A.L. Kennedy

• Feb-1994
• / General Fiction
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Mary Margaret Hamilton was educated in Scotland. She was born there too. These may not have been the best possible options, but they were the only ones on offer at the time. Although her father did his best, her knowledge of life is perhaps a little ...

• Jan-1998
• / Suspense
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"Kennedy is a world class writer."--The New York Times Book ReviewA 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, an...

• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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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...

• Jul-2001
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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 ...

• Apr-2003
• / General Fiction
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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 m...

• Sep-2004
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The heroes and heroines of Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains, A.L. Kennedy's first collection of stories, are small people - the kind who inhabit the silence in libraries, who never appear on screen and who never make the headlines. Often alon...

• Mar-2005
• / General Fiction
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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 ...

• Jan-2008
• / General Fiction
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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 sele...

• Apr-2010
• / General Fiction
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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...

• Dec-2010
• / General Fiction
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Exposing and exploring the sinuous undercurrents of violence, anguish and love, A.L. Kennedy examines the nature of the individual, both in isolation and society, as characters define and deny their chosen identities. While showing us the unlikelines...

• Mar-2013
• / Literary
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When ex-lovers meet on a cruise ship, secrets and lies emerge in this heartbreaking story by a modern master of the novel whom Richard Ford has called “a profound writer.” From one of the U.K.’s most dazzling authors comes a brutal and funny...

• Dec-2013
• / Science Fiction
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Something odd is going on at the Fetch Brothers Golf Spa Hotel. Receptionist Bryony Mailer has noticed a definite tendency towards disappearance amongst the guests. She’s tried talking to the manager, she’s even tried talking to the owner who liv...

• Mar-2014
• / Literary
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A collection of stories from the author of The Blue Book and What Becomes includes tales of man who tries to sell his apartment without renovating the old kitchen and an exploration of the humorous possibilities of fake genitalia. 15,000 first printi...

• Jul-2015
• / Science Fiction
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From award-winning author A.L. Kennedy, an original Doctor Who novel featuring the beloved Fourth Doctor, as played by Tom Baker. “I shall make you the jewel at the heart of the universe.” Something distinctly odd is going on in Arbroath. ...

• Oct-2016
• / Contemporary Romance
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A good man in a bad world, Jon Sigurdsson is fifty-nine and divorced, a senior civil servant in London who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work for a government engaged in unmentionable acts. Meg Williams is a bankrupt accountant -- t...

• 2018
• / General Fiction
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This time it’s Bill who needs to come up with a plan to rescue Uncle Shawn, but all he has to help him are four bickering llamas, one pirate boy and one invisible girl. What could possibly go wrong?...

• Apr-2018
• / General Fiction
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Badger Bill loves his best friend Uncle Shawn. But he has started to notice that Uncle Shawn is a bit unusual. Dr P'Klawz hates Uncle Shawn. He has also noticed that Uncle Shawn is a bit unusual - pajimminy crimminy unusual, in fact. It looks like Ba...

• Nov-2018
• / Fantasy
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Charming lessons in life, death and kindness . . . Hugely moving' Observer This is the story of Mary, a young girl born in a beautiful city full of rose gardens and fluttering kites. When she is still very small, Mary meets Lanmo, a shining golden s...

• Jun-2019
• / General Fiction
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The third book in a hilarious, heart-warming series for children from Costa Award-winning author A.L. Kennedy, illustrated by Gemma Correll.Uncle Shawn and his best friend Badger Bill are back for another brilliantly bonkers adventure. They've seen o...

• Apr-2020
• / General Fiction
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A master-class in the short story, from the Costa Book Award winning author of DayA. L. Kennedy's new collection of stories show us women and men wrestling with the lives they have been given and the times spinning out around them. Humour, fantasy, r...

• Jul-2021
• / General Fiction
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• May-2025
• / Literary
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From a Costa Book of the Year winner, Booker nominee and double Granta-selected Best Young British novelist comes a searing portrayal of the gradual uncovering of one woman's past psychological wounds, set in motion by the arrival of an unexpected le...

• / General Fiction
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A hilarious adventure with comical illustrations that will have audiences bursting with laughter! A badger kidnapped by two nasty sisters to fight a boxing match against three even nastier dogs, four depressed llamas about to become llama pies, and U...