Dubliners

DublinersFrom a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest, to a young woman's dilemma over whether to elope to Argentina with her lover, to the dance party at which a man discovers just how little he really knows about his wife, these fifteen stories bring the gritty realism of existence in Joyce's native Dublin to life.

Whether he is nurturing a single rare seedling into a blossoming tree or planning acres of exquisitely conceived royal gardens

Instead of viewing these machines as competitive interlopers

There are irritating flies in the ointment

and it's up to Hiccup to help them find their way home again

A romance-seeking rogue

and the Holocaust fewer than one person in a hundred died violently

Then on Halloween night

is packed with all the unexpected stories and images you've come to expect from us

he kills them both and escapes before the police arrive

Meet Lucy Brennan - an aggressive personal trainer who has just become a media hero after taking down a would-be gunman in Miami

making strange allies and unstoppable enemies along the way

It's accepted wisdom today that human beings have permanently damaged the natural world