An attractive young woman comes into a Dublin pub, and the local barflies try to impress her with ghostly tales. It turns out that the woman has the spookiest story of all. Playwright Conor McPherson (Shining City, The Seafarer) wrote The Weir when he was 26 years old, capturing the Olivier Award for Best New Play and the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright.
Donna sees Mark on a boat to Spain. She likes him and he likes her. Then Mark sees Donna dancing with his brother, Dave. Is Donna in love with Mark? Why is Dave dancing with her? Young love, jealousy and suspicion - this is a story which everybody will identify with! Recommended for younger learners.
"Zadie Smith's fizzing first novel is about how we all got here - from the Caribbean, from the Indian sub-continent, from the thirteenth place in a long-ago Olympic bicycle race - and about what here turned out to be. It's an astonishingly assured debut, funny and serious, and the voice has real writerly idiosyncrasy. I was delighted by WHITE TEETH, and often impressed. It has ... bite."
Supermodels are rich and famous. They have beautiful clothes by the best fashion designers and go to wonderful parties all over the world. But is the life of a supermodel always so easy? Find out what it is really like to be a supermodel
Some years after a terrible war, parts of the world are still dead and black while in other places, plants, animals and people grow in strange shapes. In Waknuk people follow their own strict religious rules. Plants, animals and children must be perfect. David is different but this difference is kept secret until people begin to ask questions. Life suddenly becomes very dangerous
