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ISBN: 9780224093859 - Black Cat Bone Bestseller Black Cat Bone
John Burnside

ISBN10: 0224093851  ISBN13: 9780224093859
Publisher: Vintage Jonathan Cape Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Aug 2011
Drawing on various sources, this book examines varieties of love, faith, hope and illusion, to suggest an unusual possibility: that when the search for what we expected to find - in the forest or in our own hearts - ends in failure... More

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ISBN: 9780099422372 - A Summer of Drowning Bestseller A Summer of Drowning
John Burnside

ISBN10: 0099422379  ISBN13: 9780099422372
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2012
A terrifying and dream-like new novel from one of our greatest contemporary writers. At a critical point in her career, painter Angelika Rossdal suddenly moves to Kvaloya, a small island deep in the Arctic Circle, to dedicate herself to the... More

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ISBN: 9780099507833 - Waking Up in Toytown Waking Up in Toytown
John Burnside

ISBN10: 0099507838  ISBN13: 9780099507833
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Jan 2011
In the early 80s, after a decade of drug abuse and borderline mental illness, a man runs away to the suburbs, to live what he hopes will be a normal life. With the aid of his last remaining friends he finds a regular job - but he can't seem to... More

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ISBN: 9780099507840 - Glister Glister
John Burnside

ISBN10: 0099507846  ISBN13: 9780099507840
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 May 2009
The children of Innertown exist in a state of suspended terror. Every year or so, a boy from their school disappears, vanishing into the wasteland of the old chemical plant. Nobody knows where these boys go. The town policeman, Morrison knows... More

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ISBN: 9780224089272 - The Hunt in the Forest The Hunt in the Forest
John Burnside

ISBN10: 0224089277  ISBN13: 9780224089272
Publisher: Vintage Jonathan Cape Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Aug 2009
Taking its title from Uccello's famous painting of a band of men - on foot and on horseback - massing for the chase, this title includes poems of hunting and predation. It explores our most deep-rooted and primeval pursuits: romantic love, memory... More

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ISBN: 9780224090056 - The Asylum Dance The Asylum Dance
John Burnside

ISBN10: 0224090054  ISBN13: 9780224090056
Publisher: Vintage Jonathan Cape Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Sep 2009
Presents poems that are hymns to the tension between the sanctuary of home and the lure of escape. Using the framework of four long poems, "Ports", "Settlements", "Fields" and "Roads", the this title balances presence with absence. Lucid, tender... More

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ISBN: 9780099479536 - A Lie About My Father A Lie About My Father
John Burnside

ISBN10: 0099479532  ISBN13: 9780099479536
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2007
A memoir of two lost men: a father and his child. It is about forgiving, about examining the way men are made and how they fall apart, about understanding that in order to have a good son you must have a good father. \ This is a moving... More

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ISBN: 9780099479543 - The Devil's Footprints The Devil's Footprints
John Burnside

ISBN10: 0099479540  ISBN13: 9780099479543
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Mar 2008
Once, on a winter's night, after a heavy snow, the devil passed through the Scottish fishing town of Coldhaven, leaving hoofprints across the town. Michael Gardiner has lived in Coldhaven all his life, but still feels like an outsider, a blow-in. More

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ISBN: 9780224078030 - Selected Poems Selected Poems
John Burnside

ISBN10: 0224078038  ISBN13: 9780224078030
Publisher: Vintage Jonathan Cape Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Mar 2006
Contains a collection of poems of John Burnside. Over seventeen years and nine collections, John Burnside has built - in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue - 'a poetic corpus of the first significance', a poetry of luminous, limpid grace. More

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ISBN: 9780224079976 - Gift Songs Gift Songs
John Burnside

ISBN10: 0224079972  ISBN13: 9780224079976
Publisher: Vintage Jonathan Cape Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2007
A masterful tenth collection from the winner of the 2000 Whitbread Poetry Award. To the Shakers, a good song was a gift; indeed the test of a song's goodness was how much of a gift it was. In their call to "labour to make the way of God your own"... More