When a hip 17 year old leaves Liverpool at the height of Beatlemania to enter an Irish convent, little did she know that her life as a nun would include a unique relationship with Beatle George Harrison. Nan is a grandmother who once was this nun. As she nears death, her three grown-up granddaughters become curious about her life. Could her far-fetched tales really be true? Compline weaves together the story of the young nun in the 1960s with that of three generations of 21st-century women - their lives, their loves, their joys and sorrows. Compline dissolves boundaries of genre, time and...
When a hip 17 year old leaves Liverpool at the height of Beatlemania to enter an Irish convent, little did she know that her life as a nun would inclu...
Joe was an inventive boy. His go-carts were better than anyone else's. But he never expected that the sundial he and his friends discovered buried on top of their favourite go-carting hill, would transport them into an astonishing future they helped to create. But would they ever get back to their own time?... and what would it mean for the future if they were stranded?... Sit Beside the Gnomon was first published in the 1980s. The future Joe and his friends visit in this story is now rapidly approaching us.
Joe was an inventive boy. His go-carts were better than anyone else's. But he never expected that the sundial he and his friends discovered buried on ...
