Deirdre Sullivan
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Primrose Leary, aged 13. Likes: her pet rat, Roderick; her best friend, Joel; being a little bit different (but not in the weird different sense – she wouldn't like to be the only bald girl in her class or the only girl who always smelled of ham, or anything). Dislikes: living with Fintan (her moustachioed Dad); the boy-school that Joel's toddled off to without her; not having her mum around anymore. Hilariously and cleverly written, Prim Improper...
4) Primperfect
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In the event of my untimely death, please burn this unread. No, don't DO it! Prim's alive (though the dashing Roderick is, alas, no more). She's sixteen. She's trying to make sense of her mum's diaries. She is trying desperately to make Joel be friends with her again, but he's all friends with Karen (aka the devil) now, and Prim's found a boy called Robb-with-two-bees, and then there's Steve the Goblin, and her dad's getting together with you'll-never-guess-who,...
5) Needlework
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'I would like to make things beautiful, but a tawdry and repulsive kind of beauty. A braver sort than people have from birth. Sexy zombies on a bicep. That sort of thing.' Ces longs to be a tattoo artist and embroider skin with beautiful images. But for now she's just trying to reach adulthood without falling apart. Powerful, poetic and disturbing, Needlework is a girl's meditation on her efforts to maintain her bodily and spiritual integrity in the...
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A dark, feminist retelling of The Children of Lir told in Sullivan's hypnotic prose. A retelling of the favourite Irish fairytale The Children of Lir. Aife marries Lir, a king with four children by his previous wife. Jealous of his affection for his children, the witch Aife turns them into swans for 900 years. Retold through the voice of Aife, Savage Her Reply is unsettling and dark, feminist and fierce, yet nuanced in its exploration of the guilt...
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An original and touching story of a little koala and monkey, the best of friends.
Where are you going and where have you been?
Gussie and Max take us on a trip through the years of their friendship and accomplishments.
They remember standing on tip toes, needing help to build block towers, imaginary friends, and how hard it was to say goodbye.
As they anticipate new experiences like riding the school bus, learning addition and subtraction, and...