https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=SVL(CITYOFLITMANCHESTERAUTHORS)%20-%20MINOR%3AITD16&QRYTEXT=Manchester%20Writers%20and%20Publishers&SETLVL=SET&CF=BIB&SORTS=DTE.DATE1.DESC&NRECS=20 Spydus Search Results en © 2022 Civica Pty Limited. All rights reserved. https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2757745&CF=BIB This selection, translated by Anthony Howell working from the author's own versions, explores the experience of becoming at home in London, passing from a sense of exile to a sense of uneasy belonging. In his introduction the poet is tactful, candid, touching on some of the most urgent themes of our time including exile and the possibilities of home. Between the poet, a major literary presence in his language, and his translator, a poet of many talents and skills, a kind of dialogue exists. The accommodations between two traditions formally uneasy in one another's company is compelling to read. The poet's and the translator's contrasting memories meet and confer at the level of language and image. This selection, translated by Anthony Howell working from the author's own versions, explores the experience of becoming at home in London, passing from a sense of exile to a sense of uneasy belonging. In his introduction the poet is tactful, candid, touching on some of the most urgent themes of our time including exile and the possibilities of home. Between the poet, a major literary presence in his language, and his translator, a poet of many talents and skills, a kind of dialogue exists. The accommodations between two traditions formally uneasy in one another's company is compelling to read. The poet's and the translator's contrasting memories meet and confer at the level of language and image.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Karīm, Fawzī<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Manchester : Carcanet Poetry, 2019.<br />64 pages ; 22 cm<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 892.716KAR - City of Literature - Available - C0000020265115<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2757746&CF=BIB Nina Bogin's 'Thousandfold' is a journey through seasons and landscapes, a journal of ordinary life punctuated by extraordinary people and moments - the births of grandchildren, the physical decline of a husband, relationships with family and friends. Her poems connect the unknowable past of ancestors to the equally unfathomable future of descendants, between which there fluctuates a present that is no less elusive, even as the poet gives it a structure in language. If life is full of uncertainties, our world at once threatened and threatening, then what brings constancy, hope, solace? Nina Bogin's 'Thousandfold' is a journey through seasons and landscapes, a journal of ordinary life punctuated by extraordinary people and moments - the births of grandchildren, the physical decline of a husband, relationships with family and friends. Her poems connect the unknowable past of ancestors to the equally unfathomable future of descendants, between which there fluctuates a present that is no less elusive, even as the poet gives it a structure in language. If life is full of uncertainties, our world at once threatened and threatening, then what brings constancy, hope, solace?<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Bogin, Nina<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Manchester : Carcanet, 2019.<br />64 pages ; 22 cm<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 811.6BOG - City of Literature - Available - C0000020265100<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2757747&CF=BIB In 1487 Sir Henry Bodrugan, pursued for treason, leapt from a Cornish clifftop into a waiting boat and fled to France. 'Bodrugan's Leap', as the clifftop has come to be known, lies close to John Wilkinson's childhood home, and supplies the title for the central cycle of poems in 'My Reef My Manifest Array'. That totemic image of exile feeds an interest in borders and partings that runs throughout the collection. The Cornish landscape of the poet's childhood, loaded with new significance following the death of his sister, is Wilkinson's primary locus, but he ventures - flees, perhaps - farther afield, to Portland (Maine), Chicago, Sydney, and Busan. In 1487 Sir Henry Bodrugan, pursued for treason, leapt from a Cornish clifftop into a waiting boat and fled to France. 'Bodrugan's Leap', as the clifftop has come to be known, lies close to John Wilkinson's childhood home, and supplies the title for the central cycle of poems in 'My Reef My Manifest Array'. That totemic image of exile feeds an interest in borders and partings that runs throughout the collection. The Cornish landscape of the poet's childhood, loaded with new significance following the death of his sister, is Wilkinson's primary locus, but he ventures - flees, perhaps - farther afield, to Portland (Maine), Chicago, Sydney, and Busan.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Wilkinson, John Lawton<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Manchester : Carcanet Poetry, 2019.<br />160 pages ; 22 cm<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 821.92WIL - City of Literature - Available - C0000020265137<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2759374&CF=BIB Baxter Stone, a film maker and television veteran, a lifelong Londoner (who thinks he sees better than others) is having problems in the postbrain, crumbling capital. Swindled by an insurance company, he's in debt; a Lamborghini is blocking his drive and MI6 is blocking his mobile reception. He hopes to turn it round and get the documentary series that will get him the Big Money. But what do you do if history is your sworn enemy and the whole world conspires against you? Is there any way, you could, for a moment, rule the world justly? Baxter Stone, a film maker and television veteran, a lifelong Londoner (who thinks he sees better than others) is having problems in the postbrain, crumbling capital. Swindled by an insurance company, he's in debt; a Lamborghini is blocking his drive and MI6 is blocking his mobile reception. He hopes to turn it round and get the documentary series that will get him the Big Money. But what do you do if history is your sworn enemy and the whole world conspires against you? Is there any way, you could, for a moment, rule the world justly?<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Fischer, Tibor, 1959-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Corsair, 2019.<br />243 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback / City of Literature - Available - C0000020265027<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2760861&CF=BIB Disconnected from his history and careless of his future, Detective Aidan Waits has resigned himself to the night shift. An endless cycle of meaningless emergency calls and lonely dead ends. Until he and his partner, Detective Inspector Peter 'Sutty' Sutcliffe, are summoned to The Palace, a vast disused hotel in the centre of a restless, simmering city. There they find the body of a man. He is dead. And he is smiling. The tags have been removed from the man's clothes. His teeth filed down and replaced. Even his fingertips are not his own. Only a patch sewn into the inside of his trousers gives any indication as to who he was, and to the desperate last act of his life. But even as Waits puts together the pieces of this stranger's life, someone is sifting through the shards of his own. Disconnected from his history and careless of his future, Detective Aidan Waits has resigned himself to the night shift. An endless cycle of meaningless emergency calls and lonely dead ends. Until he and his partner, Detective Inspector Peter 'Sutty' Sutcliffe, are summoned to The Palace, a vast disused hotel in the centre of a restless, simmering city. There they find the body of a man. He is dead. And he is smiling. The tags have been removed from the man's clothes. His teeth filed down and replaced. Even his fingertips are not his own. Only a patch sewn into the inside of his trousers gives any indication as to who he was, and to the desperate last act of his life. But even as Waits puts together the pieces of this stranger's life, someone is sifting through the shards of his own.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Knox, Joseph<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Black Swan, 2019.<br />453 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Avenue Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Available - C0000020238439<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2767207&CF=BIB Alison Brackenbury's poems are haunted by horses, unseasonable love, history, hares, and unreasonable hope. Brackenbury's 'Selected Poems' begins in the almost Victorian villages of remote Lincolnshire, where her father tramped, as a ploughboy, behind great Shires and Percherons. Her acclaimed early poem, 'Dreams of Power', gives voice to a little-known woman from the past, Arbella Stuart, and her still-contemporary choices: safe solitude, fashionable London, dangerous love. Alison Brackenbury's poems are haunted by horses, unseasonable love, history, hares, and unreasonable hope. Brackenbury's 'Selected Poems' begins in the almost Victorian villages of remote Lincolnshire, where her father tramped, as a ploughboy, behind great Shires and Percherons. Her acclaimed early poem, 'Dreams of Power', gives voice to a little-known woman from the past, Arbella Stuart, and her still-contemporary choices: safe solitude, fashionable London, dangerous love.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Brackenbury, Alison<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Manchester : Carcanet Poetry, 2019.<br />160 pages ; 22 cm<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 821.92BRA - City of Literature - Available - C0000020265101<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2769511&CF=BIB When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. Unearthed with someone's long-buried inheritance, the victim seems to belong to the distant past - until new evidence suggests otherwise, and Karen is called in to unravel a case where nothing is as it seems. It's not long before an overheard conversation draws Karen into the heart of a different case, however - a shocking crime she thought she'd already prevented. As she inches closer to the twisted truths at the centre of these murders, it becomes clear that she's dealing with a version of justice terrifyingly different to her own. When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. Unearthed with someone's long-buried inheritance, the victim seems to belong to the distant past - until new evidence suggests otherwise, and Karen is called in to unravel a case where nothing is as it seems. It's not long before an overheard conversation draws Karen into the heart of a different case, however - a shocking crime she thought she'd already prevented. As she inches closer to the twisted truths at the centre of these murders, it becomes clear that she's dealing with a version of justice terrifyingly different to her own.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>McDermid, Val<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Sphere, 2019.<br />502 pages ; 20 cm.<br />Karen Pirie novels<br /><br />Abraham Moss Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Crime Paperback - Onloan - Due: 05 Jun 2024 - C0000020270858<br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Crime Paperback / City of Literature - Onloan - Due: 18 May 2024 - C0000020265042<br />Moss Side Powerhouse Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Crime Paperback - Available - C0000020235152<br />Newton Heath Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Crime Paperback - Available - C0000020271949<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2771269&CF=BIB When Aberdeen housewife Debbie Milne abruptly vanishes without trace, leaving behind her two young children, husband Scott is too distraught to sit out the police's 72-hour window and await developments. He turns to local detective agency Harcus & Laird. Put off by previous 'domestic' cases, Maggie Laird isn't keen, but is cajoled by partner Wilma Harcus into a covert operation. Together they comb through meagre scraps of information, eventually trawling the city's women's refuges and homeless squats, in spite of the deadly danger. Then a woman's body is discovered in a Dundee builder's skip. With the clock ticking and the police struggling to make identification, the race is on. When Aberdeen housewife Debbie Milne abruptly vanishes without trace, leaving behind her two young children, husband Scott is too distraught to sit out the police's 72-hour window and await developments. He turns to local detective agency Harcus & Laird. Put off by previous 'domestic' cases, Maggie Laird isn't keen, but is cajoled by partner Wilma Harcus into a covert operation. Together they comb through meagre scraps of information, eventually trawling the city's women's refuges and homeless squats, in spite of the deadly danger. Then a woman's body is discovered in a Dundee builder's skip. With the clock ticking and the police struggling to make identification, the race is on.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>MacLeary, Claire<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Glasgow : Saraband, 2019.<br />1 volume<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Crime Paperback / City of Literature - Available - C0000020265066<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2774935&CF=BIB 'Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor' is writer/DJ Dave Haslam's gloriously well-crafted memoir, documenting his encounters with inspiring characters including Tony Wilson, Nile Rodgers, Terry Hall, Neneh Cherry, Tracey Thorn, John Lydon, John Peel, Ian Brown, Laurent Garnier, and David Byrne. 'Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor' is writer/DJ Dave Haslam's gloriously well-crafted memoir, documenting his encounters with inspiring characters including Tony Wilson, Nile Rodgers, Terry Hall, Neneh Cherry, Tracey Thorn, John Lydon, John Peel, Ian Brown, Laurent Garnier, and David Byrne.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Haslam, Dave<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Constable, 2019.<br />342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm<br /><br />Abraham Moss Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Local Studies-Lending - 791.44028 - Available - C0000020467816<br />Didsbury Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Local Studies-Lending - 791.44028 HAS - Available - C0000020385156<br />Gorton Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Local Studies-Lending - 791.44028 - Available - C0000020454584<br />Henry Watson Central Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 791.44HAS - City of Literature - Onloan - Due: 24 May 2024 - C0000020265084<br />Manchester Collection: Central Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Local Studies-Reference - 791.440280HAS(518) - Available - C0000020225367<br />Special Collections: NB - 24 hours notice required to retrieve - (Manchester Libraries) - Local Studies-Reference - 791.440280HAS(518) - Available - C0000020225366<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2774949&CF=BIB Johnny is 19. He likes music, art and going to the beach. He is also autistic - he will probably never get a job, never have a girlfriend, never leave home. And over the last 18 years this is what his father, TV producer and comedy writer Henry Normal and his wife Angela have been trying to come to terms with. This is a book for anyone whose life has been touched by autism - it's about the hope, the despair, and the messy, honest, sometimes hilarious day-to-day world of autism, as well as a wonderful, warm book about the unconditional, unconventional love between a father, a mother and a son. Johnny is 19. He likes music, art and going to the beach. He is also autistic - he will probably never get a job, never have a girlfriend, never leave home. And over the last 18 years this is what his father, TV producer and comedy writer Henry Normal and his wife Angela have been trying to come to terms with. This is a book for anyone whose life has been touched by autism - it's about the hope, the despair, and the messy, honest, sometimes hilarious day-to-day world of autism, as well as a wonderful, warm book about the unconditional, unconventional love between a father, a mother and a son.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Normal, Henry<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Two Roads, 2019.<br />xi, 337 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm<br /><br />12 copies <br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2781388&CF=BIB In 'Discipline', her third collection, Jane Yeh depicts a haunting and hilarious variety of lives, from an endangered young rhinoceros to the denizens of the 1980s New York club scene. These multifaceted poems explore what identity isn't and is, as performance, as struggle, as change, as art with penetrating wit, channeling the voices of outsiders, artists, misfits, and others. In 'Discipline', her third collection, Jane Yeh depicts a haunting and hilarious variety of lives, from an endangered young rhinoceros to the denizens of the 1980s New York club scene. These multifaceted poems explore what identity isn't and is, as performance, as struggle, as change, as art with penetrating wit, channeling the voices of outsiders, artists, misfits, and others.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Yeh, Jane<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Manchester : Carcanet Poetry, 2019.<br />64 pages ; 22 cm<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 811.6YEH - City of Literature - Available - C0000020265140<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2781389&CF=BIB In her first book of poems, Isabel Galleymore takes a sustained look at the 'eight million differently constructed hearts' of species currently said to inhabit the earth. These are part of the significant other of her title; so too are the intimacies - loving, fraught, stalked by loss and extinction - that make up a life. In her first book of poems, Isabel Galleymore takes a sustained look at the 'eight million differently constructed hearts' of species currently said to inhabit the earth. These are part of the significant other of her title; so too are the intimacies - loving, fraught, stalked by loss and extinction - that make up a life.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Galleymore, Isabel, 1988-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Manchester : Carcanet Poetry, 2019.<br />64 pages ; 22 cm<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 821.92GAL - City of Literature - Available - C0000020265109<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2781390&CF=BIB Now living in France, the American poet Marilyn Hacker's latest collection explores Paris, language, refugees and revolution. Now living in France, the American poet Marilyn Hacker's latest collection explores Paris, language, refugees and revolution.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Hacker, Marilyn, 1942-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Manchester : Carcanet Poetry, 2019.<br />160 pages ; 22 cm<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 811.54HAC - City of Literature - Onloan - Due: 08 Jun 2024 - C0000020265112<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2781490&CF=BIB Northern Britain, Iron Age. Pytheas of Massalia, the famed Greek explorer, roves the icy northern lands of Celtic Britain and beyond, in search of amber and other precious goods. But he also craves another encounter with Rian, the slave he fell in love with during a former voyage, who continues to haunt him. Rian, however, has other ideas. She has no desire to see Pytheas, and she won't let go of her family, or her freedom, without a fight. As Pytheas navigates plundered riches, feuding warlords and an ancient curse, will he succeed in finding what he set out for? Northern Britain, Iron Age. Pytheas of Massalia, the famed Greek explorer, roves the icy northern lands of Celtic Britain and beyond, in search of amber and other precious goods. But he also craves another encounter with Rian, the slave he fell in love with during a former voyage, who continues to haunt him. Rian, however, has other ideas. She has no desire to see Pytheas, and she won't let go of her family, or her freedom, without a fight. As Pytheas navigates plundered riches, feuding warlords and an ancient curse, will he succeed in finding what he set out for?<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Haggith, Mandy<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Glasgow : Saraband, 2019.<br />256 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback / City of Literature - Available - C0000020265065<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2791592&CF=BIB Tehran is Iran's most secular and liberal city. It is a city that is so much more than your usual chaotic maze of concrete and traffic jams thick with air pollution. This is the beating heart of Iran, a creative tour de force and the place to be to get a handle on modern Iran and what its future will likely be. The outside world focuses on extremes in Iran, but what the writers herein set out to portray are their inner stories, and where they stand in all of this; their identity, their connections and their private lives. These are the stories till now untold because of a Western focus on only the big, bold issues in Iran. What may surprise you is the similarities between their lives, and our own, in the middle of all this. Tehran is Iran's most secular and liberal city. It is a city that is so much more than your usual chaotic maze of concrete and traffic jams thick with air pollution. This is the beating heart of Iran, a creative tour de force and the place to be to get a handle on modern Iran and what its future will likely be. The outside world focuses on extremes in Iran, but what the writers herein set out to portray are their inner stories, and where they stand in all of this; their identity, their connections and their private lives. These are the stories till now untold because of a Western focus on only the big, bold issues in Iran. What may surprise you is the similarities between their lives, and our own, in the middle of all this.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Manchester : Comma Press, 2019.<br />144 pages ; 20 cm.<br />Reading the city<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1 reserve</span><br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback / City of Literature - On reserve shelf at Moss Side Powerhouse Library - C0000020265057<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2793462&CF=BIB Mara's island is one of stories and magic, but every story ends in the same way. She will finish her days on the cliff, turned to stone and gazing out at the horizon like all the islanders before her. Mara's parents - a boxer and a ballerina - chose this enchanted place as a refuge from the turbulence of their previous lives; they wanted to bring up their children somewhere special and safe. But the island and the sea don't care what people want, and when they claim a price from her family, Mara's world unravels. It takes the arrival of Pearl, mysterious and irresistible, to light a spark in Mara again, and allow her to consider a different story for herself. Mara's island is one of stories and magic, but every story ends in the same way. She will finish her days on the cliff, turned to stone and gazing out at the horizon like all the islanders before her. Mara's parents - a boxer and a ballerina - chose this enchanted place as a refuge from the turbulence of their previous lives; they wanted to bring up their children somewhere special and safe. But the island and the sea don't care what people want, and when they claim a price from her family, Mara's world unravels. It takes the arrival of Pearl, mysterious and irresistible, to light a spark in Mara again, and allow her to consider a different story for herself.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Logan, Kirsty<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Vintage, 2019.<br />312 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback / City of Literature - Available - C0000020264412<br />Forum Library Wythenshawe - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Available - C0000020264413<br />Longsight Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Available - C0000020264411<br />Withington Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Available - C0000020264410<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2794114&CF=BIB In 'Girl', Rebecca Goss considers the emotional and physical connections women make to the world around them. The poems interrogate and celebrate female identity and experience, and the dynamics of family and friendship. From a woman struck by lightning to a baby who understands shadows, Goss navigates the real and the imagined with equal flair. At the heart of the collection is a distinctive, sensual series of poems responding to the work of the artist Alison Watt: the result is a fearless exploration of the female body and female desire. In 'Girl', Rebecca Goss considers the emotional and physical connections women make to the world around them. The poems interrogate and celebrate female identity and experience, and the dynamics of family and friendship. From a woman struck by lightning to a baby who understands shadows, Goss navigates the real and the imagined with equal flair. At the heart of the collection is a distinctive, sensual series of poems responding to the work of the artist Alison Watt: the result is a fearless exploration of the female body and female desire.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Goss, Rebecca<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Manchester : Carcanet/Northern House, 2019.<br />72 pages ; 22 cm<br /><br />Avenue Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 821.92GOS - Available - C0000020310146<br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 821.92GOS - Available - C0000020310143<br />North City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 821.92GOS - City of Literature - Available - C0000020265110<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2794115&CF=BIB Following his acclaimed 'Pandemonium', Thomas McCarthy's 'Prophecy' dwells on childhood memory, romantic love and the varieties of human attachment. Still embodying his distinctive voice and craft, in these poems McCarthy risks more prophetic moods and themes. There are poems on illness and recovery, ageing and creativity. From the community well of his childhood home in County Waterford to the holy well and pilgrim site of St Gobnait's in County Cork, the poet finds that the act of remembering is an act of making and understanding. Following his acclaimed 'Pandemonium', Thomas McCarthy's 'Prophecy' dwells on childhood memory, romantic love and the varieties of human attachment. Still embodying his distinctive voice and craft, in these poems McCarthy risks more prophetic moods and themes. There are poems on illness and recovery, ageing and creativity. From the community well of his childhood home in County Waterford to the holy well and pilgrim site of St Gobnait's in County Cork, the poet finds that the act of remembering is an act of making and understanding.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>McCarthy, Thomas, 1954-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Manchester : Carcanet Poetry, 2019.<br />64 pages ; 22 cm<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 821.92MAC - City of Literature - Available - C0000020265120<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2794116&CF=BIB Pere Gimferrer has written more than thirty books spanning verse, fiction, essay, and criticism. The present collection, the first book-length publication of Gimferrer's Catalan poetry in English, brings together work from all phases of his career. Pere Gimferrer has written more than thirty books spanning verse, fiction, essay, and criticism. The present collection, the first book-length publication of Gimferrer's Catalan poetry in English, brings together work from all phases of his career.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Gimferrer, Pere, 1945-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Manchester : Carcanet Poetry, 2019.<br />220 pages ; 22 cm<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 861.7GIM - City of Literature - Onloan - Due: 22 May 2024 - C0000020265637<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2798885&CF=BIB Cleo knows she should be happy for her brother Mark. He's managed to find someone new after the sudden death of his first wife - but something about Evie just doesn't feel right. When Evie starts having accidents at home, her friends grow concerned. Could Mark be causing her injuries? Called out to their cliff-top house one night, Sergeant Stephanie King finds two bodies entangled on blood-drenched sheets. Where does murder begin? When the knife is raised to strike, or before, at the first thought of violence? As the accused stands trial, the jury is forced to consider - is there ever a proper defence for murder? Cleo knows she should be happy for her brother Mark. He's managed to find someone new after the sudden death of his first wife - but something about Evie just doesn't feel right. When Evie starts having accidents at home, her friends grow concerned. Could Mark be causing her injuries? Called out to their cliff-top house one night, Sergeant Stephanie King finds two bodies entangled on blood-drenched sheets. Where does murder begin? When the knife is raised to strike, or before, at the first thought of violence? As the accused stands trial, the jury is forced to consider - is there ever a proper defence for murder?<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Abbott, Rachel, 1952-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Wildfire, 2019.<br />406 pages ; 20 cm.<br />Sergeant Stephanie King series<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - In-transit from Longsight Library to City Library (Set: 16 Feb 2023) - C0000020239251<br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback / City of Literature - Available - C0000020265021<br />Longsight Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Available - C0000020272366<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2802657&CF=BIB Lydia and Bel have been best friends for years, from wild teenage days all the way through to motherhood. Bel becomes pregnant by accident and has a fraught relationship with daughter Freya, while Lydia and love-of-her-life Mac, after failed fertility treatment, choose to adopt. Gorgeous toddler Chloe challenges them more than either of them had ever expected, and - as a teenager - her behaviour escalates increasingly out of control, pushing their marriage, and Lydia and Bel's relationship, to breaking point. Lydia and Bel have been best friends for years, from wild teenage days all the way through to motherhood. Bel becomes pregnant by accident and has a fraught relationship with daughter Freya, while Lydia and love-of-her-life Mac, after failed fertility treatment, choose to adopt. Gorgeous toddler Chloe challenges them more than either of them had ever expected, and - as a teenager - her behaviour escalates increasingly out of control, pushing their marriage, and Lydia and Bel's relationship, to breaking point.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Staincliffe, Cath<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Constable, 2019.<br />298 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Books to Go - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Available - C0000020239948<br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback / City of Literature - Available - C0000020265049<br />Gorton Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Available - C0000020245194<br />Hulme High St - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Available - C0000020245193<br />Longsight Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Available - C0000020245296<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2803570&CF=BIB Hong Kong, 2012. Dimitri Johnson, a British Hongkonger, learns that he is dying. Stunned by the news, he goes to the annual candlelight vigil for the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre. How strange, he thinks, the nearly dead honouring the memory of the already dead. Over on the mainland, Dimitri's best friend, a Chinese academic, has been arrested for protesting against an official land grab in his ancestral village. So begins the ultimate struggle of Dimitri's life as he battles against an insidious cancer and fights to help his persecuted colleague. He'll also discover whether things have really changed in China for the post-Tiananmen generation. Hong Kong, 2012. Dimitri Johnson, a British Hongkonger, learns that he is dying. Stunned by the news, he goes to the annual candlelight vigil for the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre. How strange, he thinks, the nearly dead honouring the memory of the already dead. Over on the mainland, Dimitri's best friend, a Chinese academic, has been arrested for protesting against an official land grab in his ancestral village. So begins the ultimate struggle of Dimitri's life as he battles against an insidious cancer and fights to help his persecuted colleague. He'll also discover whether things have really changed in China for the post-Tiananmen generation.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>New, Christopher<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Glasgow : Saraband, 2019.<br />288 pages<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback / City of Literature - Available - C0000020265072<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2803571&CF=BIB Spring marks the genesis of nature's year. As Earth's northern hemisphere tilts ever more towards the life-giving sun, the icy, dark days of winter gradually yield to the new season's intensifying light and warmth. Nature responds. Spring marks the genesis of nature's year. As Earth's northern hemisphere tilts ever more towards the life-giving sun, the icy, dark days of winter gradually yield to the new season's intensifying light and warmth. Nature responds.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Crumley, Jim, 1947-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Salford : Saraband, [2019]<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2019<br />246 pages ; 21 cm<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 508.41CRU - City of Literature - Available - C0000020265106<br />Withington Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 508.41 - Available - C0000020239770<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2803572&CF=BIB Behind the normal door of a normal house, in a normal street, two men are slowly driving each other insane. One of them is a psychopath. The father, Mr Todd, is at his wits' end. He's been robbed of his job as a tax inspector and is now stuck at home - with him. Behind the normal door of a normal house, in a normal street, two men are slowly driving each other insane. One of them is a psychopath. The father, Mr Todd, is at his wits' end. He's been robbed of his job as a tax inspector and is now stuck at home - with him.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Maitland, Iain<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Glasgow : Contraband, 2019.<br />288 pages<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback / City of Literature - Available - C0000020265067<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2807098&CF=BIB Vahni Capildeo returns with her third Carcanet collection, 'Skin Can Hold'. The collection marks an experimental departure for a traditionally pen-and-paper poet as she explores embodied practice-theatre, dance, and experimental performance. These texts are the fruit of those experiments and collaborations, drawing on her sporadic training in the techniques of burlesque and mime and, going further back, on her childhood fascination with Caribbean masquerade and French theatre. Vahni Capildeo returns with her third Carcanet collection, 'Skin Can Hold'. The collection marks an experimental departure for a traditionally pen-and-paper poet as she explores embodied practice-theatre, dance, and experimental performance. These texts are the fruit of those experiments and collaborations, drawing on her sporadic training in the techniques of burlesque and mime and, going further back, on her childhood fascination with Caribbean masquerade and French theatre.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Capildeo, Vahni, 1973-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Manchester : Carcanet, 2019.<br />118 pages ; 22 cm<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 821.92CAP - City of Literature - Available - C0000020265102<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2807099&CF=BIB 'A Few Interiors' is the debut collection from an alumnus of Carcanet's 'New Poetries' series, and a recent favourite in the pages of PN Review. Rowland Bagnall's poems are, in various ways, about seeing things - movies, paintings, landscapes, rooms - and seeing or not seeing the frames that hold them: windows, screens, fields of vision. The poems play with the fixity of those frames, threatening to go beyond them, blurring the distinction between inside and out, interior and exterior. Full of playful glitches and malfunctions, this is a poetry of misses and near-misses, distortions and uncertainties. 'A Few Interiors' is the debut collection from an alumnus of Carcanet's 'New Poetries' series, and a recent favourite in the pages of PN Review. Rowland Bagnall's poems are, in various ways, about seeing things - movies, paintings, landscapes, rooms - and seeing or not seeing the frames that hold them: windows, screens, fields of vision. The poems play with the fixity of those frames, threatening to go beyond them, blurring the distinction between inside and out, interior and exterior. Full of playful glitches and malfunctions, this is a poetry of misses and near-misses, distortions and uncertainties.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Bagnall, Rowland<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Manchester : Carcanet Poetry, 2019.<br />64 pages ; 22 cm<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 821.92BAG - City of Literature - Available - C0000020265098<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2823149&CF=BIB Telling the true stories of asylum seekers who've suffered at the hands of Britain's policy of indefinite detention, in the form of a modern-day Canterbury Tales. Telling the true stories of asylum seekers who've suffered at the hands of Britain's policy of indefinite detention, in the form of a modern-day Canterbury Tales.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Manchester] : Comma Press, 2019.<br />201 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback / City of Literature - Onloan - Due: 08 Jun 2024 - C0000020265075<br />Gorton Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Available - C0000020261115<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2826383&CF=BIB Volume two of he 'Collected Poems' by William Carlos Williams covers the years 1939 to 1962. As a poet, Williams wrote in a uniquely American fashion whilst he continued his serious medical career. Volume two of he 'Collected Poems' by William Carlos Williams covers the years 1939 to 1962. As a poet, Williams wrote in a uniquely American fashion whilst he continued his serious medical career.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Manchester : Carcanet Classics, 2019.<br />576 pages ; 22 cm<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 811.52WIL - City of Literature - Available - C0000020265139<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2827588&CF=BIB The title poem of John Greening's 'The Silence' is a meditation on Sibelius and the thirty years he spent grappling with an eighth symphony that he eventually burned. The poem is emblematic of a broader concern with the mystery of the creative process, explored in the work of other artists but also grappled with first-hand, in the composition of poems. The title poem of John Greening's 'The Silence' is a meditation on Sibelius and the thirty years he spent grappling with an eighth symphony that he eventually burned. The poem is emblematic of a broader concern with the mystery of the creative process, explored in the work of other artists but also grappled with first-hand, in the composition of poems.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Greening, John, 1954-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Manchester : Carcanet, 2019.<br />90 pages ; 22 cm<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 821.92GRE - City of Literature - Available - C0000020265111<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2829397&CF=BIB Twenty-nine year old Roberta has spent her whole life hungry - until the day she invents Supper Club. Supper Club is a secret society for hungry women. Women who are sick of bad men and bad sex, of hinted expectations to talk less, take less, be less. So they gather after dark and feast until they are sick. They drink and dance and roar. And, month by month, their bodies expand. At the centre of the Supper Club stands Roberta - cynical yet anxious, precocious and lost. She is seeking the answer to a simple question: if you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into? This is a story about the hunger that never goes away. And it is a story about the people who make us what we are - who lead us astray and ultimately save us. Twenty-nine year old Roberta has spent her whole life hungry - until the day she invents Supper Club. Supper Club is a secret society for hungry women. Women who are sick of bad men and bad sex, of hinted expectations to talk less, take less, be less. So they gather after dark and feast until they are sick. They drink and dance and roar. And, month by month, their bodies expand. At the centre of the Supper Club stands Roberta - cynical yet anxious, precocious and lost. She is seeking the answer to a simple question: if you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into? This is a story about the hunger that never goes away. And it is a story about the people who make us what we are - who lead us astray and ultimately save us.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Williams, Lara<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>UK : Hamish Hamilton, 2019.<br />257 pages ; 22 cm<br /><br />14 copies <br />