Before My Actual Heart Breaks by Tish Delaney

Before My Actual Heart Breaks by Tish Delaney'This is in many ways a familiar story but it is told in such a fresh, entertaining, funny and moving way, it felt like I was reading something brand new.' RODDY DOYLE__________________________________________________'If I could go back to being sixteen again, I'd do things differently.''Everyone over the age of forty feels like that, you total gom,' says my best friend Lizzie Magee. When she was young Mary Rattigan wanted to fly. She was going to

This is the last of three volumes of collected shorter prose to be published in the Faber edition of the works of Samuel Beckett - which already includes a volume of early stories (The Expelled/The Calmative/The End/First Love) and of late stories (Company/Ill Seen Ill Said/Worstward Ho/Stirrings Still)

The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no’ right

No-one knows it: not her fellow patients in a failing hospital

Billy O'Callaghan's stories explore the resilience of the human heart and its ability to keep beating even in the wake of grief

The Paper Dolls is a stunning

especially if you've only just got here

'Lucid but never simplistic

describing the world through the eyes of the creature

an engaging and lively book written for readers both young and old

entertaining but never frivolous

playing on his Xbox

The trees are coarse and tall in the winter light