The Go-Away Bird
What happens when two worlds collide?
A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of Usher
‘A stunning debut’ Woman & Home
Winner of Amazon’s ‘Rising Stars’ competition
Shortlisted for The Commonwealth Writer’s Prize 2010
Shortlisted for The Waterstones Book Circle Award
Shortlisted for The Desmond Elliott Prize
One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, this uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle, and their sexual obsession and shared fascination with a mythic saint.
This warm and lyrical semi-autobiographical first novel by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen charts the coming of age of Lawrence Breavman, the only son of a Jewish Montreal family.