O Farrell: 70 books

Sandra OFarrell is a poet and writer since 1996. She lives in Seaside Community. She has two children, Beth OFarrell and Bart OFarrell; two grandchildren, Shawn Averett and Shannon Gallenbeck; and one great-grandchild, Aidan Averett. She has two sisters, Natalie Green and Karen Lewis, and three brothers,...

Weergaloze roman over familiegeheimen, moederschap en de kracht van herinneringen Na een stormachtige ontmoeting met de charismatische Innes Kent, verhuist Lexie Sinclair van het Engelse platteland naar Londen. Onder de indruk van de aandacht en de mooie woorden van Kent dompelt Lexie zich onder in...

In this collection of acid-tongued essays, “the U.K.’s answer to Dave Barry” skewers his American cousins (Publishers Weekly).   Winner of the Best Columnist of the Year at the British Liars’ Awards and Britain’s finest satirist, John O’Farrell takes dead aim at cell phones, awards ceremonies,...

Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O’Farrell’s beguiling novels—After You’d Gone, winner of a Betty Trask Award; The Distance Between Us, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The Hand That First Held Mine, winner of the Costa Novel Award; and her unforgettable bestseller...

Cansada de someterse a la voluntad de sus padres, Lexie Sinclair decide abandonar la casa familiar en el campo e instalarse en Londres. Allí conoce a Innes Kent, el editor de una revista de arte que la introducirá en los ambientes bohemios del Soho de mediados de los años cincuenta, y empezará...

«Maggie O’Farrell scava nel profondo di quello che mi piace chiamare “il teatro della famiglia”.» Catherine Dunne «Si inserisce a pieno titolo tra le migliori voci della narrativa inglese.» Literary Review «Chi cerchi l’equivalente britannico di Anne Tyler lo trova in Maggie...

«Maggie O’Farrell scava nel profondo di quello che mi piace chiamare “il teatro della famiglia”.» Catherine Dunne «Si inserisce a pieno titolo tra le migliori voci della narrativa inglese.» Literary Review «Chi cerchi l’equivalente britannico di Anne Tyler lo trova in Maggie...

In Telling Complexions Mary Ann O’Farrell explores the frequent use of "the blush" in Victorian novels as a sign of characters’ inner emotions and desires. Through lively and textured readings of works by such writers as Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, and Henry James,...

Daniel Sullivan y Claudette Wells son una pareja atípica: él es de Nueva York y tiene dos hijos en California pero vive en la campiña irlandesa; ella es una estrella de cine que, en un momento dado, decidió cambiar los rodajes por la vida en el campo, la fama por el anonimato. Ambos son razonablemente...

«Maggie O’Farrell scava nel profondo di quello che mi piace chiamare “il teatro della famiglia”.» Catherine Dunne «Si inserisce a pieno titolo tra le migliori voci della narrativa inglese.» Literary Review «Chi cerchi l’equivalente britannico di Anne Tyler lo trova in Maggie...

On seventeen occasions, Maggie O’Farrell has stared death in the face—and lived to tell the tale. In this astonishing memoir, she shares the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life: The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to...

The Valley of the Squinting Windows (1918), Brinsley MacNamara's first published novel, so enraged the Westmeath community in which he lived that the book was publicly burned, its author humiliated and his father, the local schoolteacher, boycotted and driven into exile. MacNamara (1890-1963) was...

Although born to a life of privilege and married to the President of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt was a staunch and lifelong advocate for workers and, for more than twenty-five years, a proud member of the AFL-CIO's Newspaper Guild. She Was One of Us tells for the first time the story of her...

With over 3000 entries in seven separate listings, this book is a major source of reference which puts a human face on these two defining conflicts. Drawing on family papers, extensive interviews and official records, Padraic O'Farrell gives detailed accounts of the involvement of soldiers, politicians,...