What happens when two people decide to give themselves the year off... from each other? Absence makes the heart grow fonder... doesn't it? Annie and Dan were once the perfect couple. But now the not-so-newlyweds feel more like flatmates than soulmates. So where did all the fun and fireworks go? When Annie lands herself her big break on Broadway, she's over the moon. Goodbye Ireland, hello New York! So she and Dan decide to take a no-strings-attached sabbatical, with the proviso that they meet in twelve months time at the Rockefeller Centre to decide their fate. But with their relationship already on the rocks, will Annie and Dan survive the distance? Will they both turn up? Or is it too late for love? Perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella and Marian Keyes.

Jeremy Fernando's prose - or perhaps we should say, poetry - builds effortlessly on the traces of deconstructive thought, feminist insights, and transgressive English literature. Being itself only hesitantly devoted to the conventions of academic writing, Fernando manages to show that faith and loyalty, but also doubt and disloyalty, are always co-operative in what is often too hastily expressed with the simple phrase "I love you." In doing so, Fernando's writing captures the essentially beautiful aspect of the hopeful awaiting and the necessary blindness that love, as well as such a writing, engenders, as it seeks to open up to the mysteries of human existence and even of existence as such. This work then, like his others, contains wonderful admissions of affection to the work of Derrida, Cixous, Agamben, Barthes, Bataille, and various identifiable and unidentifiable others, strung together in what finally constitutes a riveting read.

This is the story of Walter Hart and his wife, Daisy. He, an uneducated farmer and she, a lovely sophisticated scholar, grew up in the early 1900’s. They overcame tragedy and their life stories told of a time and place that no longer exists. Their youngest daughter, Betty, tells their story in a way that will enable you to know them and retrace their journey. Her journey continues in their footsteps. Interspersed with historic moments, this book gives the reader a look into the heart of a daughter who believes this story deserves to be shared. It culminates with a spiritual and physical manifestation that assures the author that this story had to be told.

A definitive study of the most important decade in post-World War II popular music history

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