The Troubles With Us by Alix O'Neill

The Troubles With Us by Alix O'NeillDerry Girls meets David Sedaris' Elske Rahill Growing up on the Falls Road in 1990s Belfast, Alix O'Neill has seen it all burnt out buses blocking the route to school, the police mistaking her father for a leading terrorist. Not that she or her friends are up to speed with the goings on of the resistance. They're too preoccupied with the obsessions of every teenage girl booze, boys and Boyzone to worry about the violence on their doorstep. Desperate

An Irish Nature Year gleefully explores the small mysteries of the seasons as they unfold - Who's cutting perfect circles in your roses

and the sources that inspired his work: from myth

and they both know that's as far as it can ever go

tenacity and insight

and we have been writing poetry about it for over 4

seemingly untreatable knotweed that slowly suffocates the garden

Women in Sport celebrates the success of the tough

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finding herself unable to deal with her own changing body and her mother's self-obsession

While encounters with a host of furry acquaintances - Chatter

are suddenly alone and on the run

' Shami Chakrabarti