Carlo Gebler

• Apr-1988
• / General Fiction
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Fergus Maguire, struggling to find meaning in the chaos of modern London, seems trapped in a dull job and a series of dead-end possibilities until his father's death spurs changes, and a girl named Jennifer walks into his life...

• Mar-1990
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• Jan-1991
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• Jul-1996
• / General Fiction
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A hundred years ago, in a land of myths, a woman named Bridget Cleary was in need of curing.Married for over a year now, with pregnancy still eluding her, Bridget hoped that a renowned fertility rite would bring an end to her barren spell. But as fur...

• Jul-2000
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The characters depicted in this volume lead lives which are quintessentially modern; lonely, rootless and uncertain. These are not, however, stories of complaint or lament or melancholy. On the contrary, they illuminate and celebrate the courage and ...

• Nov-2001
• / Suspense
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In this unflinching and suspenseful story, GA(c)bler takes a small slice of Irish history and brings it to life. In 1854, land agent Thomas French is dispatched to County Monoghan to persuade tenants to give up their land in return for free passage t...

• Jul-2005
• / General Fiction
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The proud queen of Connacht demands to own the Brown Bull of Ulster, and attacks on the first day of winter, knowing an ancient curse will cripple all the men of Ulster until the first day of spring. Only Cuchulainn, a half-immortal, is immune and ta...

• Nov-2011
• / General Fiction
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A stunning and critically praised novel by acclaimed Irish writer Carlo Gébler, this book addresses the miscarriages of justice endemic in the Irish judicial system. On a wet November morning in 1940, Harry Gleeson discovered the body of Moll McCart...

• Feb-2016
• / Literary
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'It's jail,' I said. 'Don't expect better of anybody in jail. Expect worse.' Welcome to Her Majesty's Prison Loanend, where inmate Harold 'Chalky' Chalkman â€" serving twelve for a violent assault, and lucky not to have been done for attempted m...

• Oct-2016
• / Literary
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An instantly striking portrait of life inside a Northern Ireland prison. Composed of nine linked stories, each tale is narrated by Harry `Chalky' Chalkman, an intelligent, street-wise and sensitive wing orderly (a prison inmate charged with the maint...

• Sep-2017
• / Literary
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London, Summer, 1964. The Beatles have just released A Hard Days Night and the swinging sixties are fast approaching. Ralph, twelve years old, waves his mother goodbye as she disappears to the U.S. to work for a year, leaving him in the care of Doree...

• Apr-2019
• / General Fiction
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“A welcome feast of fables for our times … Carlo Gébler’s book is a wonderful, gloomy and welcome addition to the Aesopic corpus … The stories have been re-written in a spiky, contemporary style … The content of these pessimistic stories i...

• Jan-2020
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A witty, scatological illustrated version of the world's most celebrated fables, allegedly written by a slave in the 5th century BC. A book for our times: as Gebler notes, Aesop has two subjects - the exercise of power and the experience of the power...

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction
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After her father's death in exile, Antigone returns to Thebes determined to set the record straight and restore her father's reputation. Tracing the histories of Oedipus and his parents Laius and Jocasta, as well as the peripheral characters of the p...

• Jun-2022
• / General Fiction
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After her father’s death in exile, Antigone returns to Thebes determined to set the record straight and restore her father’s reputation. Tracing the histories of Oedipus and his parents Laius and Jocasta, as well as the peripheral charact...