Christopher Rush
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“A book about war that, like The Naked and the Dead or Catch-22, manages to be about very much more” (Brian Morton, author of Starting Out in the Evening).
Odysseus is returning to Ithaca after nearly twenty years—half of it spent as a soldier and the other half as a soldier of fortune. During his absence, his wife, Penelope, has remained faithful, despite Odysseus being missing...
Odysseus is returning to Ithaca after nearly twenty years—half of it spent as a soldier and the other half as a soldier of fortune. During his absence, his wife, Penelope, has remained faithful, despite Odysseus being missing...
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This novel of boyhood on the Scottish seaside is “powerful, vivid, evocative, funny, awesome, loving and so assured in its writing it catches the breath” (Glasgow Herald, UK).
One of The List Magazine’s 100 Best Scottish Books of All Time
In A Twelvemonth and a Day, Christopher Rush delivers a loving lament for the “slow old tuneful times” of St....
One of The List Magazine’s 100 Best Scottish Books of All Time
In A Twelvemonth and a Day, Christopher Rush delivers a loving lament for the “slow old tuneful times” of St....