Foster by Claire Keegan

Foster by Claire KeeganA small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. And then a secret is revealed and suddenly, she realizes how fragile her idyll is. Winner of the Davy Byrnes Memorial Prize, Foster is now published in a revised and expanded version. Beautiful, sad and

from classic voices to the fringes of modern poetry

From birth

to offer a guide to geography as a major determining factor in world history

bearing all of Shaun Tan's trademark wit and poignancy in both its prose and exquisite illustrations

Drawing on the religious

To be a refugee is to grapple with your place in society

The apple trees shed their petals and fatten their fruit with an astonishing defiance

I felt I was out there in the wild

The chilling true crime 'non-fiction novel' that made Truman Capote's name

The Poetry Pharmacy Returns caters to all-new conditions while drilling further down into the universals: this time

That's when the boy realizes: The penguin hadn't been lost

her work has appeared in many literary magazines