Julia Rochester: 2 books

The House at the Edge of the World

by Julia Rochester
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2016 Part mystery, part psychological drama, Julia Rochester's The House at the Edge of the World is a darkly comic, unorthodox and thrilling debut When I was eighteen, my father fell off...

The Candelaria Massacre: How Wagner dos Santos Survived the Street Children's Killing That Shook Brazil

by Julia Rochester
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2008

Just after midnight, in the early morning of 23 July 1993, a group of men, later identified as off-duty policemen, opened fire on a group of street children sleeping rough outside one of Rio de Janeiro's most prominent landmarks - the Church of Our Lady of the Candelaria. The incident became known...