Jasper and the Green Marvel

Jasper and the Green Marvel
Author: Deirdre Madden
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2012-01-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0571279384

There's a wonderful emerald necklace called The Green Marvel hidden somewhere in Haverford-Snuffley Hall. Sneaky Jasper Jellit takes a job there as a gardener, hoping to get his hands on the jewels. But the house is haunted, his two pet rats Rags and Bags give him no end of trouble, and then there's Mrs Knutmegg the cook, who sees immediately that Jasper's up to no good . . . A sparkling sequel to the award winning 'Snakes' Elbows.'

Snakes' Elbows

Snakes' Elbows
Author: Deirdre Madden
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2012-01-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0571273378

When the timid millionaire pianist Barney Barrington moves to Woodford, extraordinary things start to happen. For local millionaire Jasper Jellit doesn't like all the attention Barney is getting and will do anything to upstage him, including hosting an extravagant chocolate party for Woodford residents. But when Barney and Jasper want to buy the same painting, Jasper finds less scrupulous ways of getting what he wants. As Barney is too kind to ever have a suspicious thought, it falls to his hyper-intelligent cat Dandelion to save the day - with the help of Jasper's two misunderstood dogs Cannibal and Bruiser. Winner of the Eilis Dillon Award for a First Children's Book

Deirdre Madden

Deirdre Madden
Author: Anne Fogarty
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2022-06-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1526118947

The Irish writer, Deirdre Madden, has written key novels about the Northern Irish Troubles and about contemporary Ireland. In these works, she weighs up the aftermath of violence and the impact of the shift to a more open but materialist society in the country overall. Memory, trauma, and the abiding but elusive links between the past and the present are central concerns of her fiction. This pioneering set of essays by leading experts in Irish Studies explores the many dimensions of her novels from a wide variety of perspectives. Madden’s skill at interweaving novels of ideas with artist novels that draw out the complex inner predicaments of her characters is highlighted. States of dislocation are concentrated on in her texts, but also the quest for a home in the world and a lasting set of values that allows for personal integrity and authenticity. These multifaceted explorations bear out the compelling and enduring aspects of Madden’s highly regarded novels.

Time Present and Time Past

Time Present and Time Past
Author: Deirdre Madden
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2013-05-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0571290884

Fintan Buckley is a pleasant, rather conventional and unimaginative man, who works as a legal adviser in an import/export firm in Dublin. He lives in Howth and is married to Colette. They have two sons who are at university, and a small daughter. As he goes about his life, working and spending time with his family, Fintan begins to experience states of altered consciousness and auditory hallucinations, which seem to take him out of a linear experience of time. He becomes interested in how we remember or imagine the past, an interest trigged by becoming aware of early photography, particularly early colour photography. He also finds himself thinking more about his own past, including time spent holidaying in the north of Ireland as a child with his father's family. Over the years he has become distanced from them, and in the course of the novel this link is re-established and helps to bring him understanding and peace, although in a most unexpected way. Time Present and Time Past, Deirdre Madden's eighth novel for adults, is about time: about how not just daily life and one's own, or one's family's past, intersect with each other.

Provenance

Provenance
Author: Carla Laureano
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2021-08-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1496445945

From two-time RITA Award–winning author Carla Laureano comes a story of romance, transformation, and the beauty of belonging. Los Angeles interior designer and former foster kid Kendall Green is in high demand, both for her impeccable eye and for her uncanny ability to uncover the provenance of any piece. But for all her success, skyrocketing costs have put her California home and her business in jeopardy. Then an unexpected inheritance provides a timely solution: a grandmother she never knew has left her a group of historic properties in a tiny Colorado town on the edge of ruin. To young, untried mayor Gabriel Brandt, Jasper Lake is more than another small town—it’s the place that saved his life. Now, seeing the town slowly wither and die, he’s desperate to restore it to its former glory. Unfortunately, his vision is at odds with a local developer who wants to see the town razed and rebuilt as a summer resort. He’s sure that he can enlist the granddaughter of one of its most prominent former citizens to his cause—until he meets Kendall and realizes that not only does she know nothing of her own history, she has no interest in reviving a place that once abandoned her. In order to save his beloved town, Gabe must first help Kendall unravel the truth of her own provenance—and Kendall must learn that in order to embrace the future, sometimes you have to start with the past.

Daredevil

Daredevil
Author: Roy Thomas
Publisher: Panini
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2008-03-20
Genre: Daredevil (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9781905239825

Inducted into the comic book hall of fame in 2005, Gene Colan's legendary work spans from Tomb of Dracula to Howard the Duck, but Daredevil is considered his signature series. Fan forums have long cried out for a definitive collection of his Daredevil works, so this compendium follows his finest works from the early 70s in collaboration with writers Roy Thomas and Gerald F. Conway. UK exclusive.