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A. L. Kennedy has published four previous novels, one book of non-fiction, and one collection of short stories, Indelible Acts. She has twice been selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and has won a number of prizes including the Somerset Maugham Award, the Encore Award and the Saltire Scottish Book fo the Year Award. She lives in Glasgow and is a part-time lecturer in creative writing at St. Andrews.
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Day
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
Alfie Day, RAF airman and former World War II POW, never expected to survive the war. Now, five years later and more alone than ever, Alfie finds himself drawn to unearth those strange, passionate days by working as an extra on a POW film. What he will discover on the set... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
Alfie Day, RAF airman and former World War II POW, never expected to survive the war. Now, five years later and more alone than ever, Alfie finds himself drawn to unearth those strange, passionate days by working as an extra on a POW film. What he will discover on the set... Read more >
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On Bullfighting
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2001
Price: $11.00
An Anchor Books Original
One day, on the brink of despair and contemplating her own mortality, novelist A. L. Kennedy is offered an assignment she can’t refuse–an opportunity to travel to Spain and cover a sport that represents the ultimate confrontation with death: bullfighting.
The result is this remarkable book, which takes Kennedy... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2001
Price: $11.00
An Anchor Books Original
One day, on the brink of despair and contemplating her own mortality, novelist A. L. Kennedy is offered an assignment she can’t refuse–an opportunity to travel to Spain and cover a sport that represents the ultimate confrontation with death: bullfighting.
The result is this remarkable book, which takes Kennedy... Read more >
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So I Am Glad
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $17.00
The ferociously talented author of Original Bliss and On Bullfighting offers this haunting tale of two forlorn people who find in each other a hope and love as genuine and original as this marvelous book in which they come to life.
M. Jennifer Wilson is a mid-thirties radio announcer living in... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $17.00
The ferociously talented author of Original Bliss and On Bullfighting offers this haunting tale of two forlorn people who find in each other a hope and love as genuine and original as this marvelous book in which they come to life.
M. Jennifer Wilson is a mid-thirties radio announcer living in... Read more >
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eBook.
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Original Bliss
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2000
Price: $13.00
"Kennedy is a world class writer."--The New York Times Book Review
A brilliant American debut from one of Scotland's most acclaimed writers, named by Granta as one of the Twenty Best Young British Novelists.
Emotionally numb, crippled with insomnia, and caught in a frightening, abusive marriage, Helen Brindle believes that God has recently... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2000
Price: $13.00
"Kennedy is a world class writer."--The New York Times Book Review
A brilliant American debut from one of Scotland's most acclaimed writers, named by Granta as one of the Twenty Best Young British Novelists.
Emotionally numb, crippled with insomnia, and caught in a frightening, abusive marriage, Helen Brindle believes that God has recently... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Day
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $24.00
The New York Times has called her “a world-class fiction writer.” One of Britain’s most iconoclastic and highly acclaimed young writers (“If you are at all interested in contemporary fiction, this is work you must not miss”—Richard Ford)—twice selected as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, winner of the Somerset... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $24.00
The New York Times has called her “a world-class fiction writer.” One of Britain’s most iconoclastic and highly acclaimed young writers (“If you are at all interested in contemporary fiction, this is work you must not miss”—Richard Ford)—twice selected as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, winner of the Somerset... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Everything You Need
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $14.00
From the prodigiously talented A. L. Kennedy comes a flamboyantly stylish and fiercely emotional novel about fathers and daughters, creation and self-destruction, and love’s paradoxical power to heal its most devastated victims. One such victim is Nathan Staples, a writer whose hilarious contempt for humanity is surpassed only by his corrosive... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $14.00
From the prodigiously talented A. L. Kennedy comes a flamboyantly stylish and fiercely emotional novel about fathers and daughters, creation and self-destruction, and love’s paradoxical power to heal its most devastated victims. One such victim is Nathan Staples, a writer whose hilarious contempt for humanity is surpassed only by his corrosive... Read more >
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eBook.
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Paradise
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $14.00
Hannah Luckraft sells cardboard boxes for a living. Her family is so frustrated by her behavior they can barely stand to keep in touch with her. Each day is fueled by the promise of annihilation, the promise of a reprieve, the paradise that can only be found in a bottle. When... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $14.00
Hannah Luckraft sells cardboard boxes for a living. Her family is so frustrated by her behavior they can barely stand to keep in touch with her. Each day is fueled by the promise of annihilation, the promise of a reprieve, the paradise that can only be found in a bottle. When... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Indelible Acts
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $12.00
The love story (as well as the story of love lost, obsessed over, or longed for) gets a complete and thrilling renovation at the hands of the most virtuosic literary stylist to appear in the British Isles since Jeanette Winterson. A. L. Kennedy’s men and women huddle in foreign hotel rooms... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $12.00
The love story (as well as the story of love lost, obsessed over, or longed for) gets a complete and thrilling renovation at the hands of the most virtuosic literary stylist to appear in the British Isles since Jeanette Winterson. A. L. Kennedy’s men and women huddle in foreign hotel rooms... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Day
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
Alfie Day, RAF airman and former World War II POW, never expected to survive the war. Now, five years later and more alone than ever, Alfie finds himself drawn to unearth those strange, passionate days by working as an extra on a POW film. What he will discover on the set... Read more >
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
Alfie Day, RAF airman and former World War II POW, never expected to survive the war. Now, five years later and more alone than ever, Alfie finds himself drawn to unearth those strange, passionate days by working as an extra on a POW film. What he will discover on the set... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Everything You Need
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
From the prodigiously talented A. L. Kennedy comes a flamboyantly stylish and fiercely emotional novel about fathers and daughters, creation and self-destruction, and love’s paradoxical power to heal its most devastated victims. One such victim is Nathan Staples, a writer whose hilarious contempt for humanity is surpassed only by his corrosive... Read more >
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
From the prodigiously talented A. L. Kennedy comes a flamboyantly stylish and fiercely emotional novel about fathers and daughters, creation and self-destruction, and love’s paradoxical power to heal its most devastated victims. One such victim is Nathan Staples, a writer whose hilarious contempt for humanity is surpassed only by his corrosive... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Indelible Acts
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.00
From the acclaimed Scottish writer A. L. Kennedy (“If you are at all interested in contemporary fiction, this is work you must not miss”—Richard Ford; “A world-class fiction writer”—Thomas Lynch, New York Times Book Review), a brilliant short-story collection—her first to be published in this country—about adultery and sexual obsession.
The twelve... Read more >
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.00
From the acclaimed Scottish writer A. L. Kennedy (“If you are at all interested in contemporary fiction, this is work you must not miss”—Richard Ford; “A world-class fiction writer”—Thomas Lynch, New York Times Book Review), a brilliant short-story collection—her first to be published in this country—about adultery and sexual obsession.
The twelve... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Original Bliss
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00
From one of Scotland's most widely praised writers, named by Granta as one of the Twenty Best Young British Novelists: a beautiful and terrifying story of passion and pornography
Helen Brindle thinks she has lost God--but it is simply love that she's missing. She certainly can't find it at home, with the... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00
From one of Scotland's most widely praised writers, named by Granta as one of the Twenty Best Young British Novelists: a beautiful and terrifying story of passion and pornography
Helen Brindle thinks she has lost God--but it is simply love that she's missing. She certainly can't find it at home, with the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Paradise
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
From one of Britain’s most acclaimed novelists, a comic but terrifying love story about two alcoholics alternately battling and embracing their addiction, and each other.
Everything in Hannah Luckraft’s life is tinted amber: her dreary job selling cardboard boxes; her strained relations with a beloved younger brother, who is about to give... Read more >
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
From one of Britain’s most acclaimed novelists, a comic but terrifying love story about two alcoholics alternately battling and embracing their addiction, and each other.
Everything in Hannah Luckraft’s life is tinted amber: her dreary job selling cardboard boxes; her strained relations with a beloved younger brother, who is about to give... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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So I Am Glad
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.00
She made her American debut last year to glowing reviews with her acclaimed short novel Original Bliss ("A world-class fiction writer" --Thomas Lynch, New York Times Book Review; "Like no other book . . . Erotic and funny . . . A high-wire act" --Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker). Now, in her first... Read more >
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.00
She made her American debut last year to glowing reviews with her acclaimed short novel Original Bliss ("A world-class fiction writer" --Thomas Lynch, New York Times Book Review; "Like no other book . . . Erotic and funny . . . A high-wire act" --Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker). Now, in her first... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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What Becomes
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Price: $24.95
Twice selected for Granta’s list of Best Young British Novelists, winner of the 2007 Costa Book Award for her acclaimed novel Day (“Day is a novel of extraordinary complexity”—The New York Review of Books), which was also chosen as one of New York magazine’s top ten books of the year—the internationally... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Price: $24.95
Twice selected for Granta’s list of Best Young British Novelists, winner of the 2007 Costa Book Award for her acclaimed novel Day (“Day is a novel of extraordinary complexity”—The New York Review of Books), which was also chosen as one of New York magazine’s top ten books of the year—the internationally... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
What Becomes
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Price: $24.95
Twice selected for Granta’s list of Best Young British Novelists, winner of the 2007 Costa Book Award for her acclaimed novel Day (“Day is a novel of extraordinary complexity”—The New York Review of Books), which was also chosen as one of New York magazine’s top ten books of the year—the internationally... Read more >
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Price: $24.95
Twice selected for Granta’s list of Best Young British Novelists, winner of the 2007 Costa Book Award for her acclaimed novel Day (“Day is a novel of extraordinary complexity”—The New York Review of Books), which was also chosen as one of New York magazine’s top ten books of the year—the internationally... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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