Anthologies
Roddy Doyle's account of the Republic of Ireland's triumphant journey through Italia '90 is just one of the many first-class pieces in this anthology of original football writing. Contributors include Harry Pearson, Harry Ritchie, Ed Horton, Olly Wicken, D.J. Taylor, Huw Richards, Nick Hornby, Chris Pierson, Matt Nation, Graham Brack, Don Watson, and Giles Smith.
A unique joint effort finds seven of Ireland's most acclaimed writers, including Roddy Doyle, Colm Toi+a7bi+a7n, and Joseph O'Connor, joining talents to recount the last wild and disreputable night of a once proud Dublin hotel that has definitely seen much better times. Original. 35,000 first printing.
Nick Hornby…Giles Smith…Helen Fielding…Roddy Doyle…Irvine Welsh…Zadie Smith…Dave Eggers…Robert Harris…Melissa Bank…Patrick Marber…Colin Firth…John O’Farrell Compiled by bestselling author Nick Hornby and featuring brand new stories from the hottest writers on both sides of the Atlantic, Speaking with the Angel is a fresh and funny collection that is sure to be the literary anthology of the year. Here is a book that was inspired by a very special boy and a very special school. Some money from each copy of Speaking with the Angel sold will benefit autism education charities around the world, including The Treehouse School in London, where Nick’s son Danny is a student, and the New York Child Learning Institute here in the States. This project is truly a labor of love for Hornby and the other writers involved, many of whom are Nick’s friends. These original first-person narratives come from the most exciting voices in fiction. Melissa Bank gives readers a glimpse into the mind of a modern New Yorker whose still-new relationship is a constant source of surprise in “The Wonder Spot.” In Zadie Smith’s “I’m the Only One,” a young man recalls his strained relationship with his diva-esque sister. Dave Egger’s “After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned,” is told from the viewpoint of an unfortunate pit bull. Helen Fielding offers up a new twist on I’ve fallen and I can’t get up in “Luckybitch.” And in Nick Hornby’s “NippleJesus,” a bruiser finds out that guarding modern art is far more hazardous than controlling the velvet ropes at a nightclub. Speaking with the Angel also includes stories from Roddy Doyle, Irvine Welsh, Colin Firth, John O’Farrell, Robert Harris, Patrick Marber, and Giles Smith. Twelve completely new stories, written by twelve undeniably imaginative voices. Speaking with the Angel is at turns clever, outrageous, witty, edgy, tender, and wicked. This is what they meant by original.
“I think he was dead before I shot him.” With these auspicious words begins a murder mystery so utterly unlike any other that it took fifteen of Ireland’s finest writers (working well below their peak) to bring it to its unlikely conclusion. The plot involves a mad search for the only manuscript of an unpublished novel by James Joyce, and features a stellar cast—including a sadistic sergeant with the unlikely name of Andy Andrews and the unforgettable mob boss Mrs. Bloom, a woman “who had tried everything but drew the line at honesty.” Raucous, raunchy, gratuitously violent and completely hilarious, Yeats Is Dead! is a diabolically entertaining mulligan stew of a novel. James Joyce would be proud.
A global anthology of fiction and poetry in vernacular English. Rotten English spans the globe to offer an overview of the best non-standard English writing of the past two centuries, with a focus on the most recent decades. During the last twelve years, half of the Man Booker awards went to novels written in non-standard English. What would once have been derogatorily termed "dialect literature" has come into its own in a language known variously as slang, creole, patois, pidgin, or, in the words of Nigerian novelist Ken Saro-Wiwa, "rotten English." The first anthology of its kind, Rotten English celebrates vernacular literature from around the English-speaking world, from Robert Burns, Mark Twain, and Zora Neale Hurston to Papua New Guinea's John Kasaipwalova and Tobago's Marlene Nourbese Philip. With concise introductions that explain the context and aesthetics of the vernacular tradition, Rotten English pays tribute to the changes English has undergone as it has become a global language. Contents: "Raal right singin'": vernacular poetry. Colonization in reverse" and Bans O'killing by Louise Bennett Wings of a dove by Kamau Brathwaite Auld lang syne, Highland Mary, and "Bonnie Lesley" by Robert Burns A negro love song and When Malindy sings by Paul Laurence Dunbar Mother to son and Po' boy blues by Langston Hughes Inglan is a bitch by Linton Kwesi Johnson Wukhand by Paul Keens-Douglas Tommy by Rudyard Kipling Unrelated incidents-no.3 by Tom Leonard Comin back ower the border by Mary McCabe Quashie to Buccra by Claude McKay Dis poem by Mutabaruka Questions! Questions! by M. NourbeSe Philip no more love poems #1 by Ntozake Shange "So like I say ... ": vernacular short stories. Po' Sandy by Charles Chestnutt The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Letters from Whetu by Patricia Grace Spunk and Story in Harlem slang by Zora Neale Hurston Betel nut is bad magic for airplanes by John Kasaipwalova Joebell and America by Earl Lovelace The ghost of Firozsha Baag by Rohinton Mistry The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County and A True story, repeated word for word as I heard it by Mark Twain A soft touch and Granny's old junk by Irvine Welsh Only the dead know Brooklyn by Thomas Wolfe. "I wanna say I am somebody": selections from vernacular novels. from True history of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey from The snapper by Roddy Doyle from Once there were warriors by Alan Duff An overture to the commencement of a very rigid journey by Jonathan Safran Foer from Beasts of no nation by Uzodinma Iweala Baywatch and de preacher from Tide running by Oonya Kempadoo Face, from Rolling the R's by R. Zamora Linmark from Londonstani by Gautam Malkani from No mate for the magpie by Frances Molloy from Push by Sapphire from Sozaboy: a novel in rotten English by Ken Saro-Wiwa from The housing lark by Sam Selvon. "A new English": essays on vernacular literature. The African writer and the English. language by Chinua Achebe How to tame a wild tongue by Gloria Anzaldua If Black English isn't a language, then tell me what is? by James Baldwin from History of the voice: the development of nation language in Anglophone Caribbean poetry by Kamau Brathwaite from Minute on Indian education by Thomas Macaulay African speech ... English words by Gabriel Okara The absence of writing or How I almost became a spy by M. NourbeSe Philip Mother tongue by Amy Tan
Eoin Colfer, Nick Hornby, Roddy Doyle, Linda Sue Park, David Almond -- top authors team up to tell the story of a man who magically connects the lives and times of young people around the world. A video message from a dead person. A larcenous teenager. A man who can stick his left toe behind his head and in his ear. An epileptic girl seeking answers in a fairy tale. A boy who loses everything in World War II, and his brother who loses even more. And a family with a secret so big that it changes everything. The world's best beloved authors each contribute a chapter in the life of the mysterious George "Gee" Keane, photographer, soldier, adventurer and enigma. Under different pens, a startling portrait emerges of a man, his family, and his gloriously complicated tangle of a life.
What does it mean to be free? Top authors donate their talents to explore the question in a compelling collection to benefit Amnesty International. A boy who thinks that school is "slavery" learns the true meaning of the word when he stumbles on a secret child-labor factory. A Palestinian boy, mute from trauma, releases kites over a wall to a hilltop settlement, each bearing a message of peace. This inspiring, engaging anthology gathers an international roster of authors to explore such themes as asylum, law, education, and faith — from a riveting tale of an attempt to find drinking water after Hurricane Katrina; to a chilling look at a future where microchips track every citizen’s every move; to a hilarious police interrogation involving the London Tower, the Crown Jewels, and a Ghanaian boy with a passion for playing marbles. Features an introduction by British writer Jacqueline Wilson. With stories by: David Almond Ibtisam Barakat Malorie Blackman Theresa Breslin Eoin Colfer Roddy Doyle Ursula Dubosarsky Jamila Gavin Margaret Mahy Patricia McCormick Michael Morpurgo Sarah Mussi Meja Mwangi Rita Williams-Garcia
Since 1998, McSweeney's "Quarterly Concern" has been emerging from various kitchens, attics and an old laundromat roughly four times a year - or definitely at least three. In those ten years, almost 100,000 stories have been submitted, usually in manila envelopes, mostly from unknown names living in unfamiliar corners. Approximately 400 of those stories were selected for publication. Eighteen of them appear here, wildly diverse in style and subject, from some of the finest writers of today and tomorrow. Several typos have been removed.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 as a direct response to the inhumanity suffered worldwide throughout, and following, World War Two. In 2008, to celebrate the UDHR's 60th anniversary, Seán Love who was executive director of Amnesty International (Ireland) at the time, and author Roddy Doyle decided to celebrate this magnificent declaration, whilst also publicizing the document itself. Dealing with topics as outlined in the UDHR, the articles tackle the varied subjects of fair trials, prison, torture, war, refugees, but also, education, poverty, health, leisure, employment, and housing. Containing 30 articles with an introduction by Poet Laureate Seamus Heaney, this book is a special commemoration to the work of the UDHR and Amnesty International. In a modern twist, it also features a special 'My article' by popular fictional wealthy former schoolboy rugby player Ross O'Carroll-Kelly (created by journalist Paul Howard) adding to the contemporary worth of this collection. Contributors: Robert Ballagh Kevin Barry Maeve Binchy Mary Rose Binchy Dermot Bolger John Boyne Alan Clarke Eoin Colfer John Connolly Barrie Cooke Roddy Doyle Anne Enright Zlata Filipovic Jim Fitzpatrick Carlo Gébler Hugo Hamilton Seamus Heaney Dermot Healy Ann Marie Hourihane Tom Humphries Jennifer Johnston Neil Jordan Claire Kilroy Louis le Brocquy Brian Maguire Alice Maher Lara Marlowe Nick Miller Lia Mills Eugene McCabe Colum McCann Frank McCourt Gary Mitchell Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Ross O'Carroll-Kelly Joseph O'Connor Mick O'Dea Mark O'Halloran Glenn Patterson Vivienne Roche Amelia Stein Gerard Stembridge Colm Tóibín Irvine Welsh
Somewhere is the land of the imagination Somewhere is a world of fantasy and dreamscapes, the dark and beautiful legends of elsewhere. This anthology features writing from Roddy Doyle, Michel Faber, Jen Hadfield, J. A. Hopkin, Jackie Kay, Margo Lanagan, Alberto Manguel, Garth Nix, Gillian Philip, James Robertson, Robin Robertson, and Louise Welsh.
A collection of short stories from a stellar line-up of Irish authors and illustrators, edited by bestselling author Sarah Webb. The anthology is completed by a final winter-themed tale from the winner of HarperCollins’ competition for young writers, which will be illustrated by Irish Children’s Laureate, Niamh Sharkey. 12 wintry tales of wonder, from the funny to the ghostly, from the heartfelt to the action-packed – there is something here for everyone to love… Written by some of the most outstanding talents in children’s fiction today, including Eoin Colfer, Roddy Doyle, Derek Landy and John Boyne, Celine Kiernan and with stunning illustrations from the likes of PJ Lynch, Chris Haughton and Niamh Sharkey, to name but a few. This is a gorgeous hardback that no family bookshelf should be without. All profits go to Fighting Words – the Irish Story Centre in support of Creative Writing for Children and Adults. Fighting Words was inspired by Dave Eggers’ 826 Valencia project in the USA, as have been creative writing centres all over the world since then, including Milan, Stockholm, London, Barcelona and Sydney. All of these creative writing centres are informally linked together – they communicate regularly, sharing ideas and experience.
With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris, Sisonke Msimang, Dina Nayeri, Chigozie Obioma, Michael Ondaatje, David Pilling, Max Porter, Philip Pullman, Alice Pung, Jancis Robinson, S.F.Said, Madeleine Thien, Salley Vickers, John Wood and Markus Zusak 'This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. The gift, like so many gifts, was a book...' So begins the essay by Robert Macfarlane that inspired this collection. In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayists and poets. 'You will see books taking flight in flocks, migrating around the world, landing in people's hearts and changing them for a day or a year or a lifetime. 'You will see books sparking wonder or anger; throwing open windows into other languages, other cultures, other minds; causing people to fall in love or to fight for what is right. 'And more than anything, over and over again, you will see books and words being given, received and read - and in turn prompting further generosity.' Published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of global literacy non-profit, Room to Read, The Gifts of Reading forms inspiring, unforgettable, irresistible proof of the power and necessity of books and reading. Inspired by Robert Macfarlane Curated by Jennie Orchard