man sets off on his morning run, reflecting on the ruins of his relationship, but all is not as it seems.

    Strange Flowers

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    Sunstroke and Other Stories: Truly absorbing... More please' Sunday Express

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    Everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, between parents and children, between friends. a boy becomes aware of the woman, a guest at his parents' holiday home, who is pressing up too close against him on the beach. These stories about family life are somehow undomesticated and dangerous.

    The London Train

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    From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Late in the Day, discover a story of two lives stretched between two cities, two stories bound by the London train. Paul sets out in search of his eldest daughter Pia, who has gone missing somewhere in London.

    The Master Bedroom

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    Now Kate is forty-three and has given up her university career in London to come home and look after her mother at Firenze, their big house by a lake in Cardiff. Adapting to a new way of life, the connections Kate forges in her new home are to have painful consequences, as the past begins to cast its long shadow over the present...

    The Party (Signed)

    £11.69 £12.99

    The Queen of Dirt Island

    £8.99 £9.99

    The Spinning Heart

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    The Thing About December

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    While the Celtic Tiger rages, and greed becomes the norm, Johnsey Cunliffe desperately tries to hold on to the familiar, even as he loses those who all his life have protected him from a harsh world. Set over the course of one year of Johnsey's life, this book is about his grief, bewilderment, humour and agonizing self-doubt.

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