Boy 11963 : An Irish Industrial School Childhood and an Extraordinary Search for Home by John Cameron

Boy 11963 : An Irish Industrial School Childhood and an Extraordinary Search for Home by John Cameron'Truth telling and truth recovery have seldom been as heart breaking or necessary as in this powerful story of human vulnerability and failure and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit.' JOE DUFFY At only five months old, John Cameron was abandoned in a Dublin orphanage, and fostered out as a child labourer by age three. In 1944 when he turned eight, he was incarcerated in Artane Industrial School, where he became boy 11963. Now in his mid

Owl Sense is a book about wildness in nature but also in the unpredictable course of our human lives

tirelessly trying to outstrip her past and in mortal fear of her future

they befriend a troll on the run from a nefarious nobleman and an interrogating nun both of whom need the magical creature for their own gain

Winner of the Edge Hill short story prize

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Mumbai and during his retirement in Mt Baldy

in a small Scottish town

you won't be able to put it down' Dolly AldertonA Grazia best book of 2021Stuck in a dead-end job

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